The problem is, both characters are flawed, Ines even more so than Carcel as both Ines and the author acknowledges. What the manhwa did was removed a lot of Ines’s messed up actions to make her look better and cast Carcel as the villain when Oscar is the antagonist. In the novel we get both Ines and Carcel’s points of view early on so we know what kind of people they truly are from their thoughts.
Since manhwa readers act like Ines is justified in everything she does and just hate on Carcel for everything, of course novel readers will point out Ines’s flaws. Things like how she singled out Carcel to use him then dump him at the age of 6 or talking to lawyers about divorce at the age of 12 (Carcel was probably taking succession lessons around that young age) are actions of Ines they ignore and sweep under the rug. She never once took Carcel’s life seriously and he finally noticed it at 16 years old after she kept rejecting his visits and treating him like he’s nobody. It’s not even that they had a relationship. Carcel finally walked away at 16 knowing full well she didn’t give a damn about him. When other ML do what Ines did to Carcel, manhwa readers hate on him. But when Ines does it to Carcel, he should cling to a woman who treats him like air. The blatant bias is what make novel readers defend Carcel because he is hated for supposedly cheating on a woman who doesn’t give a damn about him. She even spends 40 chapters trying to get him to cheat after marriage and somehow everything is still his fault. This is why it always ends up with Ines vs Carcel even when Ines say in the story that she doesn’t care about his past. These readers keep acting like he’s the terrible person while Ines, the saint, deserves he world because she’s Carcel’s victim or something.
right?? i feel like even at the rough surface ppl are wayy too picky with how carcel acts like let the man breathe they aren't saints here. And most definitely right about how the manhwa tried to make ines as a saint, it wouldn't kill to have a flawed characters for once everyone is just dramatic af.
ig this is just how they are at the mls and fls in romance stories, readers aims for a somewhat mary sue characters, it's honestly just so boring sometimes
That’s why novel readers defend Carcel. Even in his life before marriage, the novel emphasized that Carcel never touches a woman without her permission and while people call him a womanizer, it’s women who pursue him. Guess what? No one from his past will ever show up to cause problems. Zero. It’s the people from Ines past who will create all the drama in their lives. First was the near-death experience that created chaos in their household and forces Carcel to look into her past. Guess what the next thing will be? Even Carcel’s own life becomes under threat. Absolutely none of the drama is caused by him. It’s all Ines’s past. Carcel always drew a line with others and he never pursued anyone. He always made things abundantly clear so no one dare show up in front of him. To the end, he creates absolutely no drama. None.
I just wanna say that people have very shallow take on every characters here, i mean we finally have something different after all the isekai manhwa we have, it's just so disappointing that people doesn't appreciate and just downgrades both of the characters.