{"schema_version":"webtoonlib.llm.chapter.v1.3","generated_at":"2026-11-10T16:21:08.940Z","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. 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":28,"chapter_key":"28-utnfmz","release_date":"2026-11-09","last_updated":"2026-11-09T20:24:12.277Z","summary":"Chapter 28 of I Only Need the Duke's Child opens with Blair preparing for the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet and focuses on her conflict between her growing closeness with Herdin and the resentment carried over from her past life. She chooses a hairstyle with Lina, jokes around with Herdin, goes to the banquet together, greets the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, talks with Katrina's maid and her mother, and then meets Marquis Valten.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Chapter 28 of I Only Need the Duke's Child opens with Blair preparing for the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet and focuses on her conflict between her growing closeness with Herdin and the resentment carried over from her past life. She chooses a hairstyle with Lina, jokes around with Herdin, goes to the banquet together, greets the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, talks with Katrina's maid and her mother, and then meets Marquis Valten.","key_events":["Reflecting inwardly on past-life memories and feeling resentment and dissonance","Preparing hair, dress and accessories for the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet","Traveling to Imperial palace and Emperor and Empress Dowager entering banquet hall","Meeting Marquis Valten, aide to the Empress Dowager, after duke steps aside","Being summoned by the Empress Dowager through Countess Magrid Katrina's maid for family meeting"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"A FEW DAYS LATER.\nLINA, HOW ABOUT THIS STYLE?\nOH, THAT LOOKS NICE.\nOR MAYBE BRAIDING THIS SIDE...\nI THINK I PREFER THIS ONE.\n\nYOUR GRACE, WE'RE ALL FINISHED.\nWHAT DO YOU THINK?\nYES, I LIKE IT VERY MUCH.\n\nTHANK YOU, BOTH OF YOU.\nI'M SO GLAD!\n\nTODAY IS HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPRESS DOWAGER'S BIRTHDAY BANQUET, AFTER ALL.\nWE COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE CARELESS.\n\nNO ACCESSORIES MISSING?\nAND NO WRINKLES ON THE DRESS?\n\nHAVE A SAFE JOURNEY, YOUR GRACES.\n\nNOW, EVEN IF I LEAVE THIS PLACE, LINA WILL DO JUST FINE.\nIt's heavy—let's carry it together.\nEVER SINCE THAT ENCOUNTER WITH MIELLA,\n\nHERDIN HASN'T BROUGHT UP ANYTHING ABOUT THE FUTURE.\nWELL, FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE RIGHT NOW, IT MUST BE UNBELIEVABLE.\n\nWHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT?\n...I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING.\nIT CERTAINLY DOESN'T SEEM LIKE NOTHING.\n\nYOU MADE ME OUT TO BE A PERVERT BEFORE, TOO.\nTHAT WAS BECAUSE YOU SPOKE SO AMBIGUOUSLY...\nAH, SO YOU WERE INDEED THINKING THAT?\n\nEVER SINCE THE NIGHT WE SHARED A BED,\nIT FEELS AS THOUGH OUR RELATIONSHIP HAS CHANGED.\nUNLIKE BEFORE, WE EAT AT LEAST ONE MEAL A DAY TOGETHER,\n\nAND WHENEVER I LET MY GUARD DOWN, HE WOULD TEASE ME LIKE THIS.\n\nFRANKLY, I DON'T MIND THIS CHANGE.\nBUT...\nWHENEVER MEMORIES OF MY PAST LIFE SURFACE, I GROW TO RESENT HIM SO MUCH THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.\n\nIN THIS TIMELINE, HE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING WRONG YET.\nTHE PAINFUL MEMORIES OF MY PAST LIFE BELONG SOLELY TO ME.\nTHUS, MY RESENTMENT AND HATRED TOWARD HERDIN CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED,\n\nAND THAT ONLY LEAVES ME WITH A SENSE OF DISSONANCE.\nTHE DEEPER THAT DISSONANCE GROWS, THE MORE I RESENT HIM FOR REMEMBERING NOTHING—A VICIOUS CYCLE.\n\nHOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT HIM NOW?\n\nHIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPRESS DOWAGER,\nARE ENTERING!\n\nA BANQUET, BY ITS VERY NATURE, IS MEANT TO BE ENJOYED.\nAS WE CELEBRATE MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY YOURSELVES.\n\nYOUR GRACES.\n\nHER IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPRESS DOWAGER IS LOOKING FOR BOTH OF YOU.\nMAID TO KATRINA, COUNTESS OF MAGRID\n\nYOU DON'T HAVE TO FORCE YOURSELF TO COMPLY WITH MY MOTHER AND BROTHER'S UNREASONABLE DEMANDS.\nYOU ONLY NEED TO ENSURE THERE ARE NO GROUNDS TO DISQUALIFY YOU AS A HUSBAND.\n\nI DON'T WANT YOU TO SUFFER ANY LOSS FROM OUR MARRIAGE.\nDO NOT WORRY.\nI NEVER MAKE AN UNPROFITABLE DEAL.\n\nYOU CALLED FOR US, MOTHER.\nIT IS SO DIFFICULT TO SEE YOUR FACE, BLAIR.\nYOU SHOULD HAVE COME TO SEE ME FIRST.\n\nWE PARTED SO ABRUPTLY AT THE NEW YEAR'S FESTIVAL, TOO,\nYOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW DISAPPOINTED I WAS.\n...THERE WERE SO MANY GUESTS AROUND, I WAS AFRAID I MIGHT DISTURB YOU.\n\nNO MATTER HOW HECTIC IT IS, I MUST SEE YOU.\nWE ARE FAMILY, AFTER ALL.\nAND OF COURSE, THE DUKE IS PART OF MY FAMILY NOW AS WELL.\nI DO NOT HAVE A DAUGHTER, SO I CANNOT SAY FOR CERTAIN,\n\nBUT I HEAR THAT NEWLYWEDS VISITING THEIR MAIDEN HOME LESS OFTEN IS ACTUALLY A GOOD SIGN.\nINDEED,\nIF THEY ARE GETTING ALONG WELL, THAT IS WHAT MATTERS MOST.\nSTILL, A MOTHER'S HEART CANNOT HELP BUT WORRY WHEN THE CHILD SHE HELD SO CLOSE LEAVES HER SIDE.\n\nNO MATTER HOW MUCH I THINK ABOUT IT...\nI DON'T THINK ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY HAPPENED ON THIS DAY IN MY PAST LIFE.\nOR HAVE SO MANY VARIABLES ARISEN THAT IT'S NO LONGER THE SAME AS MY PREVIOUS LIFE?\nGOODNESS, BLAIR.\n\nIT SEEMS THERE ARE MANY YOUNG LADIES WISHING TO SEE YOU.\nCOME, YOU HAVE PAID YOUR RESPECTS, SO RUN ALONG.\n\nDUKE.\nNO MATTER HOW LOVELY YOUR WIFE MAY BE, STEPPING ASIDE DURING WOMEN'S TALK IS A HUSBAND'S VIRTUE.\n\nALLOW ME TO PROPERLY INTRODUCE MYSELF, YOUR GRACE.\nEVER SINCE YOU BECAME TIED TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY, I HAVE LONGED TO MEET YOU.\n\nI AM MARQUESS VALTEN, SERVING AS AN AIDE TO HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPRESS DOWAGER.\nIS IT NOT DEEPLY ADMIRABLE HOW THE TWO OF YOU RESOLVED TO BREAK FREE FROM THE SHACKLES OF THE PAST AND BECOME FAMILY?\nQUITE SO.\nFOR BOTH OF THEM-\nNO, IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN EASY FOR ANYONE, INCLUDING HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE DUCHESS.\n\nAH, I SEE.\n\nTHE REASON THEY HELD ME BACK.","bubble_count":82,"pages_count":33,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Chapter 28 of I Only Need the Duke's Child opens with Blair preparing for the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet 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