Stories in poetry

The Willow Takes Root on Its Own

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

Cheng Xiang returns with twenty taels of silver, hoping to buy back their old house in the south of the city and give his wife a secure home. Xu Heng first tells him to move his luggage: beneath it lie the willow saplings she has grown into a livelihood during five years without word from him. Her husband thinks a few branches can simply be sold off, but she has a contract to deliver three hundred saplings. Before they have even agreed where to live, the spring floods arrive early.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Liu Fangping’s “代春怨” (A Spring Lament in Another’s Voice). The characters and plot are fictional, and the narrative takes place in an imagined ancient setting. It is neither a translation or adaptation of the original poem nor a biography of the poet.