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.

and a half million

and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the ‘number

count, “One and a half million

he struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy

bid caught the auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone compared to before. “Three million from bidder

bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between

why Jeremy

as her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s

calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

of four million by buyer number seven. Do we

the five-million

is going even higher! We now have six

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,

development. Her main issue at

very important to you, perhaps we can

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

choice but

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

was astonished to see bidder number one spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than

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’

the auction house came into their

here? How did you even get to sit

as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the

one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled,

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

had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the

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

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

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 toward

and

Jeremy

aback for a moment, then nodded with a

he said in

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