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HARDSUB chapters: image-only, transcript_unavailable.","citation_preferred":true,"untrusted_fields_separated":true},"trusted":{"series":{"title":"Clockwork Lovers","slug":"taeyeom-wireul-geonneun-yeonin-lhdsamfe","original_title":"태엽 위를 걷는 연인 / Clockwork Lovers / Lovers on a Clockwork / Lovers on Clockwork / Lovers Walking on a Clockwork / Lovers Walking on a Spring"},"chapter":{"number":2,"chapter_key":"2-awmbwv","release_date":"2026-10-18","last_updated":"2026-10-19T14:19:59.656Z","summary":"In Clockwork Lovers Chapter Draft 2, Princess Rien faces a great trap when she learns she has married Duke Lysian, his brother, instead of the Lord Cassius she was expecting. As Lysian swears he will not harm her and asks for her trust, Rien decides she wants to live, faints, and upon waking hears from Corin about Cassius's disappearance and the rumors of a curse surrounding him.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"In Clockwork Lovers Chapter Draft 2, Princess Rien faces a great trap when she learns she has married Duke Lysian, his brother, instead of the Lord Cassius she was expecting. As Lysian swears he will not harm her and asks for her trust, Rien decides she wants to live, faints, and upon waking hears from Corin about Cassius's disappearance and the rumors of a curse surrounding him.","key_events":["The princess learns the man expected her sister Iremia, recalls long confinement, and faints.","Princess recalls childhood at Ashfell Castle where Cassius kept her company when bored alone.","Physician Corin says Roche Noir air is clean, recommends balm and morning runs, takes responsibility.","Duke says he will step aside when brother returns; rumors of monarchy restoration with Iremia first.","The man vows they fell into a cruel trap and promises never to abandon her, asking for trust.","In inner monologue the princess cannot read the man but chooses to trust him to survive.","Physician assesses princess not in immediate danger but extremely weak with breathing and trauma issues.","Waking up, the princess asks for Cassius and describes anxiety stopping her breath into darkness.","Corin reveals current lord is Duke Lysian, Cassius disappeared two years ago on battlefield.","Men debate annulling the marriage, saying they needed Iremia to solidify duke's position."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"I GREET THE RADIANT STAR OF LUCIDORIA.\n\nY-YOU ARE...\nHE SEEMS TO KNOW WHO I AM,\nBUT WHO IS HE?\nUP CLOSE, HE BEARS A RESEMBLANCE TO LORD CASSIUS...\n\nEVEN IF I DO NOT KNOW HIS IDENTITY, ONE THING IS CERTAIN...\nI APOLOGIZE, I-I DO NOT QUITE... UNDERSTAND THIS SITUATION...\nI KNOW NOTHING OF...\nHE WAS HOPING MY SISTER IREMIA WOULD COME.\n\nI HAVE BEEN LOCKED AWAY ALONE FOR SO LONG...\nI MUST GO BACK. TO THAT PITCH-BLACK BASEMENT...\n...PRINCESS.\n\nIT APPEARS THE TWO OF US HAVE FALLEN INTO A RATHER CRUEL TRAP.\nYET CAUGHT IN THE VERY SAME TRAP AS I AM,\nI SWEAR I SHALL NEVER PLACE YOU IN HARM'S WAY,\n\nNOR SHALL I LEAVE YOU ALONE IN THE COLD.\n...WHY IS HE SAYING SUCH THINGS TO ME?\nSURELY, I WAS NOT THE ONE HE WANTED...\n...THEREFORE, PLEASE DO NOT BE AFRAID FOR NOW.\n\nWOULD YOU PLACE YOUR TRUST IN ME?\n...TRUST HIM...?\n\nTHERE WERE THINGS I COULD ONCE DISCERN THROUGH A SINGLE GLANCE.\n...YET I CANNOT READ THIS MAN.\n\nBUT IF I DO NOT TRUST HIM, WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?\nI HAVE REACHED A DEAD END EITHER WAY.\nEVEN IF TRUST BETRAYS ME COUNTLESS TIMES\nAND LEAVES ME WOUNDED,\n\nUNLESS I RESIGN MYSELF TO EVERY MOMENT AS AN INESCAPABLE FATE,\nI CANNOT ENDURE IT.\n\nBECAUSE EVEN LIKE THIS... I WANT TO LIVE.\n\nFORTUNATELY, HER LIFE IS IN NO IMMEDIATE DANGER,\nYET HER OVERALL CONSTITUTION IS EXCEEDINGLY FRAIL.\n\nHER RESPIRATORY TRACT IS IN PARTICULARLY POOR CONDITION... AND HER BREATHING IS UNSTABLE.\nAND IF IT IS TRUE THAT SHE WAS CONFINED FOR SO LONG...\nSHE LIKELY SUFFERED SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AND TRAUMA.\nCAN SHE RECOVER?\n\nONCE SHE REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS SAFELY, I SHALL DRAW UP A TREATMENT PLAN.\n\nCONFINED...?\nWERE YOU...?\n\nLORD... CAS... SIUS...\n\n...MAY YOUR DREAMS BE PEACEFUL.\n\n...IN THE END, I COLLAPSED...\nI THOUGHT I WAS GETTING BETTER...\nWHENEVER ANXIETY RUSHES IN, MY BREATH CATCHES\nAND IT FEELS AS THOUGH THE WORLD IS COLLAPSING INTO DARKNESS...\nHOW STRANGE. WHEN I WAS ACTUALLY CONFINED TO THAT CRAMPED SPACE, I HAD NO SUCH SYMPTOMS...\n\n...I TRULY CANNOT UNDERSTAND MYSELF.\nINCAPABLE OF PROPERLY CARING FOR MY OWN BODY,\nYET DRIVEN BY THIS WRETCHED INSTINCT THAT CLINGS TO LIFE MORE DESPERATELY THAN DEATH.\n\nIT HAS BEEN SO LONG SINCE I LAST SAW ASHFELL CASTLE...\nWHEN I WAS YOUNG, I WAS OFTEN INVITED HERE...\nLORD CASSIUS!\n\nWHILE MY ELDER SISTERS ENJOYED THEIR TEA,\nLORD CASSIUS WOULD KEEP ME COMPANY WHENEVER I WAS BORED AND LEFT ALONE.\n\"PRINCESS, CAREFUL, OR YOU'LL FALL!\"\nIF NOT FOR LORD CASSIUS,\nTHIS PLACE, WHICH LINGERED IN MY MEMORY AS A RATHER BLEAK LANDSCAPE,\n\nWOULD NOT FEEL SO GENTLE IN THE SPRING.\nIT MAKES ME WANT TO RUN OUTSIDE\nJUST AS I DID IN MY CHILDHOOD.\n\nBUT WHO IN THE WORLD IS THAT MAN...?\n\nI KNEW LORD CASSIUS HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER.\nI HEARD THAT FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE, HE TURNED HIS HEART TOWARD FAITH AND BECAME A MONK.\nIF THAT MAN TRULY IS HIS BROTHER, HOW DID HE COME TO INHERIT THE DUKEDOM?\nAND WHAT OF THE PORTRAIT OF LORD CASSIUS THAT WAS SENT TO ME?\nWHERE IS LORD CASSIUS RIGHT NOW...?\n\nYOUR CONDITION IS HARDLY IDEAL, BUT...\nYOU WILL RECOVER SHORTLY.\n\nTHE AIR IN ROCHE NOIR IS REMARKABLY CRISP,\nAND ABOVE ALL, OUR LOCAL SPECIALTY, ROCHE BALSAM, IS A RENOWNED REMEDY SAID TO SOOTHE EVEN A CHEST BURDENED BY A DISOBEDIENT CHILD.\nONCE YOUR HIGHNESS RECOVERS A BIT, TAKING IN THE BRISK AIR AT 6:00 AM EACH MORNING AND JOGGING THROUGH THE COURTYARDS WILL BE OF GREAT HELP.\n...IT IS NOT... CONTAGIOUS, IS IT...?\n\nIS SHE UNFAZED BY A SICK PERSON BECAUSE SHE IS A PHYSICIAN...?\nIT IS NOT CONTAGIOUS, SO PLEASE DO NOT WORRY.\nEVEN IF IT WERE, MY DUTY IS TO DO EVERY- THING IN MY POWER TO TREAT YOU.\nMY NAME IS CORIN. FROM NOW ON, I SHALL TAKE FULL CHARGE OF YOUR HIGHNESS'S HEALTH.\n\n...UM... CORIN, THIS MAY SEEM AN ODD QUESTION TO ASK, BUT...\nPLEASE, ASK WHATEVER YOU WISH.\nWHO IS THE CURRENT MASTER OF ROCHE NOIR?\nTHE HEIR I REMEMBER WAS CERTAINLY LORD CASSIUS...\n\nTHE CURRENT MASTER OF ROCHE NOIR, DUKE LYSIAN, IS LORD CASSIUS'S YOUNGER BROTHER.\nAND LORD CASSIUS...\n...WENT MISSING ON THE BATTLEFIELD TWO YEARS AGO.\n\nIN THE AFTERMATH, THE FORMER DUKE'S CHRONIC ILLNESS WORSENED RAPIDLY, BREAKING HIM IN BODY AND SPIRIT,\nAND THE CARDONIA EMPIRE NEEDED TO STABILIZE CONTINENTAL UNREST FOLLOWING THE FALL OF THE LUCIDORIA DYNASTY.\nTHUS, WHILE LORD LYSIAN WAS SERVING AS REGENT,\nHE SUCCEEDED TO THE DUCAL TITLE BY IMPERIAL DECREE.\n\n...HOW...\nGOOD HEAVENS, HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN...\n\nTHIS MARRIAGE IS A FARCE!\nWE MUST SEEK AN AUDIENCE WITH HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY IMMEDIATELY AND HAVE THIS MARRIAGE ANNULLED!\nI CONSENTED TO THIS MARRIAGE BECAUSE I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE FROM THE START. NOTHING HAS CHANGED.\n\nWE NEEDED PRINCESS IREMIA.\nTO SOLIDIFY YOUR GRACE'S POSITION AS DUKE AMIDST SLANDER THAT YOU OUSTED YOUR OWN BROTHER-\nI HAVE NO INTENTION OF HOLDING THIS SEAT FOR LONG.\n\nI HAVE TOLD YOU SEVERAL TIMES ALREADY THAT I SHALL STEP DOWN ONCE MY BROTHER RETURNS.\nFURTHERMORE, TALK OF RESTORING THE MONARCHY IS ALREADY STIRRING IN LUCIDORIA.\nPRINCESS IREMIA IS FIRST IN LINE TO THE THRONE. SHE CANNOT BE WED TO A MERE LORD OF AN AUTONOMOUS DOMAIN.\n\nNEVER ONCE IN HISTORY HAS A FALLEN MONARCHY BEEN RESTORED.\nREGARDLESS OF HOW IMMENSE PRINCESS IREMIA'S POPULARITY IS THROUGHOUT THE LAND, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.\nEITHER WAY, UTILIZING EACH OTHER BEFORE DIVORCING WOULD HAVE SERVED US WELL ENOUGH.\n\nYET OF ALL PEOPLE, IT HAD TO BE THAT DELUSIONAL PRINCESS RIEN.\n...DELUSIONAL?\n\nIT SEEMS YOU HAVE NOT HEARD OF THE SECRET HISTORY WHISPERED WITHIN THE ROYAL PALACE OF LUCIDORIA-\nTHE \"CURSE OF NEPTUNE\".\nFOR A THOUSAND YEARS, THE ROYAL LINEAGE OF LUCIDORIA HAS REVERED THE STARS, PASSING DOWN THEIR BLESSING FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION,\n\nYET RUMORS WERE RAMPANT THAT PRINCESS RIEN ALONE WAS BORN UNDER A CURSE RATHER THAN A BLESSING.\nTHEY SAY SHE WAS LOST IN DELUSIONS, SEEING APPARITIONS AND SPEAKING BIZARRE FALSEHOODS.\nMOREOVER, HER TEMPER WAS SO VOLATILE THAT EVEN THE PALACE ATTENDANTS GREW WEARY OF HER.\nIN THE END, HAVING BECOME AN OUTCAST SHUNNED BY ALL, SHE SEVERED ALL TIES WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD,\nLIVING IN SECLUSION WHILE IMMERSING HERSELF IN FORBIDDEN TOMES AND DARK ARTS.\n\nAND AS IF THAT WERE NOT ENOUGH...\nBLINDED BY JEALOUSY, SHE REPORTEDLY CAST A VILE CURSE UPON HER OWN SISTER, PRINCESS IREMIA.\n\nWHY ON EARTH IS SHE ALREADY WANDERING ABOUT...?\n\nWHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO...?\nTO THINK RUMORS ABOUT ME HAD SPREAD ALL THE WAY HERE...\nI'M SO MORTIFIED... SO ASHAMED...\n\nWH-WHAT?! WHY IS HE CHASING ME?!","bubble_count":118,"pages_count":42,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"In Clockwork Lovers Chapter Draft 2, Princess Rien faces a great trap when she learns she has married Duke Lysian, his brother, instead of the Lord Cassius she was expecting.","spoiler_summary":"In Clockwork Lovers Chapter Draft 2, Princess Rien faces a great trap when she learns she has married Duke Lysian, his brother, instead of the Lord Cassius she was expecting. As Lysian swears he will not harm her and asks for her trust, Rien decides she wants to live, faints, and upon waking hears from Corin about Cassius's disappearance and the rumors of a curse surrounding him."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/taeyeom-wireul-geonneun-yeonin-lhdsamfe/chapter-2-awmbwv","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Clockwork Lovers #2","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-20T00:18:55.913Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/taeyeom-wireul-geonneun-yeonin-lhdsamfe"}}