“Hey, Lina, Mom was really scared by the door guardian today!” Dave chuckled. “She used that feather duster for over ten years, and it suddenly met its demise!”

Lina was taken aback. “What? Did Zeke dare to lay hands on Mom?”

“No!” Dave described the situation to her. “Mom was furious because the kitchen was too messy. She grabbed the feather duster to make a point, but she got carried away and accidentally hit him for real…

“And the feather duster snapped in half.”

Lina widened her eyes.

Dave looked toward the porch and lowered his voice. “Sis, he’s not a door guardian but Ironman, is he?”

Lina could not help but laugh and told her brother to go back to sleep.

She looked at the plate of risotto on the table for a while, then went to the porch for no reason.

Zuko was in a vigilant sleeping position, his body tilted to one side, hands crossed in front of his chest, and the blanket only covering his stomach.

His exposed arms and calves had well-defined and perfect muscle lines, exuding a masculine aura.

retracting her

spent their first day

next morning, Lina

and Melissa would wake

of reading in the morning and was likely studying

the porch and realized that Zuko was not there either. She was wondering when she heard footsteps behind

T-shirt and shorts, walk toward her. It seemed like he had just finished exercising, his chiseled face exuding

T-shirt that was damp with sweat clung to his body, outlining

gaze inadvertently fell on his

are you looking at?” Zuko’s voice

turned her

she said softly. “I just… wanted

“Fine.”

his face

reserved, with no expression on his face, keeping people at a

grown up in a lively atmosphere

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