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 from bidder number seven!”

they began wondering who the powerhouse

auctioneer began to count, “One and a half million going once! Going

uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his placard from

spoke in a more excited tone compared to before. “Three million from bidder number

big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between bidder number one and

wondered why Jeremy was still there.

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

calmly, “Bid higher, Aaron!”

“Right!”

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

Here comes the five-million

is going even higher! We

Oh, it’s 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, going once,

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

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

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 for

no choice but to heed her

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

was astonished to see bidder number one 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.

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

from the auction house came into their room to serve coffee

did you even get to sit in this room?”

up a job

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!

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

period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left an extremely bad

several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged

all hell loose when 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 twice now! It won’t be long before your

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.

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

Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron

moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there anything

in a

he turned his head to the room

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