The next day Luca woke up early while Kaiser and Valentina were still asleep. He first went to Valentina's room and gently knocked but she didn't respond. Then he slammed the door to his father's room open creating a loud thudding sound.

Seeing that his father stared at him from the bed with bags under his eyes, he ignored him and asked, "Where's auntie?"

"She's sleeping since she worked all day yesterday. Go play by yourself" Without even waiting for his father to finish his words, Luca ran out and slammed the door shut.

Kaiser: "..."

What happened to his cute apologetic son from yesterday? Forget it, he would just go back to sleep.

Before he could even settle down, his door slammed open with an even stronger sound than before.

"Brother? How could you abandon and go home with your wife all by yourself??? You left me to be tortured and abused yesterday after I stood up for you! Do you know how much your Mother nagged me yesterday? I thought my ear was going to fall off!" as Roman burst through his door loudly complaining, Kaiser felt like beating him up.

"So did you come here to die?" Kaiser asked coldly.

First, it was a little baby who came to bother him, then a bigger baby came in. He couldn't beat the younger one but the bigger one needed to be taught a lesson.

"Brother, how come you're still in bed? Did you and my sister-in-law have a spicy night? Wait brother, why do you look so angry? Why don't you calm down? Wait don't hit me! Not the face not the face!!!!" before Roman could say another word he was slammed into the floor and thrown out of the room with another loud slam.

Hearing the loud sounds and screaming, Valentina poked her head out of her door. Seeing Roman lying comically on the floor she turned to look around for the cause. Kaiser was standing by his bedroom door in only his pajama pants. Seeing his bare chiseled abs and muscled arms that she had been running her hands over yesterday, Valentina felt a bit embarrassed and couldn't help blushing.

"Sister-in-law, why are you blushing so happily? I know you're enjoying looking at your man but now is not the time! You have to save me from this demon lord!" Roman yelled when he saw her face and started scrambling towards her on all fours.

Hearing him call her sister-in-law, Valentina glanced at Kaiser's expression which was turning black. Seeing his grim face as he marched towards Roman, Valentina turned her face away and shut her door before locking it. Hearing a howl that sounded familiar, Valentina just pretended to hear nothing and started her morning routine.

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Sorrows sorrows prayers to you Roman. I'm sure your brother won't really kill you. Right?

When Valentina came down to the dining table in comfortable clothes, Kaiser, Roman, and Luca were seated and had already started eating.

When Luca noticed her, he got down and ran to give her a hug, and they both sat down next to each other to eat. Valentina calmly dished some eggs and potatoes into her and Luca's plates while ignoring the crying Roman. He really disgraced his status as a CEO.

Roman turned his head and looked between Kaiser, Valentina, and Luca. Seeing that all three of them decided to ignore him, he decided to switch tactics.

"Sister-in-law, have you seen all the news about you? Tabloids are blowing up about you from yesterday! I didn't know you knew designer Alaïa! Since she gave you some unreleased originals how about you introduce me to her so I can get a custom outfit? I promise I can afford it."

"First of all, stop calling me your sister-in-law, my name is Valentina. And what do you mean the tabloids are blowing up?"

Valentina quickly got her phone out and started checking the different celebrity blogs.

Z-list actress Valentina Salazar stuns in unreleased Alaïa gown!

Z-list celebrity Valentina Salazar attends the Spring Love Premier dressed in unreleased Alaïa. Is Alaïa now out of retirement?

Battle of the actresses, Z-list actress Valentina outshines the Spring Love female lead and fellow costar Anna Lire! Is there drama behind the scenes?

Alaïa out of retirement and stuns with an unreleased custom dress on the red carpet!

Looking at all the headlines calling her a Z-list actor while praising her outfit, Valentina didn't know if she should laugh or cry. When she clicked on the articles, the vitriol she was getting was even worse.

- Wow talk about a face and body blessed by the gods. Where did this goddess come from?

- Valentina Salazar, have you heard about her before?

- OP you don't know but she was in the news for delaying the production of Spring Love. It was due to her bad acting!

- Oh, her acting is bad? Then she's just a pretty vase? That's too bad!

- Pretty vase? Who knows if it's natural or if she got plastic surgery?

- Won't she ruin the scenes because she can't act? I feel bad for my goddess Anna for having to work with such trash.

- They say this dress is custom Alaïa, as far as I know, she's a regular person. Maybe it's a fake? Or she has a…backer?

- Person above, are you saying she's engaging in dirty things behind?

- She's definitely doing that. These days all the new actresses are taking shortcuts instead of honing their skills and grinding hard.

- Gross gross gross gross gross!!!!!

- Lick lick lick lick!!! A beauty is a beauty regardless of surgery.

Reading the toxic comments and think pieces being written about her, Valentina simply ignored it. As long as she continued to be diligent about her work, public opinion would eventually change.

As a previous marketer, she knew that trending topics changed at a whim. She just had to not engage and continue on her path, and they would soon forget about her.

Valentina looked up at Roman and shrugged nonchalantly.

"Sister-in-law, have you seen it? How did you get to know Alaïa and even convince her?" Roman asked excitedly.

"I had no idea it was an Alaïa dress. Everything was organized by your brother." She turned to look pointedly at Kaiser.

Kaiser simply shrugged while sipping his coffee, "I use the best of everything and Alaïa knows that."

Seeing his expression of not knowing the importance of getting an unreleased dress from a top designer, Valentina really wanted to clap for him.

A big boss was a big boss after all. Getting a top designer to send over a dress and getting her styled by the top industry people was not a big deal to him.

"Brother! You're too biased! Send her my way too."

Seeing Kaiser's face blacken as Roman threw himself at him, Valentina burst out laughing.

When Roman turned to her with a look of betrayal, Valentina quickly straightened her face while concentrating on her food.

"My sweet Luca, you have to defend your uncle!" Roman turned to plead with Luca only to be ignored as Luca focused on his food.

"I guess I should leave since nobody here loves me." Roman dramatically threw his hands in the air.

"Good. Leave." Kaiser deadpanned.

"Goodbye uncle," Luca added.

"It was nice seeing you again, Mr. Roman. Drive safely," Valentina finished off.

"All of you are cruel! Why am I unloved?!?" Roman cried while falling to his knees dramatically.

Seeing the identical nonchalant expression on father and son and Romans's devastated expression, Valentina burst out laughing.

This family was really too funny.