Dressed in borrowed Liyue's high-quality silk attire, Aether can't stop fidgeting. He's accepted the invitation because Paimon insisted to as she equals party with free food & there's no way as an adventurer to deny it. However he didn't expect that Ningguang would also prepare for him a set of clothes for it. Just stepping into the hall where he can obviously see important Liyue people all around is already nerve-wrecking, adding with the clothes, it's more than enough to suffocate him.

"Yahoo! Aether!" A voice calls out when they head to where the foods are.

Wait, is that... "Venti?!" Said bard is dressed in Liyue hanfu with a wine glass in his hands. "Yours only, ehe."

"Why are you here, tone-deaf bard?" Paimon harrumphs with hands on her hips.

"Why else? When there's a free wine, I'll come unwind."

"Yeah, but this party is an exclusive one where you have to present your invitation to enter," Aether got one, which was given by Ningguang. Where would Venti get his?

Venti finishes his glass and picks a cake off the table. He gulps them at once, licking his lips for leftover, "I do have one, the invitation."

"You do?"

"Or else how could I get in?" Paimon frowns, "well, you could have sneaked in."

"Ahaha, I don't want to make an enemy of Liyue, I wouldn't do that."

Aether is still not convinced. "From who did you get the invitation then?"

"Uhm... rather than receiving it...," Venti suddenly stops and puts down his glass, "Ahaha~ nice meeting you again, Aether! I gotta go!" The wind is quick as he leaps outside through the window and disappears as a gust of night. Aether and Paimon watch in confusion until they hear a stomp coming their way.

"Where is that bard?"

"Zhongli!"

"I know he was here. Where did he go?" Obediently, Aether points to the window where he last saw his friend left.

Zhongli mutters "thank you" and quickly brisks away. Like the wind, the rock also disappears as quickly.

"The invitation is for two people, there's no need for Venti to steal Zhongli-xiansheng's...," Aether reasons through his drink.

"I swear the tone-deaf bard is just doing it for laughs," Paimon rolls her eyes as she chomps down on her meat.

That makes sense. Aether sighs, "Well, as long as no one dies," now, he has more important thing to do, filling his belly.

so when i watched the genshin impact english va played among us & aether's va said "originally i planned it with the thought of doing it with liyue chapter en va but tech xingqiu's va is bennett's & then there's venti va"

made me think of venti crashing into liyue party