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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":3,"chapter_key":"3-y2d9rb","release_date":"2026-11-09","last_updated":"2026-11-09T20:14:46.445Z","summary":"In I Only Need the Duke's Child, Blair comes face to face with death in her room at the hands of an attacker who is not Herdin, and she cannot scream to protect her son Aciel. As she bids farewell to her son on the verge of death, she is certain she has died, but she wakes up three years in the past in the Imperial Palace. When Lina does not recognize her son and says she is not married, she grasps the truth. This time she accepts marrying Herdin, because she believes that is the path leading to Aciel.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"In I Only Need the Duke's Child, Blair comes face to face with death in her room at the hands of an attacker who is not Herdin, and she cannot scream to protect her son Aciel. As she bids farewell to her son on the verge of death, she is certain she has died, but she wakes up three years in the past in the Imperial Palace. When Lina does not recognize her son and says she is not married, she grasps the truth. This time she accepts marrying Herdin, because she believes that is the path leading to Aciel.","key_events":["Blair learns she is twenty and has returned three years before son's birth","Blair wakes in Imperial Palace and realizes room and maid response are wrong","Blair accepts arranged marriage to Duke of Delmarque she had rejected before","Blair resolves to marry Herdin at any cost to reunite with Aciel","Blair rings servants' bell for help and says goodbye to her son believing she died","Blair is attacked at night and cannot scream to avoid waking her son in next room"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"THAT'S NOT HERDIN.\nI CAN'T SCREAM.\nI CAN'T RISK WAKING ACIEL IN THE NEXT ROOM.\n\nHE CANNOT DISCOVER THAT MY CHILD IS HERE.\n\nPLEASE...\n...SOMEONE HELP ME!\n\nPLEASE DON’T LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO MY BABY!\n\nTHAT'S HER GRACE'S BELL.\nWHY WOULD SHE RING FOR US THIS LATE AT NIGHT?\nCOULD SHE BE FEELING UNWELL?\n\nTHIS IS MOST STRANGE...\n\nUGH...!\nYOUR GRACE, YOUR GRACE!\nARE YOU ALL RIGHT, YOUR GRACE?!\n\nTHANK GOODNESS...\nACIEL SLEPT IN ANOTHER ROOM TONIGHT...\n\nNO... I CAN'T DIE LIKE THIS...\nMY SON...!\nWHEN HE WAKES UP, HE'LL WANT HIS MOTHER... OH, MY POOR BABY...\n\nYOUR GRACE!\nTHERE WERE... STILL SO MANY THINGS I WANTED TO DO FOR YOU...\n\nMY PRECIOUS BABY...\n\nACIEL!!!\n\nWHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS...?\nI WAS CERTAIN I HAD DIED...\nI-IS ANYONE THERE?! PLEASE, SOMEONE ANSWER ME!\n\nWHERE IS MY CHILD?!\nYOUR HIGHNESS...\nYOU'RE AWAKE. GOOD MORNING.\nLINA, WHERE'S ACIEL?\n\nPARDON? ACIEL...?\nYES, ACIEL! IS HE SAFE?!\nDO YOU PERHAPS MEAN THE STRAY CAT THAT'S BEEN WANDERING AROUND THE BACK GARDEN LATELY...? IS ACIEL THE NAME YOU GAVE IT?\nLINA, THIS ISN'T THE TIME FOR JOKES.\n\nWHERE IS ACIEL? WHERE IS MY SON?!\nONLY THEN DID I BEGIN TO REALIZE THAT SOMETHING WAS AMISS.\nTHIS ROOM...\n\nABOVE ME STRETCHED THE FAMILIAR CEILING OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE. I REALIZED I WAS FAR AWAY FROM HOLSTEIN MANOR...\nWHY AM I HERE...?\nYOUR HIGHNESS... WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?\nYOUR GRACE, YOUR GRACE!\n\nWHY IS LINA CALLING ME \"YOUR HIGHNESS\"?\nWHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOUR SON?\nYOUR HIGHNESS... YOU HAVEN'T EVEN MARRIED YET. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE A CHILD?\nSUDDENLY, AN ALMOST IMPLAUSIBLE THOUGHT CROSSED MY MIND...\n\nLINA... HOW OLD AM I RIGHT NOW?\nTHAT'S A STRANGE THING TO ASK, YOUR HIGHNESS...\nYOU TURNED TWENTY THIS YEAR.\nYOUR COMING-OF-AGE CEREMONY WAS NOT LONG AGO...\n\nI HAD GONE BACK THREE YEARS INTO THE PAST...\n...TO A TIME BEFORE ACIEL WAS BORN...\n\n...AND BEFORE I EVER MARRIED HERDIN.\nHAD ALL THOSE DAYS BEEN NOTHING MORE THAN A DREAM?\n\nOR PERHAPS DEATH HAD BROUGHT ME HERE... TO RELIVE THE PAST ONE FINAL TIME.\nAND IF NEITHER WERE TRUE...\n\nYOUR HIGHNESS.\nHER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS DOWAGER IS ADDRESSING YOU.\nHONESTLY, BLAIR...\nYOUR MIND HAS BEEN ELSEWHERE ALL MORNING.\n\nKATRINA ARDEL, EMPRESS DOWAGER OF THE ARDEL EMPIRE\nIS THERE SOMETHING WEIGHING ON YOUR MIND?\nIVAN ARDEL, EMPEROR OF THE ARDEL EMPIRE\n\nMY APOLOGIES. I HAD RATHER AN UNSETTLING DREAM LAST NIGHT...\nWHAT WERE YOU SAYING?\nNOTHING PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT. WE WERE DISCUSSING YOUR MARRIAGE TO THE DUKE OF DELMARQUE.\nMAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS PREPARED FOR THE WEDDING.\n\nI'VE ALREADY MADE MY INTENTIONS CLEAR TO HIM.\nI'VE OFFERED TERMS GENEROUS ENOUGH THAT I DOUBT HE'LL REFUSE.\nAND DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FACT THAT I DIDN'T ASK FOR YOUR OPINION FIRST.\nYOU ARE AN IMPERIAL PRINCESS. THIS IS YOUR DUTY.\n\nI TRUST THAT YOU'RE NOT CHILDISH ENOUGH TO PROTEST AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE.\nA MEMORY I HAD LONG SINCE FORGOTTEN SUDDENLY RESURFACED.\nYOU COULD HARDLY HOPE FOR A MORE DESIRABLE HUSBAND.\nTHERE ARE COUNTLESS WOMEN ACROSS THE EMPIRE WHO'D DO ANYTHING FOR THE CHANCE TO DANCE WITH THE DUKE EVEN ONCE.\nTHIS MARRIAGE IS MEANT TO MEND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR FAMILIES. YOU SHOULD REGARD IT AS A GREAT HONOR...\n\nNO...\nI'M SORRY, BUT I DO NOT WISH TO MARRY HIM.\nIN MY PREVIOUS LIFE, THIS WAS WHERE I CONFESSED THAT I DID NOT WISH TO MARRY HERDIN.\n\nIT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD EVER GONE AGAINST THEIR WISHES.\nBUT THIS TIME...\nI WILL DO AS YOU ASK.\n\n...THINGS ARE DIFFERENT.\nIF THIS IS YOUR MAJESTY'S DESIRE, THEN IT IS ONLY PROPER THAT I OBEY.\nONCE I'D MANAGED TO CALM MY THOUGHTS, I KEPT TURNING IT OVER AND OVER IN MY MIND.\n\nWERE THOSE MEMORIES NOTHING MORE THAN A DREAM...?\nOR HAD I REALLY DIED THAT NIGHT, AND THIS WAS MERELY A DREAM OF MY PAST?\nBUT NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I QUESTIONED THE REALITY BEFORE ME...\n\nTHIS CANNOT POSSIBLY BE A DREAM.\nTHE SOUND OF ACIEL CALLING FOR ME...\nTHE WARMTH OF HIS LITTLE BODY IN MY ARMS... HIS TINY FACE...\nI CAN STILL REMEMBER IT ALL SO CLEARLY.\n\nAND PERHAPS THAT IS WHY THIS MOMENT FEELS SO PAINFULLY EMPTY.\n\nMY CHILD...\nMY HOPE, MY REASON FOR LIVING.\nEVEN IF FATE TRULY BROUGHT ME BACK THROUGH SOME MIRACLE...\n...A WORLD WITHOUT ACIEL IS NOTHING BUT A LIVING HELL TO ME.\n\nAND SO, IN THIS LIFE...\n...I HAVE A REASON WHY I MUST MARRY HERDIN, NO MATTER THE COST.","bubble_count":98,"pages_count":35,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"In I Only Need the Duke's Child, Blair comes face to face with death in her room at the hands of an attacker who is not Herdin, and she cannot scream to protect her son Aciel.","spoiler_summary":"In I Only Need the Duke's Child, Blair comes face to face with death in her room at the hands of an attacker who is not Herdin, and she cannot scream to protect her son Aciel. As she bids farewell to her son on the verge of death, she is certain she has died, but she wakes up three years in the past in the Imperial Palace. When Lina does not recognize her son and says she is not married, she grasps the truth. This time she accepts marrying Herdin, because she believes that is the path leading to Aciel."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/i-only-need-the-duke-s-child-t7h7gek5/chapter-3-y2d9rb","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — I Only Need the Duke's Child #3","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-10T16:23:06.114Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/i-only-need-the-duke-s-child-t7h7gek5"}}