Stories in poetry

Parting Ways Amid Willow Green

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Friendship and Social Life in an Ancient Setting · Complete · 1 chapter · 8 reads

Duan Ye leaves westward with the diplomatic delegation tomorrow morning, but Du Jiming pushes back the farewell wine and first demands last month’s shop rent. The three hundred wedding cards they jointly agreed to make are still unfinished, their accounts show debts, and a new helper stands beside the table, unwilling to work an unpaid trial. In the rainy night, the drying shed leaks again, and wet sheets sag one after another. Everything they thought could be settled over a cup of wine must be discussed anew before dawn.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Wang Wei’s “Seeing Yuan Er Off on His Mission to Anxi.” Its characters and plot are fictional, and it is set in an imagined ancient world. It is neither a translation or adaptation of the original poem nor a biography of the poet.