The Day I Kissed An Older Man

“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.

and a half million from bidder

such a bid, and they

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

the word ‘sold’,

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

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

frowned and wondered why Jeremy was still

was just as upset as her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just trying to

calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

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

comes the five-million

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

and a half million!

was annoyed at the development. Her main issue at

“Since this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the

can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can

but

that bidder number one

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

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

house

are you here? How did you even get to sit

the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a

in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo,

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

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

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

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!

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

the auction house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot

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

in a cold voice, “Tell her