129 Degrees East

A tender, tough-as-nails veteran seme x a beautiful, tragic foreign boy uke

Gentle, nurturing older man; mutual healing; happy ending. Seventeen-year age gap, not for you if you dislike that.

Both are each other's first and only love. The seme cherishes the uke, the uke cares for the seme. They are each other's one and only.

A story about a lonely, gentle man raising a poor, frail boy with love and care.

[Blurb]

"By the fields and the river, the red berries bloom. I walk with a young boy beyond the woods, but in the end we must part, and I cannot speak the words of farewell weighing on my heart."

Liao Yuan has two special skills.

1. Making egg and green pepper noodles with gravy

2. Fixing cars

His parents died in the line of duty, leaving him an orphan at six. After he left the military, his fierce looks made it impossible to find a wife, so he opened an auto repair shop alone in the small city of Yanqiu, on the border of the Hua Kingdom.

He planned to live out his days alone, making do with what he had.

Bian Changyan suddenly appeared one winter. In Liao Yuan's memory, he was always wearing an old-fashioned worker's uniform from the last century. He spoke Mandarin very poorly and would often unconsciously blurt out a phrase in Beiguo's language.

He was always covered in scars.

This beautiful, mysterious boy was much younger than him and called him Big Brother. Every time he appeared, he did only two things:

1. Eat a bowl of Liao Yuan's egg and green pepper noodles with gravy

2. Kiss him passionately until dawn behind the metal door of the repair shop

"At 129 degrees east longitude lies the chasm that lovers cannot cross."

"My beloved is on the other side of the border."

"Fight bravely to defend the motherland. Katyusha's love will always belong to him."

P.S. The country, era, policies, and geography are all fictional.

The entire planning and writing process has been thoroughly documented. I will not entertain people making baseless accusations of plagiarism, AI use, or copying tropes out of jealousy.

Theme: Hold fast to your ideals and beliefs