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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":"The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway","slug":"the-broken-ring-this-marriage-will-fail-anyway-douf3qpc","original_title":"这个婚反正也要完蛋 - Gyeolhon'eun Eochapi Manghage Doeeoissda - 이 결혼은 어차피 망하게 되어 있다 - El anillo roto: Este matrimonio fracasará de todos modos - Este matrimonio está destinado a fracasar - L'anello spezzato:…"},"chapter":{"number":10,"chapter_key":"10-qxianb","title":"Chapter 9","release_date":"2026-11-10","last_updated":"2026-11-10T12:35:44.032Z","summary":"The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway Chapter 9 tells how Inés Valeztena's first life ended at the age of 26. While living in luxury and praise as Crown Prince Oscar's fiancée, she starves herself to look thin, vomits what she eats, and tries to be the perfect woman. After marriage, she suffers four miscarriages, is blamed by the imperial family, learns that she lost her children because of diseases from Oscar's debauchery, and kills herself, telling him she will make him the prince who drove her to suicide.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway Chapter 9 tells how Inés Valeztena's first life ended at the age of 26. While living in luxury and praise as Crown Prince Oscar's fiancée, she starves herself to look thin, vomits what she eats, and tries to be the perfect woman. After marriage, she suffers four miscarriages, is blamed by the imperial family, learns that she lost her children because of diseases from Oscar's debauchery, and kills herself, telling him she will make him the prince who drove her to suicide.","key_events":["She commits suicide to make him the first prince to drive his wife to suicide and exposes his affairs in will.","She starves herself to stay thin, pretends to eat large portions at official dinners then vomits.","She learns husband's venereal diseases caused children's deaths and he forced himself on her while pregnant.","After death she wakes up in childhood hunting grounds with no understanding of what happened.","In youth she becomes fashion pioneer in Mendoza and popularizes tanned skin praised by magazines.","Ines recounts her first life ended at age 26 as result of her own decisions after dying once before.","During 10-year marriage she suffers four miscarriages and is blamed and scorned by imperial family."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"A STORY OF INÉS VALEZTENA FROM INÉS VALEZTENA'S POINT OF VIEW\nINÉS' FIRST LIFE ENDED AT THE AGE OF 26.\nONLY THOSE WHO HAVE DIED KNOW HOW LONG A LIFETIME IS.\nThis episode contains depictions of eating disorders, rape, and suicide. Reader discretion is advised.\nWarning\n\nAND THAT IS HOW I, TOO, CAME TO KNOW THE LIMITS OF MY FLEETINGLY INSIGNIFICANT LIFE.\nI KNEW BECAUSE I HAD DIED ONCE BEFORE,\n\nBUT THE KNOWLEDGE I OBTAINED HAD NOT COME SOLELY FROM DEATH.\nAFTER ALL, MY FIRST LIFE ENDING AT THE AGE OF 26...\n...WAS THE RESULT OF NONE OTHER THAN MY OWN DECISIONS.\n\nIT HAPPENED SO LONG AGO,\nBUT THE HOPELESSNESS I FELT AT THE TIME IS STILL FRESH IN MY MIND.\nI REMEMBER THE CROWN PRINCE'S DOLTISH FACE BEING THE LAST THING I SAW...\n\n...AND THE CHAOS THAT ENSUED IN MY 26TH YEAR.\nTHE ONE AND ONLY DAUGHTER OF DUKE VALEZTENA HAD ACHIEVED THE STATUS OF BEING PART OF THE GRANDES DE ORTEGA.\nSHE HAD BEEN BORN INTO ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL FAMILIES IN THE EMPIRE,\n\nAND SHE WAS A LADY WHO ENJOYED BEING ADORNED EXTRAVAGANTLY.\nTHE DUKE SPARED NO EXPENSE TO SATISFY HIS DAUGHTER'S FINE TASTE,\nLEADING HER TO BECOME A CONSTANT LEADER IN FASHION IN THE CITY OF MENDOZA.\nBACK IN THOSE DAYS, NOBLEWOMEN WOULD REGULARLY APPLY ALMOST-TOXIC POWDERS TO THEIR SKIN TO MAKE IT LOOK PALER,\nBUT AFTER INÉS RETURNED FROM A SUMMER TRIP WITH BRONZED SKIN, TANNING SOON GAINED POPULARITY.\n\nINÉS WAS TRULY LIVING THE HIGH LIFE.\nEVERY WEEK, MAGAZINES WERE BUSY PRAISING THE CROWN PRINCE'S FIANCÉE FOR HER CLASS AND DIGNITY.\nSHE WAS BELOVED BY THE CROWN PRINCE,\nAND SHE WAS LIVING THE LIFE OF A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG CROWN PRINCESS.\nAT THE TIME, INÉS WAS SO HAPPY WITH HER PERFECT LIFE...\n\n...THAT SHE MADE AN EFFORT TO PERFECT IT EVEN MORE.\nEVERY DAY, SHE NAGGED HER SEAMSTRESSES TO DESIGN NEW DRESSES FOR HER...\n...AND SHE COMBED THROUGH COUNTLESS INVITATIONS TO DECIDE WHICH EVENTS WOULD BOTH IMPROVE HER REPUTATION...\n...AND ALLOW HER TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTION.\nINÉS OFTEN EVEN STARVED HERSELF IN PURSUIT OF A SLIM WAIST,\n\nBUT BECAUSE SHE WANTED PEOPLE TO THINK SHE HAD BEEN BORN WITH A NATURALLY SLIM BODY,\nSHE MADE A SHOW OF EATING BIG MEALS WHENEVER SHE ATTENDED A FORMAL DINNER.\nMEANWHILE, SHE WAS VOMITING UP EVERYTHING SHE ATE AFTERWARD.\nWAS SHE LIVING A NORMAL LIFE?\n\nINÉS WASN'T SURE.\nIT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT SHE BEGAN SPIRALING WITH DOUBT.\nSHE COULDN'T TELL WHETHER SHE HAD DONE IT ALL TO BECOME THE PERFECT WOMAN FOR THE CROWN PRINCE...\n...OR IF SHE HAD SIMPLY USED HIM TO ACHIEVE HER PERFECT LIFE.\nBUT SHE DID LOVE HIM.\nSHE LOVED HIM THOUGH IT HAD ONLY BEEN A FEW YEARS, AND EVEN THOUGH HE HAD MADE HER FALL FOR HIS DESPICABLE LIES,\n\nAND EVEN IF HER REASONS HAD BEEN VAIN AND IT WAS ACTUALLY THE REPUTATION AND STATUS THAT SHE LOVED...\nLOVE?\nHOW COULD IT HAVE BEEN LOVE?\nHOW COULD SHE HAVE LOVED SOMEONE LIKE HIM EVEN FOR A MOMENT?\n\nINÉS HAD SUFFERED FOUR MISCARRIAGES,\n\nAND EACH TIME SHE LOST A BABY, BOTH THE IMPERIAL FAMILY AND THE EMPRESS...\n...BLAMED HER FOR IT AND OPENLY ASSAULTED HER WITH THEIR DISDAIN.\nTHAT WAS HER LIFE AS A MARRIED WOMAN FOR 10 YEARS.\n\nOSCAR NEVER ONCE TOOK HER SIDE...\n...AND HE IGNORED HER PLEAS FOR COMFORT.\nIN FACT, HE EVEN CONCLUDED THAT SHE HAD BEEN BORN WITH A CURSED WOMB THAT COULDN'T PRODUCE A LIVING CHILD.\nALTHOUGH HER LIFE DAZZLED FROM THE OUTSIDE, SHE WAS DYING ON THE INSIDE.\nTHINGS WERE FAR FROM NORMAL FOR HER AFTER SHE GOT MARRIED.\nNORMAL LIFE WAS SIMPLY AN IMPOSSIBILITY.\n\nIN THE END,\nWHEN SHE LEARNED THAT HER PERFECTLY PRISTINE HUSBAND HAD BEEN INFECTED WITH EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE FROM HIS DEBAUCHED LIFESTYLE...\n...AND THAT THAT HAD BEEN THE CAUSE FOR ALL OF HER CHILDREN DYING...\n\nWHEN SHE WAS TORTURED BY THE MEMORIES OF ALL THOSE TERRIBLE NIGHTS...\n...WHEN HER FILTHY HUSBAND HAD FORCED HIMSELF ONTO HER PREGNANT BODY,\nIGNORING HER ATTEMPTS TO REFUSE HIM...\n...JUST TO SATISFY HIS OWN DESIRE...\nHE WAS THE ONLY MAN SHE HAD EVER KNOWN,\n\nAND HER BODY WAS NOW MARRED WITH PROOF OF ALL THE DEPRAVED NIGHTS HE HAD SPENT WITH OTHER WOMEN.\nSHE HAD NEVER DONE...\n\n...A SHAMEFUL THING IN HER LIFE,\nYET SHE WAS BEING PUNISHED...\n\n...FOR HAVING MARRIED THAT CESSPOOL OF A HUMAN.\nBUT EVEN WORSE THAN THE DISEASES HE CARRIED...\n...WAS HIS DESIRE.\n\nHE WAS WELL AWARE OF THE AWFUL DISEASES HE CARRIED,\nBUT NOT ONCE DID HE HESITATE TO PLEASURE HIMSELF ANYWAY ON HIS UNASSUMING WIFE.\nHE DIDN'T HAVE A CARE ABOUT HIS WIFE OR BEGETTING AN HEIR.\nIT WASN'T EVEN THAT HE DID IT TO SPITE HER.\n\nHE SIMPLY DID WHAT HE DID WITHOUT A THOUGHT.\nWHEN SHE LOOKED BACK ON HER LIFE, SHE CONSIDERED THE FOUR MISCARRIAGES SHE HAD TO BE BLESSINGS.\nIF EVEN ONE OF THOSE CHILDREN HAD SURVIVED,\nINÉS. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS.\nIT WOULD'VE BEEN AN IRREVERSIBLE SIN.\n\nYOU AREN'T IN YOUR RIGHT MIND.\nYOU AREN'T ABLE TO THINK CLEARLY RIGHT NOW.\nMY MIND HAS NEVER BEEN CLEARER.\nTHE FACT THAT SHE HADN'T BIRTHED A SINGLE LIVING CHILD WAS THE ONLY CONSOLATION IN HER MISERABLE LIFE.\n\nYOU SAID NO ONE IN THE ORTEGA FAMILY HAS EVER GOTTEN DIVORCED, DIDN'T YOU?\nYOU TOLD ME THAT YOU COULDN'T BE THE FIRST FAILURE IN THE IMPERIAL FAMILY.\nWELL, NOW I'M GOING TO TURN YOU INTO A TRUE FAILURE.\n\nYOU...\n...WILL BE THE VERY FIRST PRINCE TO MAKE HIS WIFE COMMIT SUICIDE.\nI'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF...\n...BECAUSE LIVING WITH YOU DISGUSTS ME.\nI CAN'T SPEND ANOTHER MINUTE,\nNO, NOT EVEN ONE MORE SECOND,\n\nWITH SOMEONE LIKE YOU.\n\nJUST LIKE THAT, SHE HAD KILLED HERSELF.\nNO ONE COULD'VE COME UP WITH A MORE PEACEFUL CONCLUSION.\n\nHER DEATH HAD NOT HARMED ANYONE,\nNOT EVEN THE CROWN PRINCE WHO WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A GUTTER RAT.\nTHE ONLY HARM HE SUFFERED WAS AS A RESULT OF HER WILL...\n...WHERE SHE REVEALED ALL THE DETAILS OF HIS FILTHY SEXUAL ESCAPADES.\nSHE HADN'T EXPECTED TO RECEIVE ANY GREAT COMPENSATION.\nSHE MERELY HOPED THAT IF THERE WAS A GOD, SHE WOULD BE TAKEN TO A BETTER PLACE.\nAND WITH THAT, SHE CLOSED HER EYES, RESOLVED THAT IT WOULDN'T MATTER EVEN IF THAT WASN'T THE CASE.\n\nSO WHEN SHE WOKE UP ON THE HUNTING GROUND WHERE SHE'D SPENT HER CHILDHOOD,\n\nSHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT HAD HAPPENED.","bubble_count":104,"pages_count":29,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway Chapter 9 tells how Inés Valeztena's first life ended at the age of 26.","spoiler_summary":"The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway Chapter 9 tells how Inés Valeztena's first life ended at the age of 26. While living in luxury and praise as Crown Prince Oscar's fiancée, she starves herself to look thin, vomits what she eats, and tries to be the perfect woman. After marriage, she suffers four miscarriages, is blamed by the imperial family, learns that she lost her children because of diseases from Oscar's debauchery, and kills herself, telling him she will make him the prince who drove her to suicide."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/the-broken-ring-this-marriage-will-fail-anyway-douf3qpc/chapter-10-qxianb","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway #10: Chapter 9","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-10T16:13:38.776Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/the-broken-ring-this-marriage-will-fail-anyway-douf3qpc"}}