Stories in poetry

The Rain-Watching Tower

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Supernatural Satire in an Ancient Setting · Complete · 1 chapter · 30 reads

After years of calling bids for an antiques association, Lu Qing finally saves enough to buy an old chair from a mountain temple. He carries it upstairs at Rainwatch Tower, hoping to make his first major deal for himself. With every compliment from a guest, the chair legs sink a little deeper into the floorboards. He tries to rise, but the armrests tighten around him. Rainwater has flooded the lane below, while those at the table keep discussing the chair’s great value. First, he must make the smiling guests hear that he truly cannot get up.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Li Bai’s “Two Poems for Minister Zhang of the Court of the Imperial Regalia, Written during Relentless Rain at Princess Yuzhen’s Villa.” 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.