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!”

audience was once again astonished to see such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the

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

the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his

caught the auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone compared to before. “Three million

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

and wondered why Jeremy was still

“What in the world is

“Bid

“Right!”

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

five-million bid from bidder

going even higher! We now have

seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor?

issue

perhaps we can shift the project funds to it

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

but to heed

deal 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.

more than its original value. This merely showed that

not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such a high price

Two beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into their room to

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

and recognized the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at

gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me lose

that the entire auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of

period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone

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

almost certainly heading for the sack that day, so she let 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

heard her crystal clear on that occasion—there was no 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

receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron

taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there

said in a cold voice,

turned his head to the room

room seven and stared