Universal thermal data in conformal field theory (CFT) offer a valuable means for characterizing and classifying criticality. With improved tensor network techniques, we investigate the universal thermodynamics on a nonorientable minimal surface, the crosscapped disk (or real projective plane, ${\mathbb{RP}}^{2}$ ). Through a cut-and-sew process, ${\mathbb{RP}}^{2}$ is topologically equivalent to a cylinder with rainbow and crosscap boundaries. We uncover that the crosscap contributes a fractional topological term $\frac{1}{2}lnk$ related to a nonorientable genus, with $k$ a universal constant in two-dimensional CFT, while the rainbow boundary gives rise to a geometric term $\frac{c}{4}ln\ensuremath{\beta}$, with $\ensuremath{\beta}$ the manifold size and $c$ the central charge. We have also obtained analytically the logarithmic rainbow term by CFT calculations, and discuss its connection to the renowned Cardy-Peschel conical singularity.Universal thermal data in conformal field theory (CFT) offer a valuable means for characterizing and classifying criticality. With improved tensor network techniques, we investigate the universal thermodynamics on a nonorientable minimal surface, the crosscapped disk (or real projective plane, ${\mathbb{RP}}^{2}$). Through a cut-and-sew process, ${\mathbb{RP}}^{2}$ is topologically equivalent to a cylinder with rainbow and crosscap boundaries. We uncover that the crosscap contributes a fractional topological term $\frac{1}{2}lnk$ related to a nonorientable genus, with $k$ a universal constant in two-dimensional CFT, while the rainbow boundary gives rise to a geometric term $\frac{c}{4}ln\ensuremath{\beta}$, with $\ensuremath{\beta}$ the manifold size and $c$ the central charge. We have also obtained analytically the logarithmic rainbow term by CFT calculations, and discuss its connection to the renowned Cardy-Peschel conical singularity.

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{\mathbb{RP}}^{2}

). Through a cut-and-sew process,

{\mathbb{RP}}^{2}

is topologically equivalent to a cylinder with rainbow and crosscap boundaries. We uncover that the crosscap contributes a fractional topological term

\frac{1}{2}lnk

related to a nonorientable genus, with

k

a universal constant in two-dimensional CFT, while the rainbow boundary gives rise to a geometric term $\frac{c}{4}ln\ensuremath{\beta}$, with $\ensuremath{\beta}$ the manifold size and

c

the central charge. We have also obtained analytically the logarithmic rainbow term by CFT calculations, and discuss its connection to the renowned Cardy-Peschel conical singularity.