Why isn't he talking? Is he mad? Cheng Qingchong snuck her eyes upward to look at Qin Yinan, and she noticed a shade of disappointment on his face. Feeling her eyes on him, Qin Yinan forced a smile and joked, "Don't know or don't like?"

He tried to be jovial, but it couldn't hide the heavy current of sadness. Cheng Qingchong felt something grip her heart. Without thinking, she immediately shook her head and blurted out, "No, it's not that…"

Cheng Qingchong, who realized what she was saying, felt her face burning up. However, Qin Yinan hugged her happily like he had been granted his greatest wish in the world. He laughed audibly and even used his head to nudge intimately at her neck.

The shy Cheng Qingchong was tickled fancy by his demeanor, and her heart started to relax.

He had to like her, right? That was why he would have sex with her and treat her so nicely, and it was why he would ask her whether she liked him or not and was disappointed when she said that she didn't know…

She had to like him, right? After their close time together.

Or else, she would have pushed him away when he tried to touch her.

Or else, she wouldn't have thought he was better than her Big Boss when she made the accidental comparison.

Or else, her emotions wouldn't have been strung along by his.

Or else, she wouldn't have thought it might be not so bad to spend the rest of her life with him.

"Then, what about you?" Cheng Qingchong, who hid away her smile, raised her head to look at Qin Yinan before asking, "Do you like me?"

Qin Yinan's lips curved into a slight smile, and he lowered his head to plant a kiss on her lips before answering, "What do you think?"

Cheng Qingchong's breathing halted, and she lowered her head with a blush.

Qin Yinan's tongue carefully and lightly caressed her lips, and he mumbled, "Of course I like you… I like you a lot… So, will you spend the rest of your life with me?"

Cheng Qingchong nodded. "I will."

Qin Yinan pried open her lips, and his tongue danced around hers. Cheng Qingchong felt his other arm moving from the periphery of her eyes. She then heard a crisp click, and as Qin Yinan leaned away from her face, a pretty and exquisite diamond ring appeared before her eyes. "Remove the ring from your finger and take this."

Cheng Qingchong was stunned.

Qin Yinan pulled her hand toward him, removed the ring that he had put on her ring finger during their wedding ceremony off, and slid this new ring gently on. "Should have thrown that ring away a long time ago. That was merely a showpiece to go along with the marriage. This ring, I personally bought it for you."

Cheng Qingchong froze instantly. She didn't even dare to move her lashes.

Qin Yinan patted her lightly on her head to call her back to reality. "Do you like it?"

"I do." Cheng Qingchong nodded before reaching out her arms to hug him over his neck.

She sincerely did like it; she liked the ring and the giver of the ring. She liked it so much that she was afraid of losing him. So, those bad things that she had once done, she decided to keep as her own secret, and she swore to not let them see the light of day.