He's a Little Too Restrained

Qin Man has just broken up with her outstanding boyfriend of three months when she gets a call from her mother urging her to get married.

She happens to be at a company dinner, with her mother on the phone pressuring her to bring that damn ex-boyfriend home. The alcohol goes to Qin Man's head, and in a fit of pique, she picks out a handsome man she vaguely recognizes at the dinner, grabs her household registration booklet and other documents, and drags him straight to the Civil Affairs Bureau.

When she sobers up, she somehow has a husband.

Pei Zheyu was the boy who sat behind her in high school. He was so aloof that the whole school considered him the hardest campus heartthrob to approach. Though they work for the same company, they have crossed paths fewer than five times since graduation.

They sign a postnuptial agreement, and surprisingly, they get along quite well after the wedding. Their life is happy, and they treat each other with respect.

Qin Man gradually begins to think about becoming a real couple.

One day, she scatters flower petals over the bed, lights candles and incense, and changes into a new set of pajamas to wait for him.

But Pei Zheyu is completely unmoved. He turns his back to her and goes to sleep, then eventually leaves the room altogether, following the agreement's rule against crossing the line to the letter. He is like a block of wood.

Well...

You can't force love.

After wrestling with it for a long time, Qin Man decides to invite President Pei to a candlelit dinner. On their wedding anniversary, she says seriously,