🌧️ Spring Rain (봄비) — Episode 3: When It Rains, I Remember You
A gentle tale of love across oceans — where every raindrop carries a memory.
Echoes in the Rain
Seoul entered early winter. The city turned gray, and the air carried a quiet sadness. Seo-yeon painted less and spent more time watching the sky from her small studio window. Every time it rained, she’d play the same song — the one that once played in Eun-ho’s car.
Sometimes, she’d think she heard his voice in the rhythm of the rain. Sometimes, she wished the sound would stop — because missing him hurt as much as remembering him.
Letters That Never Came
Three months passed since the last letter. She kept checking the mailbox every morning — the same ritual, the same hope. But nothing came. The silence between them stretched like the winter sky — wide, pale, and endless.
“Maybe the rain has changed its path,” she whispered. “Maybe it fell somewhere else — somewhere he’s standing now.”
She tried to fill her days with work. The gallery had new visitors, new commissions, new reasons to smile. Yet none of them filled the same quiet space inside her heart. The rain no longer comforted her — it only reminded her of promises written in ink that had long faded.
The Photograph
One morning, a package arrived from New York — without sender’s name. Inside, a photograph: a man walking under rain, holding an umbrella painted with blue hydrangeas. No note, no message, but she knew instantly — it was him.
She placed the photo beside her easel. That night, she began a new series of paintings titled “When It Rains, I Remember You.” Each canvas captured a moment they never had — walking together through foreign streets, sitting side by side at dawn, sharing one umbrella under the spring rain.
Seo-yeon’s Diary:
“Love doesn’t always return the same way it left. Sometimes it comes back as art, as rain, or as silence that still means everything.”
The Unexpected Call
It was midnight when her phone rang. The number was foreign — she almost didn’t answer. But the moment she heard his voice, the world seemed to pause.
Eun-ho: “Seo-yeon… I’m coming home.”
Seo-yeon: (softly) “When?”
Eun-ho: “When the spring rain returns.”
Seo-yeon: “Then I’ll wait — under the same sky.”
Outside, the first drizzle began to fall, gentle and shy — as if the sky itself knew what the rain meant for them both.
🌸 To be continued…
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➡️ Next Episode: When the Sky Blooms
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