Stories in poetry

Willow Leaves After Frost

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · War Fiction in a Historical Setting · Complete · 1 chapter · 0 reads

Lu Zhao slips a willow leaf into the wedding invitation and promises A Sui a victorious return in spring. He rides to war on the horse his father mortgaged farmland to obtain, receives new wrist guards, drinks strong liquor, and asks his squad leader to write his return date larger in the letter. When winter arrives, he is ordered to deliver a reply concerning a prisoner exchange and hears a voice from his hometown in the enemy camp. The agreed three days pass, but the reply remains buried beneath papers on a desk, while the people on both banks of the frozen river can no longer afford to wait for another spring.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Yuan Haowen’s “To the Tune of Jiang Yue Huang Chong Shan: Written upon First Arriving at Mount Song.” 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.