be willing to wait until you truly feel like you know me well enough to become my girlfriend. I’m even prepared to wait until you are ready to marry me and be my wife.
“But Jasmine, could you explain why you’re so opposed to becoming my girlfriend right now? You could get to know me better during the dating phase as well.”
Jasmine paused for a moment before responding, “Mr. Bucham, I’m fearful of your family and its influence. The Buchams have always been enigmatic, and no one has ever truly understood you. You seem capable of uncovering anything you wish to know.
“Before our blind date, you were aware of it, so you investigated everything you could about my family, didn’t you?
“I feel like I have no secrets to share with you. I hope you can refrain from using your family’s power to monitor me and that you can interact with me like a regular person. Please allow me some freedom and keep some secrets of my own. When you’re with me, I want you to just be Josh, not Josh Bucham of the Bucham family. Can you do that?”
Josh was merely the nephew of the head of the Bucham family, yet he already seemed imposing.
How much more intimidating would the heir of the Buchams be?
Jasmine thought that whoever the heir fell in love with would be quite unfortunate.
No one wanted to feel completely exposed by someone else while knowing nothing about them in return.
Josh fell silent.
His only desire was to learn more about her.
That was the sole reason he utilized his family’s network to gather information about her family.
This was the first time he had wanted to get close to a girl; he had researched her thoroughly, even more meticulously than when he assisted Zachary with an investigation. He had uncovered everything about Jasmine and her family, both big and small.
Typically, he would have
You continue to pretend in front of Jasmine. Unfortunately, he had a tendency to speak without thinking and often revealed too much. It was only after he had let something slip that he would realize it was inappropriate. Perhaps that was why the sensitive Jasmine felt repelled by him. He understood that Jasmine did have feelings for him, so why was she reluctant to be his girlfriend? The answer became clear: he knew too much.