You've Crossed the Line

[Busy securing a stable job in the real world, so updates will be slow. Earlier chapters are still being revised.]

Duan Yichen took three years off school to treat an illness. When he returned to the country, he learned that Qi Sheng, once an excellent student in both conduct and academics, had seen his grades plummet.

The ambitious young man from the twenty-first century had become a laid-back couch potato who did nothing but muddle through life.

So, when the new term began, Duan Yichen unhesitatingly skipped a grade to join Qi Sheng's class.

Under the astonished gazes of everyone around them, he plopped down beside Qi Sheng and said, "Starting today, I'm your new deskmate."

Qi Sheng: "?"

"Here's a welcome gift for you."

He silently pushed over a huge stack of tutoring books.

Qi Sheng: "..."

*

Qi Sheng thought the sickly guy who had skipped a grade was a little different from before.

He was bossy and clingy, like a tail that just wouldn't stop following him around.

He got on Qi Sheng's case for not finishing his homework, for not paying attention in class, and even when Qi Sheng's parents were called in!

But the way he looked when he was downcast was so pitiful that, to look after the sickly guy, Qi Sheng could only give in again and again.

Pay attention in class, correct exercises after class, and review English vocabulary before bed!

The school's top delinquent not only finished the entire set of Five-Year College Entrance Exam, Three-Year Simulation workbooks, he even forced his way into the top ten in the whole school!

Then he saw a video on the school forum.

In the clip, two boys stood close together. The one facing the camera had refined, handsome features and a faint smile on his lips.

But the very next second, he spoke in the plaintive, pitiful tone Qi Sheng knew best: "If you won't agree to finish these papers, then all the pain I went through for my leg injury will have been for nothing."

"Qi Sheng," he called his name, sounding almost choked up. "My leg hurts so much."

Qi Sheng: ?

A lazy, stubborn-mouthed, softhearted fake school bully seme x a brilliant, innocent, delicate and adorable uke

[Reading tips:]

1. Both are adults. Includes a getting-back-together-after-a-breakup trope.

2. Neither the seme nor the uke is perfect. The uke has issues understanding social norms and comes from an unusual family environment.

3. Enjoying the story is what matters most. If it isn't to your taste, feel free to stop reading.

----Next novel coming soon----

Le Xingqi, the son of a shareholder in the Bo Corporation, was sent to stay temporarily with the Bo family when he was six.

Everyone in their social circle knew that the young master of the Le family was a notorious troublemaker with a wild temperament.

People all speculated that he would turn the Bo household upside down in less than half a month, and waited to laugh when he was thrown out.

But a month later, a visitor to the Bo home happened to see the usually rambunctious young master of the Le family sitting obediently and quietly beside a boy in a custom-tailored uniform, learning to write the Chinese characters he hated most.

*

Bo Lie was aloof and withdrawn, and had lived a life many times more complicated than that of his peers since childhood.

At first, he thought his life would go on repeating itself like this forever. Then, at the age of ten, he met a hard-to-handle little mixed-race boy.

Bo Lie had never met a child like Le Xingqi.

Restless, stubborn, unable to master even simple Chinese words after a month of study, and, most importantly, always telling lies.

But the boy had a charming, pretty face. Whenever he got into trouble, he would gaze at Bo Lie with big, blinking eyes.

Like the one teddy bear in a shop window that was never for sale.

Bo Lie wanted to keep him by his side.

So he would have to work very hard for it.

A patient, fatherly older seme x a mischievous, mixed-race little ray-of-sunshine uke

Theme: Set sail in youth and pursue your dreams across the horizon.