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.

a half million from

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

auctioneer began to count, “One and a half million going once! Going twice! Going

the gavel and uttered the word

he spoke in a more excited tone compared

an amount. Everyone wondered

frowned and wondered why Jeremy

world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s

calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

four million by buyer

Here comes the five-million bid

seven is going even higher! We

goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids

main issue at that juncture was a lack

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

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

choice but to

that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with a final price of

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

well-known, she was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular either.

auction house came into their room

even get to sit in

recognized the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a

she spotted the handsome, well-dressed Aaron in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me lose my job, while

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

but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left an extremely bad impression on

over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely

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

girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes

an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared

Jeremy

then nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d like to talk to her

as he said in

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