Responses

if he was honest about how he felt not because of the lame excuse he gave of "because your poor" here you are asking someone to marry you, you want to marry them because you know they can be a friend and you like them maybe not romantically (but we all know in yaoi sense that will come) and you know the person probably likes you back hence why you thought of them in the first place.
Marry me because you're the only poor man I know, ahmn, wtf Sir?