"It wasn't about marriage," Qin Mu corrected. "We were discussing the matter of giving myself to you."
"That was just a joke." Cheng Lang had no choice but to explain. "I wasn't trying to force Qin into marrying me."
"It wasn't coercion. It was my own wish." Qin Mu explained, "I wanted to fulfill that promise of giving myself to you."
The key question was, when had they ever made such a promise?
Cheng Lang felt a faint throbbing at his temples. "It doesn't really count as a promise. I was just saying it casually. I never meant for Qin to make good on it."
Cheng Lang was a little scared. He could not bear this inexplicable affection and responsibility.
Qin Mu looked at Cheng Lang in confusion. Giving himself to Cheng Lang had clearly been the way Cheng Lang proposed repaying him. Now that he had agreed, why was Cheng Lang refusing instead?
"When I was little, I had a Husky. My mother gave it to me for my seventh birthday, because I'd wanted a dog ever since I was young," Qin Mu suddenly said.
"Hm?" Cheng Lang blinked, not understanding why Qin Mu had suddenly brought this up.
Qin Mu explained, "But my father didn't agree. He'd been afraid of dogs since childhood and didn't want me keeping one. Even though I promised him I would keep my dog under control and never let it appear in front of him, he still refused."
At the time, Qin Mu's mother had just discovered that Qin Mu's father was having an affair and wanted to divorce him. Qin Mu's father made a huge scene, so Qin Mu's mother planned to take Qin Mu back to the Weng Family Estate. She was going to bring the dog with them as well,