Chapter Summaries

Loren followed Lanchi’s elaborate schedule to juggle dates with Almirs, Juliana, and Florence at Golden Bee Amusement Park, while Lanchi helped from the sidelines and faced unexpected complications. By the end, Talia had spotted Loren with Almirs and wondered how the day had gone so far off course.

• Loren met Almirs at the amusement park’s east entrance, followed Sigrid’s coaching through their earpieces, and agreed to treat their outing as a date guided by the Goddess of Fate.
• Lanchi kept Loren’s schedule on track while Sigrid flirted with him in line, and Juliana met Loren at Ilivier Pastry Shop before abruptly suggesting that they order.
• Loren escorted Florence into the Candy Theater, then rejoined Almirs and gave her pastries before guiding her through the amusement park.
• Loren and Almirs traded coached questions about their relationship and Loren’s previous visit to the park, while Hughberlian noticed them together from a roller coaster.
• Lanchi discovered Hughberlian was at the park and struggled to manage the added complication, while Talia spotted Loren with Almirs and became confused.

Lanchi spent the morning at Golden Bee Amusement Park accompanying Talia while secretly coordinating Loren’s dates with several women, leaving him mentally exhausted. After Sigrid distracted Hughberlian and allowed Loren and Juliana to leave safely, Lanchi prepared to head to the Ikelite Opera House for the afternoon performance, where he still had to keep the situation from being exposed.

• Lanchi and Talia shared crepes and discussed Talia’s concern that a friend’s boyfriend was dating another girl, while Lanchi realized she was talking about Loren, Juliana, and Almirs.
• Lanchi steered Talia away from the West District and spent the morning following her around Golden Bee Amusement Park while coordinating Loren’s meetings and avoiding Hughberlian.
• Sigrid realized that she had been unknowingly competing against Lanchi while helping Loren, apologized, and kissed him on the cheek before leaving.
• Lanchi spotted Hughberlian following Loren and Juliana and feared she would expose Loren’s dates, but Sigrid diverted Hughberlian by taking her to play at the amusement park.
• Loren and Juliana left the park safely, and Lanchi told Talia he was going to the theater early to prepare for the afternoon performance.

Ifatia and Minier attended the premiere of Holy War Romance - Half-Demoness Arc at the Ikelite Opera House while Lanchi prepared backstage. When Hughberlian suffered a dangerous bloodline reaction, Talia fused with her to take her place, unaware that the script contained only the first act and her own lines.

• Ifatia and Minier watched the promotional music short, and Minier interpreted its tragic love story as a hint about the opera’s tone.
• Ifatia and Minier entered the packed theater and joined Abigail, while Lanchi arranged for Loren to escort three women out through separate boxes after the show.
• Hughberlian suffered a painful reaction from the conflict between her demonic and human bloodlines shortly before the performance.
• Talia used the Demon Fusion earrings to merge with Hughberlian, taking control of Hughberlian’s appearance so she could perform in her place.
• Talia sent Poet of Great Love to the audience disguised as herself, then discovered that her script included only the first act and her own lines.

At the Ikelite Opera House, Lanchi and Hughberlian began the official performance of Holy War Romance, but Hughberlian’s unexpectedly comedic improvisations repeatedly threw Lanchi off course. The play continued with the audience delighted and Abigail increasingly distressed, while Lanchi struggled to keep the story on track.

• Antanas and Sinora promised Ifatia they would attend dinner, while Abigail refused to forgive Toliado and the War Gods discussed Elsa and the performance.
• As the show began, Hughberlian acted more spoiled and playful than she had during rehearsals, and Lanchi improvised when she ate pastries in front of the butler.
• Hughberlian’s antics shifted the Demon Academy and ancient-castle scenes toward comedy, and Lanchi followed along as she introduced Duke Host as the culprit.
• Antanas and Sinora noticed that Hughberlian seemed to be acting like Tata, while Ifatia laughed at the bickering couple’s banter.
• Antanas saw that Planai had left and noticed Abigail’s anger as the performance continued to veer away from her staging.

Lanchi and Talia improvised a bittersweet ending that Abigail realized could turn the next day's tragic performance into a larger story about dream and truth. After Lanfu leaked a rumor that Loren was in the opera house, Lanchi tried to divert the press by publicly asking Minier to dinner, and she accepted.

• Sigrid discovered that Lanfu had disguised herself as Talia and realized the Half-Demoness onstage was a fusion of Talia and Hugh Treasure.
• Lanchi abandoned the script and guided Talia through a quiet, ambiguous finale in which the Demon Governor confessed his love before falling asleep beside the silent Half-Demoness.
• Abigail recognized that the day's performance could serve as the Governor's dream and make tomorrow's tragic revelation of the Half-Demoness as a ghost more powerful.
• Lanfu used Long Live Friendship Bugs to spread a rumor that Loren was in a VIP box with multiple women, drawing reporters' attention away from the cast.
• Lanchi knelt before Minier and publicly invited her to dinner to redirect the crowd's attention, and Minier accepted.

At the Ikelite Opera House, Lanchi and Minier’s staged proposal to distract the crowd and help Loren escape spiraled into a public scandal, while the people around them misunderstood their relationships. After explaining the day’s events to Hughberlian, Talia, and Sigrid, Lanchi admitted he wanted to marry all three, and Lanfu’s intervention helped them begin accepting the idea; the group left the theater together as the performance ended.

• Lanchi and Minier continued their staged proposal, drawing the audience and reporters’ attention while Loren slipped away, and Ifatia tearfully asked Lanchi to treat Minier well.
• The theater staff cleared the hall, and Minier left with Ifatia while Lanchi, Sigrid, Talia, Hughberlian, Antanas, and Sinora remained to discuss the day’s chaos.
• Lanchi explained how his bet with Adams had led him to help Loren, and he apologized to Talia and Hughberlian for causing trouble for the Duke’s Family.
• Lanchi told Hughberlian, Sigrid, and Talia that he did not want to miss any of them, and Sigrid asked whether he wanted to marry all three.
• Poet of Great Love, whom Talia called Lanfu, answered that Lanchi would choose none rather than lose any of them, then urged the women to marry him before he pursued greater ambitions.
• Sigrid accepted the prospect of marrying Lanchi alongside Talia, Hughberlian teased him about joining the Wilford Family, and Talia chased him up the theater steps as Toliado played the finale.

Lanchi spent a winter morning at Cat Boss Restaurant discussing Antanas’s new broadcasting job, Loren’s uncertain romance, and Planai and Sinora’s choice to stay with their friends instead of returning to the Bosen Demon Realm. As he left for work, his friends noticed his unusually open smile, and Hughberlian captured the moment in a photograph for the restaurant wall.

• Sinora told Lanchi that Antanas would begin hosting her official program at the Hutton Times Broadcasting Company the next day, and the group read the Iketerite Academy School Journal’s survey naming Lanchi a strong matchmaker.
• Lanchi explained that Loren’s date had gone smoothly after the theater, but he planned to let Loren’s relationships develop naturally rather than interfere further.
• Lanchi offered Planai and Sinora the chance to return to the Bosen Demon Realm and help restore their noble family, but both chose to remain at Cat Boss Restaurant with their friends.
• Talia and Sigrid came downstairs, and Lanchi greeted them before Hughberlian arrived to choose photographs from Holy War Romance with Sinora.
• Hughberlian thanked Lanchi and called him her hardworking husband, then reminded him to leave for work at the Sage Institute.
• Lanchi left with an unusually open smile, and Hughberlian photographed him as Cat Boss and the others remarked that he seemed like a real young man.