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

such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the

and a half million going once! Going twice! Going thrice, and…”

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

he spoke in a more excited tone compared to before. “Three

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

wondered why Jeremy was

upset as her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just

“Bid

“Right!”

a bid of four million by buyer number

do! Here comes the five-million

higher! We now

higher than that! Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any

the development. Her main issue at that juncture was a lack of money.

perhaps we can

can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll

no choice but to

the deal with a knock of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with a final price of six million.

painting at several times more than its original

not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such a high price for

beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into

you even get to sit in

recognized the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired

suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo,

was so frantic and loud that the entire auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about

and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left an extremely bad impression on the

personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder in

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 gets tired of

here? And she was the one bidding in room

just sent the auction house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the

Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron

nodded with a smile.

eyes narrowed slightly as he said in a cold voice,

turned his head to the room and said,

in overalls came out from room seven and stared curiously at Jeremy. “Can I help you,