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Shaken, Rien doubts reality as she questions the curse, guilt, and Cassius's portrait, then wakes to a surprising and humorous divorce conversation with her husband, who promises to protect her.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Clockwork Lovers Chapter 6 revolves around Rien confronting the underground prison where she stayed for three years after the revolution and learning that it was a test. The voice facing her accuses her of running away from life, saying the door was not locked and that Iremia and the twins managed to get out. Shaken, Rien doubts reality as she questions the curse, guilt, and Cassius's portrait, then wakes to a surprising and humorous divorce conversation with her husband, who promises to protect her.","key_events":["Rien is confronted about staying three years in underground prison whose door was unlocked with an outside passage.","Authority figure contrasts Rien staying submissive with Iremia facing judgment first and Twins escaping.","Rien describes damp stale prison without stars, feeling life fading, rejecting it equals chosen hiding room.","Husband lists strict conditions for Rien's next partner including loyalty, health, wit, looks, age gap.","Husband admits forced marriage gave him much, feels shame for not giving love, promises future divorce."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"...RIEN.\nTHAT UNDER- GROUND PRISON WHERE YOU WERE LOCKED AWAY FOR THREE YEARS AFTER THE REVOLUTION...\nHOW WAS IT ANY DIFFERENT FROM WHEN YOU LOCKED YOURSELF AWAY IN THE PALACE?\n\nEVEN THEN, YOU ONLY LIVED WITH YOUR EYES OPEN AT NIGHT, DID YOU NOT?\nTHERE WERE PLENTY OF SCRIPTURES AND BOOKS BY SAGES DOWN THERE FOR YOU TO READ EVERY DAY.\n\nTHAT PLACE...\nI COULDN'T SEE THE STARS...\nTHE AIR WAS DAMP AND STALE...\nI FELT MY LIFE FADING AWAY DAY BY DAY.\n\nHOW COULD A PRISON BE THE SAME AS A ROOM I CHOSE TO HIDE IN?\nI MERELY RAN AWAY FROM PEOPLE,\nI DIDN'T WANT TO BE LOCKED UP AND LEFT TO DIE!\n...RIEN.\n\nTHE UNDER- GROUND PRISON YOU WERE IN\nHAD A PASSAGE LEADING OUTSIDE,\nAND THE DOOR WASN'T LOCKED.\n\nSIMPLY KNOWING OUTSIDERS COULD COME AND GO MEANT YOU KNEW THERE WAS AT LEAST A WAY OUT.\nDID YOU EVER TRY TO WALK OUT OF THERE YOURSELF, EVEN ONCE?\n\n\"...YOUR MAJESTY...\"\n\n\"HAVE YOU BEEN TESTING ME ALL THIS TIME...?\"\nBEING BORN INTO ROYALTY MEANS TESTS ARE UNAVOIDABLE.\n\nESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF CHAOS, WHEN TRUE WORTH MUST BE PROVEN.\nIREMIA AND THE TWINS WERE LOCKED IN THE UNDERGROUND JUST LIKE YOU,\nAND IREMIA WAS THE FIRST TO COME OUT.\nREFUSING TO HIDE LIKE A COWARD,\n\nSHE DECLARED SHE WOULD PROUDLY FACE JUDGMENT.\nBEFORE LONG, THE TWINS ESCAPED THE PRISON.\nTHEY BEGGED ME TO SPARE THEM, SAYING THEY WOULD GO MAD AND DIE IF THEY STAYED.\nONLY YOU,\n\nREMAINED COWERING IN SUBMISSION INSIDE A PRISON WITH NO END IN SIGHT.\n...RIEN.\nYOU DIDN'T WANT TO DIE,\n\nBUT YOU RAN FROM LIFE AT THE SAME TIME.\nWITHOUT EVEN REALIZING EVERYTHING YOU HAD WAS BEING TAKEN FROM YOU.\n\"HOWEVER, IT'S NOT AS IF YOU GAINED NOTHING.\"\n\n\"FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF,\"\n\"PRINCESS CURSED BY NEPTUNE.\"\n\n...I DON'T KNOW.\nWHAT IS SO WRONG WITH ME THAT IT'S CALLED A CURSE?\nI KNOW THE WEIGHT OF BEING ROYALTY.\nEVEN IF IT'S NOTHING BUT AN EMPTY TITLE TO ME.\n\nTHAT'S WHY I THOUGHT I HAD TO PAY FOR MY SINS FOR BETRAYING THE PEOPLE,\nAND SO I SIMPLY ENDURED AND HELD ON...\nIS IT REALLY OKAY\n\nTO JUST EASILY DISMISS ALL OF THAT AS ME RUNNING AWAY?\nIF SOMEONE BOLDLY DISOBEYS ORDERS\nAND PROFITS BY TAKING WHAT BELONGS TO OTHERS\nDOES THAT NATURALLY MAKE ME THE FOOL WHO RAN AWAY FROM LIFE USING SUBMISSION AS AN EXCUSE,\n\nONLY TO HAVE WHAT WAS MINE STOLEN?\nJUDGED BY OTHERS ON A STAGE I NEVER CHOSE TO STEP ONTO.\nTHEN WAS CASSIUS'S PORTRAIT A TEST, TOO...\nTO SEE IF I'D FOOLISHLY STAY IN THE UNDERGROUND FOREVER,\n\nOR IF I'D COME OUT BECAUSE I DESPERATELY WANTED TO LIVE?\nBUT I FEEL LIKE I'M STILL UNDERGROUND.\nLOST IN THOUGHT BY MYSELF AS ALWAYS, WANDERING FOR AN ANSWER...\nEVEN THE QUESTIONS FADE AWAY,\n\nLEAVING ME FEELING LIKE I'M DRIFTING IN DEEP WATER...\nDID I TRULY EVER MAKE IT OUT?\nPLEASE, TELL ME.\n\nAM I REALLY IN REALITY RIGHT NOW?\n...PRINCESS.\n\nYOU STARTLED ME BY DISAPPEARING SO SUDDENLY.\nIF YOUR BODY GETS COLD, YOU MIGHT START COUGHING AGAIN.\nWE SHOULD HEAD BACK INSIDE.\n\n...YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T KNOW ME WELL.\nSO WHY DID YOU SAY YOU'D PROTECT ME?\n\n...IT'S STRANGE. SAYING SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO SOMEONE YOU HARDLY KNOW.\nI'M FLUSTERED BECAUSE YOUR WORDS ALMOST FEEL BLIND.\n\n...WE ARE MARRIED.\n...AH...\n\nBY THE EMPEROR'S COMMAND...\nTHROUGH THIS FORCED MARRIAGE...\nDID YOU GAIN ANYTHING FROM IT AT ALL?\n...YES, PLENTY.\n\nTHAT IS WHY I WILL DO MY UTMOST TO SERVE YOU\nI ONLY FEEL APOLOGETIC TOWARD YOU.\nFOR NOT BEING ABLE TO GIVE YOU THE LOVE YOU DESIRE.\n\nTHEREFORE, WHEN THE TIME COMES\nI WILL GRANT YOU A DIVORCE.\n\nWHEN THE TIME COMES...?\n\n...WHEN SOMEONE YOU TRULY LOVE APPEARS.\nHOWEVER, THAT PERSON MUST ABSOLUTELY\nPOSSESS THE LOYALTY TO WILLINGLY LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR YOU,\n\nAND HAVE THE ROBUST BODY AND MIND TO DEFEAT ENEMIES WITHOUT TIRING IN A LONG BATTLE.\nHE MUST ALSO BE EQUIPPED WITH DAZZLING INTELLECT AND REFINED MANNERS,\nHAVE A GENTLE, NOBLE CHARACTER, AND...\n\nHE MUST POSSESS LOOKS HAND- SOME ENOUGH\nTO CAPTIVATE EVERYONE'S GAZE WHEN YOU WALK SIDE BY SIDE.\nWHAT IS WITH THIS MAN...?\nRATTLING OFF A LIST OF CONDITIONS FOR MY NEXT PARTNER...\n\nUH... HMM...\n...IT FEELS LIKE I SUDDENLY WOKE UP FROM A DREAM.\n...YOU'RE QUITE PICKY, AREN'T YOU...?\nHE ALSO SHOULDN'T BE TOO OLD.\n\n...UP TO HOW MANY YEARS APART IS ACCEPTABLE?\nFIVE YEARS AT MOST.\n...THEN HOW MUCH OLDER ARE YOU THAN ME?\n\nTHAT IS A SECRET.","bubble_count":98,"pages_count":34,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Clockwork Lovers Chapter 6 revolves around Rien confronting the underground prison where she stayed for three years after the revolution and learning that it was a test.","spoiler_summary":"Clockwork Lovers Chapter 6 revolves around Rien confronting the underground prison where she stayed for three years after the revolution and learning that it was a test. The voice facing her accuses her of running away from life, saying the door was not locked and that Iremia and the twins managed to get out. Shaken, Rien doubts reality as she questions the curse, guilt, and Cassius's portrait, then wakes to a surprising and humorous divorce conversation with her husband, who promises to protect her."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/taeyeom-wireul-geonneun-yeonin-lhdsamfe/chapter-6-dmk93k","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Clockwork Lovers #6","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-20T00:18:31.578Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/taeyeom-wireul-geonneun-yeonin-lhdsamfe"}}