Tender Affection

Wen Lan is a calculating businesswoman. To avoid hassle, she chooses Tang Fei, who had firmly rejected her, for a marriage of convenience. Tang Fei sets a wager as her escape route: whoever falls in love first must end the marriage unconditionally.

While living together, they sleep in separate rooms, one of their ground rules for keeping out of each other's affairs. But when they share a bed at Grandma's house, Wen Lan suggests that whoever falls asleep first wins, and the loser has to make breakfast for the other. Tang Fei agrees, and the next day she gets to eat a sandwich made by Wen Lan.

To Tang Fei, marriage is just a transaction, and Wen Lan is good at solving problems with money. Tang Fei deliberately gives her a hard time, pointing at the stars and asking if she can buy them. Wen Lan doesn't answer. After an argument, she specially folds a paper star by hand and gives it to Tang Fei.

By the seaside, they talk about the wager. Tang Fei asks, "What if I pretend to fall for you just to get out of this?" Wen Lan meets her gaze, and Tang Fei panics. Back at the hotel, Wen Lan brings up their first meeting. Tang Fei spots a slip in her story, and Wen Lan admits that she'd used her as a shield the first time they met. Afterwards, she offered Tang Fei fifty thousand, but Tang Fei refused. That was where it all began.

The wager was a lie. Once they fell in love, neither of them cared about winning or losing anymore.

Theme: Games are only fun when they're interesting.