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Her stern yet compassionate conversation with the Duke connects to her past trauma, her jealousy toward her sister Iremia, the fake curses added to her lost diary, and her feeling of worthlessness.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Clockwork Lovers Chapter Draft 3 opens with Princess Rien wanting to go to a monastery to escape the unwanted marriage at Roche Noir. Her stern yet compassionate conversation with the Duke connects to her past trauma, her jealousy toward her sister Iremia, the fake curses added to her lost diary, and her feeling of worthlessness.","key_events":["The Duke argues the ducal castle is safer than a monastery and says he trusts his own observations over rumors.","The Princess recalls the lost diary incident where forged curse lines led to accusations of jealousy and malice.","The Duke meets the Princess outside and tells her not to be afraid or hide.","The Princess admits she sneaked out for fresh air and says she did not want the marriage and has her own plan.","The Princess attempts to write a petition to the Emperor to annul the marriage and send her to a monastery.","The Princess thinks the Duke is stern but kind and wants to leave to avoid being a burden."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"...PRINCESS.\n\nYOU HAVE NO NEED TO HIDE IN FEAR; I AM NO BEAST.\nYOU ARE NOT A HUNTED RABBIT,\nNOR ARE YOU SO SMALL.\n\nWH-WHAT IS WITH THIS MAN?! SAYING SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS...!\nI-I KNOW THAT!\nI MEAN... THAT I'M NOT THAT SMALL!\n\n...THE WIND BLOWS FIERCELY IN ROCHE NOIR, EVEN IN SPRING.\nHOWEVER STIFLED YOU MAY FEEL, WANDERING OUTSIDE IN YOUR CURRENT CONDITION SEEMS DANGEROUS.\nDID CORIN NOT TRY TO STOP YOU?\n\nI-I SLIPPED OUT ON MY OWN! I JUST WANTED SOME FRESH AIR...\nI WAS GOING TO HEAD RIGHT BACK INSIDE!\nPRINCESS, REGARDING WHAT MY SECRETARY SAID EARLIER...\n\nU-UM...!\nPLEASE DON'T PAY ANY MIND TO IT, BECAUSE-\n\nI DIDN'T WANT THIS MARRIAGE EITHER!\nLAST NIGHT... I WAS TOO OVERWHELMED TO THINK STRAIGHT, BUT...\nS-SOMEHOW, I'M GOING TO SORT THIS OUT!\n\nI HAVE A PLAN OF MY OWN, SO... PLEASE DON'T WORRY.\nI SHALL TAKE MY LEAVE FIRST, SO PLEASE RETURN INSIDE.\nDO YOU KNOW THE WAY?\n\nO-OF COURSE! I'M VERY GOOD AT FINDING MY WAY!\n\nHIS WAY OF SPEAKING IS BLUNT LIKE A SOLDIER'S,\nBUT HE SEEMS TO BE A KIND PERSON.\nWHICH IS ALL THE MORE REASON I CAN'T BURDEN SOMEONE LIKE HIM.\n\nPERHAPS WORD OF THAT INCIDENT HAS ALREADY REACHED ALL THE WAY HERE...\n\nTHE DAY MY SISTER SUDDENLY SAID THOSE WORDS TO ME,\nI WAS THROWN INTO UTTER TURMOIL.\n\n...THAT I WAS JEALOUS OF HER...\nAND RESENTED HER...?\n\nIT'S TRUE THAT I ENVIED HER...\nSHROUDED IN THE MOST SACRED OF PLACES, RADIANT AS IF SHE HELD ALL THE LIGHT IN THE WORLD,\nWHILE EVERY PERSON OF THE HOLY REALM GAZED UPON HER IN AWE AND YEARNING—\nLOOKING AT THAT SIGHT OVERWHELMED MY HEART, YET FILLED ME WITH ENVY.\n\nTHAT'S WHY, MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE, I RESENTED MYSELF...\nTO THINK I LOST THE PRECIOUS CHANCE TO DANCE BESIDE HER,\n\nALL BECAUSE I FOOLISHLY INJURED MY ANKLE...\n\n\"COMPARING HERSELF TO ME, DOWN TO THE VERY LAST STRAND OF HAIR.\"\n\nMY DIARY IS GONE!\n\"SISTER IREMIA'S HAIR IS DAZZLING, AS THOUGH BATHED IN SUNLIGHT,\"\n\n\"YET MY OWN HAIR IS DULL AND PLAIN, AS IF CAST IN SHADOW.\"\n\"HER EYES GLEAM CLEAR AND VIVID LIKE SUMMER LEAVES,\"\n\"WHILE MINE SEEM CLOUDED BY DARK, HAZY FOG.\"\nWHY ARE YOU READING SOMEONE ELSE'S DIARY WITHOUT PERMISSION?!\n\nGIVE IT BACK!\n\"IF SISTER'S DANCING RESEMBLES A BUTTERFLY TAKING FLIGHT INTO FREE AIR-\"\n\"THEN I AM MERELY A FALLEN LEAF STUCK IN MURKY MUD...\"\nI TOLD YOU TO GIVE IT BACK RIGHT NOW!\n\n\"IT IS ONLY NATURAL THAT DUKE CASSIUS FELL IN LOVE WITH SISTER INSTEAD.\"\n\"HE WOULDN'T EVEN SPARE A GLANCE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME.\"\n\n...PLEASE....\nPLEASE GIVE IT B-\n\n\"I WISH SISTER'S HAIR WOULD ALL BURN AWAY.\"\nWHAT...?\n\"I WISH SHE WOULD GO BLIND,\"\n\n\"AND HER ANKLES WOULD SHATTER.\"\nI NEVER WROTE ANYTHING LIKE THAT!\n\"THEN PERHAPS DUKE CASSIUS WOULD LOOK AT ME INSTEAD OF HER....\"\nNO!\n\nI NEVER WROTE WORDS LIKE THAT!\nYOU SAID IT YOURSELF,\nYOU ADMITTED THIS WAS YOUR DIARY.\n\nINDEED, YOU SPITEFUL LITTLE WENCH.\nPRETENDING TO BE SO INNOCENT ON THE OUTSIDE, WHILE ROTTING WITH MALICE ON THE INSIDE. A DECEITFUL LITTLE SNAKE.\n\nTHAT IS WHO YOU TRULY ARE.\nBOTH OF YOU, STOP IT.\n\nLEAVE RIEN ALONE.\nBUT SISTER! LOOK AT HOW WICKED SHE IS!\n\nTHIS VILE LITTLE BRAT FILLED HER DIARY WITH CURSES WISHING HARM UPON YOU!\n...EVERYONE HIDES A BIT OF UGLINESS IN A CORNER OF THEIR HEART.\nWHY SHOULD RIEN BE ANY DIFFERENT?\n...NO.\n\nSISTER, I SWEAR I NEVER WROTE THOSE THINGS.... IT WASN'T ME....\n...I TOLD YOU, RIEN.\nI UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY.\n\nANYONE CAN FEEL JEALOUSY.\nWHAT MATTERS IS THAT ONE DOESN'T ACT ON SUCH UGLY THOUGHTS.\n\nAFTER ALL, YOU COULD NEVER DO MORE THAN SCRIBBLE THEM IN A DIARY, MY SWEET LITTLE SISTER RIEN.\nI'M NOT ANGRY WITH YOU.\n\nIT FELT AS THOUGH I WERE BEING CRUSHED TO PIECES.\nAS IF MY VERY EXISTENCE WERE BEING DISTORTED,\nLOSING ITS SHAPE,\nAND CRUMBLING INTO NOTHINGNESS.\n\nI'M TERRIFIED...\nWHAT IF I LOSE WHO I AM FOREVER LIKE THIS?\nI WOULD RATHER HIDE AWAY.\n\nIN A PLACE WHERE NO ONE CAN EVER SEE ME...\nTo your Imperial Majesty Abaddonium Graufolt, the Unceasing Heart of the Empire:\n\nHOW SHOULD I BEGIN...\nWHEN IT COMES TO WRITING IT, MY MIND GOES BLANK...\nWHEN YOU SAID YOU WOULD SORT THINGS OUT SOMEHOW,\nDID YOU MEAN YOU TO WRITE A LETTER TO HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY?\n\nPRINCESS,\n\nREGARDING THE RUMOR MY SECRETARY SPOKE OF EARLIER...\nI ALREADY TOLD YOU, I DIDN'T WANT THIS EITHER!\nTHAT IS WHY I AM PETITIONING HIS MAJESTY.\nASKING HIM TO ANNUL THIS MARRIAGE AND SEND ME TO A MONASTERY INSTEAD.\n\nTHE SHOES AND CLOTHES THAT WERE PREPARED IN ADVANCE—\nNONE OF THEM FIT ME; THEY WERE ALL FAR TOO LARGE.\nBECAUSE THEY WERE MADE FOR MY SISTER....\nYOU WOULD BE FAR SAFER IN THE DUCAL CASTLE THAN IN A MONASTERY.\n\nEVEN IN TERMS OF COMFORT, THOUGH THE DUCAL CASTLE MAY PALE IN COMPARISON TO LUCIDORIA'S ROYAL PALACE...\nIT'S NOT BECAUSE OF THINGS LIKE THAT...!\n...I DON'T WANT TO LEAN ON ANOTHER'S GOODWILL ONLY TO BECOME A BURDEN.\nTHE KINDER SOMEONE IS, THE MORE THEY WILL QUIETLY SWALLOW THE DISCOMFORT I CAUSE THEM.\nBESIDES, I DON'T WANT TO MARRY SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T LOVE ME EITHER...\n\nSO... THIS MARRIAGE SERVES NEITHER OF US ANY BENEFIT...\nPLEASE, WOULDN'T BE BETTER FOR YOU THIS WAY, TOO? YOU WANTED SISTER IREMIA!\n\nI AM WELL AWARE PRINCESS IREMIA BRINGS POLITICAL ADVANTAGES TO THE DUCHY.\nBUT SETTING THAT JUSTIFICATION ASIDE, PLEASE GIVE ME ONE REASON WHY I SHOULD DESIRE HER.\nWHY, BECAUSE-!\nWHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS MAN? WHY ASK THE OBVIOUS?\nDOES HE WANT ME TO SAY IT WITH MY OWN LIPS?\n\nSHE IS BEAUTIFUL, DIGNIFIED, ELEGANT...\n...AND EXCEEDINGLY WISE....\nIF SO,\nDOES THAT MEAN YOU ARE HIDEOUS, UNDIGNIFIED, AND FOOLISH?\n\nWOULDN'T YOU SAY I'M EVEN WORSE THAN HIDEOUS, UNDIGNIFIED, AND FOOLISH?\nAFTER ALL, I'M A LIAR AND A VENOMOUS, DELUSIONAL LUNATIC.\nYOU SEEM REMARKABLY CANDID TO ME RIGHT NOW, PRINCESS.\n\nARE YOU PLAYING WORD GAMES WITH ME RIGHT NOW?\nI MEAN, ANY MAN WOULD NATURALLY FALL FOR SISTER...!\n...IF THAT IS THE CRITERIA,\n\nTHEN AS A MAN, PRINCESS RIEN, YOU ARE FAR MORE MY TYPE.\n\nTHE INK HAS SMUDGED.\nIT WILL STAIN YOUR HAND.\nI IMAGINE MY WORDS SOUND LIKE A JOKE, AND YOU FIND THEM HARD TO BELIEVE.\n\nAFTER ALL, YOU DO NOT KNOW ME WELL, PRINCESS.\nWHEN SEEKING TO UNDERSTAND A PERSON,\nI RELY ON MY OWN JUDGMENT THROUGH WHAT I OBSERVE AND EXPERIENCE FIRSTHAND, RATHER THAN IDLE RUMORS CARRIED BY THE WIND.\nYET EVEN THAT JUDGMENT CAN NEVER FULLY DEFINE YOU.\n\nDO NOT LOSE YOURSELF TO THE CARELESS DEFINITIONS OF OTHERS.\nI WILL BE GRANTED AN AUDIENCE WITH HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY IN THE NEAR FUTURE.\n\nI HOPE THAT ON THAT DAY, THE QUESTIONS WEIGHING ON YOUR MIND WILL FIND THEIR ANSWERS.\n\nHER FACE SHOWED UTTER BEWILDERMENT AND SHOCK.\n...SHE MUST HAVE EXPECTED MY BROTHER.\nNOT ME.","bubble_count":137,"pages_count":51,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Clockwork Lovers Chapter Draft 3 opens with Princess Rien wanting to go to a monastery to escape the unwanted marriage at Roche Noir.","spoiler_summary":"Clockwork Lovers Chapter Draft 3 opens with Princess Rien wanting to go to a monastery to escape the unwanted marriage at Roche Noir. 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