A young widow, Bai Meiniang, and the tutor He Mengxia fall in love but are held apart by duty, and she urges him to marry her sister-in-law instead. Xu Zhenya's 1912 romance in ornate parallel prose was the bestseller of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school.
Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.