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.

half million from bidder

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

and a half million going once!

uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised

caught the auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone

big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark

wondered why Jeremy

“What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s

calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

buyer number seven.

Here comes the five-million bid

is going even higher! We now

goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No? Alright then. Seven and a half

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

you, perhaps we can shift the

my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can let Jeremy keep

but to heed

deal with a knock of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured

one spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely

pseudonym 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

receptionists from the auction house came into their room

even get to sit in this room?” one

looked up and recognized the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the

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

high-pitched 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

for the job a day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to

of the auction house rushed over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder

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! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice

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 to walk

apology from the latter, and

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile

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

he said in