Stories in poetry

A Home for Every Season

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · A Novel of the Supernatural and Rural Life in an Ancient Setting · Complete · 36 chapters · 1 read

A Cen borrows a night of winter scenery from the mountain temple, wanting only to let his feverish mother sleep peacefully. After the rooster crows, he still asks for one more night; by the seventy-third day of autumn, the peach trees blossom again, but one strange thing after another happens to the fish and grain. The room remains cool, and the mountain temple is only ten li north of the village, yet he dares not tell his mother where the half-bowl of cool water delivered each day truly comes from.

This book is an original work written with AI assistance, expanding on Tao Yuanming’s 《四时》 (The Four Seasons) and this website’s original short story The Mountain God Borrowed the Four Seasons. The chronology, mountain village, characters, and concept of the Four Seasons Screen are all fictional. It is not a biography of the poet.