Your Distance

Title: Your Distance

Author: Gongzi You (公子优)

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Romance, Age-Gap, Teacher-Student Relationship

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Plot Summary:

Your Distance is a heartwarming and humorous love story between two very different men:

– Bai Changyi (柏昌意): A strict, disciplined young professor at a prestigious German university. He’s brilliant but emotionally reserved.

– Ting Shuang (庭霜): A free-spirited Chinese exchange student who struggles with his studies—and ends up failing Professor Bai’s class.

By chance, they meet on a dating app, unaware of each other’s real identities. What starts as an awkward online connection slowly turns into a real-life romance, full of misunderstandings, cultural clashes, and sweet moments.

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Why You’ll Love It:

✔ Funny & Sweet – Their online chats are hilarious, especially when they realize who the other really is.

✔ Age-Gap Romance – Bai Changyi is older and wiser, while Ting Shuang is impulsive but full of heart.

✔ Real-Life Struggles – The story touches on student stress, cultural differences, and finding your path in life.

✔ Warm & Uplifting – Despite the challenges, their love helps both grow into better versions of themselves.

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Perfect For Fans Of:

– Heartstopper(by Alice Oseman) – Sweet LGBTQ+ romance with depth.

– Red, White & Royal Blue – Funny, heartfelt love stories with obstacles.

– Anyone who enjoys slow-burn relationships with humor and emotion.

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Information

Distance is a social platform that (just like other social platforms) can display the distance between parties. Ting Shuang had chosen someone that was 287 kilometres away from him, thinking that it was very safe. After all, when there’s more than two hundred kilometres between them, they wouldn’t awkwardly chance upon each other in real life, right!

Unexpectedly… The next night, 287 kilometres suddenly became 4.8 kilometres???

And even more unexpectedly… In the afternoon of the third day, 4.8 kilometres suddenly became 3 metres???

3 metres?????

Metres?????

I’m having a fucking lesson right now, doesn’t 3 meters mean that the person I was flirting with is in the classroom right now?

Strict, course failure rate above 90%, kind and gentle(?) professor x mediocre results, bad tempered student

[Author’s disclaimer]

This story is set in Germany, and it may not reflect reality. The novel comes from my own imagination, and imagining is the only outstanding thing I can do, so I’m rejecting all moral critiques.

If there’s German parts that may impact understanding of the story, there’ll be a translation or explanation in the “author’s notes” section. If it doesn’t impact the understanding, then there won’t be such an explanation.