The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

Chapter 68

On the ceremony stage, Ivanka Poplin, a top student in the University of New Capital City’s music department, was delivering her graduation speech with her father standing right beside her. Both father and daughter were teary-eyed and filled with emotion for the four years of university life.

“Ivanka’s father is so handsome! And he’s so young too!”

“Ivanka is the most beautiful student on campus, so it’s pretty obvious that she inherited her parents’ good genes!”

“Whoa, Ivanka’s father said he’d donate three pianos to the school’s music department! They’re so rich!”

“I really envy Ivanka’s life! She has such an amazing family background, her parents dote on her a lot, and she’s both pretty and smart!”

Ivanka delivered her graduation speech with her father and she went down the stage feeling pride as she listened to the praise and envy of her peers

Backstage, she saw Corinne sitting quietly at the end for her turn to go on stage.

According to international practice, the person who went on stage last was generally the most important. Ivanka was incredibly unhappy with that arrangement, but she did not dare to protest when she heard that it was the dean who arranged it.

thinking for a while, Ivanka walked toward Corinne and asked an obvious question,

and

young age. Just thinking about it is miserable enough already! Guess it doesn’t come as a surprise then that you’re such a hard worker, Corinne. Your parents never took care of you, so you can only rely on yourself! I’m glad I don’t have to work as hard as you,

plan on relying on them even after you

harm when I said that, but you just had to respond with hurtful words!

name, she ignored Ivanka and walked

on stage.

summary of her growth. She got on the stage sans makeup, yet her demeanor was calm and her smile

were emotional only for the

some whispers

exactly what you’d expect from top student Corinne.

Corinne might not have a good background like Ivanka does,

the true nature of a star student because she hails from the math

and smart she is, she’s still an illegitimate daughter! Didn’t you know that she came here by herself today because none of her parents were willing

had with another woman! Apples don’t fall far from the

who had already returned to sit with the other students, pulled the arm of one of her peers and said hypocritically, “Oh! Don’t say that! Corinne has such a pitiful life! Even if she did do something she was ‘forced to’, it was because she had to survive!”