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.

She heard that Xiao had some difficulties, so she decides to pay him a visit, bringing Streetward Rambler with her.
The two ladies head to Xiao's residence and walk inside without knocking nor anything, looking for the yaksha.

In the end, all the old adepti decided to follow Zhongli to his new kingdom. In truth, most of them were already feeling quite useless in Liyue, as they didn't fit in the society and at the same time, they didn't really have a role within the nation anymore. They were all just living like eremites on their mountains, suffering loneliness while pretending to enjoy it. Except Madame Ping, that is. And she came too, just in case.

Now that they are in Nortrig, the challenge will be to get used to Lianxi and its customs. Cloud Retainer and the others were already adviced by Chan not to go around in the city in the shape of animals, else they'd risk some people to try to hunt them for meat and they don't want to hurt auriold in Zhongli's kingdom.

Cloud Retainer avoids to spend time with the old fossils, since they always end up getting on her nerves, one way or another. Ping is already searching the palace gardens for new flowers she has never seen before, which Xianyun doesn't find particularly entertaining.
Not sure what else to do, she starts to explore the palace as well, not really knowing the areas or places it's divided into. She doesn't hesitate to get inside buildings that draw her curiosity, when guards let her pass.

Eventually, she reaches the Damiwon and since it's evening, she decides to take a bath in the big, heated pool in there, that was certainly not prepared for her, but she doesn't really know how things work in the palace.
She takes off her clothes and dives into the hot and scented water.