“Wake up, wake up!”
Eris was awakened by Fufu’s voice and slowly opened her eyes.
Furina grabbed the curtains and pulled them open with a whoosh.
The morning sunlight instantly spilled over her.
Ah, this warm feeling…
Eris clasped her hands together and peacefully closed her eyes again.
“Why are you going back to sleep?” Seeing this, Furina put her hands on her hips, shaking her head in frustration.
“Get up, we have a lot of things to do today!”
“How can you be so lazy!”
“Oh, then let me ask you,” Eris said, half-opening her sleepy eyes.
“If one day, you finally get to lay down the burden on your shoulders and live in this city as an ordinary person, would you sleep in?”
“I…
I definitely wouldn’t!” Fufu looked away and said, “Sleeping in is not something the Hydro Archon…”
“But in this hypothetical scenario, you’ve already laid down your burden, haven’t you?” Eris countered.
“…There are no ‘ifs’.
Haven’t we not made it to that day yet?” Fufu reached out and pulled her blanket.
“Get up!
People in Fontaine are already working at this hour!
How can you sleep!”
“…” Hearing this, Eris wanted to refute her—it wasn’t “we,” but “you,” she was just an outsider…
But looking at Fufu’s wide, blinking eyes and the bubbling anticipation radiating from her, she ultimately kept her mouth shut.
“You must have stayed up late last night, right?” Furina said confidently, looking at her.
“There’s no way someone who slept at that hour would still be unable to get up now, so you definitely stayed up late!”
“Yes, I stayed up late,” Eris sat up from the bed helplessly.
“I’ve never been this far from home in my life.”
“…Are you homesick?” Fufu’s voice softened.
She finally remembered that the person in front of her had ended up in Fontaine due to a stroke of sheer bad luck.
Although it sounded incredibly bizarre, she looked exactly like her…
There were surely many details she hadn’t elaborated on, and many suspicious points remained, but Furina wouldn’t proactively ask.
Eris didn’t answer.
Instead, she looked at the clothes on the side with a troubled expression.
“This…
how do I put it on?”
“Here, let me help you!” Furina immediately grabbed the clothes and came to her side.
“This part goes like this, and then put your hand through…”
She guided Eris while helping her arrange the clothes and smooth out the wrinkles.
“Mhm, there we go.”
Furina took two steps back and looked at her masterpiece with satisfaction.
“As expected of me!
So pretty!”
Eris stood frozen in place.
Honestly, this was the first girl in her life besides her mother who had so carefully helped her dress…
Oh well, whatever.
She had a beautiful girl of Fufu’s caliber waking her up.
With this kind of treatment, what more could she ask for?
She would just go along with whatever she said.
“See, I told you that you should live with me,” Furina was still muttering.
“Actually, I have so many things to ask you.
We could have totally had a girls’ night in bed…”
She actually quite yearned for this kind of interaction between ordinary girls, but due to her status, almost no one dared to do so.
Hearing this, Eris’s face stiffened.
By now, she couldn’t bring herself to reveal her original gender…
She had forgotten to mention it yesterday, and now…
looking at Fufu, who showed no reservations before her, she swallowed her words back down.
She obediently let herself be pulled out the door.
“This is…” Eris looked at the blue mousse in front of her…
“This is La Lettre a Focalors, my favorite dessert,” Fufu looked over expectantly with her wide eyes.
“Give it a try.”
Eating this for breakfast?
Talk about an elegant lifestyle, Eris thought, hesitating to speak.
She didn’t usually like cake, and for breakfast…
she would usually just settle for two meat buns from the breakfast shop downstairs.
Perhaps this was a Fontaine specialty?
She took a tentative bite, and the taste was surprisingly good.
“How is it?
Delicious, right?” Fufu looked over expectantly.
“It tastes great,” Eris gave her a thumbs-up.
“But isn’t eating this for breakfast a bit strange?”
“I knew you’d say that,” Fufu replied with an “I-knew-it” look.
She clapped her hands, and a nearby Melusine pattered over to the other side, bringing a plate of very Liyue-style, uh…
shaomai?
Dumplings?
None of them really looked like it…
A pair of chopsticks was placed beside it.
“Ta-da!
Look, I specifically had someone get a Liyue chef in the city to make you some Lotus Seed and Bird Egg Soup!
How about that?
Touched?”
“I am incredibly touched,” Eris felt a warmth in her heart.
Furina had actually remembered everything she said yesterday.
Damn it, what if my heart gets captured by her?
“Oh, this taste is authentic!” Eris ate them one by one.
Although she hadn’t really eaten much Liyue cuisine, it didn’t stop her from tasting the Chinese flavor.
“Here, you try some too!”
Eris scooped up a piece of steamed egg and instinctively reached toward her.
While she was still hesitating whether to place it next to her mousse, Fufu leaned over and took a bite of the small Jade Parcels, saying as she ate, “As expected of a Liyue chef.
Changing up the flavor for breakfast once in a while isn’t bad either.”
Meanwhile, Eris sitting across from her was completely sunk.
Ah, why does every single move she makes hit me right in the heart…
This damn sweetness…
Looking at her silently eating breakfast with her head down, a glint of cunning flashed in Furina’s eyes.
Got her wrapped around my finger!
She had already noticed last night that this person who looked exactly like her wanted to slip away!
Of course, not to literally run away, but rather she had no desire to do anything grand, behaving like a total salted fish…
As for the things she said…
guess if I believe them?
She knew the situations of the other nations’ Archons like the back of her hand—even she, who had been the Hydro Archon for five hundred years, wasn’t that well-informed!
Moreover, she only had a basic understanding of Teyvat but lacked a lot of common sense…
coupled with that face identical to hers…
It felt so familiar.
Wasn’t this just like her five hundred years ago?
And she claimed to be from another country.
Heh, the confusion on her face when she saw the Jade Parcels just now wasn’t fake.
You haven’t even seen Liyue’s most famous breakfast, yet you’re telling me all this?