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After getting ready, she jokes with her partner about flowers before going to the ball, overcomes her fear of confronting Miller Dieus and Heidi Dieus, and decides to ruin the party together.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Chapter 20 of The Mansion Awaits Spring opens on the day of the ball with the chocolates sent by Pejin Dieus and the preparations, while the young woman's real test becomes the tension she experiences with Mrs. Eve. Mrs. Eve, the former grand duchess's lady-in-waiting assigned by Pejin, dresses her in a familiar gown that belonged to her mother and tells her about the one-sided rivalry between her mother and the previous grand duchess. After getting ready, she jokes with her partner about flowers before going to the ball, overcomes her fear of confronting Miller Dieus and Heidi Dieus, and decides to ruin the party together.","key_events":["Partner brings imperial flowers and playfully teases about pinning a flower.","Narrator and partner agree together to go ruin the ball party.","Narrator prepares for the ball wearing her mother's dress with help from Mrs. Eve.","Pastry chef's chocolates based on four grand ducal family symbols are introduced.","Hill-shaped chocolates are shared recalling childhood joke that hills belong to Lunos."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"THE DAY OF THE BALL\n\nI PICKED OUT ONLY THE HILL SHAPED ONES AND SENT THEM. FROM PEJIN DIEUS.\n\nHILL SHAPED CHOCOLATES...\nAH, LET ME TRY ONE OF THE HILL SHAPED ONES TOO!\nNO, THE HILLS BELONG TO LUNOS!\nThe patissier of House Dieus made chocolates in the four symbols of the grand ducal family.\n\nTRAPEZOIDS SYMBOLIZING HILLS.\nDIAMONDS SYMBOLIZING SWORDS.\nSQUARES DRAWN WITH WAVES, SYMBOLIZING THE SEA.\nROSES THAT FILLED THE GRAND DUCAL FAMILY'S GARDEN.\nWHEN I WAS LITTLE, I ALWAYS SAID THE HILLS BELONGED TO LUNOS\nAND ATE THEM ALL MYSELF.\n\nYOU REMEMBERED TOO.\nA LADY MUST NOT EAT CHOCOLATE WITH HER BARE HANDS.\n\nEVEN IF IT IS CHOCOLATE, PICKING IT UP WITH YOUR HANDS TO EAT IT...\nIS A PATH TO LOSING ELEGANCE.\n\nMRS. EVE.\nLADY IN WAITING FOR THE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS.\n\nMY MOTHER AND THE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS WERE KNOWN AS RIVALS IN HIGH SOCIETY.\nAPPARENTLY, EVER SINCE MY MOTHER AND THE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS WERE MAIDENS,\nTHEY HAD COMPETED OVER MY FATHER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.\nSomehow, I ended up at the center of a scandal..\n\nBECAUSE OF THAT, I HEARD THAT MRS. EVE DID NOT LIKE MY MOTHER EITHER.\nAFTER THE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS PASSED AWAY,\nHEIDI, WHO BECAME THE NEW GRAND DUCHESS, ALREADY HAD A LADY IN WAITING,\nSO MRS. EVE WAS SAID TO HAVE LIVED A LEISURELY LIFE IN THE GRAND DUCAL FAMILY.\n\nPEJIN SENT MRS. EVE TO HELP ME DRESS UP,\nSINCE I HAD NEITHER A LADY IN WAITING NOR A USEFUL MAID.\nSTILL, EVEN SO,\nTO THINK HE WOULD HAVE ME DRESSED BY SOMEONE WHO HAD BEEN A LADY IN WAITING OF HOUSE DIEUS.\nHonestly, Pejin...\n\nARE YOU PLANNING TO ATTEND IN THIS DRESS?\nYES. IS THERE SOME PROBLEM WITH IT?\n\n...NO. I ONLY ASKED BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE DRESS LOOKED FAMILIAR.\nIT BELONGS TO MRS. LUNOS.\nI THOUGHT YOU WOULD RECOGNIZE MY MOTHER'S DRESS, MRS. EVE.\n\nI HEARD YOU ARE ALSO VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT LUNOS JEWELS AND DRESSES.\n\nYES. MRS. LUNOS WAS THE RIVAL OF THE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS WHOM I SERVED,\nSO AS HER LADY IN WAITING, I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO KNOW EVERY COLOR OF MRS. LUNOS'S DRESSES\nAND EVERY SHAPE OF HER ACCESSORIES IN DETAIL.\n\nTHE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS DISLIKED MRS. LUNOS VERY MUCH.\nIS THAT SO...? MOTHER NEVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT.\nYES, THE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS...\nLOVED HER, ADMIRED HER, AND HATED HER TOO.\nMRS. LUNOS, ON THE OTHER HAND,\n\nNEITHER HATED NOR ADMIRED HER.\nCOULD THERE BE ANYTHING WORSE THAN THAT FOR HER?\n\nI DID NOT KNOW. I ONLY KNEW THEY WERE RIVALS.\nI HAD NO IDEA IT WAS SO ONE SIDED...\nA WOMAN OF HOUSE LUNOS MUST NEVER LOWER HER HEAD ANYWHERE.\n\nEVEN WHEN RECALLING SOMETHING, RAISE YOUR CHIN AND SINK INTO THOUGHT.\nWHY HAS SHE BEEN SO ROUGH WITH ME SINCE EARLIER...?\nAH...\n\nSHE IS LIKE MOTHER.\n\nI WILL PUT THE NECKLACE ON YOU.\n\n...YOU RESEMBLE MRS. LUNOS TO A GREAT DEAL.\nSINCE SHE HAD BEEN THE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS'S LADY IN WAITING,\n\nPERHAPS SHE FELT SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS GRAND DUCHESS'S FEELINGS\nTOWARD MY MOTHER.\nBECAUSE IN THE WAY SHE LOOKED AT ME,\nI READ SOME EMOTION THAT SEEMED TO BE SEEING MY MOTHER.\nBECAUSE THE ACCESSORY SHE PUT ON ME\n\nWAS NOT SIMPLY COLD.\nI COULD NOT GET ANGRY AT HER FUSSY REMARKS.\n\nTHIS VASE... IS QUITE BEAUTIFUL IN TERMS OF FORM.\nI THINK IT WOULD LOOK NICE HOLDING POTPOURRI INSTEAD OF FLOWERS TOO.\n\nI AM GLAD YOU LIKE IT.\nTHE NEXT TIME I VISIT THE EMPIRE, I WILL BUY MORE.\n\nWHAT ARE ALL THESE FLOWERS?\nGood heavens..\nTHE PARLOR IS OVERFLOWING WITH THE SCENT OF FLOWERS.\n\nWHY? THEY ARE BRIGHT AND PRETTY.\nI BOUGHT A FEW ON MY WAY BACK FROM THE EMPIRE.\nIT IS HARD TO SEE FLOWERS IN THE GRAND DUCHY, IS IT NOT?\n\nTHIS IS A \"FEW\"? YOU COULD OPEN A FLOWER SHOP.\nSTOP NAGGING.\nHERE.\n\nBEND DOWN.\nTHAT WAS NOT WHAT I MEANT WHEN I HANDED IT TO YOU.\n\nI AM YOUR PARTNER.\nTHIS IS TROUBLING.\nIF I DO THIS, PEOPLE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO TELL\n\nWHICH ONE OF US IS THE FLOWER.\n\nONCE YOU PUT IT ON ME, THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE END OF IT.\nWHO GIVES SOMETHING AND THEN TAKES IT BACK?\nIN THE END, SHE MOVED IT AND PINNED IT TO HIS CHEST.\n\nMILLER DIEUS'S FACE, HEIDI DIEUS'S FACE...\nWILL I REALLY BE ABLE TO FACE THEM?\n\nI AM NOT CONFIDENT...\n\nHONESTLY, AFTER THIS PARTY,\nI WOULD RATHER MY BROTHER NEVER INVITE ME AGAIN.\nTHAT IS WHY I CALLED YOU TO THIS PARTY.\n\nWHAT DO YOU SAY?\nWANT TO RUIN THE PARTY WITH ME?\n\nALRIGHT.\n\nLET'S GO RUIN THE PARTY.","bubble_count":96,"pages_count":38,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Chapter 20 of The Mansion Awaits Spring opens on the day of the ball with the chocolates sent by Pejin Dieus and the preparations, while the young woman's real test becomes the tension she experiences with Mrs.","spoiler_summary":"Chapter 20 of The Mansion Awaits Spring opens on the day of the ball with the chocolates sent by Pejin Dieus and the preparations, while the young woman's real test becomes the tension she experiences with Mrs. Eve. Mrs. Eve, the former grand duchess's lady-in-waiting assigned by Pejin, dresses her in a familiar gown that belonged to her mother and tells her about the one-sided rivalry between her mother and the previous grand duchess. After getting ready, she jokes with her partner about flowers before going to the ball, overcomes her fear of confronting Miller Dieus and Heidi Dieus, and decides to ruin the party together."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/the-mansion-awaits-spring-943smigg/chapter-21-x4zfze","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — The Mansion Awaits Spring #21: Chapter 20","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-24T11:25:51.858Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/the-mansion-awaits-spring-943smigg"}}