{"schema_version":"webtoonlib.llm.chapter.v1.3","generated_at":"2026-11-10T16:20:59.938Z","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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As Blair promises to keep trying to uphold the contract, Herdin dismisses the hypnotist, learns from the maid about Blair's fear of fire and the lung damage from the fire ten years ago, and watches over his wife as she tosses with fever, deliriously murmuring the name Aciel.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Chapter 12 of I Only Need the Duke's Child begins with Blair fainting during her hypnosis session and Herdin helping her. Blair says she remembers a faint voice coming from beyond the wardrobe and that she might be able to open the doors in the next session, but Herdin is furious about her health. As Blair promises to keep trying to uphold the contract, Herdin dismisses the hypnotist, learns from the maid about Blair's fear of fire and the lung damage from the fire ten years ago, and watches over his wife as she tosses with fever, deliriously murmuring the name Aciel.","key_events":["As fever subsides, Blair murmurs the name Aciel in her sleep.","Doctor notes severe psychological shock weakened Blair's immunity and sends medicine.","Blair wakes after fainting and recalls hearing a faint voice beyond the wardrobe.","Maid explains she heats Blair's room while away and extinguishes fire before return.","Herdin questions the Imperial Palace maid about the unlit fireplace and Blair's cough.","Herdin orders the hypnotist expelled as a fraud and demands a new one."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"WAKE UP, BLAIR.\nWAKE UP.\n\nBLAIR!\nHERDIN...\n\nCOUGH COUGH...\nEASY NOW. BREATHE SLOWLY.\n\nHERDIN, WAIT...\nI REMEMBERED SOMETHING... IT WAS FAINT, BUT I AM CERTAIN I HEARD A VOICE.\n\nSOMEONE WAS SPEAKING BEYOND THE WARDROBE WHILE I WAS HIDDEN INSIDE.\nI COULD NOT DISTINGUISH THE WORDS BECAUSE THEY WERE BARELY AUDIBLE...\nBUT I BELIEVE I MAY BE ABLE TO OPEN THE WARDROBE DOORS DURING THE NEXT SESSION.\nWE DID MAKE PROGRESS TODAY... BECAUSE I REMEMBERED HEARING THAT VOICE, EVEN THOUGH I HAD NO RECOLLECTION OF IT BEFORE.\n\nAND YOU THINK THAT'S WHAT MATTERS RIGHT NOW?\n\nYOU'RE ANGRY BECAUSE I FAILED TO RECOVER MORE OF MY MEMORIES, AREN'T YOU?\nNEXT TIME, I'LL TRY HARDER TO ENDURE IT.\n\nI WILL UPHOLD THE TERMS OF OUR CONTRACT, SO YOU NEEDN'T WORRY.\nYOU SHOULD REST NOW...\n\nTHE CONTRACT...\n\nTHE CONTRACT...\nTHE CONTRACT...!\nMY FAKE WIFE CAN'T SEEM TO SAY A SINGLE THING WITHOUT BRINGING UP THAT CURSED CONTRACT.\nSHE ACTS LIKE SHE'S WILLING TO RISK HER LIFE OVER THIS ONE-YEAR ARRANGEMENT.\n\nYOUR GRACE, I'VE HAD THE HYPNOTIST ESCORTED BACK TO HIS ROOM FOR THE TIME BEING.\nGET RID OF HIM.\nYOUR GRACE? I THOUGHT YOU INTENDED TO KEEP HIM AT THE ESTATE.\n\nFIND ANOTHER HYPNOTIST. HE'S OBVIOUSLY A FRAUD.\nAND SEND THE MAID FROM THE IMPERIAL PALACE TO MY STUDY. I WANT TO SPEAK WITH HER.\nB-BUT... WHY?\n\nMY APOLOGIES, YOUR GRACE. I SPOKE OUT OF TURN. I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT IMMEDIATELY.\n\nWHY DID HIS GRACE SUMMON ME?\nI CAN’T EVEN BEGIN TO GUESS THE REASON...\n\nWAIT...\n...SURELY HE DID NOT SOMEHOW REALIZE I WAS SPEAKING ILL OF HIM IN MY THOUGHTS?!\nBUT HIS GRACE WAS THE ONE WHO ABANDONED HIS BRIDE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE WEDDING NIGHT!\nHE WAS UNQUESTIONABLY AT FAULT!\n\nI DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG--\nI HEARD YOU'VE SERVED MY WIFE FOR QUITE SOME TIME.\nY-YES, YOUR GRACE!\nI NOTICED THE FIREPLACE IN HER ROOM WASN'T LIT.\n\nEVEN WHEN IT SNOWED, THERE WASN'T A FIRE BURNING.\nIS BLAIR AFRAID OF FIRE?\nYES, YOUR GRACE.\n\nTHAT IS WHY I USUALLY WARM THE ROOM IN HER ABSENCE AND EXTINGUISH THE FIRE BEFORE SHE RETURNS.\nAS LONG AS THE FLAMES ARE PROPERLY CONTAINED OR KEPT AT A DISTANCE, THEY DO NOT TROUBLE HER TOO GREATLY...\n...THOUGH SHE STILL APPEARS RATHER UNCOMFORTABLE AROUND FIRE.\nIS THAT BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TEN YEARS AGO?\n\nHER GRACE HAS NEVER SAID SO DIRECTLY, BUT... I BELIEVE THAT IS THE REASON.\nAND WHAT ABOUT HER CONSTANT COUGHING?\nI WAS TOLD THE FIRE LEFT LASTING DAMAGE TO HER LUNGS.\n\nI SEE...\nSO THAT WAS THE REASON AFTER ALL...\nTHE FOLLOWING DAY\n\nIN CERTAIN PATIENTS, SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL SHOCK CAN LEAVE LASTING EFFECTS ON THE BODY AND WEAKEN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM.\nI BELIEVE HER GRACE IS SUFFERING FROM SUCH COMPLICATIONS.\nI SHALL ARRANGE FOR HER MEDICINE TO BE DELIVERED. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE I CAN DO, YOUR GRACE.\n\nSO THIS IS WHAT IT'S COME TO...\nI UNDERSTAND THE ORDEAL MUST HAVE BEEN TAXING FOR HER, BUT EVEN SO... HOW CAN A PERSON BE THIS FRAGILE?\n\nSHE SEEMS TO BE IN EVEN POORER HEALTH THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON.\nAT LEAST HER FEVER HAS GONE DOWN SOMEWHAT.\n\nTHE MEDICINE APPEARS TO BE TAKING EFFECT.\n..CIEL..\n\nACIEL...\n\nNOW I UNDERSTAND...\nIS THAT WHY THE CONTRACT IS ALWAYS SO HEAVILY ON HER MIND?\n\nIT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY SHE IS SO DESPERATE TO FOLLOW EVERY TERM OF OUR AGREEMENT EXACTLY AS WRITTEN...\nEVEN IF IT MEANS FORCING HERSELF TO RELIVE THOSE HORRIFIC MEMORIES... ALL FOR THE SAKE OF HER LOVER.\nSO WHEN SHE CLAIMED SHE DID NOT BELIEVE IN LOVE, IT WAS MERELY A LIE TO CONCEAL HER TRUE INTENTIONS.\nI PLACE NO FAITH IN SUCH FRAGILE EMOTIONS.\n\nI CARE LITTLE FOR WHICHEVER FOOL DARED TO INVOLVE HIMSELF IN A FORBIDDEN ROMANCE WITH AN IMPERIAL PRINCESS...\n\n...BUT THE FACT THAT THE MAN SHARES A NAME WITH ONE OF HOUSE DELMARQUE'S FOREFATHERS...\n...IS EXCEEDINGLY IRRITATING.","bubble_count":71,"pages_count":29,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Chapter 12 of I Only Need the Duke's Child begins with Blair fainting during her hypnosis session and Herdin helping her.","spoiler_summary":"Chapter 12 of I Only Need the Duke's Child begins with Blair fainting during her hypnosis session and Herdin helping her. Blair says she remembers a faint voice coming from beyond the wardrobe and that she might be able to open the doors in the next session, but Herdin is furious about her health. As Blair promises to keep trying to uphold the contract, Herdin dismisses the hypnotist, learns from the maid about Blair's fear of fire and the lung damage from the fire ten years ago, and watches over his wife as she tosses with fever, deliriously murmuring the name Aciel."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/i-only-need-the-duke-s-child-t7h7gek5/chapter-12-85zy6k","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — I Only Need the Duke's Child #12","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-10T16:20:59.937Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/i-only-need-the-duke-s-child-t7h7gek5"}}