Literary version:
Without the cold of winter, how can you know the warmth of spring.
A long, long time later, when Yukimura Seiichi remembered the motto he had written when he was young, he chuckled and hugged his little wife beside him, "Yuyi, it was also spring when we were together."
"Why are you saying this all of a sudden?" Natsukawa Yui looked up in confusion. She didn't understand why her husband just blamed her for not visiting him in the hospital often in the third year of junior high school. The topic jumped to the time they spent together.
Caressing his little wife's innocent little face, which he had raised for ten years, Yukimura smiled but didn't answer.
Because, in that bitterly cold winter, you were the spring that gave him hope.
Summary version of the story:
In the second year of junior high school, in the spring when the first cherry blossoms bloomed in Rikkai University, Natsukawa Yui placed a sweet and bitter rose in his heart.
In the third year of junior high school, in the morning when the first peach blossom bloomed in Tokyo Hospital, Yui Natsukawa shed a ray of sunshine of hope and warmth in his heart.
In the first year of high school, when the first breeze of spring arrived in the tennis club, Yukimura Seiichi finally took this intoxicating spring for himself.
In the second year of junior high school, Yui Natsukawa refused Yukimura Seiichi's passionate confession.
In the third year of junior high school, Seiichi Yukimura talks about a bright future but his words are filled with despair. Yui Natsukawa sheds tears because he shouldn't be like this.
In the first year of high school, Yukimura Seiichi confessed again, and this time, he finally got what he wanted.
Intention: In that bitterly cold winter, you are the spring that gives him hope.