Tch… one of the esteemed fatui harbingers laying low and enjoying lantern rite? What a silly thought…

Certainly not how Scaramouche expected to spend his time, anyway.

He’d planned to stay in Snezhnaya, as he did most years. There was always some work to do in order to keep himself occupied. The Tsaritsa herself disagreed with this plan, however. He urged him to take time for himself for once. She was the one that reminded him about lantern rite.

“Perhaps you could take someone with you,” she’d urged. She was the goddess of love, after all.

And that’s how he’d ended up in this situation, watching the fireworks from atop a building with you.

“Just come on, she won’t leave me alone unless I bring someone with me,” was what he’d said as he’d came to inform you that you’d been selected to come with him to Liyue.

He couldn’t stop staring, and he hated it. The fireworks were supposed to be the more intriguing sight. But he wasn’t watching them at all, you were more interesting.