Chapter 29

"Jun, please, try not to get drunk!" Sun-ha warned her husband as he opened the soju bottle. Jungso laughed, shaking his head, but he answered positively. He looked at his wife without her headscarf and realized how beautiful she was.

Her hair was still thin, but it no longer fell as before, and in the coming days, it would grow back. She lay on a chair, sunbathing in a dress, which made him laugh at first, but he knew that for her, the illness had been even more intense, affecting her appearance and structure. Seeing her there, at ease with herself, eyes closed, breathing calmly, was good and gratifying.

Lucy came downstairs feeling a little shy; she didn't know how her parents would react to her being so exposed. But she loved sunbathing with them in the backyard; she had been doing it since she was just a little girl and didn't want to miss the opportunity.

She saw her mother already lying on the grass with her beach chair and laughed, accept