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Inviting Zhaohui as her plus one had not been how people figured. She wasn't hanging out with him, Sabina, and Rowen prior to the event and the mentioning of the event had sparked her to ask the Chinese prince to tag along with her. Oh no, it was the entire opposite. She would've had all four of them together but knew that Sabina and Rowen needed their own time together as each other’s fiancees. So instead, she invited Zhaohui with her--by literally sending an invitation sealed in an envelope, that was scented with lavender. And to a shocking result, he actually accepted.
And now they were standing next to each other, in an awkward silence surrounded by loud clatter and chatter of plates clinking and royals gossiping over one another. Cecilia didn’t think of how weird it was going to be between them. They had one thing in common, that one thing being their best friends and that was a messy situation in itself. Definitely not a conversation starter. “Soooo,” she started after taking a sip of her champagne. She had to dig through her brain of all the topics the books and her governess told her to start with. “Do you wish they told more about the Vikings?”