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

astonished to see such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind

to count, “One and a half million going once!

struck the gavel and uttered the

a more excited tone compared to before. “Three million from

the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the

why Jeremy was still

world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just trying

ordered calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

buyer number seven. Do we have a

we do! Here comes the five-million bid from bidder

higher! We now have

one goes for seven and a half

was annoyed at the development. Her main issue at that

suggested, “Since this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the

capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get

had no choice but to heed her

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

to 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

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

auction house came into their room to

are you here? How did you even get to sit in

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

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

could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to leave when he

had just applied for the job a day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the

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

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

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 eyes coldly and turned

latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right in front

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile

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

narrowed slightly as he said in