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Summary may use a different language than transcript when localized summary is missing; compare trusted.chapter.summary_language and trusted.transcript.language.","citation_preferred":true,"untrusted_fields_separated":true},"trusted":{"series":{"title":"I Only Need the Duke's Child","slug":"i-only-need-the-duke-s-child-t7h7gek5","original_title":"I Only Need Our Child, Your Grace - 공작님의 아이만 필요합니다 - Gongjangnimui Aiman Pillyohamnida - All I Need Is the Duke's Child - Je n'ai besoin que de l'enfant du Duc - Solo necesito al hijo del duque - Від…"},"chapter":{"number":1,"chapter_key":"1-x4aayu","release_date":"2026-11-09","last_updated":"2026-11-09T22:25:01.143Z","summary":"I Only Need the Duke's Child focuses on Blair's inner reckoning as she waits for her husband Herdin on their wedding night. Remembering their one-year contract marriage and vowing not to give herself over to love, Blair says all she wants is the night her son Aciel was conceived. When Herdin arrives unexpectedly, the tension between them rises, and the chapter connects to a cold pregnancy memory from the past.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"I Only Need the Duke's Child focuses on Blair's inner reckoning as she waits for her husband Herdin on their wedding night. Remembering their one-year contract marriage and vowing not to give herself over to love, Blair says all she wants is the night her son Aciel was conceived. When Herdin arrives unexpectedly, the tension between them rises, and the chapter connects to a cold pregnancy memory from the past.","key_events":["Flashback two years before time rewind: pregnant Blair meets Herdin in capital and asks him to name child","Blair waits on wedding night, recalls one-year contract marriage and resolves she needs one night to conceive Aciel","Blair recalls being alone for birth, Herdin returning six months later with silver-haired woman","Duke Herdin Delmarque arrives on wedding night and they agree to consummate the marriage","Herdin suggests Dianna for girl and Aciel for boy, Blair accepts them"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"HAS HE STILL NOT RETURNED...?\n\nOR PERHAPS...\n...HE HAS NO INTENTION OF COMING HERE TONIGHT.\nTHEN AGAIN, THIS MARRIAGE WAS NEVER REAL TO BEGIN WITH. IT'S NOTHING MORE THAN A ONE-YEAR CONTRACT.\n\nPERHAPS IT'S BETTER THIS WAY.\nIF I WERE TO SHARE HIS BED, FEEL HIS WARMTH, AND LOOK UPON THAT IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL FACE OF HIS ONCE MORE...\n...I MIGHT FOOL MYSELF INTO BELIEVING HE LOVES ME.\nJUST AS MY FORMER SELF ONCE DID.\n\nI ONLY NEED A SINGLE NIGHT WITH HIM. THE NIGHT ACIEL WAS CONCEIVED. NOTHING MORE.\n\nACIEL...\nMY DARLING BOY.\n\nI THOUGHT YOU'D HAVE GONE TO BED BY NOW.\n\nYOUR GRACE... H-HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN STANDING THERE?\n\nWHY ARE YOU REACTING AS THOUGH YOU’VE SEEN A GHOST?\nTONIGHT IS OUR WEDDING NIGHT.\nIT’S ONLY NATURAL FOR A HUSBAND AND WIFE TO SPEND IT TOGETHER.\nI WAS NOT EXPECTING YOU...\nTHEN WHY DID YOU WAIT UP FOR ME?\n\nONLY BECAUSE I THOUGHT THERE WAS A CHANCE YOU MIGHT COME...\nIT WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN PROPER FOR ME...\nTO ALREADY BE SLEEPING WHEN YOUR GRACE... I MEAN, WHEN YOU RETURNED.\nSHOULD I TAKE THAT TO MEAN YOU ARE PREPARED TO FULFILL YOUR DUTIES AS MY WIFE TONIGHT?\n\nSTILL, WE DON’T HAVE TO CONSUMMATE THE MARRIAGE TONIGHT--\nI WANT TO.\n\nI MUSTN’T MISTAKE THIS FOR AFFECTION.\nTHIS ISN’T LOVE.\nI’VE HEARD MEN ARE CAPABLE OF SHARING A BED WITH WOMEN THEY FEEL NOTHING FOR.\n\nI LOVED THE WAY HIS GAZE LINGERED ON ME...\n...AND THE WARMTH OF HIS FIRM EMBRACE.\n\nBACK THEN, I MISTOOK ALL OF IT AS PROOF THAT HE LOVED ME, AND BEFORE I EVEN REALIZED IT, I HAD GIVEN HIM MY WHOLE HEART.\nBUT I WON'T BE FOOLED BY THAT WARMTH AGAIN.\n\nTHIS NIGHT MEANS NOTHING TO ME BEYOND BRINGING MY CHILD BACK INTO MY ARMS.\nAH...\nIF ENDURING THIS NIGHT MEANS I CAN SEE MY CHILD AGAIN, THE CHILD I TREASURED MORE THAN MY OWN LIFE...\n\n...THEN I WILL ENDURE IT AS MANY TIMES AS I MUST.\nEVEN IF I HAVE TO SPEND IT WITH THE MAN WHO MAY HAVE KILLED ME BEFORE I RETURNED TO THE PAST.\n\nTWO YEARS BEFORE TIME WAS TURNED BACK\n\nWHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?\nYOU SHOULD BE RESTING AT THIS STAGE OF YOUR PREGNANCY.\nI HEARD THAT YOU HAD RETURNED TO THE CAPITAL.\n\nIT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS SINCE WE LAST SAW EACH OTHER...\nI HAD HOPED YOU MIGHT STOP BY THE ESTATE AS WELL...\nHERDIN... MIGHT YOU SPARE ME AN HOUR OF YOUR TIME?\nIF THAT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK... THEN EVEN THIRTY MINUTES WOULD DO.\n\nHOW STRANGE. THERE WAS ONCE SO MUCH I WISHED TO SAY TO HIM...\n...AND YET NOW, SITTING FACE TO FACE WITH HIM LIKE THIS, I CAN'T THINK OF A SINGLE WORD.\n\nDO YOU... KNOW WHEN YOU'LL RETURN TO THE CAPITAL NEXT?\nI'M NOT CERTAIN, AND I CAN'T MAKE ANY PROMISES.\nOH, I SEE...\nTHEN... DID YOU RECEIVE THE LETTERS I SENT?\nYOU NEVER ONCE REPLIED, SO I WONDERED IF PERHAPS--\n\nIT SEEMS THE BABY KNOWS THEIR FATHER IS HERE.\nTHEY'VE BEEN QUITE RESTLESS LATELY. SO MUCH SO THAT I CAN SCARCELY SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT.\nIS THAT SO?\nWOULD YOU LIKE TO FEEL THEM MOVE...?\n\nNO... THERE'S NO NEED.\nALL RIGHT.\n\nI SHALL TAKE MY LEAVE NOW.\n\nI PRAY YOU HAVE A SAFE DELIVERY.\nWAIT... THE BABY'S NAME...\nCOULD YOU GIVE THE CHILD A NAME BEFORE YOU GO?\n\nIF IT'S A DAUGHTER, DIANNA.\nAND IF IT'S A SON... PERHAPS ACIEL?\n\nTHOUGH IF THERE'S ANOTHER NAME YOU PREFER, I'VE NO OBJECTIONS.\nNO, I SHALL USE THE NAMES YOU CHOSE.\nafter all, it's the first gift you've ever given our child.\n\nHERDIN DELMARQUE THE DUKE OF DELMARQUE\n\nTHE CONTINENT'S SOLE SPELLBLADE, BLESSED WITH THE POWER OF A DIVINE BEAST...\n...AND WORSHIPPED AS A HERO OF WAR.\n\nAND THEN THERE IS ME, BLAIR DELMARQUE...\n...A PRINCESS OF THE ARDEL EMPIRE AND THE CURRENT DUCHESS OF DELMARQUE.\nAROUND THE TIME I BECAME PREGNANT, HERDIN RETURNED TO THE DELMARQUE DUCHY'S MAIN ESTATE.\n\nOFFICIALLY, HE CLAIMED IT WAS TO DEAL WITH THE MONSTERS THREATENING THE TERRITORY...\n...BUT I KNEW THE TRUTH.\nIT WAS MERELY AN EXCUSE TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM ME.\n\nOUR MARRIAGE WAS SIMPLY THE RESULT OF POLITICAL NECESSITY.\nTHE IMPERIAL FAMILY AND HOUSE DELMARQUE HAD LONG SHARED A DEEPLY BITTER HISTORY.\nAND SO, HERDIN...\n...I UNDERSTOOD THE RESENTMENT YOU HELD TOWARD ME. YET DESPITE THAT...\n\n...I WANTED YOU TO STAY BY MY SIDE...\nTHE THOUGHT OF GOING THROUGH THIS ALONE FRIGHTENS ME.\n\nBUT EVEN ON THE DAY ACIEL CAME INTO THIS WORLD, HERDIN NEVER RETURNED.\nAND WHEN ANOTHER SIX MONTHS HAD PASSED AND HE FINALLY CAME BACK...\n...HE WAS NOT ALONE. AT HIS SIDE STOOD A DAZZLING SILVER-HAIRED WOMAN.","bubble_count":84,"pages_count":33,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"I Only Need the Duke's Child focuses on Blair's inner reckoning as she waits for her husband Herdin on their wedding night.","spoiler_summary":"I Only Need the Duke's Child focuses on Blair's inner reckoning as she waits for her husband Herdin on their wedding night. Remembering their one-year contract marriage and vowing not to give herself over to love, Blair says all she wants is the night her son Aciel was conceived. 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