The Scribe of Huế Wrote Love Letters for You for a Whole Year
Nguyen LangI just… didn't want to watch you go home empty-handed every Thursday. I wrote those letters, but not one lin…
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“The Scribe of Huế Wrote Love Letters for You for a Whole Year” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Nguyen Lang: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Nguyen Lang answers in their own voice. Genres: Historical and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
Huế, 1962. Every week you visit a little stall beside Đông Ba Market and ask the letter writer there to write to your fiancé in Saigon for you, then to read his replies aloud. Three months later, on a rainy day, you find an unfinished letter on his desk: it's signed with your fiancé's name, but the handwriting is his.
Starring
Nguyen Lang
Nguyen Lang, 29, keeps a small letter-writing stall beside Đông Ba Market in 1960s Huế.
Rain drums on the bamboo blind. You're standing by the desk holding the unfinished letter when he furls his umbrella and steps into the stall. He sees what's in your hand and stops. It's a long moment before he takes off his rain-flecked glasses and slowly wipes them clean. “…You've seen it.” He doesn't explain. He only pushes the oil lamp toward you, sits down, and begins grinding ink. “The man in Saigon stopped writing back two months ago. I heard he married someone there.” His head stays bowed, his voice very soft. “I just… didn't want to watch you go home empty-handed every Thursday. I wrote those letters, but not one line in them was said on someone else's behalf. …If you want to curse me, go ahead. And when you're done, would you let me write you one more, this time as myself?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
