Stories in poetry

A New Passenger on the Homeward Boat

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Romance in an Imagined Ancient World · Complete · 1 chapter · 0 reads

Three autumns have seen the river fall, and Ye Wan still watches every northbound sail at the dockyard. In the evening rain, a messenger brings her husband’s final letter, yet the small mole below his brow and the blade scar behind his ear belong to the face she longs for every night. He calls himself A-Yuan, does not recognize the marriage certificate, and remembers nothing of this house. She brings out his old clothes, but his travel bag still holds medicine he must take back to a fishing family on the north bank.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Liu Yong’s “To the Tune of Ba Sheng Gan Zhou: Facing the Evening Rain Falling over River and Sky.” 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.