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Violetta recalls her parents in the Bern Station attack five years ago, then learns from her maid Reina that Sierra left her behind and realizes she boarded the wrong carriage.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Flash back to ten minutes earlier: The Duke watches silver-haired Violetta Hernandez in the park and her half-brother Hugo Otero following her. He is enraged by Hugo's ability to imitate him. Returning to the present, Violetta accidentally jumps into his carriage and curses, calling him \"Duke Otero the bastard.\" The Duke is bewildered and angry, yet he notices her beauty and her flushed face. Violetta recalls her parents in the Bern Station attack five years ago, then learns from her maid Reina that Sierra left her behind and realizes she boarded the wrong carriage.","key_events":["Five years ago at Bern Station, gunshots cause panic and parents die embracing each other","Woman realizes the carriage she boarded did not belong to Sierra","Maid reports woman came home soaking wet and relays Sierra's apology for leaving first","Flashback ten minutes earlier shows pursuit of half-brother hiding alone in the park","Silver-haired woman boards wrong carriage in rain and curses Duke Otero, causing identity mix-up","Narrator observes flushed trembling appearance suggesting illness in carriage"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"DUKE OTERO... THAT SON OF A BITCH.\n\nWHO IS THIS WOMAN...?!\n\nTEN MINUTES AGO\nIS THAT HER,\nTHE SILVER- HAIRED LADY IN THE REPORT...\nVIOLETTA HERNANDEZ.\n\nBY THE WAY, WHERE IS HUGO?\nI WAS TOLD HE CAME TO THIS PARK TO FOLLOW THAT WOMAN.\nSINCE HE EVEN DISOBEYED MY ORDERS TO GO SEE HER...\nI THOUGHT HE WOULD SHOW UP SOON...\n\n...WAIT!\nFOUND HIM.\n\nHUGO OTERO!!\nHE IS ANNOYINGLY SIMILAR, BUT HE HAS SOFTER FACIAL FEATURES AND DULL GRAY EYES.\n\nHE HAS AN APPEARANCE THAT ANYONE BUT A CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WOULD MISTAKE FOR THE SAME PERSON.\nMY DISGUSTING HALF-BROTHER... HUGO OTERO.\nHE SEEMS TO HAVE QUITE A TALENT FOR MIMICRY.\nTo think he is that good, he is quite convincing.\n\n...THAT VULGAR THEATER ACTOR.\n\nJUST LIKE HIS MOTHER.\nBUT WHY IS HE HIDING?\n\nHA, RIGHT. I WONDERED WHY HE WOULD ACT ALONE LIKE THIS...\nWAS IT BECAUSE OF THAT PATHETIC AFFECTION?\n\n...HM?!\n...WHAT IS WITH THIS WOMAN?\n\nWHY IS SHE SUDDENLY COMING THIS WAY...\nWAIT, NO WAY!\n\nAND BACK TO THE PRESENT...\nUNBELIEVABLE.\n\nALL OF A SUDDEN YOU CLIMB INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S CARRIAGE AND SAY WHAT?\nDUKE OTERO IS A SON OF A BITCH?!\nWHAT DID I EVEN DO FOR YOU TO SUDDENLY START CURSING?!\nAnd to my face?\n\nDID SHE NOT SEE ME?\n\nSILVER HAIR LIKE THE MILKY WAY, SKIN AS WHITE AS SNOW.\n...SHE IS CERTAINLY A BEAUTY, JUST LIKE THE REPORT SAID.\nI SUPPOSE THAT IS WHY ALL SORTS OF FILTHY BASTARDS CLING TO HER EVEN THOUGH HER FAMILY HAS FALLEN.\n\nAND WHY SHE HAS BEEN GIVEN A CRUDE NICKNAME LIKE \"STEPPING STONE.\"\nSIGH...\n\nWHAT IS IT? IS SHE SICK?\nCOME TO THINK OF IT, HER FACE IS QUITE RED...\n\nHA, NO, DAMMIT. SO WHAT! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO IF SHE IS SICK?!\n\nDAMMIT...\n\nSERIOUSLY.\nWHAT AN ANNOYING WOMAN.\n\nRIGHT, IT RAINED THAT DAY, TOO.\nBERN STATION PLATFORM.\nTWO GUNSHOTS.\n\nA MIXTURE OF SCREAMS AND FOOTSTEPS OF PEOPLE FLEEING FOR THEIR LIVES...\nAAAAH!!\nA G-GUN, A GUN!!\nSOMEONE... IS DEAD!!\n\nEVERYTHING WAS CHAOTIC IN THE END.\nFIVE YEARS AGO, THAT DAY.\n\nI STILL CANNOT FORGET IT.\nEVEN IN THAT HELLISH MOMENT, MY PARENTS' HANDS NEVER LET GO OF EACH OTHER.\nTHE WAY THEY HELD EACH OTHER UNTIL THE VERY END, MEETING DEATH TOGETHER...\n\nI... ALSO JUST WANTED THAT KIND OF WARMTH.\nIS EVEN THAT A LUXURY FOR ME?\n\nMY LADY! ARE YOU FEELING ALRIGHT?!\nOH, REINA!\nGOODNESS, REALLY! DO YOU KNOW HOW SHOCKED I WAS WHEN YOU CAME HOME SOAKING WET YESTERDAY?\ni do not even know if you could see, you could barely open your eyes...!\nSORRY FOR WORRYING YOU. I'M FINE NOW...\n\nWELL, THAT'S A RELIEF, THEN...\nOH, AND MISS SIERRA STOPPED BY EARLIER.\nHM? MISS SIERRA?\nYES, SHE SAID SHE WAS SO FLUSTERED YESTERDAY THAT SHE TOOK THE CARRIAGE AND LEFT FIRST...\nSHE ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SHE'S SORRY FOR LEAVING YOU BEHIND.\n\nAH, I SEE. AND I THOUGHT...\nWAIT... WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?\n\nHUH...? THEN I...\nWHOSE CARRIAGE DID I EVEN TAKE...?","bubble_count":73,"pages_count":30,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Flash back to ten minutes earlier: The Duke watches silver-haired Violetta Hernandez in the park and her half-brother Hugo Otero following her.","spoiler_summary":"Flash back to ten minutes earlier: The Duke watches silver-haired Violetta Hernandez in the park and her half-brother Hugo Otero following her. He is enraged by Hugo's ability to imitate him. Returning to the present, Violetta accidentally jumps into his carriage and curses, calling him \"Duke Otero the bastard.\" The Duke is bewildered and angry, yet he notices her beauty and her flushed face. Violetta recalls her parents in the Bern Station attack five years ago, then learns from her maid Reina that Sierra left her behind and realizes she boarded the wrong carriage."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/i-became-the-affair-partner-of-a-trash-duke-mxeul3ac/chapter-4-mq4m4r","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — I Became the Affair Partner of a Trash Duke #4","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-17T00:23:51.055Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/i-became-the-affair-partner-of-a-trash-duke-mxeul3ac"}}