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

bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse

and a half

second before he struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’,

auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited

raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would

why Jeremy was

was just as upset as her. “What in the world

calmly,

“Right!”

buyer number seven.

comes the five-million bid from bidder number

seven is going even higher! We now

seven and a half million! Any further bids from

main issue at that juncture was

this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to

head. “No, I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We

no choice but to heed

announced that bidder number

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

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 mother was either someone he knew personally or someone he had connections

the auction house came

to

taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired by Alpha

side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me lose my job,

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

speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at

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

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 now! It won’t be long before your man gets tired of f*cking your sick *ss and dumps

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

and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot

was taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d like to talk to

as he said in a cold