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Omg there’s so much gaps was missing in my head reading this but now i think its starting to connect i really need to read the novel so please if you know Where can i read the novel
Bro I am stealing that whenever someone question my shylaa I am gonna copy that because wtf are you doubting him
Spoiler alert
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First of all, a lot of important context from the webnovel gets lost in the webtoon adaptation, which is why so many readers misunderstand Carcel’s character and judge him far more harshly than they probably would otherwise.
The webnovel and the webtoon portray both Carcel and Ines very differently in tone and intensity. The novel spends much more time inside Carcel’s head, showing his insecurity, jealousy, confusion about Ines, and his growing obsession after realizing that she genuinely does not care what he does.
The novel also makes it clear that his womanizing is partly rebellion and partly self destruction. Since childhood, he believed the arranged engagement trapped him, so he tried to “enjoy freedom” before marriage, an idea that Ines herself encouraged him to believe.
Yes, Carcel slept with other women during their engagement, and ultimately that was still his decision, so I’m not excusing it.
However, the webtoon leaves out a lot of the psychological context behind why he grew up with that mindset in the first place. From the time they were children, Inés deliberately framed their engagement as something suffocating and prison like, which heavily shaped how he viewed both marriage and commitment.
The novel also portrays his emotional development much more gradually. At first, Carcel wants a reaction from Ines. Then he becomes disturbed by her complete indifference. Eventually, he slowly realizes that she is not simply cold, but emotionally broken.
One of the biggest adaptation differences is Inés herself. Novel Ines is colder, more fatalistic, manipulative, traumatized, and emotionally detached. She often treats marriage, relationships, and even herself as political tools because of what she suffered across multiple timelines/lives.
The webtoon softens many of these aspects and smooths over some of her manipulative behavior toward Carcel. In the novel, she consciously chose him because she believed he was attractive, politically useful, easier to control than other noblemen, and likely to willingly engage in affairs, which would later give her justification for divorce.
When Ines chose Carcel as her fiance at six years old, she unintentionally made herself the center of his emotional world. Even though he initially resisted the engagement, she ended up shaping his identity and future far more deeply than she realized.
What many readers also miss is that, in every lifetime, Carcel genuinely loved Ines. In fact, the novel heavily implies that this current timeline is the only one in which he became involved with other women at all, and even then, that behavior was heavily influenced by Ines’s manipulation, emotional distance, and the beliefs she instilled in him from childhood.
The webtoon, however, places much heavier emphasis on his reputation as a playboy early on while softening or omitting many of the circumstances that created that version of him.
The irony of the story is that Ines chose Carcel because she believed he would never love her deeply enough to ruin her plans yet he ended up loving her more sincerely than anyone else across all her timelines.