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

and they began wondering who the powerhouse

half million going once! Going twice!

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

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

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

and wondered why Jeremy was still there.

in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just

calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

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

we do! Here comes the five-million bid

even higher! We now have

we have seven million? Oh, it’s higher than that! Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids

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

you, perhaps we can

to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can let

had no choice but to heed her words.

auctioneer sealed the deal with a knock of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder

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

Corinne 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 in Late Autumn’ could point to two possibilities: Corinne’s mother was either someone he knew personally or someone he had connections

there.” Two beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into their room to serve coffee

Why are you here? How did you even get to sit in this room?” one of the female receptionists suddenly

the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a

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 job, while you’re living the good life with a sugar

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

for the job a day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her

the auction house rushed over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out

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!

that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she

receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right in front of him.

Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile look.

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

in a

he turned his head to the room and said, “Hey, someone’s looking for you!”

overalls came out from room seven and