After parting with Hu Tao, Star wandered aimlessly through the streets alone.
Hu Tao was going to be busy, and Aether and Paimon had gone somewhere unknown. She suddenly had nothing to do and didn't know what to busy herself with.
Thinking about it, she hadn't eaten lunch yet today. Perhaps she should go to Wanmin Restaurant first.
Thinking this, Star couldn't help but start counting the Mora she had left.
Emmm...
Much? Not much.
Speaking of which, it seemed she hadn't had any income during this time. After all, she worked for Hu Tao without a salary, in exchange for two months of use of that house.
Moreover, accompanying Hu Tao to wander the streets and promote, she actually had to spend money, more or less.
As a result, her small treasury was now completely in crisis.
Perhaps, while Hu Tao was busy with the funeral, she could go to the Adventurers' Guild and see if she could take on any commissions?
After all, thinking about it, even Aether's funds probably weren't much. Even if there were no living expenses now, the cost of food was still quite high.
They didn't eat out every meal; Aether would also often cook at home, but Liyue's prices were really too expensive. Even just buying vegetables and meat was a very large expense.
Now it seemed that no matter which country it was, the most urgent matter was probably money.
Of course, Yelan had already lost everything to her. If she were heartless, she could completely take some money directly from Yelan's assets.
However, her conscience really couldn't bear that, so she decided against it. It was better not to do that.
How about going to the Adventurers' Guild today? If there were any commissions that could be quickly resolved, she would take them on and do them. She couldn't always let Aether do all the work alone.
Having made up her mind, Star walked towards Chihu Rock.
Both Wanmin Restaurant and the Adventurers' Guild were located in Chihu Rock. She had been there many times before and was quite familiar with the area.
Moreover, Yanshang Teahouse was also conveniently located along this road.
She just didn't know how Yelan was doing, if he had woken up yet...
Thinking of this, as Star walked past Yanshang Teahouse, she couldn't help but look up.
The windows on the second floor were still tightly shut, and the situation inside was completely invisible from the outside.
The main door on the first floor was also closed. However, Star stood there and heard no sound, so she assumed that all the people who came to gamble had already dispersed.
This morning, there were still many people lying scattered on that first floor.
Shaking her head, Star no longer paid attention to the situation at Yanshang Teahouse and continued walking towards Chihu Rock.
Liyue Harbor was as bustling as ever, the hawkers' cries on the roadside were incessant, and Star walked along, looking and gradually becoming lost in thought.
Then, Star immediately taught everyone a lesson, demonstrating what tragic things can happen when you don't look where you're going.
"Ah!"
First there was a thud, then a girl's cry of surprise.
Star felt as if she had bumped into something and quickly stopped. By the time she came to her senses, a blue-haired woman with a strange headpiece was already lying on the ground in front of her.
"I, I'm sorry!" Star quickly apologized, bending down in a panic, wanting to help the person up.
She sometimes let her attention wander while walking, but for her, observing the front with her peripheral vision was not a difficult thing. Logically, she shouldn't easily bump into others.
Moreover, she wasn't walking fast. By no means should she have knocked someone directly to the ground.
Did she encounter someone faking an injury?
"It's, it's alright..." The person took Star's hand and slowly stood up.
"Sorry, I was distracted. Uh, are you... alright?" Star's words paused slightly, because when the girl in front of her looked up at her, that familiar feeling she often had came again.
However, after doing so much last night, this morning, and just now, she was also in a relatively sage-like state.
So she quickly recovered.
"It's nothing, nothing. It was also my... carelessness," the blue-haired woman shook her head. Her words also had a slight pause, which occurred the moment she saw Star.
However, the meaning of her pause during speech was probably completely different from Star's.
"You, could you be Miss Star?"
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At Wanmin Restaurant, Star and the girl she had accidentally bumped into were sitting together.
They had already ordered their food, and Star was paying for this meal as an apology.
Although the other party said it was alright, they were coming to eat anyway, and inviting one more person didn't matter, and it was indeed Star's fault.
The other party insisted for a while, then stopped mentioning it, seemingly accepting Star's goodwill.
"My name is Ganyu, secretary of Yuehai Pavilion."
The other party introduced herself, and Star also took this time to carefully observe the blue-haired girl sitting across from her again.
The things on her head, which Star initially thought were hair ornaments, now seemed not to be upon closer inspection.
Those black and red horns seemed to be things that were originally growing on her head.
"Hello, my name is Star. You should already know...?" Star tilted her head in confusion, wondering why Ganyu knew her name.
Yuehai Pavilion, Star had heard of this place. It seemed to be the meeting place of the Liyue Seven Stars.
Ganyu said she was the secretary of Yuehai Pavilion, in other words, she was actually the secretary of the Seven Stars.
Thinking this way, she was quite a prominent figure.
And—the pair of horns on the other party's head were enough to prove her identity.
At the very least, she was an adeptus or a half-adeptus.
She had never expected that such a person would have heard of her name, and even recognized her.
"When I was organizing reports that day, I saw some information about the Hua Chu case. Miss Star was relatively... eye-catching in it. It's hard to forget after one glance," Ganyu said softly, lowering her head, sounding as if she hadn't fully woken up.
She said it was hard to forget her, and Star completely believed it was true, given her own physique.
"I see," Star nodded, no longer dwelling on the matter.
She had no idea that what Ganyu said was actually only part of the truth.
Another very important reason she knew Star was Tianquan Ningguang, who had specifically instructed her to pay attention to the movements of this Damselette named Star if she had time.
However, since this matter was Ningguang's private instruction, she found it inconvenient to tell the Damselette too much.
Furthermore, because she was relatively busy, the priority of Ningguang's request was not that high, so Ganyu had only briefly understood Star's situation and hadn't been constantly monitoring Star's movements like Yelan.
Meeting this Damselette today could also be considered fate.
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