If she didn't like it, she absolutely wouldn't say something against her conscience just to spare his feelings.
"Giving me this gift—what is it that you want?"
Linn Huai: "I don't want anything. I just wanted to give you this gift and make you happy."
Even though he really did want things between them to develop further, there was no way he'd ever make that kind of demand just because he'd given her a present. What would that make him?
Using a gift to blackmail her into agreeing to him?
Leaving aside that he was unwilling to do that, she also wasn't the kind of person who'd be held hostage by a mere gift.
He drew this Hundred-Faced Map purely because he wanted to give it to her, hoping she'd be happy when she received it.
Qiann Yan tapped lightly on the table with her fingers. "It's a pity I can't take this thing with me."
