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A Door Left Open on a Snowy Night

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · A Historical-Style Novel of Everyday Life · Complete · 36 chapters · 18 reads

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.

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This original novel was written with AI assistance, expanding upon Liu Changqing’s Seeking Shelter at the Master’s House on Mount Furong in the Snow and this site’s original short story A Door Left Open on a Snowy Night. Its characters, county town, routes, and plot are fictional, set in an imagined world with a Tang-era atmosphere. It is neither a translation of the poem nor a biography of the poet.

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Contents

36 chapters · Full text available
  1. The South-Facing Room
  2. Snow at the Threshold
  3. The Third Bowl
  4. Before the Door Fell
  5. Black Letters at the Fork
  6. The City Gate in the Afternoon
  7. A Fire Borrowed in the Courtyard
  8. A Door of Equal Value
  9. The Door No One Knocked On at Noon
  10. The Signpost Turned Around
  11. A Pair of Hands by the Sewing Basket
  12. Snowmelt Seeps into the South Wall
  13. A Seat on the Way Home
  14. The Mark Missed on the Ruler
  15. The Hand Beneath the Door
  16. What His Mother Said for Him
  17. Door Timber Piled in the Tea Stall
  18. The Shortcut the Cart Couldn't Take
  19. Whose Backyard
  20. One Load, Two Ropes
  21. Daxiu Took Her Pot Away
  22. The Stool No One Sat On
  23. Who Promised Away the Old House?
  24. Putting the New Door Out in the Rain
  25. The Room She Had Yet to Give Up
  26. The Comb Left at the Carpenter's Shop
  27. There Was Nobody's Name on the Sign
  28. A Warm Room Is No Medicine
  29. The Invitation Before the Dragon Boat Festival
  30. The Sewing Basket She Kept
  31. The Tea Shelter Finds a Rhythm of Its Own
  32. That Timber Deal in the Mountains
  33. Whose Hands Should Pass You the Load
  34. A Pot of Rice That Doesn't Have to Cool First
  35. Fixing a Door for the People Who Use It
  36. How Far the Sun Has Fallen

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