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#PennedPossibilities 622 — Does your MC read? If so, what sort of things? Do they have a preferred genre of choice?

Ume: “Of course I read, don’t all authors? I especially like yuri and josei romances. Poetry is nice too. I’m not very good at writing poetry, that’s Tomo’s department. But I love reading it. I was just reading some by Liu Yuxi (刘禹锡) today.”

Here is one I really liked:

Green, O green is the willow, placid, peaceful the flow;
Hark and I hear on the river, songs from my love, my beau.
To the east, the sun is up, to the west, drizzles persist;
Though they say the sun is naught, to me, the sun is aglow.

(Translated by Andrew W.F. Wong (Huang Hongfa)
https://www.cn-poetry.com/liuyuxi-poetry/bamboo-twigs-song-1.html

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