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…”

and applause,

to go up there because

the stage under the watchful gaze

in the

women from the entertainment industry, so they quickly got tired of it. Then, there were women who looked completely different without wearing any makeup

stage in a flustered 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 found that they

the host requested her to give a

about it all, she kept it short, “Thank you, everyone, for supporting this auction.

Quigley, I’m sure our esteemed guests

bidding ensued after the host delivered an encouraging statement. When the price had gone up to eight million, he turned to Clarissa and suggested, “We’ve come this far. Why don’t you add something to the mix, Ms. Quigley?

at the host. What else

day of her time to the highest bidder. Surely, Ms. Quigley, you can perform

persisted. The host found it quite

at eight million,

“Twenty million!”

skipped a beat as she looked towards the

“Whoa—”

flew into

gone all the way up

the host

too large a sum in an event like

course, that also depended on

fact that Clarissa’s manuscript could exceed one million

someone was willing to

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

It was then 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

manuscript was sold to

bold proposal, “On this wondrous occasion, shall

host knew nothing about the scandal

mighty clever to have come up with the idea to have the two of them interact

to hand over the manuscript to

to Matthew, who accepted it calmly without saying a

host could

do you have anything to say to Mr. Tyson? He spent twenty million on

on my item… Geez… Fine! I’m going to

“Thank you.”

do you have anything you’d like to say to the beautiful

“No.”

know how to

segment with a few words. He got back onto the stage and resumed the

the meantime, Clarissa quietly returned to her

between Matthew and herself three years ago, nor was she interested in knowing

remained silent. She did not know that Matthew’s scandal from three years ago would be brought up

was on a break. An artist was

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 her

Clarissa trusted, swooped in to rescue her, joined by the two “envoys”, Jeremy and