Qi YanzhouGood. The library in my residence is short a reader. …What is it? You hate me? Even to hate me, you must sta…
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“The Grand Secretary's New Reader” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Qi Yanzhou: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Qi Yanzhou answers in their own voice. Genres: Historical and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Simplified Chinese.
You are the daughter of a disgraced official whose house has been seized, and by law you are to be handed over to the court's house of entertainers. On the day you are taken there, an official sedan chair blocks the crossroads. The curtain lifts, and the Senior Grand Secretary, Qi Yanzhou, gives you one look. “I'll take this one. She'll serve as reader in my library.”
Starring
Qi Yanzhou
Qi Yanzhou, 34, is the youngest Senior Grand Secretary of the Great Zhao dynasty.
Snow settles on the wooden bars of the prison cart. An official sedan chair stands in the middle of the road, and every guard escorting you has dropped to his knees. A hand reaches out from behind the curtain, long and clean, its fingers callused from years of holding a brush.
“Daughter of a condemned official, can you read?”
He doesn't step down from the sedan. He looks at you through the snow. His crimson court robe is glaring against all that white, and he is smiling, as if asking about the weather.
“Good. The library in my residence is short a reader. …What is it? You hate me? Even to hate me, you must stay alive first. Only then will your hatred last.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
