diff --git a/clients/da-vinci-client/src/main/java/com/linkedin/davinci/kafka/consumer/LeaderFollowerStoreIngestionTask.java b/clients/da-vinci-client/src/main/java/com/linkedin/davinci/kafka/consumer/LeaderFollowerStoreIngestionTask.java
index d97fced648..727a7eacdb 100644
--- a/clients/da-vinci-client/src/main/java/com/linkedin/davinci/kafka/consumer/LeaderFollowerStoreIngestionTask.java
+++ b/clients/da-vinci-client/src/main/java/com/linkedin/davinci/kafka/consumer/LeaderFollowerStoreIngestionTask.java
@@ -1916,10 +1916,8 @@ protected boolean shouldProcessRecord(PubSubMessage<KafkaKey, KafkaMessageEnvelo
           }
         }
 
-        if (!record.getTopicPartition()
-            .getPubSubTopic()
-            .getPubSubTopicType()
-            .equals(currentLeaderTopic.getPubSubTopicType())) {
+        if (!Utils.getLeaderTopicFromPubSubTopic(pubSubTopicRepository, record.getTopicPartition().getPubSubTopic())
+            .equals(currentLeaderTopic)) {
           String errorMsg =
               "Leader replica: {} received a pubsub message that doesn't belong to the leader topic. Leader topic: "
                   + currentLeaderTopic + ", topic of incoming message: "
@@ -1978,7 +1976,8 @@ protected boolean shouldPersistRecord(
       case LEADER:
         PubSubTopic currentLeaderTopic =
             partitionConsumptionState.getOffsetRecord().getLeaderTopic(pubSubTopicRepository);
-        if (!incomingMessageTopic.getPubSubTopicType().equals(currentLeaderTopic.getPubSubTopicType())) {
+        if (!Utils.getLeaderTopicFromPubSubTopic(pubSubTopicRepository, incomingMessageTopic)
+            .equals(currentLeaderTopic)) {
           String errorMsg =
               "Leader replica: {} received a pubsub message that doesn't belong to the leader topic. Leader topic: "
                   + currentLeaderTopic + ", topic of incoming message: " + incomingMessageTopic.getName();
diff --git a/internal/venice-common/src/main/java/com/linkedin/venice/utils/Utils.java b/internal/venice-common/src/main/java/com/linkedin/venice/utils/Utils.java
index 21ef1103b0..e1208c2c00 100644
--- a/internal/venice-common/src/main/java/com/linkedin/venice/utils/Utils.java
+++ b/internal/venice-common/src/main/java/com/linkedin/venice/utils/Utils.java
@@ -20,8 +20,10 @@
 import com.linkedin.venice.meta.RoutingDataRepository;
 import com.linkedin.venice.meta.Store;
 import com.linkedin.venice.meta.Version;
+import com.linkedin.venice.pubsub.PubSubTopicRepository;
 import com.linkedin.venice.pubsub.api.PubSubTopic;
 import com.linkedin.venice.pubsub.api.PubSubTopicPartition;
+import com.linkedin.venice.pubsub.api.PubSubTopicType;
 import com.linkedin.venice.pushmonitor.ExecutionStatus;
 import com.linkedin.venice.serialization.avro.AvroProtocolDefinition;
 import com.linkedin.venice.serialization.avro.InternalAvroSpecificSerializer;
@@ -941,4 +943,14 @@ public static boolean isSepTopicRegion(String region) {
     return region.endsWith(SEPARATE_TOPIC_SUFFIX);
   }
 
+  public static PubSubTopic getLeaderTopicFromPubSubTopic(
+      PubSubTopicRepository pubSubTopicRepository,
+      PubSubTopic pubSubTopic) {
+    if (pubSubTopic.getPubSubTopicType().equals(PubSubTopicType.REALTIME_TOPIC)
+        && pubSubTopic.getName().endsWith(SEPARATE_TOPIC_SUFFIX)) {
+      return pubSubTopicRepository.getTopic(Version.composeRealTimeTopic(pubSubTopic.getStoreName()));
+    }
+    return pubSubTopic;
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/internal/venice-test-common/src/integrationTest/java/com/linkedin/venice/integration/utils/VeniceServerWrapper.java b/internal/venice-test-common/src/integrationTest/java/com/linkedin/venice/integration/utils/VeniceServerWrapper.java
index 3598e094b0..2f91fdc582 100644
--- a/internal/venice-test-common/src/integrationTest/java/com/linkedin/venice/integration/utils/VeniceServerWrapper.java
+++ b/internal/venice-test-common/src/integrationTest/java/com/linkedin/venice/integration/utils/VeniceServerWrapper.java
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static StatefulServiceProvider<VeniceServerWrapper> generateService(
               pubSubBrokerWrapper.getPubSubClientsFactory().getAdminAdapterFactory().getClass().getName())
           .put(SERVER_INGESTION_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_MS, 5000)
           .put(SERVER_LEADER_COMPLETE_STATE_CHECK_IN_FOLLOWER_VALID_INTERVAL_MS, 5000)
-          .put(SERVER_RESUBSCRIPTION_TRIGGERED_BY_VERSION_INGESTION_CONTEXT_CHANGE_ENABLED, false);
+          .put(SERVER_RESUBSCRIPTION_TRIGGERED_BY_VERSION_INGESTION_CONTEXT_CHANGE_ENABLED, true);
       if (sslToKafka) {
         serverPropsBuilder.put(KAFKA_SECURITY_PROTOCOL, PubSubSecurityProtocol.SSL.name());
         serverPropsBuilder.put(KafkaTestUtils.getLocalCommonKafkaSSLConfig(SslUtils.getTlsConfiguration()));