Notes:

I would like to acknowledge 文子君 and 王题’s 《三国启示录》 Revelations of the Three Kingdoms (a wonderful book which I wholeheartedly recommend; the first three chapters are available here), which motivated me to write a companion series evaluating Lu Xun's life explicitly, and Adamantina’s White Clouds in the Western Sky Chapter 24: Qin Qi Shu Hua, which provided the inspiration for the linked-verse poetry scene in the second chapter.

Please see the last chapter for a list of historical characters mentioned in the story and their style names. (This is a continuation of the list in Lu Xun—Thirteen Perspectives.)

Note (5 June 2013): Historical errors in the story have been corrected as far as possible so that this story reads alongside a new story set in the same universe, In Conversation and Laughter—Lu Su. Thus, the chapters are no longer perfect multidrabbles. The original perfect multidrabble version is available in PDF format here.