The events of this book could be summed up as "Princess Pride officially has 3 secret finances that she must nature down to one in a couple years and Tiara also has 3 but accepts one of them when he proposed to her without knowing he was already in the list for her." (Spoilers at the end of review so you can choose to skip this volume.)
The first 40% of the book is the events of the same boring party retold from the perspective of several different people, most interacting with each other so nothing is new. The author tries to keep the reader in suspense by focusing the next 30% with people trying to guess/ferret out the candidates. Then there's 10% or so scattered around that tell the alternate story as things would have been bases in the orl otome game, which was rather boring. The final 20% is focused on since rare color changing rose that is not as interesting as the author seems to think... Certainly not worth the multitude of chapters and side stories dedicated to the flowers and people doing stuff with them.
Over all, this goes beyond fluff filler. I'm actually cranky about this volume. I might just drop the series at this point.
Promised spoilers: 1: Freesia is initiating a fiancee system to allow the princesses more choice in their marriage partners and also keep the candidates safe from rush if assassination by anonymity. 2: Tiara chooses Cedrice after he progresses to her. Unknown to him his 2 brothers were also her candidates. Here's going to move to Freesia so she can stay near her loved family. He's going to be a post master... 3: CPT Callum is pretty much found out as I've if Pride's candidates. He's intuitive enough to know that she has her choice person and just using him to fill in the third slot he says it's ok but it really is pretty sad. 4: After a long taunting wait the reader is allowed to know the other 2 fiancee candidates are Stale and Arthur. (My money is one the knight lol. Sorry bro!) 5: Blue roses are romantic and turn red when you give them to someone. The author is obsessed with these flowers.
That's it, nothing else happens. About a month or two's time passes here too, though most of it is a tube jump. You really only cover about 3 days with of stuff, insisting two parties and a proposal day.
Totally not with your time to read! Oh, did I mention that half the time the POV character changes happen without making it clear whose the POV? So much guesswork! Ugh!