im pretty sure my dad didn't leave for milk

when that one relative/family friend that you barely know comes over.

Xi saw her mother come back with a dejected look late into the night.

She took off her hat, set aside her Staff of tHoma and flopped on the couch. Xi also heard a faint "couldn't find him..."

Xi decided to ask the question.

"Is my dad an adeptus?"

but her mom was already snoring lol.

So she decided to ask her the next morning.

Except she was gone. There was a note on the fridge.

"I probably won't be back tonight. I've gone to look for someone, and might end up searching the whole of Liyue. Xiangling will look after you today."

And just in time, the doorbell rang after Xi finished reading the note.

It was Xiangling at the door with Guoba behind her.

"HI IM HERE REMEMBER ME FROM WHEN I VISITED YOU THE MOMENT YOU WERE BORN YEA THATS ME AUNTY XIANGLING YOU GREW UP SO MUCH AKNDFGM"

"ok", Xi thought, "this woman needs help."

Xiangling went straight to the kitchen and her hands flew like anemo slimes, only 1902834x faster, making something.

"what are you doing"

"im making my specialty for you"

"huh"

"you'll see, you'll like it."

Xi decided right then and there that she wouldn't like it, because whenever people say that it's the complete opposite.

So she went to her room and considered playing Fortnite. But then she thought against it bc fortnite is a dead game now and only "the boyz 🥶💪🥵💯😈" played it these days. She considered roblox, but then finally decided on Minecraft.

She went in, only to get ambushed by a creeper on arrival.

She rage quit and threw her controller.

So she went into Roblox and played Royale High bc she was the legendary Jake everyone had a crush on.

Sure enough, as soon as she joined the game, she was swarmed.

"omg jake ur so hot"

"omg jake marry me plz"

"omg jake can i kith ur feet"

"omg jake pls step on me"

Xi fulfilled all those requests thrown at her, except the ones requesting her to date/marry them.

After flexing her 10924803million diamonds and all in-game items, she got bored so she decided to play osu!.

5 seconds later she rage quit, and was eligible to be arrested for property abuse.

Just then Xiangling called her down the stairs to eat.

It looked tasty, but remembering her oath, Xi decided to not enjoy it as much as possible.

The moment the food went into her mouth she broke the oath.

The flavor exploded in her mouth, with just the right amount of spicy and sweet.

She had 10 servings that day.

Afterwards, she asked Xiangling for the recipe, because she wanted to be able to taste it again.

"yea sure" Xiangling said, and scribbled something onto her notepad. She then ripped it out and gave it to Xi, then went to go watch Hell's Kitchen.

Xi gave up on the possiblity of a culinary future when she saw the ingridients.

She went back up to her room to watch Attack on Deez.

When her mother came back and Xiangling left, she finally got to ask the question.

"Is my dad an adeptus?"

There was a long silence, and Hu Tao finally broke the silence.

"Yes...and he was very fine. He was finer than the finest of fines, he was so fine-"

"Please, just tell me about him other than 'he was fine'"

"Alright...."