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 from bidder number seven!”

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

auctioneer began to count, “One and a half million

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

surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone compared to before.

gasps 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 bidder number seven.

frowned and wondered why Jeremy

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

“Bid higher, Aaron!”

“Right!”

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

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

seven is going even higher! 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

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

important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it

and shook her head. “No, I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can let Jeremy keep it

no choice but

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

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

was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s

Two beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into their

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

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

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

high-pitched 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 once and glanced coldly at room seven.

ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely

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

hell loose when she was taken away by the security guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you!

girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed

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

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile

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

in a cold voice, “Tell her to come

at all as he turned his head

overalls came out from room seven and stared curiously at