The evening of the (beginning) of the party finally arrives. They are supposed to meet with Suanni in a specific spot in the city, by a fountain in a less popular part of Guyun.

Xianyun takes some time to get out of her residence. She actually changes outfit many times, not managing to decide which dress to wear but eventually going for the sexier version. She also put some make up on, with the help of Madame Ping, and made herself all pretty. It's something she never does, as she usually doesn't care about her appearance, but Suanni's presence makes her feel a little pressured. Plus, she wants to impress Zhongli.
She feels a bit ashamed to show herself in the current state, but eventually gathers her courage and steps out of her residence, to join the others.

Yang wasn't supposed to come with them,.but there was no way to convince him to stay. He makes a fuss and eventually forces them to take him along, while poor WooPil stays behind.
Yang insisted on choosing his own clothes too and wore: www.roleplay.me/photo/3865274 those shoes included. He might have made Zhongli consider violence, for the first time in his long life. XD

Cyno and Chan were among the first to be ready and went to wait for the rest.
Chan wore: www.roleplay.me/photo/3865193, he can't really get more elegant than that.
Cyno wore: www.roleplay.me/photo/3865199 as a (kind of) Sumeru traditional elegant outfit, they can't really say anything without offending their culture!!

As for Coco, since they decided to bring him over too, he had to get dressed well no less, but he doesn't lack expensive and classy attires. www.roleplay.me/photo/3865287 People will totally think he is the son of the King instead of Chan and Cyno.

When they are all ready, they don't have much time to express their admiration for Cyno's fantasious attire, as they are a bit late already and will have to reach the fountain to meet with Suanni.
When they get there, they find a strange atmosphere, meant to keep auriold away, and the area uncommonly empty, except for one woman, who would stand out even in the middle of a huge crowd.
Suanni promptly approaches and hugs Xianyun right away, kissing her cheek. «My dear, you made it! And brought so many lovely guests with you!»
Suanni.then approaches Zhongli. «Morax! Well met! We have not seen each others for millennia!» She hugs him too, pressing her massive melons against.him, in the process. XD
Xianyun can't help a rather annoyed expression in that moment.

Chan waits eagerly to be hugged too,.but all the remaining characters get is a: «Oh, hello there, precious!» and a smile.
«If everyone has arrived, we can proceed!» Suanni says, excitedly and approaches the fountain, making a portal visible. She steps through it first, motioning the others to follow her.
As they reach the other side, they find themselves in a dreamlike western beach, in front of a palace that almost looks royal. The palace is on a small island, that is connected to a few others through sandy passageways, which get entirely submerged during the night, as the tide raises.
The smaller islands are all part of the property and there are some smaller buildings on them too. The sea is beautiful and the sand is white.
The weather is quite hot, but with a fresh breeze that makes the environment rather pleasant too.

Suanni leads the way into the palace, motioning them to leave their baggage in the hallway, for now. They proceed through the heavily decorated corridors into a massive hall, with huge windows and fully set up for the party. There is a massive table, a large ball area and even a spot with instruments for an orchestra, although the music in the background is being played by a magic phonograph. The whole place is luxurious, elegant and expensive, in the perfect style of Suanni.
For (maybe) some's disappointment, in the hall is a handsome, Liofrost man, of Heinhoss descent: Suanni's husband.

As the guests arrive, the affable man approaches them and greets them warmly. «Good evening and welcome, dear guests! My name is Raiel.» He elegantly kisses Xianyun's hand, like a revenge for Suanni's hug to Zhongli.
«Our guest of honour is taking some time, nothing unusual», he says with a smile.
Although they weren't warned, it's actually a birthday party.

After a while, the guest of honour finally makes.his appearance. It's a beautiful boy, finally dressed in elegant white and pink clothes. At the moment, his hair is golden and his eyes are of a particular pink colour. His eyes are also quite strange, different from auriold's.
After doing the introductions, the guests split into groups depending on their age, the older ones staying with Suanni and Raiel, the younger ones joining [name not yet decided XD] on the other side.

This blog will be for the teens.

As the two days pass, she goes to take the dresses from HaiTien's shop, acting as shadily as if she had been organising a death attack against Sterile Mr Volp, in the middle of the wilds, at midnight.
She can't help but feel embarrassed about the entire matter of making herself pretty for the party, she doesn't want anyone to know until the end, basically.

As the returns to the palace, she acts even more sneakily, until she brings the bags with the dresses safely to her room, in her residence. Probably guards and servants who saw her are confused as heck, as she walked on the roofs instead of the ground.
With that done, she decides to go to invite Zhongli to the party, since she clearly took very seriously the fact that her friend asked to bring more people.

She heads to look for Zhongli.

She got invited to a party — again. But this time, it wasn't organised by the usual old fossils. She was also asked a favour, regarding the party and she is not fully sure how to proceed with that.

Anyhow, she thinks she should get a pretty dress to wear for the party in question, so she decides to go to take a look at the tailor stores in Guyun, to see if she can find something new of her taste. She doesn't have many beautiful dresses, so she thinks she could use one.
She stops in front of the window of a tailor store, to look at the dresses on display, pondering for ages.

The day of Hoon's birthday finally arrives and as promised, she heads to Shin's home in advance, in order to help him prepare the party, as the mean clearly has no idea.
She brings her culinary machine with her, so that she can prepare some delicious foods for the guests and the hosts.

The party itself is in the evening, around dinner time. The nimox of Arcanis does not seem interested in joining the party inside the house, but rather they stay outside as usual. There is the smoke and the scent of meat being roasted outside, like every other evening.
The door of the house is always open and it leads to the main room, where several tables of different size and shapes are. The tables are the only furniture in the room, together with a few chairs and some pillows on the floor. Shin clearly has a thing for tables, since that's the only furniture he chose, when Ziiu brought him to buy some.
They don't even have beds, in their bedrooms there are these bunches of blankets and pillows on the floor that they use to sleep. And no furniture of sort either. The door of the other rooms are open, so that Diego can do his inspection to analyse the minimalistic style of their living. XD

The tables of the main room are already covered in foods that Cloud Retainer made with her device. She is still working on some more with her device, when the guests start to arrive. Shin is next to her, trying to help as he can.
Little Hoon is standing underneath the tall table on which Shin and Xianyun are working. He is a bit nervous and less expansive than usual, after the incident with that man. He is wearing a papillon around his neck that nobody has any idea where he got from and why.
JinJin is sat on a chair by the wall, always wearing his kitsune mask to hide his face.

WonPil and Blade got invited too, but after greeting the family and giving his gift to Hoon (a wooden toy he carved himself, in the shape of a bear), he headed outside where the meat is being roasted. He is that kind of man.

After talking with the new girl, she heads back to the palace with the letter and the offering she gave for Rex Lapis. She doesn't know if there is actually a temple or an altar for offerings in the palace, but she doubts it, so she simply decides to go to the King to hand him the stuff herself. She would never steal the hairpin.

In fact, she also intended to see Zhongli for another reason and decided to go straight to him now and handle both matters at the same time.
She arrives at his residence a little while after dinner time, when the kids are already bed.