Su Man is the youngest civil judge at the city court.
Zhou Chen is a systems architect at a tech company who believes every problem has an optimal solution, including marital arguments.
In three years of marriage, Su Man has learned three things:
1. Don’t use evidence-chain logic to analyze your husband’s “I’m fine.”
2. He really only knows one way to make sweet-and-sour ribs.
3. During a cold war, the “scheduling” feature in project-management software somehow ends up on their own fridge.
She thought life would just go on like this.
Until Zhou Chen guaranteed someone else’s debt and ended up owing eight hundred thousand yuan. The day the bank’s collection notice arrived at their door, Su Man had just left court, still holding her gavel.
Looking at the man in such a panic that he’d sent her a document titled “Personal Debt Repayment and Subsequent Recovery Plan_v1.0,” she suddenly wanted to know:
When would this straight-laced guy, who even put version numbers on his apologies, finally learn to give in?
[Reading Guide]
Day 7 of scheduling a cold war → He sends her an Excel sheet
Their first meeting after the guarantee goes bad → He says, “Do you need legal assistance? I’ll pay.”
That bowl of noodles gone soggy late at night → The note says just two words: Eat while hot
And then there’s
that balcony overlooking the river that they said they’d decorate together.
They were years late.
But in the end, they made it there together.
[For readers who]
✔️ Enjoy career contrasts and romances between equally matched adults
✔️ Find an engineer’s awkward, straight-laced antics genuinely funny
✔️ Aren’t looking for a domineering CEO, but an ordinary-people story that “could happen to someone you know”
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