Summer of the Mortal World (Bleach Fanfiction)

To be honest, I’m not very good at writing blurbs.

The story begins a very, very long time ago, so long ago that many people have forgotten those days, so long ago that only scattered legends remain.

It was not long after the founding of the Shin’o Academy. The skies over Soul Society were tinged with melancholy, and the scenery shimmered like a mirage. It seemed everything foretold the arrival of that extraordinary woman, Soul Society’s most beautiful woman, Xuan Duan Lian...

I am not your corpse dressed in splendid robes,

and you cannot give me a bridal gown for our wedding.

What is it, then,

that brought us through a life of hardship to this forest where rain falls all year round?

It is because...

we once loved each other so deeply.

Must life always hold a love that cannot have a happy ending?

Must the full moon above the hills always be missing a piece?

I only hope to see the magnolias bloom, to watch the golden carp swim in Yutang Hall, to have you by my side,

listening with me to the rain and the stories of this mortal world,

and then to hear you tell me how deeply you miss me.