He takes naps as a dog during the day and they don’t meet until very very late at night (possibly after midnight) and he needs to keep up the ruse of being a dog so he falls asleep with her in bed as a dog, gets up and sneaks out around midnight to go to the lake and wait for her. Also I think the OG FL and ML aren’t in this story at all. I think it was just a bit of extra information to show us that the story has changed significantly since Irene came into el’s body. For example, El was meant to marry some other guy and die fairly young but she ended up getting sold sooner due to her “amnesia” and therefore it changed the whole story. Basically the OG story is worthless now since nothing other than character names are applicable anymore.
I actually have a lot of questions like how does he endure being awake at night and day, and also like what happened to the og fl n og ml like are they not gonna be a part of the story? also true love plots are always funny