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.”

spoonful into his mouth. The first bite left him a bit stunned. He had never known that risotto could be so delicious, especially with the addition of lobster meat

is it?” Lina asked,

with a

across Lina’s eyes. “What

did not answer but showed through his action of devouring the rice that

something when the door to the master bedroom downstairs opened, and Melissa walked out,

doing?” Melissa

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

look. “Lina, come to the

you do it yourself?”

do what I asked! Why so much nonsense?”

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 treating this person as your husband

blushed and looked

a few red marks on the back of her fair and tender hands from the speckles

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

a surge of warmth in her heart and

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