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.

and a half million from bidder number seven!”

astonished to see such a bid, and they began

“One and a half million going once! Going twice!

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

by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone compared

by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between bidder number one and

frowned and wondered why Jeremy

her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just trying to flaunt

ordered calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

bid of four million by buyer number seven.

the five-million bid from bidder number

going even higher! We now have six

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

Her main issue at that juncture

very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it for

head. “No, I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to

but to heed

announced that bidder number one

number one spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed

her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such a high price for ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ could point to two possibilities: Corinne’s mother was either

the auction house came into their room to serve

are you here? How did you even get to sit in

a job

side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me

of the room and was about to leave when he heard Zoey’s screech. He halted his footsteps at once and glanced coldly at room

just applied for the job a day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely

house rushed over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized

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!

was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and

away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right

Jeremy

nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d

slightly as he said in a cold voice, “Tell her to

at all as he turned his head to the room and said, “Hey, someone’s looking for you!”

from room seven and stared curiously at Jeremy. “Can