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

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

and a half million going

struck the gavel and uttered the

in a more

through the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the

wondered why

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

calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

a bid of four million by buyer number seven. Do we have a

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

We now have six million from bidder number seven!”

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

was annoyed at the development. Her main issue

“Since this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it

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

choice but

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

spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people could do whatever they want with their money.

thought. Her mother had only 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

from the auction house came into their room to serve coffee

How did you even get to sit in this room?”

taken up a job as a receptionist at

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

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

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

security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely

for the sack that day, so she let all hell loose when she was taken away by the security guards and yelled out loud,

no doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and turned around to walk toward room seven.

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

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile look.

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

a cold voice,

not hesitate at all as he turned his head to the room and

a girl in overalls came out from room seven and stared curiously