Genshin Impact: Return of the Water Queen

"You can't miss it!" Luo Chaya smiled and patted Xianyun's shoulder, saying to her, "It's the Lantern Festival. It just so happens that Clarinva is here, and Sophia will be here soon, too. It will be lively."

"..."

Xianyun looked at Luo Chaya, who was smiling, and fell silent. Finally, he sighed, turned back and said to Zhong Yue, "Go."

Zhong Yue looked at Xianyun and couldn't help smiling. She gave Xianyun a thumbs up and said, "You are a great man, a role model, and my idol. Bye, I'm going to find them."

Seeing Zhong Yue leave with a smile, Luo Chaya laughed and pushed Xianyun into the kitchen, "Come on, let's cook. Clairinwa, come in and help light the fire!"

"I make a fire? Egolia, are you awake?" Clelinva was shocked when she heard what Luochaya said.

She is the queen, the ice goddess!

Make a fire?

Did something go wrong?

"If you don't want to light a fire, pick the vegetables!" Luo Chaya's voice came from the kitchen.

Everyone in the yard started moving, some were setting up tables and chairs, some were tidying up.

Even Apep helped to pack vegetables and meat and bring them into the kitchen. She turned back to Clarena and said, "The girl from the Ice Goddess of Winter."

Zhongli walked past Clarinwa and said to her, "You have never participated in our gatherings, so it is normal to feel this way. This is how our gatherings are now, so don't be surprised."

After hearing Zhongli's words, Clelinwa did not express her opinion, she walked towards the kitchen.

However, before she could go in, she was stopped by Apep.

"I heard you are a queen?" Apep leaned against the wall and looked at Clarena.

"Yes." Clelinwa didn't know what Apep meant, but nodded and answered her question.

"That's useless. Take it." Apep raised his hand and handed the vegetables in his hand to Clarena. "Pick some vegetables."

Clarena looked at her hands filled with food by Apep and stood there in silence for a long time. Apep urged again: "Hey, you're not going to do that, are you?"

Clelinval: "...I am the Queen."

"Yes, I am the Dragon King." Apep nodded, and then said to her: "It's useless for you to be the queen. The status of the people here is almost the same as yours."

Clelinwa looked down at the food in her hands, then turned and walked towards the sink next to her.

"Hey, don't use that sink, use this one." When Apep saw Clalinwa turn around and leave, he hurriedly shouted to her and pointed to the sink next to the kitchen.

Clélinva looked back at Apep, then came back with the food.

"Why don't you take off the cloak you are wearing? It's not convenient for you to work..." Apep continued.

Without saying a word, Clarena took off her cloak and put it aside.

In their spare time, Ying and Paimon looked at the situation of Apep and Clelinwa and shook their heads.

Paimon whispered to Ying, "Ying, do you think this Winter Ice Queen is different from what you imagined?"

"It's very different from what I imagined." Ying nodded, agreeing with Paimon's opinion.

Both she and Paimon had the impression that Clarinva was the kind of queen who could decide the fate of a country with a single word and could freeze a thousand miles with a single rage. But at this moment, from the time they met until now, Clarinva gave them the impression that she was a bit bullied and dull.

It doesn't fit the image of a powerful queen at all.

Just as Apep said, the only people here with lower status than Clelinwa are immortals, and immortals had fought in the war against demons with Zhongli, so they were not interested in her.

As for Ying and Paimon, they treat each other as friends no matter which god they are dealing with, rather than in a superior-subordinate relationship.

This also means that Clélinva's identity as queen has no effect here at all.

While Ying and Paimeng were talking, a few more people came in from outside the door.

Sophia and Narcida came in carrying large and small bags of gifts and said with a smile, "We are here just in time, right?"

Nashida noticed Clarinva who was picking vegetables. She pulled Sophia's dress, pointed over there and said to her: "Mom, over there..."

Sophia looked over, and when Clelinva's eyes met hers, Sophia smiled even brighter, "Ah! The last time we met must have been during the Kanreya disaster, right? What a coincidence."

"Great Kind Tree King..." Clelinva looked at Sophia and nodded to her as a greeting.

"Go help your sister Bing pick vegetables, Nashida." Sophia pushed Nashida and asked her to help.

"What help can you give me? The child is so young, and you still let her do the work?" Luo Chaya came out of the kitchen and symbolically blamed Sophia after hearing what she said.

"Be good, Nashida, go play with your sister Funina."

Luo Chaya walked towards Sophia and said as she walked: "Hey, you came just like that, why did you bring any gifts?"

Sophia walked around Luo Chaya who was holding out her hand to receive the gift, and then said to her with a smile: "Hey, this is not for you! I brought it for Miss Xianyun."

"Oh my, you come just like that, and you even bring gifts, that's too much!" Xianyun came out of the kitchen, and after hearing this, he hurried up to greet Sophia.

"Is there no one for me?" Luo Chaya blinked and looked at Sophia.

Sophia turned around and said to her, "I have a red envelope, do you want it?"

"Okay, okay!" Luo Chaya trotted over to Sophia, stretched out her hands, and looked at her with big eyes, "Where's my red envelope?"

Sophia raised her hand, but there was no red envelope. She simply knocked Luo Chaya's open hand away and said, "How old are you? How dare you ask me for a red envelope? You are much richer than me!"

"This is different..." Luo Chaya muttered.

Seeing Luo Chaya mumbling to herself, Sophia laughed. She took out a carefully preserved red envelope from her bosom, handed it to her, and said with a smile: "Here, yours won't be missing. Your red envelope! Happy New Year, Luo Chaya."

"Great!" After receiving the red envelope, Luo Chaya hugged Sophia and complained, "You are still good to me! Zhongli didn't even give me a red envelope! He is so much older than me..."

"From a common sense perspective, you and I are of the same generation." Zhongli reiterated his relationship with Luo Chaya, "There is no custom of giving red envelopes to peers in Liyue."

"Well, now we have it." Luo Chaya put her arm around Sophia's shoulders, turned to look at Zhongli, and raised her eyebrows at him, "Are you going to show your support?"

After a moment of silence, Zhongli said to her: "Remember first..."

"Stop! Goodbye." Luo Chaya interrupted Zhongli before he finished speaking.