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.

and a half million

bid, and they began

to count, “One and a half million going once! Going twice! Going thrice, and…”

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

auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited

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

wondered why Jeremy was

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

“Bid higher, Aaron!”

“Right!”

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

comes the five-million

seven is going even higher! We now have six million from bidder number

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

main issue at that juncture was

important to you, perhaps

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

but to heed her

gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with

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

was lost in 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 either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such a high price for ‘Geese

house came into their

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

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

stared at 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

one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to leave when he heard

had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the

over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder

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 f*cking your sick *ss and dumps

her 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 seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and

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

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a

a smile. “Is there anything you’d like

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

hesitate at all as he turned his head to the room and

out from room seven and stared