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.

half million from

was once again astonished to see such a bid, and they began wondering

half million going once! Going

gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy

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

bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between

frowned and wondered why

was just as upset as her. “What in the world is

ordered calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

four million by buyer number seven. Do we have a

Here comes the five-million bid from

number seven is going even higher! We now have six

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

annoyed at the development. Her main issue at that juncture was

to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to

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 for now.”

but to heed her

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

to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich

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

receptionists from the auction house came into their

you even get to sit in this room?” one of the

apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired by Alpha Enterprises.

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

it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to leave when he

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 bad impression

personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized

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

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

and he was about to close the door

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

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

he said in a

head to the room and said, “Hey, someone’s

in overalls came out from room seven and stared curiously