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

bid, and they began wondering who

count, “One and a half million going

uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised

and he spoke in a more excited

bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding

why

upset as her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s

“Bid

“Right!”

of four million by buyer number

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

seven is going even higher! We now have six

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

the development. Her main issue at that juncture was

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

just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can let Jeremy

had no choice but

knock of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one

more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people could do whatever

Nellie Nymphaea in her spare time. Despite 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 high price for ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ could

auction house came into

get to sit in this room?” one of the female receptionists

recognized the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the

Corinne in shock, and before long, 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 daddy!”

voice 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 to leave when he heard Zoey’s screech. He halted his footsteps at

but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers!

personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely

out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job

She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and turned around to walk toward room

away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile

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

eyes narrowed slightly as he said in a cold voice, “Tell

all as he turned his head

came out from room seven and stared curiously at Jeremy.