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 bidder number
was once again astonished to see such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the ‘number seven’
count, “One and a half million going
before he struck the gavel and uttered the word
by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone
the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an
why Jeremy
upset as her. “What in the world is
calmly, “Bid higher,
“Right!”
a bid of four million by buyer number seven. Do we have a
comes the five-million bid from bidder
We now have six
half million!
the development. Her main issue at that
this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift
hand and shook 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
no choice but to heed her
that bidder number one had secured
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
she was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular either.
the auction house came into their room to serve coffee
get to sit in this room?” one
Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired
a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne!
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
applied 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
house rushed over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he
she was taken away by the security guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me
was no doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding
sent the auction house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close
here?” Jeremy
nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d like to
said in a cold
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