You'll Fall For Me, Today or tomorrow

From far away, Luke beamed at Clarissa. There was a lot of courage behind that smile.

Clarissa had barely reacted when someone else offered a higher bid, “Eight hundred thousand.”

The bidder was none other than Joshua.

Clarissa’s companion got smug again. He lifted his chin and looked at Luke, deliberately provoking him.

Oh, honey. I can’t beat Rissa’s husband, but I can surely beat a player like you. Don’t you want a show? I’ll give you one!

Yaala put on a mysterious grin and cast a curious one at Clarissa, who rubbed her forehead in exasperation.

It was then that someone else offered an even higher bid.

“One million.”

It was Ryler.

He wanted to stir the pot.

Clarissa’s eyelid began to twitch as Luke went on to increase the bid.

“One point five!”

“One point eight!” Joshua called out.

“Two million!” Ryler went a step further.

The scene might be incomprehensible to many, but some members of the audience were beginning to get what was really going on. A few seemed to have spotted Clarissa, and they vaguely recalled her as someone’s fiancée some time ago. Moreover, she was a beauty!

The host kept going, “Two million! Pretty ladies do get special treatment, it seems! Does anyone else want to raise the bid?”

Did he say “pretty lady”?

That seemed to be the case. Other than Yaala, the award-winning actress, there really was another beautiful woman in the hall.

Is that Clarissa?

Some people were surprised to meet the real deal. They never really pictured how she looked like. A few of them even started taking pictures of her.

Two point one, two point two…

More and more people joined the bidding.

Eventually, Luke and Joshua were not the only ones competing for the manuscript. Clarissa simply could not understand what was going on. Initially, she thought that a hundred thousand for a manuscript might already be stretching it a little too much, so she definitely did not expect the bidding price to go up to five million.

Of course, unbeknownst to her, the tycoons were rolling in money, so to speak. Most importantly, they would do anything to please a pretty lady.

The bidding gradually became an intense bidding session. The host liked where this was going. He thought of inviting Clarissa to come onto the stage. Her presence would surely encourage the men to bid more. As the host, it was his job to get these people to loosen up their pockets.

“Hold on, ladies and gentlemen. Since everyone has been so generous today, why don’t we invite Ms. Quigley to come up here and say a few words? We can resume the bidding after that.”

“Sure…”

cheers and applause, Clarissa nervously

the courage to go up there because backing out was not

the stage under the

tycoons in the

crazy. They had seen their fair share of beautiful women over the years, especially women from the entertainment industry, so they quickly got tired of it. Then, there were women who looked

manner. Her pretty face, in addition to her apparent shyness and natural blushing, was not a common sight. The men marveled at the way she carried herself, and

on the stage, the host requested her to give a little speech. What am I

it short, “Thank you, everyone, for supporting this

sure our esteemed guests

price had gone up to eight million, he turned to Clarissa and suggested, “We’ve come this far. Why don’t you add

the host. What else can

Clarissa. The actress from the previous round has just auctioned off a day of her time to the highest bidder. Surely, Ms. Quigley, you can perform

persisted. The host

plug at eight million, a deep, firm voice stood out among

“Twenty million!”

skipped a beat as she

“Whoa—”

flew into an

had gone all the way up to

host

too large a sum in an event like

that also depended on the item’s

exceed one million was

willing to bid twenty million for

of Tyson Corporation calls for twenty million! Twenty million! Any other bidders? If

that some members of the audience suddenly recalled what happened three years ago. Wait a minute, Mr. Tyson had a fiancée, didn’t he? And she happened to be a screenwriter who went by the name of… Clarissa. But, didn’t they split

sold to Matthew at twenty

a bold proposal, “On this wondrous occasion, shall we have Ms. Quigley present her manuscript

about the scandal

he was mighty clever to have come up with the idea to have the

over the manuscript

gave the manuscript to Matthew, who accepted it calmly

could

began, “Ms. Quigley, do you have anything to say to Mr. Tyson? He spent

item… Geez… Fine! I’m going to

“Thank you.”

host asked Matthew, “Mr. Tyson, do you have anything you’d like to say to the beautiful Ms.

“No.”

not know how to respond

a few words. He got back onto the stage and resumed the auction, but he never wanted to speak to Matthew

the meantime, Clarissa quietly returned to

the crowd remembered the love story between Matthew and herself three years ago, nor was she interested in knowing what the guests thought of

Matthew’s scandal from three years ago would be brought up again that

was on a break. An artist was performing on stage while the

walked over to sit beside Clarissa, a wine glass in hand. Joshua caught up to him and made it seem like the two were competing for

who Clarissa trusted, swooped in to rescue her, joined by