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 number

to see such a bid, and

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

second before he struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy

the auctioneer by 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 war between bidder number one

and wondered why Jeremy

“What in the world

ordered calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

by buyer number seven. Do we

comes the five-million bid

number seven is going even higher! We now have

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

development. Her main issue

to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to

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

no choice but to

was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with a final price

astonished 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

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

receptionists from the auction house

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

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

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 job, while you’re living

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

speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left an

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

out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It won’t be long

And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and turned around to

an apology from the latter, and he was about

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile

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

narrowed slightly as he said in a cold