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When he grasps that the plague seven years ago wiped out the imperial line and that their child will become third in line to the throne, he feels despair.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"I Had an Arranged Marriage With My Unrequited Love Chapter 9 focuses on the Duke's regret as he realizes the heir pressure on Irene's marriage. After learning that while drunk he made it sound as if Irene was forced into marriage, the Duke reconsiders her fear and the Mouber family's situation. When he grasps that the plague seven years ago wiped out the imperial line and that their child will become third in line to the throne, he feels despair.","key_events":["Duke is summoned to Imperial Palace tomorrow by Emperor's direct order","Duke regrets drunken remarks implying his wife had no choice but to marry him","Last year Theodora Granterea advises Duke on dress, hair and smiling to seek a wife","Young Lord Deloister is declared head of family after losing parents and hidden away with Stefan","Top-quality pink diamond necklace ordered for Duchess Irene is delivered","Plague ravages continent and destroys Helsington family who collapse coughing blood","Duke of Deloister enters with ceremony to propose to the person he secretly loved"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"YOUNG MASTER.\nYOUNG MASTER.\nPULL YOURSELF TOGETHER.\n\nFROM NOW ON, YOU ARE THE HEAD OF THE DELOISTER FAMILY.\n\n..., MY PARENTS...\nBUTLER!\n\nWHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?\nIT IS BAD NEWS.\nWE CANNOT FIND THE CAUSE, SO NOTHING CAN BE DONE...\nIS THERE NO CURE IN THE NEIGHBORING KINGDOMS?\nWE HAVE RECEIVED NO ANSWER YET.\n\nTHE HELSINGTON FAMILY HAS FALLEN AS WELL.\nTHEY SAY LAST NIGHT, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM COLLAPSED WHILE COUGHING UP BLOOD.\n...THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. PACK YOUR BAGS AT ONCE.\nSTEFAN.\n\nLOOK AFTER THE YOUNG MASTER WELL FROM NOW ON.\nNO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, YOU MUST NEVER COME OUT!\nGEEUP!\n\nDUKE.\nDO NOT LOOK BACK.\n...I CANNOT.\nAT THE VERY LEAST, I MUST BID THEM FAREWELL.\n\nI STILL HAVEN'T...\n\nSAID A WORD TO YOU....\n\nYOUR GRACE.\n\n...WHAT IS IT?\nIT SEEMS YOU MUST GO TO THE IMPERIAL PALACE AGAIN TOMORROW.\nIS IT BECAUSE OF WORK?\nWE ALREADY SORTED OUT THE HANDOVER LAST TIME. WHY THEN...\nTHE EMPEROR HAS ISSUED A DIRECT COMMAND, YOUR GRACE.\n\n...UNDERSTOOD. YOU MAY LEAVE NOW.\nAH, AND...\nLAST NIGHT, YOU DRANK AND LET SLIP SOME CARELESS WORDS.\nWHAT DID I SAY?\n\nWITH THE NUANCE THAT YOUR WIFE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO MARRY YOU EVEN IF SHE DISLIKED IT...\nI-I THOUGHT YOUR GRACE OUGHT TO KNOW, WHICH IS WHY I MENTION IT.\n...HA.\n\nSO THAT WAS WHY IRENE LOOKED SO TERRIFIED AT NIGHT YET COULDN'T PUSH ME AWAY.\nDOESN'T THIS MEAN I PRACTICALLY TOLD HER I NOTICED THAT MAN'S EXISTENCE...\n\nTHE “DUTIES OF A MARRIED COUPLE“ IRENE SPOKE OF\nTHAT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY THE PRESSURE REGARDING AN HEIR.\n\nTHOUGH THE EMPIRE OUTWARDLY APPEARS PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS,\nIT IS PASSING THROUGH A LONG AND ARDUOUS RECONSTRUCTION.\nSEVEN YEARS AGO, A PLAGUE SWEPT ACROSS THE CONTINENT.\n\nIT SHOOK THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THE EMPIRE TO ITS CORE.\nTHE IMPERIAL FAMILY SUFFERED THE MOST DEVASTATING BLOW OF ALL.\nIT WAS TRULY A CASE OF THE BLOODLINE BEING COMPLETELY WIPED OUT.\nFEARING THAT THE NATION'S PRESTIGE AND STANDING WOULD COLLAPSE,\nTHE EMPIRE STRICTLY SEALED EVERYONE'S LIPS SO THAT THIS HORRIFIC TRUTH WOULD NOT LEAK BEYOND THE CITY WALLS.\n\nTHANKS TO THIS, MOST LOWER NOBILITY AND COMMONERS MERELY REGARDED IT AS OMINOUS RUMORS,\nAND REMAINED ENTIRELY UNAWARE OF THE INSIDE STORY BEHIND THE SUDDEN SHIFT IN THE THRONE'S MASTER.\n\nTHE EMPEROR WHO BARELY SURVIVED BACK THEN AND ASCENDED THE THRONE AT A TENDER AGE IS...\nALEXA BELLATORIUM.\nSHE BECAME A WORKAHOLIC BURDENED WITH THE MONUMENTAL TASK OF RECONSTRUCTION,\n\nAND HAS NOT SHOWN HER FACE AT A SINGLE OFFICIAL FUNCTION SINCE HER CORONATION.\nSO IT IS ONLY NATURAL THAT IRENE FEELS THE PRESSURE.\nSHOULD THE EMPEROR FAIL TO PRODUCE AN HEIR,\n\nOUR CHILD WILL BECOME THIRD IN LINE TO THE IMPERIAL THRONE.\nTHIS MARRIAGE WAS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE EMPEROR'S DECREE...\nSINCE THE MOUBER FAMILY LOST ITS REPUTA- TION THROUGH BUSINESS FAILURES AND FRAUD,\n\nMIGHT SHE NOT HAVE BEEN TORMENTED BY THE PRESSURE TO SECURE AN HEIR AND ESTABLISH HER STANDING AS THE DUCHESS?\n...I HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD IRENE'S POSITION AT ALL UNTIL NOW.\n\nWHAT SHOULD I DO...\nAH, YOUR GRACE. THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE I MUST TELL YOU.\n\nTHE ACCESSORY YOU ORDERED AS A GIFT FOR THE DUCHESS HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND DELIVERED.\nWOULD YOU CARE TO INSPECT IT?\n...BRING IT HERE.\nIT WAS ADORNED WITH WHICHEVER JEWELS YOU DESIRED, YOUR MAJESTY..\n\nTHIS IS THE TOP-GRADE PINK DIAMOND NECKLACE.\nEVEN LADY GRANTEREA, WHO ACCOMPANIED YOU, WAS CERTAIN-\nAS I SAID, IT IS FOR MY WIFE.\n\nAH, YES. YOUR GRACE.\nYOU TWO ARE AS DEVOTED AS EVER.\nTHE DESIGN WAS KEPT RELATIVELY LIGHT AND COMFORTABLE.\nIT INCORPORATES THE LATEST TRENDS, SO SHE SHOULD FIND IT EASY TO WEAR ANYWHERE.\nI SEE, IT SEEMS TO HAVE TURNED OUT WELL.\n\nASSUREDLY, IT IS A WELL-CRAFTED NECKLACE WITH CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE FINISH.\n...YET, WILL IRENE TRULY LIKE THIS?\n\nA NECKLACE CUSTOM-MADE WITH JEWELS SPECIALLY CRAFT- ED WHILE THINKING OF IRENE.\nHOWEVER...\nNO MATTER HOW FINE A THING I GIVE HER,\n\nMIGHT A SINGLE WILDFLOWER PICKED BY JOSHUA HOLD FAR MORE MEANING?\n...IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN MADE NEATLY.\nHAVE AN APPRAISER VERIFY IT.\nUNDERSTOOD, YOUR GRACE.\n\nHOW ON EARTH DID THINGS GET SO TANGLED UP?\nALL I EVER WANTED WAS...\n\nWHAT KIND OF MEN DO WOMEN LIKE?\nDOWNTOWN LAST YEAR, HOTEL\n...HMPH.\nNATURALLY, A MAN WHO IS HANDSOME, EARNS A HIGH ANNUAL INCOME, AND HOLDS POWER, I SUPPOSE.\n\nHOWEVER...\nTHEODORA GRANTEREA\nTHAT IS LIKELY NOT YOUR GRACE AT PRESENT.\n...WHY IS THAT?\n\nAS A CONVERSA- TIONAL PARTNER AND CHILDHOOD FRIEND, I SHALL SPEAK PLAINLY.\nJUDGING SOLELY BY YOUR ATTIRE, YOU LOOK LESS LIKE A HIGH-RANKING GENTLEMAN OUT COURTING,\nAND MORE LIKE AN UNPOLISHED BUMPKIN.\n\n... ... IF THAT IS THE CASE... SHALL I HAVE THE DRESSMAKER TAILOR THE MOST EXPENSIVE GARMENTS AVAILABLE?\nEXPENSIVE CLOTHES DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE ONE LOOK REFINED, YOUR GRACE.\nTHEN...\n\nYOUR GRACE.\nUNTIL LAST YEAR, YOUR GRACE HAS BEEN GUARDING THE BORDER IN THE DUCHY BEFORE COMING TO THE CAPITAL.\nRUMORS WILL CIRCULATE THAT YOU HAVE COME TO SEEK A BRIDE, SO YOU MUST MAKE PREPARATIONS BEFITTING THAT.\n\nFIX YOUR HAIR AND PUT ON THE CLOTHES\nEXACTLY AS I TELL YOU.\nAND...\n\nYOU WOULD DO WELL TO SMILE A BIT IN FRONT OF LADY MOUBER.\nYOU ALWAYS WEAR THAT EXACT EXPRESSION ON YOUR FACE FOR EVERYTHING.\nSMILE?\nYES.\nIN A STATE LIKE THAT, LADY MOUBER MIGHT JUST RUN AWAY.\n\n...I SHALL DO AS YOU WISH.\nYOUR GRACE.\nYOU HAD A REASON FOR ROLLING AROUND IN THE MUD WITH THE KNIGHTS AT THE BORDER SO DESPERATELY, DID YOU NOT?\n\nYOU OUGHT TO GIVE IT YOUR EARNEST EFFORT.\n\n...RIGHT.\n\nSHE IS THE ONE WHOM I,\n\nHAVE SECRETLY ADORED FROM THE VERY DEPTHS OF THE PAST.\n\nENTERING HIS GRACE, THE DUKE OF DELOISTER!\nIN ORDER TO PROPOSE TO YOU,\nI HAVE COME TO THIS PLACE.","bubble_count":122,"pages_count":43,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"I Had an Arranged Marriage With My Unrequited Love Chapter 9 focuses on the Duke's regret as he realizes the heir pressure on Irene's marriage.","spoiler_summary":"I Had an Arranged Marriage With My Unrequited Love Chapter 9 focuses on the Duke's regret as he realizes the heir pressure on Irene's marriage. 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