"It's my fault. It's all my fault!" Toph cried out. "I'm the one who pushed her to do this... I didn't apologize or resolve our conflict. Instead, I pushed her to this point...

"Mom, I'm the reason Renee tried to take her own life! I messed up!"

He raised his arm, intending to hit himself, but Zephyr tightly gripped his wrist before he could.

"Calm down!" Zephyr growled. "You're a man, look at yourself!"

"Dad..."

Nicholas also tried to console him. "Toph, you're gentle and kind. That's why you try to shoulder all the blame. But you're not truly at fault. So, please, stop blaming yourself."

Toph stood there with teary eyes, and Cordelia felt a deep sadness seeing him like that.

Meanwhile, she had an inkling of what was going on. It seemed that Renee had captured all of Toph's attention with this incident.

Zennie was part of the emergency team and soon emerged from the emergency room.

worry," she said calmly. "We managed to save her in time. Her life is no

his strength had been drained from him, and

Zennie reassured her nephew, her eyes filled with complex emotions. "Trust your

asked, "Zennie, how many sleeping pills did

even after the first round of stomach pumping, so we had to do it again. We can't take any risks, though those procedures

"Is it that serious?"

"That's correct."

eyes darkened, and tears welled up in Toph's eyes. He followed Renee's gurney as she was wheeled out and continued calling

Zephyr exchanged a meaningful look, seeing the doubt

was just

would gamble with

think we can persuade Toph

turned to her. "Wifey,

aback. "You

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