Keqing's office location today was chosen to be at her residence in Yuehai Pavilion.
This was mainly because the ancient texts she wanted to read were all kept here, so it was much more convenient to take them to her own residence to read.
If she were to take them back to her own home, even as a Qixing, she would still need to go through a very complex procedure, and there would be time limits, which was not cost-effective.
Therefore, after a day, Stelle came to Yuehai Pavilion once again.
The place gave Stelle a different feeling compared to her last visit.
"How should I put it, it seems like there are fewer people?" Stelle looked around with a puzzled expression.
Along the way, besides a few secretaries, she didn't see anyone else.
This seemed a bit strange. After all, as the meeting place for the Qixing, it was considered the political center of Liyue, so why would it suddenly become so deserted?
"They should be in a meeting." Keqing recalled for a moment, then explained.
Today seemed to be the full secretary meeting of Yuehai Pavilion.
Keqing was a Qixing, after all, and due to her duties, she didn't come to Yuehai Pavilion very often, so she usually only paid attention to such meetings.
"I see…" Stelle nodded.
She didn't expect Liyue to have something similar to an all-staff meeting.
The two continued walking towards the library of Yuehai Pavilion.
However, there was no one in the deserted corridor, and the only sounds that could be heard were Stelle's and Keqing's footsteps.
Although it was broad daylight, it was inexplicably a bit eerie.
A place that should be bustling with people suddenly becoming deserted gives one this feeling.
"Hmm?" Keqing suddenly stopped, looking curiously towards the end of the corridor.
"What's wrong?" Stelle, who was following behind, also stopped, looking curiously in the direction Keqing was staring.
There seemed to be nothing there.
"I just saw a figure flash by, and it looked a bit familiar." Keqing said, stroking her chin.
"Someone? Isn't that normal…" Stelle began to mutter to herself. She had just said that the environment had inexplicably become a bit eerie, and now she was encountering a ghost?
"No, today is the full secretary meeting, and this is an important place where ancient texts are stored. Generally speaking, it's impossible for anyone to come here." Keqing shook her head, then resumed her steps.
"We'll know if we go take a look."
No one should be here to steal books, right? Although these ancient texts are very important, they are useless to ordinary people; they are all incomprehensible.
Both of them involuntarily lightened their steps, slowly moving towards the end of the corridor.
Sure enough, at a corner, they heard a strange sound.
"What's going on?" Keqing frowned. She was somewhat familiar with this sound because she had heard it a lot last night.
"Cough, could it be that someone couldn't stand the loneliness…" Stelle coughed lightly. The heavy gasping made her a bit awkward.
Although she had managed to recover a little this morning by using that Maid.
But if someone made such a sound in front of her, Stelle would find it hard not to pay attention, even without a nutritious meal.
"But, but it shouldn't be in a place like this." Keqing was also very awkward, and for a moment, she didn't know whether she should continue forward.
Stelle was the first to act, tiptoeing to the corner and then quietly peeking her head out.
However, she did not see the scene she wanted to see. In front of her was a staircase leading to the second floor, and next to the staircase was a small, rather hidden door.
The sound also seemed to be coming from this small door.
"This… I remember this seems to be a storage room for tables and chairs." Keqing also walked up, looked at the hidden small door, thought for a moment, then said.
She didn't come here often, but she mostly understood every room here.
This storeroom was quite small; when it was first designed, the Yuehai Pavilion wasn't this large, so a small storeroom was sufficient.
However, as the Yuehai Pavilion was expanded again and again, the area of this storeroom became cramped, so several more were built in other places.
This place was almost abandoned and unused; in fact, because it was quite secluded, many people had forgotten this room.
Normally, no one would come here to clean.
"He really knows how to find a place," Keqing couldn't help but say.
And his voice was so loud, as if he wasn't afraid of being heard at all.
Or was it because today was the full secretary meeting, so he felt more at ease?
"What do we do?" Stelle turned to Keqing and asked.
They had come to retrieve the ancient texts of the Yuehai Pavilion, and these books were stored on the second floor.
If they went upstairs, the sounds they made might disturb the person in that small room.
After all, the soundproofing here didn't seem very good.
"Hmph, ignore him, we'll just go straight upstairs," Keqing didn't think too much about it.
"It can also be considered a small punishment and warning for him."
"Hmm, is this not good...?" Stelle asked hesitantly.
When Keqing heard Stelle say this, he looked at Stelle suspiciously.
"If you want to, now is indeed a suitable opportunity."
"Ah?" Stelle didn't immediately understand Keqing's meaning, but a moment later, he reacted.
"No, no, I didn't think... Well, it's not that I didn't think, it's just that I don't have the urge for now," Stelle explained.
He was indeed thinking about what kind of actions and postures the person inside might be in at that moment, but that wasn't what he meant.
After all, he had played very wildly yesterday, and this morning, he had even added an extra dish.
He was currently in sage mode, so how could he want to eat another meal so quickly?
"I was just saying, if we just go up like this, he'll probably be very flustered and uneasy afterward, so let's not do that," Stelle said slowly.
He was still very compassionate, and although this matter was embarrassing, it wasn't a heinous mistake, so they could just pretend not to see it.
"Stelle, the Yuehai Pavilion has rules, and precisely because it's not a big mistake, I said we should just go straight up," Keqing said helplessly.
Making him flustered and uneasy was already a very light punishment for him.
"Everyone's psychological endurance is different, what if this causes serious DMG to him?"
"Hmm... Well, what you said makes sense," Keqing nodded, although he felt that people who could become secretaries in the Yuehai Pavilion should all have good psychological resilience.
But since Stelle said so, they would proceed according to Stelle's wishes.
Anyway, judging by the sound, the person inside should be almost finished.
Speaking of which, he was also a little curious as to who this person was and why the figure he just saw looked so familiar...
The two of them huddled in the corner, waiting silently.
After an unknown amount of time, the sounds from inside the room finally stopped, and a person slowly pushed open the door and walked out.
"Huixin??" Keqing's eyes widened, her heart filled with astonishment.
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