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The secret escape route behind the bookshelf is revealed, but the question about the dowager duchess heightens the tension, and the Duke decides to make the affair look realistic, saying fake evidence will not be enough.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"The Duke presents his private study, forbidden even to servants, as the ideal place to leave traces of secret meetings. The woman plans to leave items such as a mirror, hand mirror, lipstick, and handkerchief. The medical books, the Tereta painting, and war mementos in the room reveal the Duke's past. The secret escape route behind the bookshelf is revealed, but the question about the dowager duchess heightens the tension, and the Duke decides to make the affair look realistic, saying fake evidence will not be enough.","key_events":["Plan discussed to drop hand mirror, lipstick, handkerchief as fake affair evidence","Medical books on mental illness found, realized collected alone for his mother","Duke reveals his secret private room as ideal place to plant traces of forbidden love affair","Duke rejects pitiful item-dropping plan, says clever fiancee will see through staged play","Question about Dowager Duchess health is scolded as crossing a line","Secret door behind bookshelf revealed as emergency exit linking bedroom to carriage house","History of Battle of Tereta told: 8 years ago gold rumor war lasted 3 years, won by Duke"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"THIS IS WHERE I SPEND THE MOST TIME...\n...MY VERY OWN SECRET AND PRIVATE SPACE.\nSERVANTS AREN'T ALLOWED IN HERE EXCEPT TO CLEAN.\nBUT IT'S A PLACE MY FIANCÉE CAN EASILY BURST INTO.\n\nISN'T THIS THE ABSOLUTE PERFECT SPOT TO LEAVE TRACES OF OUR SECRET RENDEZVOUS?\nCOMING IN SO CLOSE ALL OF A SUDDEN...\n\nI NEED TO DODGE HIM BEFORE I GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD AGAIN!\nI-IT'S NOT BAD.\n\nRIGHT?\nIF SOMEONE WERE TO DISCOVER A STRANGE WOMAN'S PERSONAL BELONGINGS HERE,\nANYONE WOULD HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SUSPECT AN AFFAIR.\n\nI'LL TAKE A LOOK AROUND.\n\nA MIRROR WOULD BE GOOD.\nA MIRROR?\nYOU'D NEED A MIRROR TO FIX YOUR DISHEVELED HAIR AFTER A SECRET MEETING,\nBUT THERE ISN'T ONE HERE.\n\nSO IT'D BE BEST TO LEAVE A HAND MIRROR HERE.\nFINE, LET'S DO THAT.\nIT'S COZIER THAN I THOUGHT... I EXPECTED IT TO BE DESOLATE.\n\nTHESE ARE THE TRACES OF EVERYTHING HE BUILT UP FOR HIS MOTHER.\nALL ALONE...\n\nIT'S A PAINTING I BROUGHT BACK FROM TERETA.\nI TOOK A STRANGE LIKING TO IT.\nTHE BLAZING RED SUNSET OVER A BARREN WASTELAND.\nWELL, SIMPLY PUT, YOU COULD CALL IT A TROPHY FROM THE BATTLE OF TERETA.\n\nEIGHT YEARS AGO, RUMORS BEGAN TO SPREAD THAT A MASSIVE GOLD VEIN WAS BURIED IN TERETA,\nA LAND PREVIOUSLY CONSIDERED UTTERLY USELESS.\n\nBLINDED BY GOLD, NEIGHBORING KINGDOMS STARTED A WAR TO CLAIM TERETA,\nAND THE EMPEROR OF GARCIA DISPATCHED A MASSIVE IMPERIAL ARMY TO QUELL IT.\n\nBUT THE WAR, WHICH WAS EXPECTED TO END QUICKLY, DRAGGED ON FOR THREE YEARS,\nAND TERETA BECAME EVEN MORE DESOLATE AS IT WAS SWEPT BACK AND FORTH BY THE TIDES OF WAR.\nTHE HERO WHO EMERGED AT THAT TIME AND LED THE WAR TO VICTORY\n\nWAS DUKE LEOPOLD OTERO.\nI THOUGHT... THE ONLY TROPHY WAS PRINCESS TERETA.\n\nRIGHT. PRINCESS ELEONORA, WHO IS NOW THE CROWN PRINCESS, WAS THE ONLY ONE.\nAT LEAST, ACCORDING TO WHAT'S KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC.\n\nYOU SHOULD TAKE A GOOD LOOK RIGHT NOW, SHOULDN'T YOU?\n\nTHIS MAN RELIES WAY TOO MUCH ON HIS HANDSOME FACE.\n\nLOOK BEHIND YOU, NOT AT ME.\n\nTHE BOOKSHELF OPENED?!\nW-WHAT IS THIS?\n\nAN EMERGENCY EXIT. AS YOU CAN SEE.\nTHERE'S AN IDENTICAL SECRET DOOR IN MY BEDROOM THAT LEADS HERE,\nAND DOWN BELOW, IT CONNECTS TO THE CARRIAGE HOUSE ON THE FIRST FLOOR.\n\nIF YOU'RE EVER AT RISK OF HAVING YOUR IDENTITY EXPOSED,\nYOU CAN ESCAPE THROUGH THIS DOOR.\n\nLET'S HOPE IT NEVER COMES TO THAT.\n\nTO THINK I'D BE DROPPING LIPSTICK IN THE CARRIAGE I RODE IN ONCE AGAIN.\n\nIT'D BE BEST TO LEAVE A HANDKERCHIEF IN THE BACK GARDEN.\nUM, BY ANY CHANCE...\n\nHAS THE DOWAGER DUCHESS GOTTEN ANY BETTER?\nWAS I WRONG TO ASK?\nAS ALWAYS,\n\nSHE'S DOING FINE.\nAH, I-I SEE... THAT'S A RELIEF!\nI WAS JUST WORRIED...\n\nWHY ARE YOU WORRYING WHEN SHE ISN'T EVEN YOUR MOTHER?\nWHAT? I-WELL...\nVIOLETA, DON'T CROSS THE LINE. STICK TO YOUR JOB.\n\nBECAUSE RIGHT NOW, A PATHETIC PLAN LIKE DROPPING PERSONAL BELONGINGS DOESN'T SATISFY ME AT ALL.\nHE WAS ALL FOR IT EARLIER, AND NOW HE SAYS THIS.\nIF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT, YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING.\n\nIF I SAY IT, WILL YOU LISTEN?\nW-WELL, TRY TELLING ME FIRST.\nNO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY TO LEAVE EVIDENCE OF AN AFFAIR LIKE THIS,\nMY SHARP-WITTED FIANCÉE WILL FIGURE IT ALL OUT ANYWAY.\nTHAT IT'S ALL JUST A STAGED ACT.\n\nSO,\n\nLIKE THIS...\n...WE HAVE TO MAKE IT LOOK REAL.","bubble_count":70,"pages_count":30,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The Duke presents his private study, forbidden even to servants, as the ideal place to leave traces of secret meetings.","spoiler_summary":"The Duke presents his private study, forbidden even to servants, as the ideal place to leave traces of secret meetings. The woman plans to leave items such as a mirror, hand mirror, lipstick, and handkerchief. The medical books, the Tereta painting, and war mementos in the room reveal the Duke's past. The secret escape route behind the bookshelf is revealed, but the question about the dowager duchess heightens the tension, and the Duke decides to make the affair look realistic, saying fake evidence will not be enough."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/i-became-the-affair-partner-of-a-trash-duke-mxeul3ac/chapter-32-bmqicg","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — I Became the Affair Partner of a Trash Duke #32","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-17T01:51:05.490Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/i-became-the-affair-partner-of-a-trash-duke-mxeul3ac"}}