The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

“Boss? Aren’t we going in?” Aaron asked.

Corinne was rooted to the ground as she watched Jeremy get out of the car and walk into Peakrise Auction House. With a frown, she said, “I saw someone I’d rather not see. Let’s wait a while before going in.”

Aaron looked in the direction of Corinne’s gaze. “That seems to be Jeremy from the Holdens. Do you know him?”

Corinne looked disgusted. “Not really.”

…

The auction hall was divided into upper and lower floors. The first floor was for ordinary buyers, while the second floor was for VIP buyers who did not wish to show their identity. They were granted excellent privacy and were identifiable by their room numbers.

Jeremy was in room one, while Corinne was in room seven.

After several unremarkable artifacts were auctioned off, a set of bronze pieces from this auction were carried to the display stand. Once the auctioneer gave a brief lecture on the background and value of the artifacts, bidding commenced at 1.5 million dollars.

“Two million!”

“Three million!”

“Four million!”

…

Eventually, the mysterious bidder from Room One managed to bid for the set of bronze artifacts at a high price of four million, which elicited gasps of awe from the audience.

Inside room seven, Corinne leaned lazily on the sofa and breathed a sigh of relief. Jeremy seemed to have been eyeing the set of bronze artifacts, and judging from the fact that he had already secured it, he would probably leave soon since there was no reason for him to remain there.

“The next piece is a posthumously published painting titled ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ by the famous impressionist painter Nellie Nymphaea. The starting price is seven hundred and fifty thousand!”

“We have a bid of eight hundred thousand from bidder number three!

“Bidder number eleven, nine hundred thousand!

“And now bidder number five, nine hundred and fifty thousand!”

Corinne raised her chin to give Aaron the signal that he could start raising his placard.

million from bidder number seven!”

again astonished to see such a bid, and they

began to count, “One and a half million

before he struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his placard

by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone compared to before. “Three million from bidder

of shocked gasps resonated through the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the

and wondered why Jeremy was

“What in the world is Mister

“Bid higher,

“Right!”

four million by buyer number

Here comes the five-million bid from bidder number one!

higher! We

seven million? Oh, it’s higher than that! Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further

development. Her main issue at that juncture was a lack

“Since this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it

can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it.

no choice but to

gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with a

spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value.

being relatively well-known, she was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such a

auction house came into their room to

Why are you here? How did you even get to sit in this room?” one

a job as a receptionist at the auction house after

she spotted the handsome, well-dressed Aaron in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me lose my job, while you’re living the good life with a sugar

loud that the entire auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to leave when he heard Zoey’s screech. He halted his footsteps at

started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to

with several security personnel. He had

was almost certainly heading for the sack that day, so she let all hell loose when she was taken away by the security guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It won’t be long before your man

Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in

had just sent the auction house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he

a Corinne here?” Jeremy

for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is

in a cold voice, “Tell

his head to the room and said, “Hey, someone’s looking

in overalls came out from room seven and stared curiously at Jeremy. “Can