“Zeke, if you… If you don’t believe it, I’ll prove it to you!” Jesse tugged at Melissa’s sleeve, urging her to sit down and eat, but she ignored it and insisted on going into the room to rummage through the cabinets. Soon, she held a thin birth certificate in her hand and placed it in front of Zuko.

“Look, this is Lina’s birth certificate!” Melissa’s voice trembled as she pointed at the name on it. “Father: Jesse Jenner, Mother: Melissa Jones. What’s wrong with that!? The hospital issued this!”

Zuko quickly stood up. “Auntie, please calm down. I never doubted—”

“Stop listening to Mary’s nonsense!” Melissa trembled as she angrily scolded and returned the birth certificate to her room, refusing to finish dinner.

After dinner, Zuko made a call to Toph at the entrance of the alley.

“I have a question for you,” he said in a low voice. “How would you react if you had a son, but everyone said he wasn’t your son?”

“What do you mean, bro?” Toph’s tone rose at the end. “You’re not hoping I’ll be c*ckolded, are you?”

Zuko scoffed. “I’m being serious!”

Toph thought for a moment and chuckled. “I might get angry at first and explain to everyone, but I wouldn’t care as much over time. The truth will reveal itself. Besides, my son is mine, and blood ties cannot be changed. Why should I panic?”

if your son… doesn’t resemble

must you put

saying ‘what

why Zuko did not ask himself that

have some resemblance! Besides, even though I don’t resemble our father, I look

all puffed up and

handsome when he was young!” Toph smirked. “Anyway, what I mean is children don’t have to resemble one specific

wanted, which might the beginning,

was so intense that it seemed like guilty

‘Guilty?’

room was lit with a warm yellow glow, and the TV was probably still

that Melissa had not eaten much for dinner and brought a bowl of porridge into the room, somehow

toward the entrance of the alley. “Zeke, come in and

responded and was going to walk over, but his feet felt heavy

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