"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.

to save her in time. Her life

tension instantly eased. It felt like all his strength had been drained from

filled with complex emotions. "Trust your aunt's expertise. I won't let anything

"Zennie, how many

first round of stomach pumping, so we had to do it again. We can't take any risks, though those procedures have been completed. We need to monitor her for a while, as there

"Is it that serious?"

"That's correct."

followed Renee's gurney as she was wheeled out and continued

and Zephyr exchanged a meaningful look, seeing

underestimated her," Cordelia whispered. "I thought she was just

with her own life,"

can persuade Toph right

"Wifey,

aback. "You

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