Mo Zice

Name: Mo Zice
Author: Zhigu

by Zhigu

ongoing Realistic Fiction Period Fiction Male Lead

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17Kwords8chapters

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Ch. 8 — 星槎暗度葱岭西

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About This Novel

**Core settings:** - **Protagonist's name**: Mo Yanzhou. The name comes from "Ink stains the inkstone, and the boat travels on the waves", which means that the literary mind is immortal and can go against the current alone. As his name suggests, he has been accompanied by pen and ink all his life, but he has a bad fate. His talents are astonishing, but he is eventually abandoned by the times and power. - **Era Background**: In the fictional dynasty "Da Sheng", literature was prosperous and imperial examinations were respected. However, the court was decayed and powerful officials were in power. There are two groups of literati: one group relies on the powerful and writes relevant articles; the other group adheres to the orthodoxy, but is often relegated. Mo Yanzhou belongs to the latter. - **Core Contradiction**: Mo Yanzhou is a genius. He can write poems at the age of seven, understand the meaning of the classics at the age of twelve, and become famous in Beijing at the age of seventeen. However, his writing was sharp and pointed out the ills of the times, which angered the powerful Prime Minister Yan Song (an imaginary prototype). He was dismissed from the imperial examination and banned from serving as an official for life. Throughout his life, he used his pen as a sword and wrote books and theories, but his manuscripts were burned, wanted, and exiled repeatedly. He eventually died of illness on an isolated island, leaving only fragments of his books drifting in the waves. - **Theme**: The excitement lies in his talents and awe-inspiring character; the sadness lies in his inability to achieve his ambitions and his path. He is a sober person of the times, but an outcast of fate. - **Key images**: inkstone, lonely boat, fragments of scrolls, cold lanterns, snowy nights, and the reed swamp where the place was demoted. These images lasted throughout his life and constituted the totem of his spiritual world. - **Structural context**: Based on the "three rises and three falls" as the skeleton - he became famous as a young man and was deposed in the imperial examination; he wrote a book in middle age, but the book was burned; he was exiled in his later years and died of illness on an island. Each section is accompanied by a spiritual sublimation and physical destruction.