“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!”

audience was once again astonished to see such a bid, and they

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

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

he spoke in a more excited tone

an amount.

wondered why Jeremy

is

“Bid

“Right!”

buyer number seven. Do we

five-million bid from bidder

seven is going even higher! We now

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

issue at that juncture was a lack

is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the

her hand and shook her head. “No, I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll

but to heed her

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

times more than its

painter, and her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such

beautiful receptionists from the auction house came

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

taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired by

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

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 once and glanced coldly at room

day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers!

security personnel. He had Zoey dragged

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

no doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the

an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right in front of him.

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron

smile. “Is

he said in a

he turned his head to the room and said,

out from room seven and stared curiously at Jeremy. “Can I help

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