Stories in poetry

A River Journey at Spring’s End

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

As the last peach blossom falls into the water, Lin Xiaoman unwraps the bundle she has kept packed through three years of waiting for someone, leaving behind three hundred copper coins and a river-route map pieced together on the backs of old account papers. Just then, Lu Yan comes ashore with news that his mother is willing to meet her. She ought to be happy, but hears plans for her to learn needlework and change her accent; suddenly she wants to travel for herself along the waterway on the wall that he once laughed at as incorrectly drawn.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Shen Wei’s “菩萨蛮·落花迤逦层阴少” (Pusaman: Fallen Blossoms Trail On, the Layered Shade Grows Sparse). 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.