The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 17

“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

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

count, “One and a half million going once!

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

in a more

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

why Jeremy was still

the world is

calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

buyer number seven. Do

we do! Here comes the five-million

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

higher than that! Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any

development. Her main issue at that juncture

you, perhaps we can

“No, I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal

choice but

was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with

at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people could do whatever they

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

the auction house

you even get to sit in this room?”

Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist

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

auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to

period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left an extremely bad impression on

He had Zoey dragged

guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It won’t be long before your man gets

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 around

apology from the latter, and he was about

here?” Jeremy shot

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

in a cold voice, “Tell her to come

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