Beyond the Twilight Line

[The main story is complete; the bonus chapters are in progress...] [Please support the official version! Thanks for reading~] [The companion novel in the same series, Clear Skies and Safe Landings, is complete.] Synopsis A devoted, stubborn, hopelessly lovestruck commercial airline captain × a tough-talking, awkward approach controller who makes things up as he goes Song Juexiao (Seme) × Lin Xuchuan (Uke) Eleven years later, the next time Lin Xuchuan heard news of Song Juexiao was in an interview on an international news broadcast. The man on screen looked just as he had eleven years ago, only the boyish awkwardness had faded, replaced by the charm of a mature man. In a smooth London accent, he calmly described what had happened in the accident. The man who had once promised to fly him all over the world had recently made a water landing comparable to Captain Sully's: Air Canada Flight 026's emergency landing. For a time, media outlets around the world rushed to cover the story. A year after the “Flight 026 emergency landing,” Lin Xuchuan was in Yucheng, working his approach control sector, when he heard a voice that was still so familiar after twelve years. The speaker greeted him with his trademark cheeky swagger: “Good morning, Yucheng Approach. 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 childishly, stubbornly pinned him down and demanded, “Twelve years ago, who was the one who said I was no good in bed?” Lin Xuchuan: “...” Right. When they broke up, his excuse had been: the sex was terrible! “We were both doing it for the first time! I asked to try again, and you wouldn't let me! Even captains have to log their hours! How can you improve 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 no conscience at all?” Song Juexiao grew more and more aggrieved as he spoke. Lin Xuchuan: “...” It did sound like he'd been pretty awful. But! Getting back together was out of the question! Lin Xuchuan had a serious headache. Song Juexiao clung to him like a sticky plaster almost every day. Were pilots really so free? Didn't he ever have to take to the skies? Song Juexiao answered with righteous confidence, “I've been grounded!” Lin Xuchuan: “...” Oh, right. On his first day at the new base, this guy had called “PAN-PAN” because of a landing gear failure and nearly had to make a belly landing. Lin Xuchuan was incredibly stubborn. Song Juexiao said that even after Lin Xuchuan had been cremated, his mouth would still be stubborn! Lin Xuchuan might refuse to admit it, but when it came to actually pushing Song Juexiao away, he couldn't bring himself to do it. They had grown up together as childhood sweethearts, and Song Juexiao knew exactly how to play on every one of Lin Xuchuan's moods. The moment he started acting spoiled, playing dumb, and pretending to be hurt, Lin Xuchuan would soften all over again. Song Juexiao had loved him for twelve years, and never wavered. It didn't matter why Lin Xuchuan had inexplicably asked to break up back then, or why he had disappeared without a trace for twelve years afterward. As long as he could be sure Lin Xuchuan still loved him, he would gladly take all one hundred steps toward him on his own. Inspired by: “Head west, cross the line between night and day, cross the International Date Line, and return to the day we first met.” - Twelve years couldn't erase it, so nothing ever will stop me from loving you. - As long as you still love me, you can stay right where you are. I'll come running to you. - The mountains and seas between us can all be crossed. A few important points: 1. One-on-one romance, happy ending. The seme is 32, the uke is 30. If you dislike older characters, this may not be for you! 2. The writing is terrible, the logic is dead, the characters aren't based on real people, and everything serves the plot. 3. I'm not a professional in the civil aviation industry, so please go easy on me if there are any mistakes in the technical details! 4. There are a few more safeguards in the author's note for Chapter One. (Please, I'm begging you! Open the author's note and take a look!) 5. Childhood sweethearts get back together after breaking up; they both have strong feelings for each other, and they spend twelve years apart without being with anyone else. The reason for their breakup will be explained later. It's not pure fluff, and there is some angst; about 40% angst. 6. The uke is actually very awkward and terrible at saying what he means. His stubbornness may have you squirming, grinding your teeth, and beating your chest in frustration, so proceed with caution! He's a little tiger outside but a paper tiger at home, a hedgehog on the surface and a quail underneath. Because of some conventional family issues, he loves hard but refuses to admit it, and makes things up as he goes. The seme is more resilient and hopelessly lovestruck. (Being lovestruck is a man's best dowry!) His mind is full of: “As long as he still loves me, I can talk myself into being okay with it.” 7. Please don't accuse me of plagiarism without evidence just because you've read the synopsis or the first chapter. Respect others and respect original works. Thank you! (The comments section has really scared me, QAQ.) 8. There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand readers' eyes. Everyone has their own perspective and opinions, so please read with a clear head and don't get too worked up~ 9. Feel free to stay or go; I'm grateful you enjoyed it. If you don't like it, there's no need to tell me. Let's each go our own way. Don't pick a fight with me; I'll delete comments! 10. The companion novel in the same series is Clear Skies and Safe Landings. This story takes place after Clear Skies, but you can read it without having read that one. (If you're interested, give it a try too, hehe~) [Thanks, everyone. That's it! ^3^] [Next up: After My Childhood Friend Was Cast in the Danmei Novel I Wrote. Childhood friends, bickering rivals! Go straight to my author page~] They grew up together and were born just minutes apart. They weren't brothers by blood, but were closer than brothers, yeah, right! The thing Shen Cenxiao found most annoying in his life was knowing Xu Zhaoye, that little menace! That summer, their mothers found out they were both pregnant. Ten months later, the two boys were born almost at the same time. Shen Cenxiao's proudest accomplishment was being two minutes older than Xu Zhaoye! That made the other guy his little brother for life! From the day they were born, their mothers often held them together to play, and they even shared a crib. Once they started school, they were in the same class in kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school. Xu Zhaoye was always either picking fights with him or sabotaging his chances at romance, then turning around and tattling on him. Their feud was eternal! For a while, Shen Cenxiao suspected he'd never be able to escape his cursed childhood friend, Xu Zhaoye. Then, the year they took the college entrance exams, he secretly applied to a university a thousand miles from home without telling anyone. It was the first time in his life he'd been so far away from Xu Zhaoye. No one was there to argue with him anymore... and he actually kind of missed him. The night Xu Zhaoye first discovered that Shen Cenxiao had secretly turned his crush on him into a danmei novel, he lay awake until dawn. He even started thinking about how to propose to him! But the next day, he saw Shen Cenxiao drooling over some other pretty boy. Xu Zhaoye ground his back teeth to dust, then stormed home and reported him! [Uncle, Auntie, Shen Cenxiao writes smut in class!] And then... the two of them became enemies. Xu Zhaoye knew his childhood-friend big brother Shen Cenxiao inside and out. He knew Shen Cenxiao was a sucker for a good voice, so Xu Zhaoye got into voice acting. As luck would have it, he ended up voicing the danmei novel Shen Cenxiao had written. This silly guy was still nervously trying to hide his secret identity, not realizing Xu Zhaoye had already uncovered everything. The day his secret identity was exposed, at an in-person voice-acting event, Xu Zhaoye cornered him against a wall. His low voice brushed against Shen Cenxiao's ear as he asked softly, “The position you wrote yesterday sounded pretty complicated. Want to try it at home, Brother Shen?” Shen Cenxiao: Quit clinging to the original author to recreate scenes from the novel, will you? A childish seme who's competitive, scheming, and always thinking about how to seduce someone × a short-tempered uke who's often clueless, loves acting like the big brother, and thinks he's the one calling the shots, only to be thoroughly outmaneuvered Xu Zhaoye × Shen Cenxiao “Zhaoye, the shallow waves stretch far, while layered clouds hide high above. The jade steed is restless, its saddle still unfastened; I long to lie drunk in fragrant grass.” A few important points: 1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, younger seme, and each other's first love. The characters aren't based on real people; everything serves the plot. 2. A story of a rabbit and the grass by its burrow. Just as the rabbit hesitates over whether to take a bite, the grass grabs it and pushes its head down. 3. The seme has strong feelings for the uke from start to finish. The uke won't understand his own feelings until later, but fundamentally, they are mutual. 4. The danmei novel about a crush that the seme sees is the result of a misunderstanding; it'll be cleared up later. [Synopsis saved as a screenshot on April 25, 2025] [Weibo: @Yanshuxing] Theme: Love requires perseverance, unwavering commitment, and the courage to move forward.