Stories in poetry

Flower Tidings at the West Window

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Romance in an Ancient Setting · Complete · 1 chapter · 2 reads

Luo Qu buys his first cargo boat, measures out sleeping places for two in the cabin, and comes to fetch his wife to travel with him to Eastern Wu. But Cheng Bi brings eighteen peony plants, their roots still packed in earth: they must be planted today, and there is no room for them in the hold full of salt. Both remember the future they discussed before marrying, yet they never made clear which would be their home this year: the small house with a west-facing window, or the cargo boat outside its door.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Du Fu’s “Quatrain: Two Golden Orioles Sing in Emerald Willows.” 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.