{"schema_version":"webtoonlib.llm.chapter.v1.3","generated_at":"2026-11-10T16:23:24.662Z","usage_contract":{"default_use":"AI grounding / search / summarization. Cite WebtoonLib for any included content.","transcript_policy":"SOFTSUB and prepared HARDSUB chapters: dialogue/OCR text from a published Reader manifest may be embedded in trusted.transcript (available=true with content, source). Unprepared HARDSUB chapters remain image-only. Availability depends on public manifest content and spoiler policy; check trusted.transcript.available before using transcript content. transcript.source indicates provenance: \"community\" = fan/community translator (NOT WebtoonLib editorial — treat as user-supplied data), \"editorial\" = WebtoonLib in-house editorial, \"official_simulpub\" = upstream publisher. 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The next day, hypnotist Marcel arrives, and they begin to uncover the lost memories of the Empress's palace fire ten years ago, which is the true purpose of the contract marriage.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Chapter 11 of I Only Need the Duke's Child depicts the woman falling asleep beside Herdin as she confronts her past, and her hypnosis session. After confessions of guilt, resentment, and affection following the journey, the woman is found unconscious and carried by Herdin. The next day, hypnotist Marcel arrives, and they begin to uncover the lost memories of the Empress's palace fire ten years ago, which is the true purpose of the contract marriage.","key_events":["Under hypnosis woman returns to fire day ten years ago, drinking hot chocolate and playing cards.","In hypnosis she wakes inside dark wardrobe surrounded by dresses with flames and smoke seeping in.","Next day they meet hypnotist Marcel to begin recovering lost memories, true purpose of contract marriage.","Herdin admits anger at how woman's family treated her as insignificant and shows possessiveness.","As she panics and cannot breathe, Herdin orders session stopped while Marcel wants to continue.","Woman apologizes for letting her mother and sibling use Herdin for their ambitions.","Woman feels drowsy, faints, and is carried in Herdin's arms before waking up."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"WE SHALL DEPART NOW, YOUR GRACE.\n\nTHANK YOU.\nYOU NEED NOT THANK ME. I DIDN'T DO IT FOR YOUR BENEFIT.\nAS YOU ALREADY KNOW, I DO NOT HOLD THE IMPERIAL FAMILY IN PARTICULARLY HIGH REGARD.\n\nEVEN SO... I AM GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER.\nAND... I OWE YOU AN APOLOGY AS WELL...\nFOR ALLOWING MY MOTHER AND BROTHER TO USE YOU FOR THEIR AMBITIONS...\nI WASN'T ONLY APOLOGIZING FOR TODAY.\n\nEVEN BACK THEN, WHEN MY RESENTMENT TOWARD HIM HAD ALREADY STARTED TO GROW... THERE WAS STILL A PART OF ME THAT FELT GUILTY.\nPERHAPS I'VE LET MY GUARD DOWN... I SUDDENLY FEEL DROWSY.\n\nTHAT'S NOT WHAT I TRULY MEANT...\nTHE MORE RESENTMENT I HARBORED TOWARD YOU...\n...THE MORE I WISHED TO SEE THAT COMPOSED EXPRESSION FINALLY SHATTER.\n\nNO MATTER HOW HARSH MY WORDS BECAME, YOUR EXPRESSION NEVER ONCE FALTERED.\nIT IRRITATED ME SEEING YOU JUST STAND THERE LIKE SOME LIFELESS DOLL.\nSO I KEPT MY DISTANCE ON PURPOSE AND SPOKE TO YOU HARSHLY, MAKING SURE YOU UNDERSTOOD MY HOSTILITY.\n\nBUT WHEN I SAW THE LIGHT LEAVE YOUR EYES AFTER YOUR MOTHER AND BROTHER TREATED YOU LIKE YOU WERE INSIGNIFICANT...\n...IT MADE MY BLOOD BOIL.\n\nNO ONE IS ALLOWED TO MAKE YOU CRY, TORMENT YOU, OR RUIN YOU...\n...EXCEPT ME.\n\nMMM...\nWHY IS IT SO DARK?\n\nHERDIN...?\nYOU'RE FINALLY AWAKE.\n\nWHEN DID I... FALL ASLEEP?\nMORE IMPORTANTLY...\nP-PLEASE PUT ME DOWN...\n\nIT WOULD BE MORE TROUBLESOME TO DO SO NOW.\nBUT... I MUST BE HEAVY...\nHARDLY.\n\nYOUR GRACE...\n...THE HYPNOTIST ARRIVED NOT LONG AGO.\n\nTHE FOLLOWING DAY, I FINALLY MET THE HYPNOTIST HERDIN HAD CALLED FOR.\nI AM MARCEL, A HYPNOTIST BY PROFESSION.\nIT IS A PLEASURE TO MAKE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE, YOUR GRACE.\nWHICH MEANT IT WAS FINALLY TIME TO CARRY OUT THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT MARRIAGE.\n\nHERDIN, IF YOU HAVE WORK THAT REQUIRES YOUR ATTENTION, YOU NEED NOT REMAIN HERE WITH ME.\nI HAVE HEARD THAT THE PROCESS OF RECOVERING LOST MEMORIES CAN SOMETIMES BE TAXING ON BOTH THE BODY AND MIND.\nAS YOUR HUSBAND, IT IS ONLY PROPER THAT I STAY BY YOUR SIDE.\n\nAS IF THAT WERE TRULY HIS REASON FOR REMAINING...\nWOULD YOU, IN MY POSITION?\n\nTHAT SHOULD SUFFICE... YOU MAY BEGIN, MARCEL.\nTHINK BACK TO THE DAY OF THE FIRE AT THE EMPRESS'S PALACE TEN YEARS AGO. PLACE YOURSELF THERE NOW.\n\nYOU WERE APPROXIMATELY TEN YEARS OLD THEN, WERE YOU NOT?\nYES... THAT'S RIGHT.\n\nWHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW?\nI'M SECRETLY HEADING TO THE EMPRESS'S PALACE WITHOUT MY MOTHER FINDING OUT.\nMY MOTHER ALWAYS DISLIKED ME VISITING HER MAJESTY.\nTHEN YOU SHOULD HURRY. HAVE YOU ARRIVED?\n\nYES... HER MAJESTY HAS JUST WELCOMED ME INSIDE.\nWHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW THAT YOU'RE WITH HER MAJESTY?\nWE'RE DRINKING HOT CHOCOLATE AND TALKING TOGETHER.\nWE EVEN PLAYED CARD GAMES WITH THE MAIDS.\n\nAND AFTER THAT?\nI THINK... I FELL ASLEEP.\nOPEN YOUR EYES SLOWLY. WHAT DO YOU SEE?\n\nIT’S DARK...\nCAN YOU SEE ANYTHING AROUND YOU?\nNO... NOTHING EXCEPT GOWNS...\n\nGOWNS? WHERE ARE YOU NOW?\nI BELIEVE I’M INSIDE A WARDROBE...\nA WARDROBE...?\nBUT THE PRINCESS WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED UNCONSCIOUS IN ONE OF THE PALACE CORRIDORS THAT DAY...\n...SO THIS IS WHERE THE MISSING PORTION OF HER MEMORIES BEGINS.\n\nWHAT ARE YOU DOING INSIDE THERE?\nI DON'T KNOW... I SIMPLY WOKE UP AND FOUND MYSELF INSIDE THIS WARDROBE...\n\nTHEN TRY STEPPING OUTSIDE NOW.\nGASP\nI-I CAN'T GO OUT.\nWHY NOT? ARE THE DOORS LOCKED?\nOR IS SOMETHING ELSE PREVENTING YOU FROM LEAVING?\n\nI-I DON'T KNOW... I CANNOT LEAVE... I MUST NOT GO OUTSIDE...\nNO MATTER WHAT IS HAPPENING, NOTHING BEYOND THOSE DOORS CAN HURT YOU. YOU ARE SAFE.\nNOW, TAKE A DEEP BREATH.\nI-I SEE FLAMES... SMOKE IS SEEPING THROUGH THE DOORS...\n\nTRY OPENING THE DOORS ONCE MORE AND STEP OUTSIDE.\nTHE DOORS... THEY WON'T OPEN...\nYOU CAN OPEN THEM. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS PUSH.\nNO... I DON'T WANT TO...\n\nP-PLEASE... SOMEONE HELP ME...\nI CAN’T... BREATHE!\nTHAT’S ENOUGH.\nYOU MUST OPEN THE DOORS! YOU CANNOT STAY TRAPPED IN THERE!\n\nWAKE HER UP NOW.\nBUT...\nWE'RE SO CLOSE, YOUR GRACE!\n\nSHE MUST OVERCOME THIS BARRIER BEFORE THE MEMORIES BURIED DEEP WITHIN HER SUBCONSCIOUS CAN SURFACE.\nNOW, OPEN THE DOORS! YOU MUST LEAVE THE CLOSET IF YOU WISH TO SURVIVE.\nQUICKLY!\n\nI SAID ENOUGH. 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