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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

On the shelves 118

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Two Shadows of Wild Geese in Frost

Strange Tales in a Historical SettingComplete

Two Shadows of Wild Geese in Frost

A lone wild goose has spent three days on Tao Ye’s roof calling him a liar. Others hear only mournful cries, but he understands every word. He was the one who separated the pair last year; now the lone goose has followed the wooden birdcall he made, seeking its mate. His sister’s medicine still needs paying for, and the officials have ordered twelve birds as auspicious omens. Nets fall over Reed Bay every night, and the voice on his roof refuses to stop.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Long-Delayed Plum-Blossom Tidings

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

Long-Delayed Plum-Blossom Tidings

When Gu Chi takes the plum branch his mother has asked him to deliver, exactly seven blossoms are open. He plans to drop it off in the northern city on his way and return home early to replace the roof tiles, but the recipient has moved away, leaving a letter that names him precisely. Thereafter, in every city he reaches, another letter leads him onward. Petals fall one by one along the post road, and on the sleeve cuff of the old cloth wrapped around the branch, a line of crooked stitches gradually comes into view.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Spring Hidden in a Snowbound House

Ancient Chinese–Style MysteryComplete

Spring Hidden in a Snowbound House

After the snow clears, Ding Xiu goes into the mountains to replace a beam. Three trails of footprints in the courtyard lead to the doorway, yet Old Cen insists he lives alone. He brings out two bowls, then hurriedly takes one back; from above the beam comes breathing so faint it can scarcely be heard. Ding Xiu had wanted only to collect his wages and pay his debts, but several men in gray arrive from below carrying debt contracts. Their leader, Steward Shen, holds the debt Ding Xiu’s father left behind.

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Snow Falcon

Adventure in an Imagined Ancient WorldComplete

Snow Falcon

The white falcon returns to its shelter with an extra red thread among its feathers, concealing four characters: Burn the mountain tomorrow. Lu Yan, who has raised birds for twelve years, is still saving silver to buy his freedom and wants nothing less than trouble just now. But the huntress Qin Man is convinced he carries messages for mountain bandits. She grips his hand, determined to investigate wherever the bird has been. Snow falls soundlessly, yet the rice-straw ash on the falcon’s talons leads them both toward the western valley.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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A Plum Branch beyond the Bamboo

Ancient Chinese–Style WuxiaComplete

A Plum Branch beyond the Bamboo

Carrying the sword tassel her father left behind, Xin He finds her way into a bamboo courtyard, determined to learn the one sword stroke that can defeat anyone under heaven. The old basket seller refuses to acknowledge his former name and teaches her only to carry water and read the wind. Even a plum branch he casually hands her can defeat the iron bar she has secretly practiced with for half a year. Twelve gray-clad figures suddenly surround the mountain, demanding the lost sword secrets; the real sword she has so long yearned to see is drawn at last, but it is held by one of the newcomers.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Green Sleeves Leave the Mountains

A Tale of Marvels in an Ancient SettingComplete

Green Sleeves Leave the Mountains

Winter comes early to the empty valley, and Shen Tang and A Ling have only one pearl left to trade for food. A Ling goes to the city without telling her. One look at the pearl’s drilled hole, and the shopkeeper offers thirty taels, but before fetching the money, he signals his assistant to block the door. The two have survived many days by selling old jewelry. This time, the pearl’s fine fissure holds traces of their former household, and the city’s gates will no longer be so easy to leave through.

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A Letter Across Xiaoxiang

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

A Letter Across Xiaoxiang

When spring cold cuts off the postal route, Ye Su reads a letter abandoning a wife as a message longing for her return, certain those words will help the pregnant woman endure the present. Nine years later, A-Ting comes looking for her with a small coffin full of old clothes, asking only whether the letter ever truly said “等我” (Wait for me). Another letter arrives from the southern city. This time, A-Ting wants her to read every word without omission—and to come along on a journey.

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Plum Blossoms and Snow at One Table

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

Plum Blossoms and Snow at One Table

Mei Jiu wants to keep the snow to set off the blossoms, but Aunt Ge fears someone will slip. Their quarrel costs each of them half their wages. With paper debts and medicine bills still waiting, they take work at the same plum-viewing banquet: one paints a screen, the other hauls snow. Three days later, the poets in the garden praise its spotless whiteness, while those who made this spring scene are barred outside, and even the name on the painting has been replaced.

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A Tattered Letter on the Snowy River

Ancient Chinese–Style MysteryComplete

A Tattered Letter on the Snowy River

On the seventh day after her father’s death, Wen Xian receives a letter severing family ties. Taken in reverse order, the final characters of its four lines about a snowy river appear to identify her uncle. She knows her father’s old habit of hiding messages in characters, but what reaches her is only a copy; the original paper, she is told, has long since been destroyed. The riverside pavilion, the black-canopied boat, the wound on a forehead—every detail seems to bear out the poem. Yet first, she wants to see that sheet of paper no one will produce.

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Parted from the Flock

A Tale of Marvels in an Ancient SettingComplete

Parted from the Flock

With the roads blocked by heavy snow, qin player Yan Chuan carries his instrument, missing a string, out of the pawnshop. He does not have enough money for even half a flatbread. His old friend Lu Zhao, now a music director, is willing to stake his life on recommending Yan Chuan’s return to the winter banquet. But the letter of guarantee contains one condition: he may play only the old piece that made him famous and must never mention another name again. The stove glows warmly indoors; beneath the eaves, a child is still learning the rhythm of that piece.

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Old Ink on a Cold Riverbank

Ancient Chinese–Style MysteryComplete

Old Ink on a Cold Riverbank

Autumn rain taps at the window, sounding the very signal her late husband used when returning home at night. Following the sound, painting restorer Luo Qing catches a boy with a missing finger. He asks no mercy, only that she prevent anyone from taking the “寒汀图” (Painting of a Cold Riverbank) from the wall. Someone has offered three hundred taels for it, and she once ground ink beside her husband as he worked. The boy points to the birds in the painting and tells her of another master, still painting coffins by the river.

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Dogwood and New Shoes

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

Dogwood and New Shoes

Xiaoman buys a pair of wooden clogs in a neighboring city. The fish missing its whiskers on their soles is a design her eldest brother carved incorrectly as a boy. Yet the man behind the shop calls himself Yusheng and says he has no younger sister. In seven days it will be the Double Ninth Festival, when the family will, as always, leave a place for the son who vanished fifteen years ago. Xiaoman returns with the news. Her mother bends to retrieve a red fruit that has rolled beneath the cupboard, then finally asks: Is he dressed warmly enough?

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