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

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

a half million going once! Going twice!

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

surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone

shocked gasps resonated through the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between bidder number one and bidder

and wondered why

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

ordered calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

million by buyer number seven. Do we have a

the five-million bid

bidder number seven is going even higher! We now have six million from bidder

number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids

annoyed at the development. Her main issue at

this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift

just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another

choice but to heed her

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

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 could do whatever they want with

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

there.” Two beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into their room to

get to sit in this room?” one of the female

up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being

Corinne in shock, and before long, 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

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

probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the

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

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 dumps

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

an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the

Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a

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

in a cold voice, “Tell her to come out,