Chapter Summaries

Broly tried to ask Marquis Bosil questions, but the city lord's army bombarded the City Lord's Mansion and attacked him. He destroyed the cannons and shrugged off rifle fire, leaving the soldiers in despair as an officer urged Marquis Bosil to speak with him.

• Broly learned that the city lord had returned with an army and was firing on the City Lord's Mansion, then caught a shell that wounded a man who had helped him.
• Angered by the man's injury, Broly threw the shell at a cannon, destroying it and setting off nearby gunpowder stores.
• Marquis Bosil identified Broly as the assassin, and the Armaments Department Officer ordered a rifle volley against him.
• Broly let the bullets strike his back, then threw bullets at the army and shouted that he had only come to ask Marquis Bosil questions.
• The front-line soldiers lost hope as their weapons failed to hurt Broly, and the Armaments Department Officer advised Marquis Bosil to speak with him.

Marquis Bosil avoided confronting Broly by sending Cassim Thrace in his place, while secretly preparing a cannon ambush. Broly met Cassim and asked whether he had come to harm Green and his bookstore.

• Marquis Bosil argued that Broly was bluffing and persuaded the crowd not to force him to speak with the assassin.
• Bosil pressured Cassim Thrace to take his place, and Cassim agreed despite his butler's concern.
• Bosil ordered the Armaments Department Officer to set up spare cannons and fire a sneak attack if Broly came out to talk.
• Cassim approached the City Lord's Mansion with armed guards, and Broly dropped down among them before they could react.
• Broly asked Cassim whether he had come to cause trouble for Green and his bookstore, and Cassim asked who Green was.

Broly confronted Cassim Thrace, who was posing as Marquis Bosil, about whether he would trouble Broly’s friends. Cassim promised not to, and they became friends before Broly left.

• Broly explained that he had attacked the City Lord’s Mansion because the younger brother of a woman favored by Marquis Bosil had harassed the Green Family Bookstore.
• Cassim denied any intention of troubling Broly’s friends and explained that trusting others could be dangerous.
• Broly said he would trust Cassim unless a lie harmed his companions, in which case he would retaliate.
• Cassim revealed that he was Cassim Thrace, a stand-in for Marquis Bosil, and said he wanted to become Broly’s friend.
• Broly accepted Cassim’s friendship in exchange for tasty food, then prepared to leave as Cassim urged him to visit quietly.

Broly survived Bosil's cannon bombardment and used an Energy Blast to vaporize the group responsible for ordering the attack. The soldiers surrendered as Broly hovered above them, leaving the army defeated and at his mercy.

• Marquis Bosil ordered another cannon bombardment on Broly, but Broly emerged unharmed and the dignitaries began fleeing.
• Cassim Thrace assured Broly that he had not arranged the attack and identified the people retreating behind the army as the real masterminds.
• Broly weakened his Energy Blast and hurled it at the retreating group, vaporizing them and leaving a crater.
• The Lieutenant surrendered by discarding his weapons, and the other soldiers followed suit.
• Broly floated above the kneeling soldiers and looked down at them.

Cassim Thrace used Broly’s influence to seize control of Bosil City, purge corrupt officers, and free the slaves before Broly’s group continued to the Imperial Capital. At Osmanthus Pavilion, Broly met the nearsighted Hill and asked whether she could become his wife.

• Cassim Thrace took control of Bosil City’s troops, purged corrupt officers, freed the slaves, and distributed confiscated wealth among residents.
• Cassim thanked Broly and promised to honor him as the city’s true benefactor, while Broly and his companions left for the Imperial Capital.
• Broly’s group arrived in the Imperial Capital and followed a local’s recommendation to Chinatown’s Osmanthus Pavilion.
• Hill tripped while coming to serve the group, lost her glasses, and returned to them with a cracked pair and a nosebleed.
• Broly looked at Hill and asked whether she could fulfill his request for a friend who could become his wife.

Broly and his companions ate at Osmanthus Pavilion, where he tried to befriend Hill and discovered that forgiving her clumsiness raised her Happiness Value. After the meal, they left to find an inn, and Leone approached them offering to guide them to one.

• Broly asked Hill to be his friend and wife, but accepted her rejection and ordered every dish on the menu.
• Broly explained that a wife had to be acknowledged by the Crystal Palace, leaving Merraid frustrated that she did not qualify.
• Glasses Girl accidentally dumped cold noodles on Broly, and he noticed Hill’s Happiness Value rose when he forgave her.
• Hill wiped Broly’s head and offered to wash his clothes, and the restaurant owner gave the group a ten percent discount.
• As Nahash checked the map for an inn, Leone approached the carriage and offered to lead them to an affordable place to stay.

Broly’s group met Leone, a young broker who offered to lead them to an inn, and Broly agreed after learning that earning money would make her happy. As they followed her, Broly and Mine discussed how he might invite Leone to join his wings, while Mine discouraged him from repeating the pose that had helped win her over.

• Leone approached Broly’s group after they left Osmanthus Pavilion and offered to find them an inn, but Broly initially said they already had a map.
• Broly asked whether paying Leone to guide them would make her happy, then agreed to hire her, prompting Nahash and the others to follow his decision.
• Merraid sniffed Leone and joked that she was checking for body odor, while Leone defended her cleanliness and asked whether they were hiring her.
• Leone happily led the group toward a high-end inn as the Happiness Value displayed for her in Broly’s Crystal Palace steadily rose.
• Mine asked Broly how he planned to invite Leone to become one of his wings, and Broly suggested repeating the pose he had used when he successfully invited Mine.
• Mine warned Broly that the pose was too avant-garde, and Esdeath leaned over to ask what the two of them were discussing.

Broly, Mine, Esdeath, and the others traveled to the Imperial Capital and checked into an expensive suite, while Mine considered how to recruit a new companion. The group settled in and began a meeting about winning over the new “wing.”

• Esdeath joined Mine in trying to form an awkward group pose around Broly, but Mine stopped them and proposed keeping in touch with the new wing.
• Leone brought the group to Wan Jiali Inn and negotiated a commission and discount with its manager.
• Broly booked the inn’s most expensive suite and gave Leone a generous tip.
• Broly asked Leone to show the group around the Imperial Capital the next day, and she agreed.
• After checking in, Mine called a meeting to discuss how the existing group and External Wife Faction could win over the new wing.

Mine led a meeting to plan how Broly could recruit two new companions, while Leone spent the evening helping her neighbors in Slum Street. At Osmanthus Pavilion, Hill struggled through another work shift and left with a customer's clothes to wash, still unaware that Broly's group had taken an interest in her.

• Merraid, Esdeath, and the others offered capture ideas, but Broly rejected force and Mine dismissed Merraid's bed techniques.
• Mine assigned everyone to investigate the two new girls the next day.
• Leone returned to Slum Street with roast chickens and candy, sharing them with her neighbors and the children.
• Hill knocked over a bucket at Osmanthus Pavilion, and Hua Ling stayed to clean up and comfort her.
• Hill retrieved a customer's clothes and limped home after tripping on the threshold, while Hua Ling worried about her.

Hill worried that her family would marry her off in an exchange marriage and hoped for a husband who accepted her muddleheaded nature. After her younger brother rejected her, he became fixated on the clothes she had washed for Broly and persuaded their mother to let him keep them.

• Hill washed clothes after her mother scolded her for causing trouble at work, while her parents discussed her mistakes and her younger brother's future.
• Hill remembered the boy at Osmanthus Pavilion who had asked her to be his wife and wished for a future husband who would accept her.
• Hill's younger brother slapped her hand away, called her an idiot, and ran outside to wash his hands.
• Hill read One Hundred Ways to Cure Muddleheadedness in her dimly lit room.
• Hill's younger brother spotted Broly's newly washed Rabbit Gathering Merchant Association outfit and demanded it from their mother.
• Their mother, frustrated by her son's insistence, decided to let Hill suffer a little.

After Sheele’s younger brother took the guest’s clothes she had washed, Sheele worried she could not afford to compensate for them and considered working on Flower Street. Meanwhile, Leone brought Broly and the others to Osmanthus Pavilion for lunch, where Broly invited her to eat with them.

• Sheele discovered that her younger brother had taken the guest’s clothes, and her mother told her to claim they were lost and pay compensation.
• Sheele told Hua Ling what happened and admitted that she had less than four hundred in her wallet after sending most of her wages to her family.
• Sheele asked Hua Ling about working on Flower Street, but Hua Ling warned her against it and offered to lend her money.
• Leone guided Broly and the others around the Imperial Capital, then accepted Broly’s invitation to join them for lunch at Osmanthus Pavilion.
• Broly asked the restaurant owner for a menu and two extra portions of the signature dishes, and the owner led the group toward a private room.

Broly asked for Sheele to serve his group, but her clumsiness and broken glasses caused her Happiness Value to fall. When Hua Ling explained that the restaurant had lost Broly’s clothes, his request for Sheele’s happiness sounded to her like he wanted Sheele herself as compensation, leaving the misunderstanding unresolved.

• Broly asked the owner of Osmanthus Pavilion to send Sheele to serve his group, despite her low Happiness Value.
• Sheele tripped as she entered the Private Room, shattered her glasses, and lost Happiness Value; Broly asked if she was all right.
• Merraid took Sheele’s broken glasses, but Broly and Hua Ling intervened, and Sheele’s Happiness Value rose after she put the frames back on.
• Hua Ling told Broly that the restaurant had lost his clothes and offered compensation, while Sheele apologized.
• After Nahash explained that Broly’s clothes had been a free gift, Broly said he wanted Sheele’s happiness, and Hua Ling mistook this as a demand for Sheele herself.

Broly and the children pressured Hill and Hua Ling to compensate for a supposedly priceless outfit, leading Hill to offer herself as a wife. After Mine uncovered Hill’s family situation, Hua Ling urged her to go home and ask for the outfit back.

• Losang claimed Broly’s outfit was worth twenty-seven million and rallied the children to demand compensation from Hill and Hua Ling.
• Hill bowed to Broly and offered herself as a wife because she could not pay for the outfit, but Broly rejected her application to join the Crystal Palace.
• Hua Ling tried to stop Hill, who explained that her mother had taken the outfit to give to her younger brother and that she felt unwanted by her family.
• Mine questioned Hill and learned that her family neglected her and hoped to use her looks in a marriage exchange for her younger brother.
• Hua Ling urged Hill to tell her mother about the outfit and ask her to return it.

Broly remembered his Past Life as an overlooked older child and empathized with Hill’s similar family situation, promising to help settle the dispute over her clothes. After reassuring his companions, he joined them in enjoying a large meal at Osmanthus Pavilion.

• Broly stopped Losang from pressuring Hill and recalled how his Past Life parents favored his Younger Brother over him.
• Broly recognized that Hill’s experiences echoed his own and said he would accompany her home to resolve the clothes dispute.
• Hill accepted Broly’s arrangement and asked the Shop Manager for leave to get glasses fitted.
• Broly dismissed the painful memories, reassured the worried children, and began eating with them.
• The group ate heartily, and Leone’s Beret fell off as she joined them; Broly offered to order dessert.

Broly and the others spent the afternoon playing cards and eating at Osmanthus Pavilion before going with Hill to retrieve the outfit her family had kept. Hill’s mother refused to believe the outfit’s value and accused Hill and Hua Ling of scheming, until Broly slapped her and threatened to keep doing so until she believed them.

• Broly, Akame, Kurome, and Leone played Old Maid at Osmanthus Pavilion until evening, with Leone deliberately losing to please Broly.
• The shop manager let Hill and Hua Ling leave early, and the group followed Hill home to collect the outfit.
• Hill told her mother that the outfit cost twenty-seven million nine thousand six hundred, but her mother accused the guests of lying and insisted Hill give in to her younger brother.
• Hill’s mother suspected Hua Ling of plotting to take the outfit and then blamed Hill for trying to reclaim it.
• Broly told Hill’s mother that he had ordered Hill to retrieve the outfit, then slapped her when she challenged him and threatened to continue until she believed him and Hill.

Broly confronted Hill's parents over the clothes Shea had taken and offered them the choice of returning them or giving Hill to him as compensation. Shea resisted giving up the clothes, but his parents stripped them off him, and Broly and Hill listened to him cry.

• Broly stopped Hill's mother from interrupting and demanded that Hill's parents return his clothes or give him Hill as compensation.
• Hill's father tried to attack Broly with a clothes-drying pole, but Broly broke it and punched him in the stomach.
• Shea returned home wearing Broly's clothes, and Hill's father ordered him to take them off and return them.
• Shea refused and insulted Hill, so his mother slapped him before both parents pulled off the clothes as he cried.
• Broly and Hill agreed that Shea's crying sounded lovely, while Akame and the other children watched.

Broly tormented Hill’s younger brother by destroying the clothes the boy had just been promised, provoking him into tears and releasing Broly’s pent-up emotions. The others suspected Broly’s behavior came from a similar painful experience in his past, and Broly ended the scene by knocking the boy unconscious.

• Hill's Father returned Broly's clothes, and Broly briefly considered killing Hill's parents to make the boy cry again before deciding against it.
• Broly offered Hill's younger brother the clothes, then burned them to ashes just as the boy tried to catch them.
• Hill's younger brother charged at Broly in fury, but his parents restrained him as Broly mocked him until he broke down crying.
• Leone questioned Broly's cruelty, while Mine and the others speculated that Broly was acting out of anger over a family experience like Hill's.
• Broly's laughter released his negative emotions, and he kicked Hill's younger brother unconscious when the crying became too noisy.

Broly bought Hill’s personal freedom from her parents, then told her she did not owe him marriage or anything else. Hill went home with Hua Ling, while Broly later admitted to Losang that he regretted something.

• After Broly knocked Hill’s parents down, he reassured them that Hill was alive and offered money to buy her freedom.
• Hill’s parents accepted the money and agreed that Broly could take Hill away.
• Hua Ling helped Hill pack, and Hill explained that she would rather leave with Broly than be sold to someone else.
• At a fork in the road, Broly gave Hill money for food and shelter and clarified that she remained free to choose whether to become his wife.
• Hua Ling invited Hill to stay at her home, and the two girls left together.
• That evening, Broly banged his head against the bed and told Losang he regretted it.

Broly regretted not asking Hill for repayment, then followed a Crystal Palace notification to find Leone. He arrived while she was handing out supplies and overheard her bragging about beating him at Old Maid, leaving Leone awkwardly facing him.

• Losang’s praise made Broly uncomfortable, so Broly left to find Akame and the others.
• Broly declined Kurome’s invitation to bathe with the girls and went to the rooftop to think about Hill.
• A notification showed that Leone’s Happiness Value had risen, so Broly sensed her Qi and flew to find her.
• Leone handed out Toiletries Sets in Slum Street and bragged that she had kept Broly from going straight to jail at Old Maid.
• Broly joined Leone’s queue and introduced himself as the boss she had just described, making Leone awkwardly ask why he was there.

Broly asked Leone for advice about whether to use his favor with Sheele to demand repayment, then took her to the Black Market for a walk. Their conversation turned to marriage, and Leone realized Broly might be interested in her.

• Broly asked Leone whether he should use his favor with Sheele to demand repayment, but Leone avoided deciding for him.
• Broly asked Leone to comfort him, so she took him to the Black Market in Castle Town.
• Leone bought Broly grilled squid when he admitted he had left his money behind, and she revealed that Leo was only an alias.
• Broly asked Leone what she thought about becoming someone's wife, and she said she hoped her future partner would be rich.
• Broly asked Leone whether she thought he was rich, and she wondered if he had taken a liking to her.