Stories in poetry

A Basket of Blossoms

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Social Life in an Ancient Setting · Complete · 1 chapter · 1 read

After a night of wind and rain, most of the rose petals have fallen, and the flower money Zhu Tao needs to repay her debts looks set to vanish too. The merchant will buy the remaining fragrant petals for only twenty percent of the price and urges her to sign over the next three years’ flowers as well. She guards the sweet-pastry recipe her grandmother passed down to only one daughter in each generation, when the voice of her old rival Jiang Rong comes over the wall: with wedding pastries still in demand, how could no one want flowers? The Jiang family’s old steamer still lies in the ditch.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Meng Haoran’s “春晓” (Spring Dawn). 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.