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

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

to count, “One and a half million

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

spoke in a more

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

frowned and wondered why Jeremy

“What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s

ordered calmly,

“Right!”

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

the five-million bid from

We now have six million from

Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No? Alright then. Seven and a half million, going once, going

issue at that juncture was a lack of

very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it for

raised her 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

no choice but to heed her

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

million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people

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

beautiful receptionists from the auction house

to sit in

Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired

sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me lose my job, while you’re living the good life

voice was so 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 at

had just started her probationary 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

security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the

she was taken away by the security guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me

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

from the latter, and he was about to close the

Jeremy shot

for a moment, then nodded with a smile.

as he said in a cold voice,