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CooLWJ Library Original fiction inspired by poetry

Stories in poetry

Follow a line of poetry into a story.

A light by the ferry, an unsent letter, and moonlight on ordinary lives.
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THE COLLECTION

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A Go Board in the Night Rain

A Contemporary Novel of Human RelationshipsComplete

A Go Board in the Night Rain

Shen Jianwei returns to Linpu to close the Go club her father has run for twenty-seven years. On a night of plum-season rain, her old friend Liang Xu, with whom she has not had a long conversation in years, fails to arrive as agreed; instead, her recorder captures an elderly man borrowing an umbrella. During the ninety-day relocation period, an old house about to disappear brings together people who left home, a boy without talent, a recording engineer who cannot hear clearly, and a Go player unwilling to admit to growing old. They must decide what to keep, and learn to let others leave.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 42 chapters

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Green Mist Tints My Robes

Human Relationships in a Historical SettingComplete

Green Mist Tints My Robes

Gu Qinghe makes her living copying designs. To pay for food and lodging at an inn, she paints a screen of red leaves, yet on Cold Mountain she finds white stone and lush green. Drawing a route for a stranger entangles her in damaged goods, an exclusive master pattern, and an old bridge awaiting repair. Traveling between the mountain town and the city, she weighs wages, personal obligations, and her art, learning to take responsibility for what she paints—and what she fails to paint.

Idle Little Dog Immortal · AI Creation · 38 chapters

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A Lamp by the Fence, Sent Afar

Human Relationships in a Historical SettingComplete

A Lamp by the Fence, Sent Afar

Shen Heng, who earns his living copying books beside the river, keeps postponing his return home. One autumn night, two children beside the hedge damage a paper lantern and come seeking his skill; if he stops writing to repair it, he will receive less pay when he delivers his manuscript tomorrow morning. When the lantern shines again, he finally finishes the letter home he has never dared to send.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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The Rain-Watching Tower

Supernatural Satire in an Ancient SettingComplete

The Rain-Watching Tower

After years of calling bids for an antiques association, Lu Qing finally saves enough to buy an old chair from a mountain temple. He carries it upstairs at Rainwatch Tower, hoping to make his first major deal for himself. With every compliment from a guest, the chair legs sink a little deeper into the floorboards. He tries to rise, but the armrests tighten around him. Rainwater has flooded the lane below, while those at the table keep discussing the chair’s great value. First, he must make the smiling guests hear that he truly cannot get up.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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A Captive’s Road Home

Ancient Chinese–Style MysteryComplete

A Captive’s Road Home

Imprisoned for forgery for two years, He Jiu has finally worked the window timbers loose and copied the cargo labels. At dawn, he plans to slip into a paper cart leaving the city. But Shi Zhao, who agreed to go with him, brings in a barrel of oil that night, its pungent smell seeping through the gaps. The two guards are about to go to the duty room for shift-change tea. Wheels are already rumbling beyond the wall. The road home he has plotted for so long suddenly holds something they never agreed on.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Hibiscus Blossoms Light the Battle Robe

Ancient Chinese–Style Rural ComedyComplete

Hibiscus Blossoms Light the Battle Robe

Returning from the frontier, Fang Ti saves the wedding-feast money to buy an ox, hoping to rent fields and make a life with Feng Sui. When he goes to fetch his bride, old friends dress him in his battle robe, raise a red umbrella, and call him general all along the road. At the narrow bridge, however, the docile ox plants all four hooves and refuses to move. As the gongs beat ever more urgently, his old injury makes his right leg buckle first. His bride steps out from behind the hibiscus hedge, lifting her skirt. The humiliations he fears most all unfold before her eyes.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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The Year of Green Oranges

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

The Year of Green Oranges

Song Heng has put on her wedding dress when the groom comes himself to persuade her not to marry him today. She is fifty-eight, and together they have already rented an orchard outside the city and even prepared the red cords for the cart; he says only to wait another year, until both sets of children can accept it. Yellow oranges lie beside green tangerines beneath the window, and the driver still waits at the alley’s entrance. They clearly planned the orchard and their future days together, yet now only her luggage is neatly packed.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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A First Meeting in Lake Rain

Marriage and Romantic Comedy in a Historical SettingComplete

A First Meeting in Lake Rain

Aunt Qiu says a matchmaking meeting on the lake is easiest, so she replaces food-shop owner Shen Zhao’s abacus with a folding fan and dresses boat manager Luo Ting in a refined lady’s clothes. Both want to remain polite, but when talk turns to the qin and Go, all either can say is that they know a little. Fine ripples suddenly spread over the lake as rain pursues the painted pleasure boat. Luo Ting fixes her gaze on the mooring rope, while Shen Zhao’s food box conceals a pot of lotus-seed soup he dares not admit he simmered himself.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Spring Sunshine on a Garment

Family Fiction in a Historical SettingComplete

Spring Sunshine on a Garment

A needle threaded with red thread falls out of Tao Chuan’s scabbard, and his mother Lu Qiniang looks more distressed than if she had seen a broken blade. She has kept the escort agency going for half her life, waiting for her son to take over its caravans; after eight years escorting short routes, however, the job he most wants is tailoring clothes. Next month’s twelve freight carts cannot fall behind schedule, and the cuff of his mother’s riding coat, mended six times already, has split again. He secretly takes it beneath the lamp, unsure which stitch to unpick first.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Swallows Enter Ordinary Homes

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

Swallows Enter Ordinary Homes

Han Zhun guarded the old residence’s gate for thirty-two years. Now he owns the property deed himself, yet still takes the side gate whenever he comes and goes. His daughter makes birthday noodles and asks him to sit in the place of honor, while the teahouse proprietor wants him back in his old livery to call out the grand formalities of former days for visitors from afar. He cannot let go of the old stories people gather round to hear, but he has promised his daughter to be home toward the end of the si hour, near eleven in the morning. In the courtyard, new swallows busily carry mud, none waiting for the former master to be announced.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Echoes Left by Sparse Rain

A Tragic Adventure in an Imagined Ancient WorldComplete

Echoes Left by Sparse Rain

Before the lamps at Xu He’s funeral altar have gone out, Tong Shuang has already carried away the qin that was meant to be buried with her. She spent three years crafting Sparse Rain, and Xu He played it for seventeen more. She refuses to believe that a single clause in a will can decree its final note. Evening rain swells the western stream, the black sign announcing suspended crossings lies turned over on the bank, and Xu He’s husband has come after her. The qin rests on her knees; one mooring rope remains tied at the stern.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Green Along the Ancient Road

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

Green Along the Ancient Road

Sang Niang finally saves enough to buy freedom for herself and her daughter, receiving a manumission document for each. Yet as she burns their old estate clothes, her daughter snatches a coarse short jacket from the flames. The cart to East Town is already booked, and Sang Niang has inquired about sewing work and lodging for them both. A-Ji, however, produces a hiring notice from a sheep farm at North Ridge, saying she wants to do work she knows. One cart heads east, one notice points north, and the tomorrow Sang Niang has prepared suddenly has two destinations.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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