When they traveled to an old part of Suzhou, Jiangsu province Gu caught a cold. Li knocked on the door of a household and asked for hot water. When she finished the water, he would knock on another door.

Li is quite traditional and chauvinistic. He is sometimes unwilling to share his thoughts with her, but she has her own way of reading him.

"Once I fell asleep in the car. When I awoke I was still groggy, but I heard him speaking to me while driving. He revealed his innermost thoughts and feelings that he was too shy to express when I was awake. So sometimes I will pretend to be sleeping so as to hear what he would like say to me," Gu says.

They set a date to register their marriage before Li had even formally proposed. Gu said she would like a proposal featuring her two closest friends, roses, candles and fireworks, but he dismissed the idea. "You watch too many love films," he told her.

But just before the day of their registration, he surprised her with her dream proposal.

Their biggest disagreement occurred when Gu graduated from university in 2011. She received an offer from an international accounting firm and wanted to work for them for two years in Nanjing. But Li had inherited his family business in Changzhou, and could not leave.

"I was anxious to marry her and just could not bear the distance any more," he says.

Ultimately, however, he chose to respect her wishes. She also kept her promise. After two years she resigned from her promising job, returned to Changzhou and married him.

About the couple

Li Jun, 26, a salesman in his family's company

Gu Xingdi, 25, works in the financial department of the same company

Date of wedding: Nov 10, 2013

Date of marriage registration: Oct 28, 2013

Pre-wedding photos shooting: at Yvone Studio, 138-1698-5110