嫁ぐ前のひと夏、雨の日だけ会えた君へ ～雨に咲くダリア～
Author: 中原九尾
Alternative Titles: To You, Whom I Could Only Meet on Rainy Days in the Single Summer Before Marrying Away ~Dahlias Blooming in the Rain~
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Japanese Romance, Slice of Life, Drama, Bittersweet Romance
Tags:#RainyDayRomance #SummerRomance #SecretFeelings #ForbiddenLove #BittersweetLove #ChildhoodConnection #SecretCrush #EngagedHeroine #UnspokenFeelings #SmallTownRomance #Nostalgia #FlowerSymbolism #Dahlia
Description :
“I am getting married in autumn. That’s why I want to get this house sorted out before the rainy season ends.”
June, in a rain-drenched mountain town.
Asakura Ryo (25), who works at his family’s construction firm, visits an old house to provide a renovation estimate and encounters a damp-haired woman sitting on the veranda.
Miyashita Akari (23). Returning to town for just one summer in order to sell the house of her grandmother who passed away in spring, she was set to be married in autumn.
The construction work is scheduled to last until the end of the rainy season.
On rainy days, outdoor work cannot be done.
So only on rainy days, Ryo finds an excuse to visit her house, gradually coming to sit side by side tilting teacups in a tatami room hung with paper lanterns.
In a corner of the overgrown garden stands the crimson dahlia her grandmother planted at the very end.
In the language of flowers it means “Elegance,” and――――”Betrayal.”
An old well where the two of them once shouted their secrets as children.
The vow she made during the summer her mother abandoned her.
The true feelings Ryo had continuously feigned ignorance of after fleeing back home from his dreams.
With every rainfall, they grow closer; with every rainfall, the end draws nearer.
She is a woman who is going to marry another.
If I say I love you, it will break her vow.
“I hope it rains a lot this year.”
Once the rainy season ends, this love will end.
A story of just one summer for two people who knew that from the very beginning.