Zuko was momentarily distracted and accidentally choked on the drink.

After closing the supermarket for the night, Lina locked the door and headed home with Zuko. Everyone in the family had already gone to sleep.

Zuko was about to move the folding bed to the porch when Lina softly stopped him. “Um…”

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

“Well, are you hungry?” Lina lowered her head. “Let me prepare something for you to eat before you sleep.”

Upon saying that, she turned and entered the kitchen.

Zuko stood alone on the porch, feeling a gentle breeze blowing. There seemed to be a sweet tinge in the air.

After a while, Lina came out of the kitchen with a late-night snack. When Zuko caught a whiff of the aroma, his stomach could not help but growl.

“Come and eat!” Lina smiled and handed him a spoon.

The late-night snack was lobster risotto. Zuko paused for a moment, and Lina explained, “The lobster you bought that day, my dad didn’t eat it, and it’s been in the fridge.”

a bit stunned. He had never known that risotto could

it?” Lina asked,

replied with a muffled

of dissatisfaction flashed across Lina’s eyes.

not answer but showed through his action of devouring the rice

something when the door to the master

doing?” Melissa glanced into

the scene of the just-cooked meal and the plate of risotto being eaten, she instantly understood

her a meaningful look. “Lina, come to the kitchen and heat up a cup of

do it yourself?”

Why

followed Melissa into the kitchen. Melissa closed the door behind them and scolded with a slightly irritated tone, “Not sleeping and making food for him in the middle of the night? Are you

and

of her fair and tender hands from the speckles of hot oil.

got burned like this! I raised you all these years just

her lips, feeling a surge of warmth in

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