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.

a half million from

once again astonished to see such a bid, and they began wondering who the

a half million going

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

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

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

upset as her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s

calmly,

“Right!”

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

the five-million bid from bidder

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

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

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

you, perhaps we can shift the project

divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We

choice but to heed her

of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with a final price of

several times more

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

the auction house came into their

How did you even get to

a job as a receptionist at the auction house after

at Corinne in 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,

frantic and loud that the entire auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to leave when he heard Zoey’s screech. He halted his footsteps at once and glanced coldly

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

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

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

there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and turned around to

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

Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a

nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d

handsome eyes narrowed slightly as he said in a cold voice, “Tell her to come out,