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.

a half million

to see such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the ‘number seven’

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

and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his placard from room one.

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

resonated through the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between bidder number one and

wondered why Jeremy was still

“What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just trying

ordered calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

bid of four million by buyer

comes the five-million bid from

seven is going even higher! We now

Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No? Alright then.

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

“Since this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can

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

but to heed her words.

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

that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people could do

painted under the pseudonym 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

house came into their room to

get to sit in this

had apparently taken up a

shock, and before long, she spotted the handsome, well-dressed Aaron in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted

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

but she was already speaking rudely

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

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

crystal clear on that occasion—there was no doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room

he was about to close

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot

taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d like

a cold

all as he turned his head to the room and said, “Hey, someone’s looking

seven and stared curiously at