The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 222
Corinne grabbed Jeremy’s arm firmly and shook him. “Mister! Hey! Wake up! Don’t scare me like
that...”
The man closed his eyes to calm himself and was silent for about a minute before he opened his mouth again. “Why didn’t you
continue what you just did?”
‘What I just did...? Corinne immediately understood what he meant, and her lips twitched as she looked at him with disdain. “Tch,
all men are like this! Don’t try to take advantage of me!”
Corinne was very upset when she realized he tried to trick her. She shoved the remaining glass of water to him and said angrily,
“Drink it yourself! I took a lot of effort to bring the water back for you, and it’ll leak out if you don’t drink it quicker!”
Jeremy was not thirsty, but he decided to drink it nonetheless because it was rare for her to be so conscientious. He opened his
handsome eyes, reached out to take the leaf cup handed to him, and raised his head to drink the water that remained inside.
Then, he seemed to have a sudden realization as he stared at the empty cup made of reed leaves. His dark pupils contracted as
he asked pensively, “Have we met somewhere before?”
Corinne was hugging her knees as she sat to one side, and his question made her feel that he was trying to tease her again.
She rolled her eyes at him and said, “Don’t act like you’ve lost your memory! It’s hardly the time and place for that.”
Jeremy’s expression remained stern. “What I mean by that is, have we met somewhere a very long time ago?”
Corinne could hear the seriousness in his tone, which was unlike what she would have expected if he was trying to tease her.
She then eyed him strangely and said, “Probably not. I lived in a remote place before I turned eighteen. I wouldn’t have had the
opportunity to meet a rich man like you.”
Jeremy narrowed his eyes slightly and had a complicated expression. Ten years ago, he went to the countryside to inspect the
poverty alleviation projects that the company had planned for certain poverty–stricken areas, but his enemies plotted against him
and injured him severely while he was on the way to the site.
In those dire circumstances, he hid in the forest of a small mountain village and waited for his subordinates to come and get him.
While waiting in the forest, he lost consciousness due to excessive blood loss, and the smell of blood lured in a venomous snake

that bit him.
He nearly died that day, but a little girl passed by and saved him. The girl was small–perhaps about ten years old–but she was
calm, mature, and methodical. She tied his arm with a hair tie to stop the toxin from spreading along his blood vessels. Then, she
sucked out the venomous blood for him with her mouth and spat it out. Lastly, she found an herb in the surrounding grass and
chewed it before applying it to his bite.
The girl told him that the herb, known as broadleaf plantain, grew in areas that were known to harbor snakes and could remove
the effectiveness of most snake venoms.
After that, she took out her handkerchief and helped him bandage another wound on his body.
Since there were traces of snake venom left in his body, his eyes were blinded temporarily, and he could not see what her face
looked like the entire time.
For the next three days, the girl would visit him with a bun, and she poured a glass of water from her water bottle for him to drink
too.
She also folded a makeshift cup out of reed leaves to contain that water.
On the day that her subordinates found him, the girl had not come yet, and he did not have time to wait for her because he had
to rush back to deal with something urgent. He therefore left one of his subordinates there to wait for her. He then left a string of
beads–which his mother gave himn as a lucky charm–with that subordinate and instructed him to give it to the girl who saved his
life as a keepsake. The girl was also told that she could visit the Holdens‘ estate in the city and look. for him if she was in any
trouble.
Jeremy, on the other hand, took her makeshift leaf cup as his keepsake.
Not long later, a girl came to the Holdens‘ estate to look for him with the string of beads. That was when he found out that the girl
who saved him was the Riveras‘ second daughter, Anya, who happened to be recuperating in the summer resort in the
countryside a few days prior.