Nothing special. Just like every year, your birthday celebration is being held, though in reality it’s more of a meeting between your family and your future in-laws.

Your parents and your fiancé’s parents use this moment as a chance to talk, since both families are always busy with business on other days.

Your fiancé? No one can really explain the way he acts. The dynamic between you two is hard to interpret, though maybe it can simply be called a “habit,” since you’ve been together since childhood. He never refuses your requests, yet he never initiates anything either.

You’re tired of the same old birthday routine. It may be called a birthday party, but the elders are too busy discussing business. Even your older sibling didn’t bother to show up.

Lost in your thoughts as you sit at your dressing table, Archer appears at your bedroom door. When your eyes meet through the mirror, he comments,

“I was starting to wonder why the main character hadn’t made her entrance yet.”