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Despite being mocked, when she realizes she cannot find the missing flowers among 562 graves, she buys 460 more flowers and tries to place one on every grave, a sacrifice that surprises those around her while stirring disgust and suffocating disappointment in the man watching her.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Atonement, For Your Cruelty Chapter 20 revolves around the young woman's stubborn decision to take the stolen flowers back to the cemetery. Despite being mocked, when she realizes she cannot find the missing flowers among 562 graves, she buys 460 more flowers and tries to place one on every grave, a sacrifice that surprises those around her while stirring disgust and suffocating disappointment in the man watching her.","key_events":["Helper accompanies woman all day placing flowers on every grave, unable to finish within the day.","Woman who bought stolen flowers goes to cemetery to return them and plans to buy 460 more to cover 562 graves.","Barbara stays behind after dismissal to report Marquise contacted this morning and will visit mansion.","Necklace expense ordered to be recorded as business cost to settle profit and loss later.","Narrator feels sudden disgust and suffocating disappointment, wishing to wash off smell of blood in cold water.","Woman returns to room holding back tears, recalling foolish hazy day buying flowers and man coming home.","Marquise demands necklace worth billions of kerte as engagement gift and personal attendance at birthday party.","Woman waits to open door for Barbara's dinner cart, then senses cool breeze and long mountain-like shadow behind her.","Superior scolds helper for abandoning monthly work and blindly following woman like a dog."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"SINCE YOU BOUGHT THE STOLEN FLOWERS...\nI SUPPOSE YOU INTEND TO RETURN THEM.\n\nYOUR DEDICATION IS TRULY TOUCHING, TO THE POINT OF BEING SUFFOCATING.\nI THOUGHT I WOULD FEEL REFRESHED AFTER GIVING YOU A PROPER HARD TIME.\n\nARE YOU REALLY GOING TO CRAWL ALL THE WAY TO A GRAVEYARD NOW?\nYES.\nWHETHER YOU PLANT THEM OR JUST LEAVE THEM, DO YOUR BEST.\nIT'S AS IF THE GHOSTS ARE PROPPING UP THEIR CHINS, WAITING TO RECEIVE THOSE FLOWERS.\nAH.\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT.\n\nTHEN...\nPLEASE SIT HERE FOR A MOMENT.\n\nI APOLOGIZE. I WILL FINISH THIS QUICKLY...!\n\nWHAT KIND OF ABSURD NONSENSE IS THIS?\nAMONG THESE COUNTLESS HEADSTONES, HOW DOES SHE EVEN KNOW WHICH ONES HAD THEIR FLOWERS STOLEN?\n\nTHERE ARE... 562 GRAVES, AND ABOUT 100 FLOWERS...\n...I'LL BUY 460 MORE...\n\n...DON'T TELL ME, THAT WOMAN.\nIS SHE PLANNING TO PLACE FLOWERS ON EVERY SINGLE GRAVE IN THE CEMETERY?!\n\nSO...\nYOU BOUGHT AND PLACED THE MISSING FLOWERS?\nYES.\nAND YOU WERE HELPING HER WITH ALL THAT?\n\nIF I HADN’T HELPED,\nI DON’T THINK I WOULD HAVE RETURNED WITHIN THE DAY.\n\nAND YOU GAVE UP ON WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE WITHIN THE MONTH?\n\n...IF I GIVE UP, DO I NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW HER AROUND ANYMORE?\nNO.\n\nTRY NOT TO BE SO EASILY SWAYED.\n\nI TOLD YOU TO COAX HER.\nI DIDN'T TELL YOU TO GET DRAGGED AROUND LIKE A DOG.\nI WILL KEEP THAT IN MIND.\n\nYOU MAY ALL LEAVE.\n\nYOUR EXCELLENCY.\nI HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU.\n\nBARBARA USUALLY ONLY IGNORES ORDERS AND STAYS BEHIND\n\nFOR ONE REASON.\n\nTHIS MORNING, THE MARCHIONESS CONTACTED YOUR EXCELLENCY.\n\nWHY?\n\nREGARDING THE BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR COUNTESS JEROME'S DAUGHTER...\nSHE CERTAINLY IS BUSY.\nNOT CONTENT WITH ASKING FOR A NECKLACE WORTH\nBILLIONS OF KERTE AS AN ENGAGEMENT GIFT,\n\nNOW SHE EXPECTS YOU TO GRACE THE BIRTHDAY PARTY IN PERSON BECAUSE IT IS A \"PRECIOUS DAY\"?\nSHAMELESSNESS AND GREED MUST BE HEREDITARY.\n\nI REPLIED THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT AS YOUR EXCELLENCY IS CURRENTLY AWAY.\n\nIT SEEMS THE MARCHIONESS WILL SOON VISIT THE MARQUIS'S ESTATE.\n\nPROCESS THE COST OF THE NECKLACE AS A BUSINESS EXPENSE.\nTHAT WAY, WE CAN CALCULATE THE PROFIT AND LOSS LATER.\n\nTHE DISGUST THAT SUDDENLY SURGED UP\nSLOWLY SUBSIDES WITH A LONG, DRAWN-OUT BREATH.\n\nSOMETIMES,\nTHE SUFFOCATING FRUSTRATION THAT MAKES ME WANT TO TEAR MY CHEST OPEN,\n\nAND THE STENCH OF BLOOD THAT FREQUENTLY CLINGS TO MY BODY—\nI THINK ABOUT WASHING IT ALL AWAY IN CLEAR, COLD WATER.\n\nTHE COMFORT FOUND ONLY IN THE SUFFOCATING COLD WATER...\n\nWHAT A...\nPATHETIC LIFE THIS IS...\n\nHAVE YOU ARRIVED?\n\n..AGAIN.\nTHOSE WORDS.\nEVERY TIME THEY COME TO MIND,\n\nI WONDER HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE CHEWED OVER THEM.\nWHY IS THAT?\n\n...FOR SOME REASON, I CAN’T QUITE REMEMBER TODAY.\nIS IT BECAUSE I WAS HOLDING BACK TEARS...\nI DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW I MADE IT TO MY ROOM.\n\nPALPIEN... I SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE. WHY DID I BUY THOSE FLOWERS?\n\nFROM START TO FINISH, I WAS A FOOL.\nIT WAS A TRULY HAZY DAY.\n\nAIMLESS,\nAND FAR FROM BEING HELPFUL,\n\nA DAY COMPLETELY BUNDLED IN BEING A NUISANCE...\nSTILL, THAT MAN...\nHE REALLY DID COME TO THIS HOUSE.\n\nIT REALLY WAS HIS HOME.\nIN THAT HAZY DAY,\n\nONLY THAT MOMENT REMAINS VIVID.\n\n...COME TO THINK OF IT, MRS. BARBARA\nSAID SHE WOULD BRING DINNER LATER.\n...SHE'LL PROBABLY PULL THAT CART AGAIN.\n\nIT MUST BE DIFFICULT FOR HER TO OPEN THE DOOR.\n\nIT WOULD BE BETTER TO STAND BY AND OPEN THE DOOR FOR HER IN ADVANCE.\n\nIN THAT MOMENT,\nTHE COOL BREEZE FELT IN A SPLIT SECOND.\n\nFELT FROM BEHIND,\nSOMEONE'S PRESENCE.\nA SHADOW AS TALL AS A SHEER MOUNTAIN REACHES MY FEET.\n\nFEELING AS IF IT IS GRABBING MY ANKLES.\n\n...IT'S HIM.","bubble_count":90,"pages_count":47,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Atonement, For Your Cruelty Chapter 20 revolves around the young woman's stubborn decision to take the stolen flowers back to the cemetery.","spoiler_summary":"Atonement, For Your Cruelty Chapter 20 revolves around the young woman's stubborn decision to take the stolen flowers back to the cemetery. Despite being mocked, when she realizes she cannot find the missing flowers among 562 graves, she buys 460 more flowers and tries to place one on every grave, a sacrifice that surprises those around her while stirring disgust and suffocating disappointment in the man watching her."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/atonement-for-your-cruelty-3u5rla9z/chapter-21-tq2k5t","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Atonement, For Your Cruelty #21: Chapter 20","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-10T16:21:05.433Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/atonement-for-your-cruelty-3u5rla9z"}}