[Genshin Impact] A world where only travelers are alone

Yesterday was the worst day Chloe had ever had.

First, my parents' sudden visit exposed my previous lies, and then I was caught with Villette in public -

Chloe was so embarrassed that her toes touched the ground just by recalling it.

Although in the end, Navillatte did not pursue the lie she had told before, the accommodation arrangement was still inevitable.

The two of them slept in the same room that night.

Villette volunteered to sleep on the floor, and Chloe had no choice but to agree.

However, letting the Chief Inquisitor sleep on the floor was a bit of a test of her mental strength. Chloe didn't sleep well and felt a little listless the next day.

But she didn't dare show it, for fear that Villette would think too much.

As for how much Villette thought about it, no one knew, but a certain guy thought a lot about it.

*
It was lunchtime. Chloe sat on a bench at the back of the Momang Palace, looking depressed as she held the lunch box she had made this morning. Next to her was Aurelie, who had come to visit her after learning where she had been from the Durands.

"Aurelie, do you think Lord Villette likes me?"

Aurelie unceremoniously took two pieces of meat from her bowl, and while she was impressed by her cooking skills, she replied nonchalantly: "I still say the same thing, have you ever seen that Lord Villette treat other people so differently? And he himself said that his heart beats faster when he is with you."

But when it comes to this, Aurelie feels a little disappointed: "If you ask me, you should have confessed to him directly at that time. What's wrong with your brain circuit to say such a thing?"

Chloe was quite unconvinced: "Don't you think Lord Navelette is cute now?"

He holds hands when asked to do so, and is extremely obedient.

"Yeah, but what about holding hands?" Aurelie rolled her eyes. "If you had just confessed your feelings, you might have been able to win her over. We might even have kissed her now."

I can only say that she is worthy of being a singles player. She is so conservative even when having an ambiguous relationship.

After hearing her words, Chloe blushed from head to toe, slammed the lunch box into her arms and was about to leave.

Aurelie quickly grabbed her and said, "Hey, hey, don't leave so quickly. I haven't given you any advice yet!"

Chloe glanced at her and said angrily, "You just know how to watch the fun and laugh at me! And you are also a single mother, how are you going to give me advice?"

Seeing that she sat back down obediently despite not giving in, Aurelie smiled secretly in her heart and put her hands together to apologize to her: "Please don't. And you know, I write operas! If you just treat your love story as a love story, I will write it, right?"

Chloe was quite dissatisfied with her "sour" comment, but for the sake of her own pitiful zero progress in love, she listened carefully to what she said next.

"This weekend, Lady Water Goddess Fernina will perform a brand new opera at the Opikle Opera House. I have reliable gossip that it's a very sweet love story! Maybe your Lady Villette will be enlightened by the opera?"

"Really?" Chloe was skeptical.

"Of course it's true! What's the relationship between us? I can lie to anyone else but I can never lie to you!" Aurelie patted her chest and guaranteed.

Chloe finally decided to trust her: "In that case, you will buy our tickets!"

After all, it was intended as a surprise, and it was not convenient for her to buy the tickets in person.

"I can't help it. It's because Lord Villette has been inseparable from me recently." She held her face and reveled in it. "Hey, hey, hey, don't be so ungrateful and bully single people like this, right?" Aurelie was dissatisfied.

As it happened, the lunch break was almost over, and Villette came out from the corridor of the Momang Palace, stood towards her from a distance, and said politely, "I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation."

Aurelie stood up nervously, but Chloe walked towards him happily.

Aurelie could see the man lower his head slightly, looking at her intently, and he seemed to say something interesting that made Chloe laugh out loud, and then she naturally took his hand.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

She ate the last piece of meat in the lunch box with gritted teeth.

*
At noon the next day, Aurelie worked hard again and brought two tickets.

But she forgot the most important thing -

After all, it is an opera that the water goddess Funina will personally perform in, so there is no need to say much about the security measures for this opera. The most obvious manifestation is the real-name system. Everyone who buys a ticket must leave his or her name and basic information for subsequent confirmation to ensure that no one who poses a threat to the water goddess will appear in this performance.

Since false reporting would result in being blacklisted by the Oprykle Opera House and she would never be able to step into the house again, Aurelie honestly wrote down the names of Villette and Chloe.

In fact, this was nothing, and almost no one would notice the means of verifying information behind the opera house, but one of them was Villette.

The staff looked at each other, and no one dared to say that they really wanted to investigate Lord Villette. In the end, they had to hand over the information to Lady Water God and ask her to verify the authenticity of the name.

So, when Chloe went to meet with Aurelie every noon to perfect her plan, the water goddess Fernina quietly came to her door.

It's not quite correct to say that it was done quietly, after all, someone's performance was always very grand, and except for Chloe who was not in Momang Palace, almost everyone noticed the girl who swaggered into the office of the Supreme Judge.

But even so, Finina couldn't help but restrain herself when facing Villette.

"I heard that you are going to see my performance next Saturday? When did you start liking to watch this kind of romantic opera?"

The reason she took on this script was only because she had taken on so many serious scripts that she wanted to add some lightheartedness occasionally.

Villette looked up from her desk with a blank expression: "What opera?"

"You don't know?" Furninna was upset. "Two nights ago, a little girl came to buy a ticket using your name, and -"

She tried hard to recall, and finally dug out another name from her memory: "Chloe! Yes, that's the name. Isn't she the other heroine in the scandal that made a lot of noise some time ago?"

In fact, it’s not the time ago.

Recently, the two of them have been so close that almost everyone can see them, but after Villette cleaned up the tabloids, no newspaper dared to speculate on their relationship anymore, and the public only dared to talk about it in private.

But even if the two of them were always so close to each other, it didn't seem to have any effect, except for a few neighbors who lived very close to Chloe's house, who would be startled when they saw the Supreme Inquisitor almost every time they went out.

(End of this chapter)