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

once again astonished to see such a bid, and they

“One and a half million going once! Going

the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised

surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone compared to before. “Three

by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding

wondered why Jeremy was

as upset as her. “What in the world

ordered calmly,

“Right!”

of four million by buyer

Here comes the five-million bid from

higher! We now have six million

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

at the development. Her main issue at that juncture was

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

capital to my personal affairs.

choice but to heed her

the gavel, and it was soon announced that

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

lost in thought. Her mother had only painted under the 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 a high price for ‘Geese

from the auction house came into their room to serve

you here? How did you even get to sit in this room?”

who had apparently taken up a job as a

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

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

her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her

He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to

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

heard her 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

house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right in

here?” Jeremy

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

said in a cold voice,