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CooLWJ Library Original fiction inspired by poetry

Stories in poetry

Follow a line of poetry into a story.

A light by the ferry, an unsent letter, and moonlight on ordinary lives.
Take the time for a cup of tea and open a story of everyday life.

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THE COLLECTION

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Homeward Oars on the Jiang and Han Rivers

A River Transport Adventure Novel in an Ancient SettingComplete

Homeward Oars on the Jiang and Han Rivers

After thirty-six years as a river pilot, Uncle He has finally put away enough money to return home, and his apprentice’s new boat flies a red flag. Yet on the very night he is stranded at the wharf, a gong sounds for help at Luokou Shoal. The autumn waters are receding, and a landslide has altered the safe passage marked on the old river chart. A boatload of wounded soldiers, a heavy cannon, and his increasingly unsteady hands are all caught on a river where they cannot wait for dawn.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 36 chapters

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Lingering Echoes of the Yi River

A Wuxia Novel of Masters and Disciples in an Imagined Ancient WorldComplete

Lingering Echoes of the Yi River

As the northern army presses toward the border, A-Huai hurries to finish a zhu, a struck string instrument, for a farewell, hoping to do something important for the benefactor who took him in. A baby tooth suddenly rolls out of its wooden body, while the child going along keeps asking whether he may call someone Father on the day he becomes an apprentice. The song of the Yi River is about to begin, but a few whispers from the rear corridor make it impossible for A-Huai to keep his head down and simply tune the strings.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 38 chapters

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An Unfinished Game After the Rain

A Novel of the Martial World and Social Life in an Imagined Ancient SettingComplete

An Unfinished Game After the Rain

Spring rain closes the ferry crossing, and a stranger sets a chipped Go-stone jar before Jiang Chi. It belonged to her father, but contains no stones—only seven boat tallies. In the three years since leaving the besieged city, she has made her living helping boat passengers pass the time. Now a fragmentary game record draws her back to the old city’s water gate. In this game begun anew, how many people’s paths out are still at stake?

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 38 chapters

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Beneath the White Jade Capital

A Travel Novel in an Ancient SettingComplete

Beneath the White Jade Capital

The pardon removes Shen Yan’s wooden cangue, but gives him not a coin for the journey home. He takes on thirty-seven crates of damp books, hoping to seek out an old friend in Jiangzhou. An old military treatise still holds his youthful boasts of bringing peace to the realm, but the girl at the ferry asks only whether the wave patterns on the book spines can help her find her father. As place names gradually emerge along the way, this job taken for a living becomes harder and harder to finish along its planned route.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 36 chapters

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Names Left by the Luo River

A Novel of Spirits and Rivers in a Historical SettingComplete

Names Left by the Luo River

At dusk, on the stone steps by the Luo River, Shen Mi sees the red shoe his younger sister lost seventeen years ago. Its sole is still warm, yet the woman who brought it stands on the mudflat without a drop of water touching her hem. She offers him one double-hour in which to see his sister, if he will return to the old sluice house and finish saying what he left unsaid that year. Across the river, windows light up one by one, and an old affair buried beneath the water begins to find human voices.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 38 chapters

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A Freshly Cooked Meal by the Bridge

A Rural Novel in a Historical SettingComplete

A Freshly Cooked Meal by the Bridge

A bowlful is missing from the new rice Shen Qiuniang hid atop the cupboard for New Year. Her daughter A-He says she gave that bowl of rice to the gentleman repairing the bridge in exchange for learning to write her full name. Her mother takes the empty bowl to find him, but beside the bridge there are only wooden pieces, hemp thread, and an impoverished scholar who keeps delaying the work. With the autumn harvest approaching, a bridge and a few characters have both become obstacles mother and daughter cannot get past.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 36 chapters

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When the Plums Ripen in Changgan

A Novel of Trade Routes and Reunions in an Ancient SettingComplete

When the Plums Ripen in Changgan

Eleven years later, Lu Yan returns to Changgan with a parcel of green plums, hoping to settle old debts along with his apologies. But Yao Jia pushes the extra money back and opens a vinegar-stained ledger. A bamboo hobbyhorse, timber, labor never given a price—everything contradicts his memories. And the life she now leads is far beyond what a single youthful promise can explain.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 38 chapters

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A Branch of Silk Plum Blossoms

A Novel of Craft and Society in a Historical SettingComplete

A Branch of Silk Plum Blossoms

Gu Qing’s silk plum blossoms look real, but have no fragrance. She wants to rent the roofed stall in the western market, while the old plum tree beside the wall, her grandmother’s companion for years, is to be uprooted because the old house has changed hands. She arrives with a branch of imitation blossoms and discovers that both the tree’s fate and the price of her craft are harder to negotiate than she expected.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 36 chapters

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Old Lamps on the Spring River

A Novel of Travel and Society in a Historical SettingComplete

Old Lamps on the Spring River

The spring tide rises to the old ferry landing, and A Zhao still has not sold the boat her father left behind. She packs her sewing things to leave for the city, only to discover an unnamed lantern debt on the ledger’s final page. Following an old lantern along the riverbank, she encounters a daughter who has not returned for sixteen years and a mother who borrows a lantern every year; the departure she has already carefully arranged gradually falls under the spell of opera singing from the opposite shore.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 36 chapters

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A Door Left Open on a Snowy Night

A Historical-Style Novel of Everyday LifeComplete

A Door Left Open on a Snowy Night

On the night before A-Sui moves to town, a young traveler seeking shelter from the snow arrives at a brushwood gate that will not quite close. Needlework and wood shavings beneath an oil lamp draw out the unspoken concerns of mother and son. Xu Shen hopes his craft will earn him stability, but a commission for a pharmacy door leaves his plane suspended between the patterns he has painstakingly carved and a door that ought to stand securely.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 36 chapters

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