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HARDSUB chapters: image-only, transcript_unavailable.","citation_preferred":true,"untrusted_fields_separated":true},"trusted":{"series":{"title":"Unbeknownst to Me, I’m Secretly Dating the Emperor","slug":"unbeknownst-to-me-i-m-secretly-dating-the-emperor-hr359apd","original_title":"황제와 비밀 연애 중인데 나는 그걸 몰라"},"chapter":{"number":28,"chapter_key":"28-39qkxe","release_date":"2026-10-30","last_updated":"2026-10-30T18:19:45.425Z","summary":"Unbeknownst to Me, I'm Secretly Dating the Emperor Chapter 28 follows Lina as she realizes Sir Everett Rojas never appeared in the original story and becomes terrified he will be executed. After spending days taking notes, Lina decides to save him, and when she meets Rojas in his official uniform, she worries he is slacking off and will incur the Emperor's wrath, so she tries to warn him.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Unbeknownst to Me, I'm Secretly Dating the Emperor Chapter 28 follows Lina as she realizes Sir Everett Rojas never appeared in the original story and becomes terrified he will be executed. After spending days taking notes, Lina decides to save him, and when she meets Rojas in his official uniform, she worries he is slacking off and will incur the Emperor's wrath, so she tries to warn him.","key_events":["Narrator realizes Everett Lohas never appeared at start of original story and fears execution","Lina plans to allow punishment incident but reduce its severity","Lina decides to break non-interference principle to save Sir Lohas","Sir Lohas internally debates revealing he is the Emperor","Lina questions Sir Lohas about slacking and Emperor giving him hard time","Lina recalls Ivetta's regression past as exploited nun praying to God Minos","Sir Lohas meets Lina in Imperial Knights uniform after Grand Prayer Assembly"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"...HE'S NOT THERE...\nANYWHERE.\n\nAT THE START OF THE ORIGINAL STORY,\nTHE CHARACTER NAMED EVERETT ROJAS DOESN'T EXIST.\nCOULD IT BE THAT HE REALLY GOT ON THE EMPEROR'S BAD SIDE...\nAND ENDED UP EXECUTED...?!\n\nTHE FIRST CHAPTER OF THIS NOVEL\nSTARTS WITH THE REGRESSION SCENE OF THE FEMALE LEAD, IVETTA.\n\nBEFORE HER REGRESSION, IVETTA WAS A LOW-RANKING PRIESTESS FROM A POORHOUSE,\nWHO WAS THOROUGHLY EXPLOITED BY THE HIGH PRIEST SEARCHING FOR A LEGENDARY HOLY RELIC,\nONLY TO MEET HER DEMISE.\nIN HER FINAL MOMENTS, IVETTA PRAYED TO THE GOD MINOS...\n\nMAY DIVINE PROTECTION REACH THOSE WHO WERE SACRIFICED,\nAND MAY THE HIGH PRIEST PAY THE PRICE FOR HIS SINS...\nAND THUS SHE REGRESSED TO THE PAST TO LIVE HER SECOND LIFE—\n\nTHE PROBLEM IS THAT \"EVERETT ROJAS\" IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THAT ENTIRE PROCESS.\nI DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE FIRST OR SECOND TIMELINE OF THE ORIGINAL STORY,\nBUT WHAT'S CERTAIN IS THAT HE NEVER APPEARED AT ANY POINT.\nIT REALLY IS STRANGE...\n\nTHERE'S NO WAY AN AIDE AS CLOSE TO THE EMPEROR AS KYLUS...\n...WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE HIS NAME APPEAR IN THE ORIGINAL STORY.\nBESIDES, HE'S A CRAZY TYRANT EMPEROR\nWHO DREW HIS SWORD JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE BROUGHT UP MARRIAGE.\n\nHow dare you propose marriage to me? You're dead.\nOh lord\nEVERETT ROJAS\nEVEN IF HE DIDN'T NECESSARILY MAKE A MISTAKE,\nWORKING UNDER THE EMPEROR MEANS CONSTANTLY FACING THE LOOMING THREAT OF DEATH...\nNO! LET'S NOT THINK SUCH OMINOUS THOUGHTS.\n\nHE COULD HAVE JUST BEEN REASSIGNED, OR RECEIVED AN ESTATE AND RETIRED TO THE COUNTRYSIDE!\nINSTEAD OF JUST WORRYING LIKE THIS,\nLET'S THINK OF A WAY TO SAVE SIR ROJAS.\nUNTIL NOW, I'VE TRIED MY BEST TO AVOID\nINTERFERING WITH THE FLOW OF THE ORIGINAL STORY, BUT NOW...\n\nSIR ROJAS'S LIFE IS ON THE LINE.\nAND,\nSPEAKING FROM MY EXPERIENCE AS A READER OF COUNTLESS ROMANCE FANTASY NOVELS—\nTHE MORE YOU OBSESS OVER THE ORIGINAL PLOT AND WORRY ABOUT THINGS CHANGING,\n\nTHE MORE THE FUTURE TENDS TO GET TWISTED ANYWAY!\nGOOD WORK TODAY~.\n\nHAAH...\n...TRYING TO WORK AFTER NOT GETTING PROPER SLEEP AT NIGHT,\nI'M SO EXHAUSTED I COULD DIE...\n\nAS A RESULT OF STAYING UP ALL NIGHT FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS ORGANIZING INFORMATION FROM THE ORIGINAL STORY,\nLina's Notes\nFORTUNATELY, I WAS ABLE TO FIGURE OUT MOST OF THE POSSIBLE SCENARIOS THAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.\nTHE CONCLUSION IS TO LET THE INCIDENT WHERE THE AIDE IS PUNISHED HAPPEN,\nBUT TO FOCUS ON LOWERING THE SEVERITY OF THE PUNISHMENT.\n\nBECAUSE EVEN IF I DECIDED TO INTERFERE WITH THE ORIGINAL STORY, IT'S DANGEROUS TO DRASTICALLY CHANGE THE FUTURE.\nThis should be for the best...\nABOVE ALL, SINCE THE CURRENT TIMELINE IS BEFORE THE ORIGINAL STORY EVEN STARTS,\nTHE INFORMATION I HAVE IS TOO LACKING TO JUST RELY ON WHAT I KNOW.\nLET'S GATHER A BIT MORE INFORMATION BEFORE TAKING ACTION IN EARNEST.\n\nSINCE I'M SUPPOSED TO MEET SIR ROJAS SOON—\n....!\n...SIR ROJAS?\n\nHELLO, MISS DIAZ. WE MEET AGAIN.\n\n...GOODNESS.\nIS THIS THE FORMAL UNIFORM OF THE IMPERIAL KNIGHTS?\nIt's clothes you don't usually wear.\nAH, THERE WAS A SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT EVENT TODAY...\n\nI MEANT TO CHANGE BEFORE COMING, BUT I DIDN'T HAVE TIME.\nAS EXPECTED...\nI CAN'T LET A HANDSOME MAN LIKE HIM VANISH LIKE DEW AT THE EXECUTION GROUNDS!\n?\nI HAVE TO SAVE HIM NO MATTER WHAT...!!\n\nTO DO THAT, I NEED TO DIG UP AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE FROM SIR ROJAS TODAY.\nOR, AT THE VERY LEAST, GIVE HIM A WARNING.\nSO, SIR ROJAS.\nDID YOU COME STRAIGHT FROM WORK?\nWHAT KIND OF EVENT WAS IT?\nAH, ABOUT THAT.\n\nIT WAS NOT—\nI TOLD YOU, NOTHING SPECIAL HAPPENED.\nDO YOU THINK I'D HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF THINGS TO TALK ABOUT EVERY SINGLE TIME?\n-NOTHING.\n\nTHE GRAND PRAYER ASSEMBLY WAS BEING HELD...\nSO I STOPPED BY THE OLD TEMPLE SITE.\n...THE OLD TEMPLE?\nISN'T THE GRAND PRAYER ASSEMBLY ORIGINALLY HELD AT THE GRAND TEMPLE?\nTHAT'S RIGHT. BUT THIS TIME, THE HIGH PRIEST\nBROUGHT UP SOME STUFFY OLD TRADITION.\n\nHE TOLD US TO WALK ALL THE WAY TO THE OLD TEMPLE AND TRANSFER THE SACRED FLAME TO COMMEMORATE THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN.\n...WALK? A DISTANCE THAT TAKES EIGHT HOURS ROUND TRIP?\nTELL ME ABOUT IT.\n\nTO GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO DIG UP AN OBSOLETE TRADITION—\nSIR ROJAS.\n...BY ANY CHANCE,\nYOU DIDN’T SLACK OFF, DID YOU?\n\n...IT’S NOTHING LIKE THAT. I FINISHED EVERYTHING I HAD TO DO BEFORE COMING.\nREALLY?\nYES, REALLY.\n...IF THAT’S THE CASE, THEN THAT’S A RELIEF.\n\n...MISS DIAZ’S REACTION IS STRANGE TODAY.\nFROM HER TONE THAT SEEMS TO SUSPECT ME...\nYOU DIDN’T SLACK OFF, DID YOU?\nTO HER EXPRESSION THAT SEEMS ODDLY COLD.\n\nAND UNLIKE USUAL...\nSHE ISN’T EVEN HOLDING MY HAND.\n\nUM, MISS DIAZ.\n...I HAD BUSINESS AT THE IMPERIAL PALACE, SO I HURRIED BACK.\n*BUSINESS: DATE WITH LINA\nI THOROUGHLY FINISHED EVERYTHING I HAD TO DO, SO DON'T WORRY.\n*LEFT EVERETT ROJAS AS A SUBSTITUTE\n\nTHE SCHEDULE FOR THE GRAND PRAYER ASSEMBLY WASN'T ORIGINALLY TODAY ANYWAY.\nTHE TEMPLE CHANGED THE DATE ON THEIR OWN AND EVEN FORCED THE SACRED FLAME RITUAL ON US,\nSO THERE WAS NO NEED FOR OUR SIDE TO ACCOMMODATE THEIR DEMANDS.\nSO IT'S NOT STRANGE THAT I CAME BACK A LITTLE EARLY.\nYOU SEE?\n...I UNDERSTAND, SIR ROJAS.\n\nTHANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING IT IN DETAIL.\nI WAS JUST WORRIED...\n...THAT YOU MIGHT BE LYING TO ME, SIR ROJAS.\n\n...LYING?\nASIDE FROM MATTERS CONCERNING MY IDENTITY,\nI'VE NEVER ONCE DECEIVED MISS DIAZ...\n\nWHY WOULD SHE SUDDENLY THINK THAT?\n...NO WAY!\nDID SHE NOTICE THAT I'M NOT EVERETT ROJAS?!\n\n...HE SAID HE WASN'T SLACKING OFF,\nUNBEKNOWSTTO ME İ'M SECRETLY DATİNG THE EMPEROR!\nNOW I KNOW\nBUT I'M STILL UNEASY.\n\nHE SAID HE CAME BACK BECAUSE HE HAD BUSINESS AT THE IMPERIAL PALACE,\nYET HE CAME TO SEE ME WITHOUT EVEN HAVING TIME TO CHANGE HIS CLOTHES?\nCOULD IT BE THAT HE'S UNABLE TO DO HIS JOB PROPERLY BECAUSE OF ME...?!\nWHAT IF SIR ROJAS GETS SLACK BECAUSE OF ME AND MAKES A MISTAKE?\nI'M TRYING TO PREVENT THAT KIND OF THING FROM HAPPENING!\n\n...IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE REVEALED EVENTUALLY.\nI SHOULD HAVE CORRECTED THE MISUNDERSTANDING SOONER.\nBUT IN ORDER TO PROPERLY PROVE MY IDENTITY,\n\nI ULTIMATELY HAVE TO REVEAL THE FACT THAT I'M THE EMPEROR...\nIF I TELL HER THE TRUTH EVEN NOW, WILL MISS DIAZ BE SHOCKED AND DISAPPOINTED?\n\nIF I SPEAK HONESTLY EVEN NOW, WILL SIR ROJAS THINK I'M NAGGING?\n... NO.\nMISS DIAZ MIGHT JUST BE WAITING FOR ME TO REVEAL MY IDENTITY MYSELF.\nAND SHE MIGHT EVEN FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE STATUS OF AN EMPEROR THAN A KNIGHT.\n\nI REALLY NEED TO TELL HIM.\nI SHOULD ASK IF HE'S RECEIVED ANY IMPORTANT MISSIONS FROM THE EMPEROR RECENTLY,\nAND WARN HIM THAT HE ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT FAIL.\n...RIGHT,\nI NEED TO SAY IT NOW!\n\nMISS DIAZ—\nSIR ROJAS!\n\nAh\nPL-PLEASE GO AHEAD!\nNO, I'LL LISTEN TO WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY FIRST, MISS DIAZ.\n...IF THAT'S THE CASE.\n\nWELL...\nIT'S NOTHING MAJOR.\nBUT, BY ANY CHANCE, HAVE YOU HAD ANY HARD TIMES LATELY,\nOR IS THERE ANYTHING DIFFICULT GOING ON?\nANYTHING DIFFICULT?\n\nI MEAN, FOR EXAMPLE...\nLIKE HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR GIVING YOU A HARD TIME.","bubble_count":155,"pages_count":41,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Unbeknownst to Me, I'm Secretly Dating the Emperor Chapter 28 follows Lina as she realizes Sir Everett Rojas never appeared in the original story and becomes terrified he will be executed.","spoiler_summary":"Unbeknownst to Me, I'm Secretly Dating the Emperor Chapter 28 follows Lina as she realizes Sir Everett Rojas never appeared in the original story and becomes terrified he will be executed. After spending days taking notes, Lina decides to save him, and when she meets Rojas in his official uniform, she worries he is slacking off and will incur the Emperor's wrath, so she tries to warn him."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/unbeknownst-to-me-i-m-secretly-dating-the-emperor-hr359apd/chapter-28-39qkxe","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Unbeknownst to Me, I’m Secretly Dating the Emperor #28","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-31T12:43:13.244Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/unbeknownst-to-me-i-m-secretly-dating-the-emperor-hr359apd"}}