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 bidder

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

began to count, “One and a half

second before he struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his placard from room

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

an amount. Everyone wondered

frowned and wondered why Jeremy was

in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem?

ordered calmly,

“Right!”

of four million by buyer number seven. Do we have a

we do! Here comes the five-million bid from

number seven is going even higher! We

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

main issue at that juncture was a lack

perhaps we can shift the project funds

“No, I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal

but

sealed the deal with a knock of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with a final price of six

six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people could do whatever they want with

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

beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into

even get to sit in

Zoey, who had apparently taken up a

to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy

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

period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left

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

so she let 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

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 room

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

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron

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

he said in a cold voice, “Tell her to come