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!”

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

“One and a half

the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his

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

shocked 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

and wondered why Jeremy was still there.

in the world is Mister Jeremy’s

calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

of four million by buyer

we do! Here comes the five-million bid from

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

Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor?

at the development. Her main issue at that juncture was

to you, perhaps we can shift the project

to my personal affairs. I’ll

choice but to heed her

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 million.

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

being relatively well-known, she was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular

auction house came into their room to serve coffee and dessert.

did you even get to sit in this

Zoey, who had apparently taken up a

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

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

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

He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder in

yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It won’t

‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly

after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared

Jeremy

with a smile. “Is there anything you’d

as he said in a cold voice, “Tell her to come

hesitate at all as he turned his head to the room and said, “Hey, someone’s looking

out from room seven and stared curiously at Jeremy.