Chapter 310 - Chapter 309: The Reception

The reception began in a room that had been transformed so completely from its daytime state that it felt almost like a different place entirely. The wide terrace doors remained open to the evening air, letting in the scent of the sea and the faint salt-cool breeze that moved across the island. Warm lanterns had been lit in soft rows along the edges of the hall, their glow reflecting off glass, silver, and polished wood. By the time Ren and Fang entered, the guests had already begun to settle into the new rhythm of the celebration, and the children, predictably, were very close to deciding that the evening belonged to them.