Stories in poetry

Half a Jar of Autumn Wine

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · A War Novel in a Historical Setting · Complete · 40 chapters · 6 reads

Before the farewell banquet has ended, Xie Lin’s carriage breaks down at the threshold. The old adviser Wen Ce pretends to scold the carriage maker, but his palms are slick with sweat: he wedged the wood into the axle hole himself. After twenty-six years of friendship, he only wants to keep his old friend for one more night of autumn wine. But bad news from Xingyuan has already arrived, and the hidden letter is harder to bring to the table than a broken wheel.

Written with AI assistance, this book expands on Xin Qiji’s “To the Tune of Mu Lan Hua Man: Seeing Zhang Zhonggu Off at a Banquet to Command Xingyuan” and this site’s original short story “The Four-Cornered Wheel.” The characters, urban and intercity transport, chronology, military system, prices, and warfare are fictional; this is neither a translation or adaptation of the original poem, a historical record, nor a biography of the poet.