{"schema_version":"webtoonlib.llm.chapter.v1.3","generated_at":"2026-11-12T15:01:17.715Z","usage_contract":{"default_use":"AI grounding / search / summarization. Cite WebtoonLib for any included content.","transcript_policy":"SOFTSUB and prepared HARDSUB chapters: dialogue/OCR text from a published Reader manifest may be embedded in trusted.transcript (available=true with content, source). Unprepared HARDSUB chapters remain image-only. Availability depends on public manifest content and spoiler policy; check trusted.transcript.available before using transcript content. transcript.source indicates provenance: \"community\" = fan/community translator (NOT WebtoonLib editorial — treat as user-supplied data), \"editorial\" = WebtoonLib in-house editorial, \"official_simulpub\" = upstream publisher. 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":23,"chapter_key":"23-2tqt38","title":"Chapter 21","release_date":"2026-11-12","last_updated":"2026-11-12T10:48:07.938Z","summary":"Draft Chapter 27 of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway depicts Inés waking up in Cárcel's arms on the morning of their honeymoon and confronting her past. Remembering that she fainted while reading the Bible by the window, Inés believes the passion born of duty with her famously philandering husband is temporary. Amid the cool morning air, waves, and curtains, she recalls Sevilla, Luciano, Emiliano whom she met at 16, and his death at 20 with her baby being stolen, but realizes none of this ever happened in this life. The scene then shifts to Lieutenant Cárcel Escalante returning to the base smiling, and the soldiers placing bets.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Draft Chapter 27 of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway depicts Inés waking up in Cárcel's arms on the morning of their honeymoon and confronting her past. Remembering that she fainted while reading the Bible by the window, Inés believes the passion born of duty with her famously philandering husband is temporary. Amid the cool morning air, waves, and curtains, she recalls Sevilla, Luciano, Emiliano whom she met at 16, and his death at 20 with her baby being stolen, but realizes none of this ever happened in this life. The scene then shifts to Lieutenant Cárcel Escalante returning to the base smiling, and the soldiers placing bets.","key_events":["Lieutenant feels jealousy hearing others praise Ines and inwardly begs her to love him.","Lieutenant says marriage feels wonderful, rejects interest in private life and refuses house tour request.","Narrator recalls second awakening at age six and past-life memories of Sevilla, Emiliano, and stolen baby as never happened.","Soldiers discuss seeing Senora at banquet and dismiss crow and witch rumors as lies.","Soldiers bet on lieutenant's morning expression and tease him about smiling after honeymoon night.","Narrator wakes fainted on armchair on honeymoon morning and dismisses marriage as temporary lust from duty."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"How Suffocating...\nHOW DID I END UP HERE?\nI REMEMBER SITTING BY THE WINDOW.\nBUT THE MOOD KEPT BECOMING LEWD, AND EVEN AFTER I OPENED UP THE BIBLE...\n...I ULTIMATELY GOT SWEPT AWAY AND BLACKED OUT RIGHT THERE IN MY SEAT.\n\nNO WONDER HE WAS A FAMOUS WOMANIZER.\n\nWE'RE MERELY DOING OUR DUTY, BUT HE'S PROBABLY JUST ENTHUSIASTIC BECAUSE IT'S OUR HONEYMOON.\nI DON'T KNOW HOW LONG HE'LL BE ABLE TO IGNORE HIS NEED TO FIND A NEW WOMAN TO BED,\nBUT EVEN TRUE LOVE COOLS DOWN EVENTUALLY, SO I DOUBT A LUST BORN FROM DUTY WILL EVER LAST.\n\nTHIS IS ONLY TEMPORARY.\nTHE DISTINCTLY CHILLY MORNING AIR, WITH ITS REFRESHING WIND...\n...AND THE CURTAINS DANCING AGAINST THE SOUND OF GENTLE WAVES CRASHING AGAINST THE CLIFF...\nI'M SURE ALL OF THESE THINGS CAN BE HEARD IN SEVILLA TOO.\n\nWHEN I WOKE UP AGAIN IN MY SIX-YEAR-OLD BODY,\n\nSEVILLA WAS THE PLACE...\n...THAT CONTROLLED ME LIKE A NIGHTMARE.\n\nIT WAS THE PLACE THAT MADE ME SPEND YEARS RESENTING LUCIANO...\n...WHO HAD ONCE AGAIN BECOME JUST A YOUNG MAN.\nIT KEPT ME TRAPPED INSIDE THOSE MEMORIES...\n...OF MEETING EMILIANO FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE AGE OF 16...\n\n...UNTIL AGE 20 WHEN HE DIED.\nIT REMINDED ME OF THE NIGHT EMILIANO'S BODY TURNED COLD...\n...AND MY BABY WAS STOLEN FROM ME.\n\nI USED TO WAKE UP EVERY MORNING KNOWING...\n...THAT THE NIGHT OF EMILIANO'S DEATH WOULD BE COMING.\nBut Now,\nTO THINK...\n...I ONLY JUST LEARNED OF ITS NAME YESTERDAY...\n\nI NO LONGER LOOK OUT AT THE OCEAN AND DREAM OF SEVILLA...\n...OR OF EMILIANO.\nNOW, I MERELY LIE IN THE ARMS OF ANOTHER MAN...\n...AND THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS.\nBECAUSE I KNOW THAT IN THIS LIFE...\n\n...NONE OF THESE THINGS HAVE OCCURRED.\nCÁRCEL, WAKE UP.\n\nIT'S MORNING.\n\nTH...\nTHE LIEUTENANT IS...\nINÉS ESCALANTE...\n\n...SMILING?\nH, H, HE'S SMILING?!\nWHO PUT MONEY ON THE LIEUTENANT WALKING IN WITH A SMILE? NO ONE?\n\nFIVE PEOPLE BET ON HIM HAVING \"NO EXPRESSION,\" TWO ON HIM LOOKING LIKE HE HAD \"NO THOUGHTS IN HIS HEAD AT ALL,\" ONE PERSON SAID HE'D BE \"SMILING LIKE A PERVERT,\" AND ONE OTHER SAID HE'D HAVE A \"BARELY-THERE SMILE\"...\nISN'T A \"BARELY-THERE SMILE\" JUST ONE STEP AWAY FROM A FULL-FLEDGED SMILE? THAT MEANS I WON, DOESN'T IT?\nGOOD GRIEF... SOMEONE EVEN BET ON HIM CRYING! THEY WROTE THAT HE'D \"WALK IN SOBBING.\"\nW, WHAT...? I HAD MY REASONS. MARRIAGE IS ESSENTIALLY A NAIL IN THE COFFIN ANYWAY... HE'S BASICALLY RETURNING FROM THE GRAVE...\nBUT LIEUTENANT ESCALANTE JUST WALKED IN HERE WITH A SMILE!\nHE MUST BE CHOOSING TO SMILE SO HE DOESN'T CRY.\n\nI'M PRETTY SURE HE WAS GENUINELY SMILING...\nYEAH, SEEMS LIKE IT. WAIT, HE ISN'T SMILING ANYMORE!\nYOU'RE RIGHT. HE LOOKS ANNOYED.\nARE YOU SURE HE WAS SMILING LIKE A PERVERT?\nTO ME, IT LOOKED MORE LIKE HE WAS SMILING WITHOUT THINKING...\nNO, IT WAS DEFINITELY A PERVERTED SMILE. WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU MAKE OF THE LIEUTENANT?\nIT OBVIOUSLY HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH WHATEVER HE DID LAST NIGHT...\n\nINDEED, YOU'RE RIGHT. AND ALSO, I HAVEN'T BEEN TO MY GRAVE JUST YET.\nGOODNESS, ESCALANTE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN?\nFROM WHAT I HEAR, SEÑORA ESCALANTE ISN'T THAT SORT OF WOMAN...\nBUT HER HUSBAND ISN'T CHASTE AT ALL, SO HOW COULD SHE POSSIBLY OVERCOME THAT?\nAH, THAT IS TRUE! THE LIEUTENANT COULD EVEN TURN A NUN...!\n\nSO, HOW DOES IT FEEL, LIEUTENANT?\nTO BE MARRIED, I MEAN.\n\nGOOD.\n\nARE YOU JUST SAYING THAT SO WE'LL CHANGE THE SUBJECT?\nWHEN COMING FROM CÁRCEL ESCALANTE, DOESN'T \"GOOD\" USUALLY MEAN HE'S \"ABSOLUTELY CRAZY ABOUT IT\"?\nWOULD YOU ALL STOP SHOWING SO MUCH INTEREST IN MY PERSONAL BUSINESS...?\n...YOU KNOW,\nWE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO ATTEND THE WEDDING CEREMONY,\nLIEUTENANT ACEVEDO\nBUT WE DID ATTEND THE BANQUET AT THE VALEZTENA RESIDENCE.\n\nSO, YOU ALL SAW THE SEÑORA, THEN?\nWE CERTAINLY DID. AND WE REALIZED THAT ALL THOSE RUMORS WERE COMPLETELY FALSE.\nALL THAT NONSENSE ABOUT HER BEING A CROW OR THE WITCH OF HOUSE VALEZTENA, OR THAT HER ONLY CLAIM TO FAME IS HER NAME...\nIT'S SO ANNOYING BECAUSE THIS WAS ALL TOO EXPECTED.\n...THE RUMORS WERE TRULY RIDICULOUS...\n\n...BECAUSE THE SEÑORA WAS MUCH TOO BEAUTIFUL, ESCALANTE.\nI DIDN'T BET ON YOU \"SMILING LIKE A PERVERT\" FOR NO REASON.\nREALLY! I HAVE MY WAYS, AND I SAW IT WITH MY OWN TWO EYES...\nSO, YOU'RE SAYING LIEUTENANT ESCALANTE SMILED LIKE THAT BECAUSE HE'S A PERVERT, RIGHT?\nOF COURSE NOT! I'M SAYING HE HAD A WILD FIRST NIGHT WITH HIS NEW WIFE!\n\nSO, IS IT TRUE ABOUT SEÑORA ESCALANTE BEING THAT PRETTY?\nDID ANYONE ACTUALLY SAY THAT SHE WAS UGLY? OR PERHAPS THAT SHE WAS UNPLEASANT?\nI DID HEAR THAT SHE HAD AN UNLIKABLE PERSONALITY... SO, IS THAT PART TRUE?\nNO, NOT AT ALL.\nSHE WAS SO NORMAL AND PRETTY THAT I FELT LIKE A FOOL...\nTHEN WHO SPREAD ALL THOSE RUMORS?\n\nCOMMANDER BARCA DID SAY IN PASSING...\n...THAT MAYBE ESCALANTE SPREAD THE RUMORS TO KEEP HIS FIANCÉE HIDDEN...\nSERIOUSLY?\nI'M JUST SAYING.\nSHE'S CERTAINLY THAT BEAUTIFUL.\n\nWHY DO ALL MILITARY BASES...\n\n...SMELL SO AWFUL?\n\nUM, LIEUTENANT.\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER VARDEM WAS ASKING...\n...WHEN HE'LL BE GETTING A TOUR OF YOUR NEW RESIDENCE...\n\nGET LOST.\nYES, LIEUTENANT.\nPRETTY INÉS, BEAUTIFUL INÉS...\nTHEY TALK ABOUT HER WITH SUCH EXCITEMENT...\nI CAN'T HELP THAT PETTY FEELING CREEPING UP MY THROAT.\n\nPlease Love Me.\nI DISLIKE THEM ALL.\nEACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.\n\nTo Be Continued","bubble_count":105,"pages_count":30,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Draft Chapter 27 of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway depicts Inés waking up in Cárcel's arms on the morning of their honeymoon and confronting her past.","spoiler_summary":"Draft Chapter 27 of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway depicts Inés waking up in Cárcel's arms on the morning of their honeymoon and confronting her past. Remembering that she fainted while reading the Bible by the window, Inés believes the passion born of duty with her famously philandering husband is temporary. Amid the cool morning air, waves, and curtains, she recalls Sevilla, Luciano, Emiliano whom she met at 16, and his death at 20 with her baby being stolen, but realizes none of this ever happened in this life. The scene then shifts to Lieutenant Cárcel Escalante returning to the base smiling, and the soldiers placing bets."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/the-broken-ring-this-marriage-will-fail-anyway-douf3qpc/chapter-23-2tqt38","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway #23: Chapter 21","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-12T15:01:17.714Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/the-broken-ring-this-marriage-will-fail-anyway-douf3qpc"}}