The instant Shenhe took Eula's hand and walked down the stairs with her, the entire Goth Grand Hotel seemed to freeze in time, leaving the many officials of the Inazuma delegation dumbfounded.
Only after watching the two leave through the hotel doors did everyone recover and begin chattering, occasionally glancing upstairs and marveling inwardly: As expected of His Excellency the Regent. Had he already persuaded Lady Shenhe to accept Lady Eula? Truly a model for all men.
In fact, ever since Eula had revealed from up in the sky last night that her relationship with Yucheng was far from ordinary, the members of the Inazuma delegation had already regarded her as one of their Regent's women. They also believed that their Regent would certainly get his wish in the end.
However, none of them had expected Lady Eula to be in such a hurry to lay her cards on the table with the Regent. Still less had they expected that, less than half an hour after she went upstairs, Lady Shenhe, his principal wife, would personally escort her down.
Moreover, seeing how harmonious they looked together, they had reason to believe that Lady Shenhe had accepted Lady Eula's presence, and that Lady Eula had cleared the most difficult hurdle.
The effect of Shenhe personally seeing Eula off did not stop there.
When Shenhe took Eula's hand and walked openly beside her through Mondstadt's streets, they immediately became the center of attention.
At this point, even those citizens of Mondstadt who wanted to vent their feelings by making trouble for Eula did not dare act out in front of the Regent's wife.
Even when citizens who genuinely did not recognize Shenhe approached to harass them, the knights standing guard nearby immediately intercepted them.
Laughably, when Eula had been alone, those knights