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

bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the ‘number seven’

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

uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy

in a more excited tone

bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if

wondered why Jeremy was still

in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem?

calmly,

“Right!”

buyer number seven. Do

the five-million bid from bidder

even higher! We now have six million from bidder number

for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the

main issue at that juncture was

important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds

I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll

no choice but to

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

bidder number one spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people

her spare time. Despite being relatively well-known, she was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular

from the auction house

even get to sit in

looked up and recognized the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired

gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me lose

was so frantic and loud that the entire auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of

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

had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the

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 man gets tired of f*cking your sick *ss

that occasion—there was no doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding

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

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a

with a smile. “Is there anything

said in

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