Clear Skies, Safe Landings

[The complete story is finished! Please support the official release! Thanks for reading~] [The companion story in the same series, Cross the Twilight Line, is complete. Childhood sweethearts reunite after a breakup!] ---- Blurb ---- Sunny civilian airline captain x aloof approach controller Wang Hengyu (top) x Jiang Ning (bottom) Jiang Ning is notorious at Yucheng Airport's Control Center for making sure strangers keep their distance. His aloof demeanor keeps people at arm's length. There's an unwritten rule at the Control Center: You can offend the director, but never Jiang Ning, especially on his VHF frequency! He was introverted from childhood, and became even more withdrawn after his parents died. His life was like an endless gloomy day, dull and uneventful, day after day. Until one stormy night, he met someone over the VHF. The man made a whole slew of demands when Jiang Ning was at his busiest, and was honestly not very likable. But his clear, bright voice made Jiang Ning feel, for a moment, as though the gloom of that stormy night had lifted. Before meeting Jiang Ning in person, Wang Hengyu's impression of him was: aloof, stern, formulaic, and lacking in warmth. After meeting him: adorable, cute, handsome, lovable! It took Wang Hengyu just one meal to convince himself to accept the fact that he had fallen in love with Jiang Ning at first sight. Wang Hengyu's approach was like a spring drizzle, quietly nourishing everything, and like the blazing warmth of the summer sun. He was a ray of sunshine, forcing his way through the heavy storm clouds above Jiang Ning's head and warming him without reservation. Jiang Ning doubted and wondered, until one overcast morning, when he saw Wang Hengyu's flight squawk “A7700.” Only then did he suddenly understand what it meant to “like” someone. “You're the first person I've ever truly liked... I can't really explain why, but I know very clearly that all my happiness and sorrow come from you!” No matter how overcast the sky, a ray of sunlight will find its way across the vast galaxy, pass through the atmosphere, break through the clouds, and shine down with a warmth that reaches the heart. Wang Hengyu was his sun! [Plot version] [Before they meet] Jiang Ning: Your turn isn't round enough. Do two more circles. The guy told his turns weren't round enough flies into a rage: What did he say? I was flying a J-20 at an air show before he even knew what he was doing! Colleague: He's handsome, an aloof beauty! The guy who's just fallen out with him and is petty enough to hold a grudge: Hah, I don't believe it! [After they meet] The same guy, full of regret: I used to scoff at it, but now it's love at first sight! As for our grudge... I'll get him next time! [They meet again over VHF] Jiang Ning: Eastern 556, delayed 15 minutes. Please wait for further instructions. Thank you. The same guy, all smiles and not the least bit resentful: Okay~ Roger! [After they get together] Jiang Ning, frowning and sighing: So this is what happens when you've been together too long. The spark's gone, and you don't listen to me anymore! The same guy, who's only half finished his meal, leaps up from the bed: Have a heart! How am I not listening to you? I listen to you in the sky, then I land and come home and still have to listen to you. If you say go faster, I go faster; if you say go slower, I go slower. Where else are you going to find someone as cooperative as me?! Jiang Ning: ...Is that what I meant?! Wang Hengyu: Isn't it? Jiang Ning: Forget it. You'd better just shut up! The guy, forcibly muted, wears a wronged-husband look and speaks sarcastically: Sure, sure. We've been together too long, so you can't win an argument and have no point, and now you want me to shut up, right? Jiang Ning: ... - Calm winds, clear skies, and safe takeoffs and landings. - Who is waiting for his sun to come home beneath the clouds, thousands of meters in the sky? Key points: 1. One-on-one, happy ending, mutual first love, younger top. No angst, pure sweetness! I promise! 2. The characters aren't based on real people. Everything serves the story. 3. I'm not a professional in this field. Please be gentle if there are errors in the technical details!!! 4. Things progress slowly at first. The top and bottom don't officially meet until Chapter 6!!! 5. There are also a few secret identities for my own protection in the author's note in Chapter 1. (Please, please! Open the author's note and take a look!) 6. There are three side couples. They don't appear much in the main story, and all their scenes serve the main plot. Their bonus chapters are in a separate story on my series page, Yucheng Logistics Center. 7. My writing is awful, the logic is dead, and all I want is to give you sugar. Read or don't, it's up to you. Thanks to everyone who likes it. If you don't, there's no need to tell me. Let's go our separate ways in peace. Don't pick fights with me; I'll delete your comments! 8. Don't read only Chapter 1 or the blurb and then accuse me of plagiarism without evidence. Respect others and respect original works. Thank you! (The comments section has really scared me QAQ) 9. In-line comments are enabled. Let's chat nicely~! [Thanks, everyone. That's all! ^3^] [Character art credits: Special thanks to the wonderful Xiao Zhu, @XiaoZhuIsSleepy, for creating it with such passion!] [The next story will be the companion novel Cross the Twilight Line, about childhood sweethearts reuniting after a breakup! Go straight to my series page~] Eleven years later, the next time Lin Xuchuan heard from Song Juexiao was during an interview on the international news. The man on screen looked just as he had eleven years ago, except he had shed the awkwardness of youth and gained the charm of a mature man. In a smooth London accent, he calmly described what had happened. The man who once said he would fly him around the world had recently pulled off a water landing worthy of “Captain Sully”: Air Canada Flight 026's emergency landing. For a while, the world's media rushed to cover the story. A year after the “Flight 026 emergency landing,” in Yucheng, inside Lin Xuchuan's control sector, he heard a voice that was still unmistakably familiar after twelve years. With his signature cheeky tone, it greeted him: “Yucheng Approach, good morning. Air China 4677, ready to follow your instructions.” Twelve years after their reunion, who made the first move was anyone's guess. By the time they came to their senses, things had already spiraled out of control. Song Juexiao, childish and stubborn, pressed him for an answer: “Twelve years ago, who said I was bad in bed?” Lin Xuchuan: “...” Right, when they broke up, his excuse had been: You're terrible in bed! “We were both doing it for the first time. When I asked for another round, you refused! Even pilots have to log their hours. How can you improve your skills without practice? Have you ever seen a newborn calf that knows how to plow? You were the one who took me to the hotel, and you were the one who ran off after we slept together... Do you have any conscience?” Song Juexiao grew more and more aggrieved as he spoke. Lin Xuchuan: “...” It did sound like he had been pretty awful. But! Getting back together was out of the question! Lin Xuchuan had a headache. Song Juexiao clung to him like a piece of flypaper almost every day. Were pilots really that free? Didn't he have to fly? Song Juexiao answered, perfectly reasonably and with complete confidence: “I've been grounded!” Lin Xuchuan: “...” Oh, right. On his first day at the new base, the landing gear malfunctioned and he called “PAN-PAN.” He'd nearly had to make a belly landing. Lin Xuchuan was stubborn as a mule. Song Juexiao said his mouth would still be there even after he was cremated! He might be annoyed, but if Lin Xuchuan really tried to push him away, he couldn't bear it. They had grown up together as childhood sweethearts, and Song Juexiao knew exactly how to bring out every one of his joys and sorrows. Whenever he acted spoiled, played dumb, or pretended to be wronged, Lin Xuchuan's heart softened again. Song Juexiao had loved him for twelve years, as steadfast as ever. It didn't matter why Lin Xuchuan had suddenly asked to break up all those years ago, or why he had disappeared without a trace for twelve years afterward. As long as Song Juexiao knew Lin Xuchuan still loved him, he would gladly take all one hundred steps toward him alone. Inspired by: “Head west, cross the twilight line, cross the international date line, and return to the day we first met.” - If twelve years couldn't erase it, then nothing ever will stop me from loving you. - As long as you still love me, you can stand right where you are. I'll run to you. - Even mountains and seas cannot keep apart those who love each other. They can all be crossed. Devoted, stubborn, and hopelessly romantic civilian airline captain x smooth-talking, stubborn, and difficult approach controller Song Juexiao (top) x Lin Xuchuan (bottom) [Locked in! My CP won't be reversed or broken up!] Key points: 1. One-on-one, happy ending, reunited after a breakup, mutual love with arrows pointing both ways. They stay chaste for twelve years after breaking up. Not pure sweetness, mild angst, about 40% angst. 2. The bottom is actually very difficult and contradictory. A fierce little tiger outside, a paper tiger at home, and occasionally a hedgehog. Deep down, he's a quail and an ostrich. Due to social pressures, he loves but won't admit it, and talks nonsense all the time. The top is more resilient and hopelessly romantic! (Being hopelessly romantic is a man's best dowry!) No matter how many times he's turned away, once he knows the bottom still loves him, he'll do anything for him. [Weibo: @YanShuXing] [2025.2.23 Blurb screenshotted] Theme: Even if life is full of disappointments, believe that a blazing ray of sunshine will eventually come and warm you, no matter what!