Tragedy
Ginseng Fruit
Nan Tao, an enslaved maid in a wealthy household, discovers that the baby-shaped ginseng fruit her mistress orders buried is alive.
As the fruit reveals the truth behind the household’s miracle heir, Nan Tao uncovers a cycle of trafficking, forced pregnancy, and women transformed into trees harvested for profit.
With a holy monk and his three disciples, she must uproot the dead tree that holds her soul—even though destroying it will erase her forever.
A dark feminist reimagining of a mythic delicacy, Ginseng Fruit turns supernatural horror into a haunting story of inherited violence, motherhood, and liberation.
May Fourth Love Letters
Liu Xingzhi is dead.
His wife traveled all the way from Wuxi to Beiping to invite me to the funeral.
She did so because among his personal effects, there were dozens of letters, every single one of them addressed to me.
Yet, in the past ten years, I had only met him seven times.
