Stories in poetry

An Orange Lamp upon the Blade

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Ancient Chinese–Style Mystery · Complete · 1 chapter · 0 reads

Less than a day after leaving his martial school, Zhong Que takes a blade to his right arm. His withdrawal papers hidden in his sleeve, an orange shop by the ferry is his only place to rest. Its owner, A Cheng, urges him to stay the night, yet the movement of her wrist as she peels an orange reminds him of another kind of blade work. At the third watch, frost covers the stone bridge. The light inside suddenly goes out, and someone outside calls him junior brother. The orange still lies beside his hand.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Zhou Bangyan’s 《少年游·并刀如水》 (To the Tune of “A Youth’s Journey”: A Bingzhou Knife Gleams Like Water). The characters and plot are fictional, and the story is set in an imagined world inspired by ancient China; it is neither a translated adaptation of the original poem nor a biography of the poet.