"I don't want to not want to," Tian Peng said. "Who wouldn't want to marry and have children? It's just that I don't like being told what to do. I want to find that kind of mutual affection, that kind of mutual affection, General Chen, do you understand?"
"Not at all," General Chen replied. "My wife and I were also brought together by go-betweens. What are you implying, Great General, that my wife and I are not mutually affectionate?"
"I never said that, I'm speaking for myself, why do you keep bringing yourself into it?" Tian Peng said. "Anyway, this kind of thing can't be forced, it must happen on its own."
Tian Peng just said this to Chen Gong off the cuff—all those were just empty words, which couldn't be taken seriously.
Although he shouldn't rush into marriage, he also couldn't just reply to the Emperor casually—it was a matter of trust, and it couldn't be clearly explained in a letter.
