Chapter 519: Chapter 519



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At that moment, Todd was a little regretful, not knowing if he was going to cause trouble for Boyce. He looked at Jasmine helplessly and could only pray that the situation wouldn’t escalate too much.

“You go in.” Todd stepped back, giving up his place.

Jasmine looked at Todd, then steeled herself and opened the door. The dark office chair was sharp and neat, looking especially solemn.

As soon as Boyce saw Jasmine, his brows furrowed. It was unexpected that she would show up here.

He said seriously under his breath, “There’s nothing you can do here, go away.”

Jasmine stood by the door, her hands clasped in front of her. She felt nervous and even terrified to face a person like Officer Miller, but she didn’t back down, “This thing started because of me. I felt it was necessary for me to go to your officer to explain things clearly.”

“Ha!” Miller laughed, “Okay. Since Boyce doesn’t want to say it, you tell me. How did this happen?”

“This matter has nothing to do with Boyce.” Jasmine looked at Miller, “It was all my initiative.”

Miller laughed candidly again. He found her very amusing. He sat back in the chair and looked at Jasmine calmly, “In the picture, they were both hugging, how is it nothing to do with him? What is his identity? Do you know the enormous impact of other people’s conjecture?”

Jasmine was speechless for a while. She had no way to explain the photo, and it did have an impact.

She clasped her hands together and clenched them into fists, “Believe it or not, it’s my fault. It really has nothing to do with Boyce, please don’t punish him.”

Miller looked at Boyce and then at Jasmine. He couldn’t help but find it amusing and his serious face suddenly turned kind.

He knew Boyce’s personality and had thought there must have been a misunderstanding when he saw the news. Considering Boyce’s personality, he felt he could do no such thing.

It was just that he was a government official. This kind of news was going to have a negative impact on the image of government officials in society and make people think that they abused their power and acted recklessly.

Jasmine could not see Miller’s thought process. Thinking she was still going to chastise Boyce, she asked in a determined tone, “I’m an adult, even though I’m young. Boyce is single, too. Can’t we date? Is it illegal to date?”

Boyce looked at Jasmine in astonishment, “Umm, Jasmine, I…”

“I just don’t understand. It wasn’t even your fault. And I’ve already explained why I held on to you and didn’t let go. At the time your guard was down and I took the initiative. But I don’t understand why no one believes me. I don’t want you to be implicated because of me, that’s all. But I feel like, even if I had a hundred mouths, I still wouldn’t be able to explain it clearly.” Jasmine’s eyes were red-rimmed, “I just don’t want you to be affected because of me.”

Miller squeezed his fingers between his brows, “Unexpectedly, she turned out to be a very stubborn child.”

At that moment, the office door was pushed open again. A man in uniform approached Miller and whispered to him.

As he listened to what the person told him, Miller’s complexion changed again and again until finally his face calmed down. Then he said faintly, “I see.”

The man left after speaking. Miller turned on his computer and searched for news about Boyce. There were no results and no photos.

Instead, the shocking thing was that the person who had circulated the photo had come out with a confession in which he admitted his wrongdoing. He claimed that he had faked the photo and had deliberately tried to discredit her because he had a grudge against her. This was followed by all the words admitting his mistake and the impact it had on society. He apologized for the inconvenience caused to the many government officials serving the people and that he hoped to be forgiven.

Armand had gone to the university and had quickly found the person who had posted the photo, who was originally from the same university. It was very easy to ask him to write a statement. After all, the university also wanted to resolve the matter quickly.

Armand was a lawyer who knew how to write a statement on behalf of Boyce and Jasmine. As long as the matter could be resolved, it didn’t matter which was true and which was false. In addition, the public relations department and the mainstream media had agreed to revoke all previous news about Boyce and Jasmine, and those key words in the news could not even be found on Weibo.

Now that the news had been suppressed and the apology all but resolved, everyone was going to forget about it in a few days.

As long as it was not copied, it was going to disappear from everyone’s view and would be quickly forgotten. Now that the Internet was flourishing, all kinds of news were constantly flowing, and once there were no new updates on some news item people lost interest and turned their attention to other news.

Boyce didn’t know what Miller was referring to either, why was she giving him a cold stare and ignoring him?

“Say what my punishment is.”

“Officer Miller, I got careless this time. I guarantee it won’t happen in the future. Umm, can you let him go first?” Clearly, this was not something that could be resolved with an explanation and it was useless for Jasmine to repeat it.

If the matter was not resolved, he had to be punished.

Miller didn’t care how it had happened, but how to resolve it.

At the sound of Boyce’s voice, Miller looked at him calmly, feigning seriousness, “She is the person involved, how can she leave, where can such an intelligent and eloquent girl be found?”

Boyce still wanted to explain, but Miller said something first: “She is right. Both the man and the woman are single, why can’t they go out together? However, you have to behave a little bit in public because of your identity. Your job is to serve the public, it’s even more important to take your responsibility by example.”

“Yes, I understand.” Boyce dutifully complied.

“Go back, write a report and return it to me tomorrow. You must acknowledge your mistakes and discuss in detail where you went wrong.”

“Yes.”

“Okay. Come back.” As if he had forgotten something, Miller called him back, “It doesn’t matter if you’re dating or not. You’re not that young anymore. Seeing you, I worry a lot.”

As he said this, he looked at Jasmine, but as a freshman in college, he found her too young. Then he said, “In the future, keep a low profile. If you cause trouble for me again, I will make you lose your uniform.”

“Yes, I promise I won’t.” Boyce asked pointedly, “Officer Miller, would you like some tea?”

“Get lost!” The teacup had broken, what tea could he drink.

Boyce smiled, “Then I’ll go.” After saying that, he tugged on Jasmine’s hand and quickly walked out fearing that if he lingered any longer Officer Miller might change his mind.

Seeing Boyce’s quick steps, Miller laughed and called for someone to come in and clean the floor.

Jasmine, who was dragged outside, was still a little confused. She felt things had developed too quickly and she hadn’t had enough time to react, “This isn’t going to be investigated anymore?”

Boyce took the time to hum in response and Jasmine was overjoyed. “Great!

But then she thought about it again, “Why isn’t it being investigated?”

“It must have been solved by now.” Boyce thought that the man who had just arrived must have discussed this matter with Officer Miller.

The only people who could have helped him resolve this matter were Matthew and Armand. Sure enough, he saw Armand standing in the doorway waiting for him as he went out the door.

“It’s your turn today.” Armand looked at Boyce leading Jasmine by the hand.

The corner of his mouth turned up in a smirk, “Could you two hold back and wait for things to calm down before publicly showing your affection?”

Only then did Boyce realize he was still holding Jasmine’s hand and suddenly released it as if he had touched a bomb.

Jasmine looked at him and then lowered her head in silence.

Later, Boyce realized that her hand movement was too exaggerated and coughed slightly to disguise his momentary embarrassment.

Armand let out an audible groan and helped them open the car door, “Come on, get in.”

He waited for them to get into the car and start the engine before saying, “It’s been a busy day. Call Matthew, let’s have lunch together.”

“Okay, my treat.” Boyce was sitting in the passenger seat and deliberately didn’t sit with Jasmine. He had always thought she was too young and had no feelings for her.

Even if his first kiss was stolen by this girl.

Armand thought to himself that it was hard to make Boyce understand what was going on. But he was well aware of what Jasmine was thinking, after all, young people could not hide their feelings well. However, seeing Boyce’s reserved attitude really worried him.

She sighed again in her heart, “Call Matthew.”

Armand drove the car and Boyce pulled out his phone and dialed his number. However, the voice on the other end informed him that the number he had dialed was turned off. He dialed again and continued to receive the same message.

He was not at the villa, not at the company and even Abbott was not there either.

Armand and Boyce were a little puzzled. He had never turned off his phone, how could he turn it off so suddenly? The main thing was that he was neither at the villa nor at the company. Since Dolores had left, the place he had stayed the longest had been the company, but he wasn’t there either. Where had he gone?

At such a ripe old age, was he still playing with them by disappearing?

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