Lawah-Lawah Merah
Cover: Een straat in het oude deel van Batavia, SK-A-2830 by Jan Weissenbruch (1824-1903), attributed · Wikimedia Commons · CC0
On the Pearl River between Macao and Canton, Lin holds his wedding feast without having seen his bride, Liou Siou, whose red slipper is smaller than any foot he knows. The Malay retelling of a Chinese tale, printed in 1875, follows the bride and a shopkeeper nicknamed the Red Spider.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.