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cheating plots on the ML part(only in the starting) The FL is a regressor here. . Ml cheats when they were engaged he didn't cheat after marriage & FL wants him to cheat so that she can easily divorce him..
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When six-year-old Inés laid eyes on the handsome heir to House Escalante, she promptly made the boy her fiancé. Since noble men are all the same, she figured she might as well choose a pretty one. But Lord Cárcel isn't ready for this sort of commitment just yet, and he spends the next decade and a half avoiding the marriage at all costs! Luckily, that's no trouble for Inés, as this marriage failing is exactly what she wants. In fact, he has her blessing to sow his wild oats as long as he stays out of her business. Unfortunately, being a playboy isn't as fun when your fiancée gives you permission. And doesn't this mean she's cheating on him too? Now, Cárcel is determined to change Inés' mind about him and prove he can be the husband she's always wanted.
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SPOILERS BELOW
from riftanisprecious & user NohrNeir
First of all she is a regressor and have lived multiple lives. There are 3 past timelines but FL only remember 2 of them (2nd and 3rd TL) in the start. The story will explain why she remembers only 2 TLs. In a past timeline she was married to crown prince, Oscar and this guy was a total scumbag. He was philanderer who would jump from one woman to another and didn't even care if he catch some disease. Due to this habit, he ended up giving FL syphilis which caused 4 miscarriages. This literally broke her when she find out that her husband was the reason and she commited suic*de in front of him by shooting herself.

After that she regressed as a 16 year old and had a very little time to escape her marriage to Oscar. So she decided to seduce a painter and ran away with him. They lived happily for sometime and even had a son. But her family found her and killed her husband. They took her back home and forced her to marry a Count. They were ready to kill her son as well under the pretense that they are sending the him for adoption. But FL found out the plan and she killed her son with her own hands. After that she commited suicide once again. The one who ordered FL's family to find FL and bring her back home was CP.

This time she regressed as a 6 year old and since the beginning formed a plan to survive and prevent herself from crown prince. In past timelines, she had heard rumors that Carcel (ML) was a player and unlike Oscar he was careful about his partners so he never catch any disease. She choose him to be her fiance when they are both 6. FL is a master manipulator who wants him to be a player and he turns out like this due to her manipulation. FL's goals was to divorce him based on his cheating habits. She had no attachment to ML, she doesn't even care what ML is doing. So if you believe that FL is hurt, then that would be wrong. Just the title speaks for us "This marriage will fail anyway." That's the thoughts inside FL's head for most of the story. So she doesn't care what ML does. He won't have a single affair once they are married.

This is the rare manhwa where cheating isn't bothersome. Because most other manhwas, FL would like the ML and he would go out throwing mistresses at her face to make her jealous or just make her life miserable. This is not the case here at all. FL isn't hurt at all cuz there are no feelings from her side. It is like a job for her where she plans to stay for few years before leaving it. FL already had 2 failed marriages in the past, she went through miscarriages, and when she finally had a son in another timeline, she was forced to kill him. So just seeing this, I don't think that she would care about love, marriages and any guy at all. She is mentally too broken and traumatized for any emotional attachments

In a much later twist, it is revealed that ML and FL were married in the very first timeline. This timeline was prior to the one where she married CP. They were in love and were living happily. But during that timeline, CP died and regressed. After regression he planned to marry FL before Carcel and this is the timeline where FL ended up with miscarriages, STD and commited suicide. The CP is a crazy obsessive bastard who will keep trying to find ways to ruin FL's and Carcel's lives cuz he is too obsessed with FL. He is a complete psycho. Carcel love Ines all 4 timelines despite seeing her marrying other people. The CP also pushed random women toward him in the past timelines (except the very 1st timeline where he and Ines were married) and this is how he gained a player status and why Ines choose him.
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Spoilers (@NohrNeir)
Q. I’m curious though, how can one be manipulated to cheat? People can only do so much, but the decision to do it ultimately falls in the hands of the person. I assumed, by manipulated means, she deliberately act so bad so that he won’t like her, and as such feels that the engagement weight nothing to him and considered himself as single, so went for other women. Therefore, after marriage he vows to stop, since he is now sacredly tied to his wife. ( from user WinnieS)
Concept on cheating
Cheating is pretty common place, but the main couples' parents surprisingly don't cheat. Hence why Carcel probably has that mentality that before and after marriage would be different. His parents aren't really said to be couples that "love" each other but both his mother and father are loyal to each other even if they aren't really together. They live in the same manor but uses different rooms. It was said Isabella used to love Juan but lost that feeling of love from the pressure of her mother in law. She remains as a faithful wife to him though. Ines's parents married out of obligation as well and they remained married even though they don't live together. Her mother is crazy and her father chooses to keep that a secret from public to keep her and the family from getting backlash. There are also soldiers where their wives are back in Mendoza and both husbands and wives would cheat. Ines thought her marriage would be like that where Carcel would stay in Calztela and she stay in Mendoza.

Carcel had already planned to have a good relationship with Ines when he decided to marry her since the house he bought on the hill from his superior was said to grant couples who live there together good relationships. That's why it was his superior's wife's favorite house. He had to bribe his superior to buy that house. Another reason why he was very reluctant to leave that house. Raul would suggest to Carcel to move back to his original resident so they don't have to deal with weird women trying to go into their private rooms, such as their bedroom, but Carcel told Raul they cannot live somewhere else. They have to live in the house on the hill or Ines might "wake up" from being a loving couple with him.

Others that do cheat consisted of Oscar & Alicia, the emperor, Carcel's doctor, Dante's father.
There are couples that don't cheat (after marriage- idk their life before marriages). Most seem to be the men close to Carcel.

Affairs are very normal, but divorce is taboo (in high society, it's quite normal for the commoners). So Carcel wouldn't have thought Ines would ever try to divorce him since people think being divorced is more shameful than being cheated on. Ines was the one who made divorce popular. She was suggesting it to a bunch of ladies in Calztela and it became a normal thing in Calztela to divorce. When she went back to Mendoza, the ladies of Mendoza thought the people of Calztela were shameful and vulgar for divorcing.
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All Spoilers from (@NohrNeir)
Prologue

Carcel was caught for the first time almost making out with another lady at a banquet by his fiancée of 17 years.
He would go to visit her right after that and Ines would reveal to him that she doesn't like him so she doesn't care if he plays around with other women. Carcel thought she just started to dislike him because of that.

Chapter 1. Carcel Escalante's position
• Carcel was engaged to Ines when they were both 6 years old. She chose him because of his pretty face, or so she told her father. His aunt, the Empress Cayetana, also tried to get his nephew, Carcel, and Ines to be engaged so Ines won't have to marry her son, Oscar. Cayetana thinks her son is too good for anyone even if Ines is the best female out there in the empire. The only marriageable daughter from the top 5 Duke families out of the 17 aristocratic families.
• Carcel was harassed and almost killed by Oscar every time they're alone because Oscar had always wanted to marry Ines but she chose Carcel.
• When the three are together, Ines typically ignore them both since she hates Oscar and is indifferent towards Carcel. (From when she was 6 she had been manipulating him by reminding Carcel he is too good for her and she "loves" him. She even created habits such as always want to be clean around her since she'll make everyone wash their hands when they enter her room.)
• Her being 6 was the last time he thought of her as "cute". Her personality and appearance made it difficult for him to find her cute. She's always cold to everyone and dressed in black like a nun.
• Back to Carcel visiting Ines. Carcel didn't believe that she would be fine with him cheating on her, but Ines told him that she doesn't like him since if there's someone she loves, she would've wanted to kill him but she doesn't want to kill him so that meant she doesn't like him enough to care what he does.
• Somehow he got upset knowing that she doesn't like him so he grabbed her and tried to make amends. She told him to release her but he wouldn't and started spouting that she's the only woman for him and the only woman who can make him erect. Carcel internally thought he had gone crazy but then Ines stripped herself and asked him to prove how much he wanted her then. When he saw her naked, he didn't care anymore and decided to just keep dreaming since having sex in a dream isn't so bad, even though it was Ines.
• His young brother, Miguel, woke him up, and Carcel started cursing him out for waking him up from his dream.
• Carcel talked with one of his men and friend, Jose about it. He was clearly very upset that Ines lets him cheat, despite saynig how great it is to have a fiancée and soon to be wife that let's him sleep around. Juan doesn't see the issue since it's most men's dream to have a wife that let them sleep around, but Carcel views it otherwise. To him before and after marriage it's different. He wouldn't sleep around after marriage.
• But since that dream, he just kept dreaming of having sex with Ines and even when he tried to meet up with other women during his vacation at Mendoza, he can't erect with them. He concluded his penis is broken and he needs to return back to his post at Calztela to recover. He tried to avoid Ines since he felt guilty for having such perverted dreams of her.
• He still managed to see her when he went to see a piano event and she wanted to meet him to mend their relationship after that talk. So when they were heading home, she went to Escalente's manor instead before heading home. Carcel erected while they were in the carriage together. Actually he had been imagining her doing all sorts of thing and him doing all sorts of things to her everyday and everywhere. He used a cushion to hide his erection and Ines gave him a weird look. He didn't think she would know what that means though since Ines never been in a relationship before or care about such things.
• Ines had already knew of all his playing around. Carcel didn't think she would've known. The first time he did it was when he was 15. He had always tried to escape their marriage since he didn't really like her (because of her manipulations). He went to military academy afterward and after that he became a soldier and stayed in Calztela most of the time, so he rarely sees Ines.
• When they talked at his family home, he ended up kissing her to prove his point that he will remain faithful to her after marriage. It was their first kiss, and his first time seeing her blush. It was a face he often seen in his dreams. He felt satified kissing her. From there he told her that he will only kiss her and have sex with only her even after their marriage, after her having kids.
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Chapter 2. Ines Baleztena's position
• Ines recalled having died for the first time at 26. (At this point she doesn't know she had already died 3 times and think her 2nd life was her 1st. She had no recollection of her 1st life until much later.)
• From that (2nd) life where she died 26, she was married to Oscar. She was living a great life, or so she thought, until she found out that he was the reason she went through all 4 miscarriages. The imperial family kept harassing her because she can't give birth and they call her cursed. It was only later found out when she got syphilis that her husband had been sleeping around everywhere with men and women, prostitutes and mistresses, didn't matter, even having orgy sections.
• Ines took a gun that he had gave her before (actually was given by Carcel but he gave Oscar to give to her so she doesn't know) and shot herself in the head in front of Oscar.
• She thought she finally died but then came back to when she was 16 years old, 4 months before her marriage with Oscar. To escape that, she seduced the painter's assistant, Emiliano, who had came to her estate to create a painting for her marriage to the prince. She basically went to Emiliano's guest room that night naked and told him to take her. He fallen for her immediately after that. Ines gave him a medallion her grandmother had given to her before.
• They ran away after and she married him and they lived together in poverty but with love for 4 years. She even had a baby boy with him but then Luciano, her brother, came and killed Emiliano and tried to take her back home. Oscar had her family drag her back home. Her family tried to force her to marry a Count since Oscar can't have her as his crown princess since she had another husband before.
• When Ines found out that they're going to have her son killed in the guise of sending him away to be adopted, so she killed her son, unwilling to let another person kill him and committed suicide again before her remarriage.
• When she awoken again, she lived from when she was 6 (one can notice there's a pattern from 26 > 16 > 6, it will be brought up again much later on). Starting from 6 years old, she can do more to escape her marriage with Oscar.
• That didn't mean Oscar still didn't try to appeal himself to her. He would give her gifts, such as his own portrait to her. She would kick them and pretend she accidentally stepped on it. When she's with Carcel, she doesn't think much of him since even in her past memories all she could remember was his playboy rumors and she stopped seeing him often because Oscar hated his cousin. Oscar would get jealous every time they're hanging out. (Oscar knows that Carcel loved Ines. Carcel had loved Ines in all lifetimes.)
• Ines plots to marry the "playboy" so she can end in divorce afterward after having a child with him.
• She persuaded her father that she wanted to marry the best looking person, and that's Carcel. She even told her father she doesn't want to marry a guy who will become bald in the future. She told her father that the emperor is balding so Oscar will probably be bald in the future, and the Duke of Escalente still has a head full of hair so Carcel won't be bald. Her father is a doting father who spoils his only daughter so even if he doesn't like her choice, he let her marry whoever she wishes.
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Chapter 3. Betrayal of saying that I will not betray

• Ines recalled Carcel promising to be faithful to her and got upset since she wanted him to cheat on her. Her maid, Juana, doesn't understand her concerns. Carcel is the best marriage man anyway, aside from his promiscuous background, he was well known in the navy, heir to the duke, most handsome man. Ines kept saying she's not good enough for him but Juana can't see that either since she thinks people just can't see her good points.
• Carcel had Jose spied on Ines for him. After their talk he thought Ines might have a secret lover and got upset about it so he had Jose dig up secrets on her. Carcel doesn't know he was feeling jealous and not sure why he's trying to dig up relationships of her. Jose thought Carcel was trying to find a secret to stop the marriage but Carcel wasn't doing that. Even if he had wanted to always delay it, he doesn't think he could ever marry someone else besides Ines.
• Carcel ended up pushing up their marriage due to his dreams. He couldn't erect or have sex with other women anymore so he decided he should just rush to marry her and just enjoy sex again with her legally and not have to feel depressed about it in his dreams.
• Carcel and Miguel had dinner with the Valeztena family. Ines was eating well while her father was complaining and spewing insults to Carcel. He opposed the marriage since Carcel was known for his promiscuous relationships and hated that his daughter will marry a used rag. Ines didn't care and told her father that she can't waste her fiance's good looking face so she should share him. She compared him to a salt mine. Carcel felt odd being compared to a mine and having Ines allowing him to sleep around.
• Her mother, Olga, got drunk and started insulting her daughter to Carcel. She approved of Carcel and thinks her daughter is the one that is horrible to marry so she told Carcel to teach his wife when they're married. Carcel doesn't like what Olga was saying about Ines, how she's the devil since she was 6 because her personality suddenly drastically changed.
• Ines didn't care what her mother said since she's used to it. Carcel was surprised to see her talking well with Miguel though. He got a bit jealous that she was close to his younger brother and even call Miguel by his name. She had stopped calling Carcel by his name since he went to the military academy.
• When he voiced his complaints, Ines said Miguel is cute and harmless. Carcel said he's also harmless, but he knows he's not cute, nor does he want to be cute. Ines apologized to him for what her father said to him and reminded him that she's fine with what he had always been doing. She compared him to a flower that she doesn't want to pluck and have it wither so she'll let him be so he can stay looking happy.
• Carcel thinks she's bullshitting and reminded her they had kissed so he had no intention to do that. He told her that he will continue to do as he wishes so when they marry they'll share a bedroom even though she doesn't think they will. She told him she doesn't sleep with dogs (Ines likes to compare men to dogs). Carcel told her that dogs are animals that live with humans so they'll stay together.
• He went and kissed her again and told her that even if she releases a dog, the dog will always return anyway. Ines got upset and hit him on the head. Carcel was surprised. It was his first time ever getting hit by anyone. He was so shocked that Ines told him that she did hit him, and wondered if she's trying to beat a dog. She's trying to beat a spoiled dog that's trying to get into her bedroom. Dogs have to be outside. She told him they can have sex for kids but no kissing unless if it's in public where they have to portray as loving couples to others.
• Carcel who had affirmed that he can do anything except kissing, told Juana to take her Senorita before he left.
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Chapter 4. Nothing goes as planned

• They married at a large chapel. Ines wore her mother's vintage wedding gown.
after the wedding, during the banquet, Ines wouldn't stay by his side. She kept dancing with her brother, Luciano. Everyone was trying to make glances at her as they danced. It was everyone's first time seeing her dressed beautifully and smiling. Also Ines had a perfect body so they were all trying to sneak glances at her cleavage.
• Carcel who was sitting at the banquet table where the married couple should be sitting, was staring at Ines the whole time, getting upset and jealous of all the other people looking at her. He doesn't like the change.
• Dante Ijar, another duke's son, approached Carcel and was also amazed at how pretty Ines was. He wondered if he can have a go at Ines when Carcel gets bored of his wife. Carcel wanted to kill him and threaten if he wants to die, then he can try. Carcel wanted to rush to their first night already but he had to sit there and watch and wait.
• Oscar also approached Carcel and told him that he had always known Ines is like that. He said that's Ines true self and thinks she's wasting herself being married to Carcel when she could've been empress.
• Carcel was reminded somehow that Ines had always been a genius somehow since she was also able to dance beautifully even though she rarely danced and hated it. When she does dance, it's out of obligation. She would only dance with Carcel, Luciano, and her father. But then at the wedding banquet, she took Enrique's hand after dancing multiple times with Luciano. That was the first time she danced with another man. Carcel wasn't happy.
• Juana helped Ines prepare her for her first night. Ines isn't nervous since she had done it many times before in past lives.
• Carcel was the first to enter the bedroom they'll be using. He was recalling the banquet and remembering how after the banquet he had his people keep tabs on all the men that tried to think of seducing her later on. He recalled the irritation he felt when he saw Enrique dancing with her and all the other guys that danced with her afterwards. Every one of them have a pathetic expression, while thinking of having an affair with her. He can tell from the way their eyes were looking at her.
• Suddenly the door opened and Ines entered. He was feeling nervous while she was feeling indifferent. He felt like he was acting as if this was his first time having sex. She even stripped in front of him and he got shocked from seeing how beautiful her body was but then cause he was so shocked and nervous, he didn't do anything, Ines thought he liked doing it with clothes on. She was about to put her negligee back on when he then grabbed her and told her she doesn't have to.
• Ines had her eyes clenched closed as if she's going through war against something and Carcel didn't bothered to continue cause he doesn't want to seem like he's raping her. Ines doesn't understand his thought process since she doesn't think it's rape. She's allowing him to have sex with her and to her it's just an obligation. Carcel told her that he doesn't want sex to be an obligation but something she can enjoy. He needs her to get wet so it can accept his large penis. When she saw it, he taunted her that she will have to help it go down.
• Carcel thought if Ines would get clueless and scare and then he would be able to keep teasing her in bed but instead she bend down and gave him a bowjob. He got shocked again. Not only did it felt good but he felt like she was used to it. He started feeling jealous wondering who was the man who taught her such things. In his jealousy he pulled her up and ended up trying to shove it in her. She lifted her waist up to help accept him.
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Chapter 5. First of all, it's a newlywed

• Needless to say they did it until dawn and even in the morning, when he helped her in the bath, they did it again. It was so loud and lewd, the servants guarding outside can hear them and when they left the room, they were all red, blushing from embarrassment from hearing all that all night.
• Her mother was pleased and acting out. Ines ignored her.
• Ines was being indifferent the whole time in breakfast. She was too tire to think of anything anyway. She's not a morning person and doesn't wake up well so she could barely hold her fork to eat. Carcel tried to take care of her and help her out of her chair. He kept apologizing to her for acting out as a beast last night so she's feeling weak rtight now. She rebuked him for still trying to hold her when he's saying he's sorry.
• He excused them both in front of her family since he had already planned to bring her to Calztela with him so they're leaving right away. Ines didn't know he already planned that but went along with it since she doesn't want to deal with her parents.
• She didn't think she would live there though since most noble-aristocrat couples don't even live together. They have obligated marriages, but Carcel told her Calztela is beautiful enough that there are married couples who live there together. She just accepted it as it was no big deal.
• Ines slept on his lap in the carriage the whole 7 hours on the way to Calztela.
• When she thought of the port, she was reminded of when she saw Carcel at the port the day when he helped Emiliano run away from Luciano. She wondered why he was there at that time.
• Carcel's official resident at Calztela was situated on a hill overlooking the port and the ocean. However, Carcel doesn't really know this place well. That is because he bought it from one of his superior right before their wedding. He had to bribe his superior for this house since it was a house his superior's wife loved. Carcel's original resident was a huge mansion closer to the base, but this new resident he bought was much smaller in size so when he had all his furniture and clothes sent to the new resident, they don't even fit. When Ines and him got there, she can see a bunch of luggage and furniture outside the resident because there was no space inside.
• Even during the whole tour for Ines, Carcel was so clueless since it was his first time stepping into the house. He kept bumping into the furniture that was placed at weird locations throughout the house.
• When his housekeeper, Alonda, was showing the game room, Alonda had to make so many excuses for Carcel to appeal to Ines. The chess board and card game table was situated in the corner where it didn't make sense since opponents can't sit facing each other. The billiard table was also situated against the wall where one of the long side can't be accessed. Alonda had to tell Ines that Carcel play games by himself because he had no friends. When they showed the library, Ines wondered if it can even fit her books (she reads a lot). Alonda tried to appeal to her by telling her that she can use the whole library to herself since Carcel doesn't read. And in the bedroom, Carcel's huge bed took up most of the bedroom. Ines wondered if she's even getting a separate bedroom, or does the house even have room for her to live in. Carcel was quick to try to show her the next room, but it ended up bring his dressing room that didn't seem to have space for even Ines's clothes. Alonda told Ines, Carcel can throw away some of his clothes.
• In the end, Ines doesn't seem to have much of a good impression of Carcel. Her husband is someone who had no friends, play games alone, and doesn't read books. But she did like the view of the resident.
• During her stay she also spotted a painting of Seville. She recognized it as the port where she used to live with Emiliano. Carcel thought she liked that painting but she want it out of her eyes.
• Ines quickly adjusted to her married life. The next morning she woke up early and thought of new life. She can feel his stiff penis against her. In her head, she thinks Carcel is just a horny guy who have such normal sleeping habits. Her thoughts somehow strayed to Emiliano, they day when he died and her child.
• She decided to tell him to wake up, but then she realized he had been awake all along. She then rebuked him that she won't do anything with him, even though he didn't ask for it but she told him that his lower body was doing the talking.
• In the end she told him to get rid of it himself so he did. He was going to masturbate in front of her thinking it'll be nice if she watches. Ines ran away to the dressing room before he pulled down his pants.
• When Carcel got to work, he was reminded of his marriage with Ines. He was enjoying it more than he thought. Also Ines can be cute. He didn't think she would have a difficult time in the morning but it was cute for him to watch her mumble and look irritated while in her sleepy state. Even though they haven't had sex since the first night, he enjoyed just touching her and smelling her. At least she was real unlike the Ines in his dreams.
• When he opened the door, his men were all excited to see and hear his take of married life. They apparently had made bets on how he would feel. Only Jose bet he would smile and laugh pervertedly while the others thought he would be upset. That's because Jose had went to the wedding and saw Ines so he knew she was beautiful. The other men just know Ines from rumors and she doesn't have good rumors around her since she's compared to a nun and a crow.
• Carcel was annoyed with them since he lost his memories of Ines's scent and went to escape to his office. He saw his wedding gifts and bunches of letters from secret admirers, gay men and women who wanted to be his mistresses now. Carcel wondered if he show them to Ines would she get jealous but then thought against it.
• Ines who was getting used to her married life was surprised to learn some new things about Carcel. He might've actually not joined the navy to avoid his marriage with her sine he seemed very faithful to his job. He wakes up early to go to work and would return at evening after training. While she reads the Bible, he would stare out at the balcony enjoying a cigar and a glass of wine every night. Ines would read a Bible to keep the mood from reaching a promiscuous way. Every night when they sleep, Carcel would act as if he had eliminated all his desires from his training and thanks to that they never had to have sex since their first night.
• Alonda treats Ines very well, like a nanny. She seemed to think very fondly of Ines, like she's some saint. She used to be upset when Carcel would play around and not settle down. She was happy when they finally married.
• Ines's footman, Raul, came from Valeztena. Ines had took him in when he was young, saved him from the streets as an orphan. He was very loyal to Ines. (He's not 2nd ML. There is none if anyone asks.) Raul didn't really like the resident. He think it's not good enough for Ines since it's so tiny. They have to return the rest of her luggage back to her family home.
• Ines welcomed him warmly and was pleased he came. Carcel who came home later, when he saw them as he overlooked the terrace at them, made an unpleasant face.
• Ines welcomed Carcel home and proceed to act as a dutiful wife. She was surprised he came home early. Since she can't "prepare" dinner for him, she decided to do her duty of "helping" him change, by helping she meant just watching him. She her "preparing" dinner meant tell him dinner is ready. (Ines is a very lazy person. Carcel compares her to like a fat lazy cat, but cute.) Anyway he doesn't want her to "help" his change in the future because he gets excited with her watching him that he almost erect. When Ines heard that she tried to run away from him. He caught her and laughed as he told her it's almost, not that he did it. She told him "almost" is bad since it meant there's thoughts leading to it.
• But then Ines escaped from his arms when Raul came. Ines started to show concern if he had ate and Raul showed concern for her as he started to nag her. He then noticed Carcel and distanced himself from Ines. After he left to get food, Ines finally noticed Carcel again. He wasn't pleased but Ines didn't notice. She continued to inform Carcel what she will do afterwards. When he asked her why she's telling him, she told him it's because he's her husband and she like to be thorough with her actions so they can refer back to it later on. His ears turned red from hearing her say that he's her husband. He's not sure if he was feeling bashful or annoyed.
• Even so after dinner when Ines went to catch up with Raul, Carcel who was watching them wasn't happy. He kept comparing himself with Raul, thinking he's much better than that guy. He thinks Raul isn't good enough for Ines since he's the best guy and she had always wanted him.
• That night Ines had trouble combing her hair. Since there is no maid at Carcel's resident to take care of a lady, Ines had to deal with it herself. Carcel helped her. She complimented him on his skills but then stopped herself since she was about to say it seemed like he's good at serving women and he would be upset to hear that. But then afterwards he asked for a reward for helping her. He wanted to have sex with her in front of the mirror. She told him to do it in bed.
• Ines found out that Carcel isn't as patient as she thought he was. Unexpectedly he had always wanted to do it with her even after her trying not to appeal to him by wearing boring clothes and never wearing makeup or having a maid take care of her. She didn't really mind if they do it since they would have to but she doesn't want to do it in front of the mirror. He was playing with her nipples as he tried to get her turned on by looking at it herself.
• In the end he told her not to wear the negligee anymore at night and he is annoyed with doing things her way (out of obligation) since he just wants to have sex for pleasure, but he also wants her to enjoy it with him.
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(Vol2-7)
•In v2, Ines continued to try to get Carcel to cheat on her. She would start going out to events more to find women. At a mass, she saw some beautiful lady kept eyeing Carcel. She tried to get Carcel to leave with that woman and was about to head home with a friend. Her friend had to go somewhere to check on something and left Ines waiting alone. While she wandered around , a medallion from a jewelry shop caught her eyes. It was the medallion she gave to Emiliano before. When they were living in poverty in her past life, Emiliano had sold all the other jewelry she had given him to help with their situation, but the medallion was the thing he tried to hold onto for the longest. In the end he only sold the chain necklace of the medallion. Ines tried to buy the medallion from the store but it wasn't for sale.
•She went home in a frenzy (riding a horse on her own) and had Raul check on Emiliano for her. He left her alone to follow her orders and while she was alone, she had a seizure from recalling memories. Carcel came home just in time to see her fall. He rushed to her and told her to breath. Ines tried to tell him it's normal and not to worry but she couldn't talk and lost consciousness
•End of v2, Carcel realized he loved Ines all along. Ines went through hyperventilating anxieties and almost died. He realized that he may have liked her from a young age but somehow lost his feelings because he couldn't understand them. After that he became super overprotective of her. He won't even have sex with her for a while since he was scare she'll break. He kept her from leaving their house. (It was from this point he took drugs to be sterile so he doesn't get her pregnant. He doesn't want her to die from childbirth.)
•Carcel looked back on his past to see clues when Ines had been sick since Raul told him that Ines started having these seizures from when she was 16. Carcel realized that was the time when Ines had a drastic change and stopped seeing him. When they did attend events together, he slowly recalled seeing her looking very pale and weak. He was upset at himself for not knowing sooner and for sleeping around at that time too, ignoring her when she was so sick. He also found out Ines was looking at jewelry right before she head home.
•From v3, she woke up and he cried when she apologized for not telling him. He didn't want that. He just wanted her safe and alive. He told her he would just buy her everything she wants and for her. So he spent a week working hard so he can have time to go buy her jewelry. He went to get her jewelries as gifts and happened to go to the same shop where the medallion was. Some earrings caught his eyes and he got that immediately since they reminded him of the earrings she wore at their wedding. The store owner told him that Ines was looking at the medallion but it's not for sale. Carcel was determined to buy the medallion for her since it seemed she was interested in it. Ines couldn't go out so she can't find women to seduce Carcel. She decided to invite them instead. Carcel had an inkling of what Ines was doing but chose to remain ignorant since he doesn't want to think his wife still wants him to sleep with others.
•Ines can tell Carcel had fallen in love with her and didn't like that. She wanted him to go out and meet women but he just hangs around her. Still she had gotten very comfortable with their married life. She also made some friends with his men and their wives. On such occasional visit, they saw a fountain of a mermaid and a soldier. There's a story amongst the people of Calztela that there are mermaids that would try to seduce soldiers to follow them to the ocean to prove their love. Ines thinks the soldier is stupid. Carel originally also thought the soldier was stupid but then compare himself to the solder and Ines to the mermaid. She was pretty like a mermaid even though she doesn't want him to prove his love for her, but he's willing to follow her even if he feel suffocated from not getting her love.
•Her first concern for him was when he punished himself by bloodying his hand when he tried to kiss her, since she had told him not to kiss her, but he did it anyway since he wanted to. When he wondered why she was being nice to one of his men, she told him that his men reminded her of Carcel. She pities Carcel for marrying her.
•Carcel didn't understand what she meant by that since he felt lucky for marrying her and then kept asking her to explain. He managed to get some answer afterward when he woke her up and she confessed to him in her sleepy state that she had someone before. Carcel got jealous of that someone who had her love but couldn't take her first time. He wanted to know if she's going to run away with him and if she chose to marry him because he was a player so she thought it would be fine if she had a secret lover while her husband plays around. Ines told him she had always wanted to marry him and there is no secret lover. Also if she was to leave, she'll divorce, not run away. He was upset but he eventually accepted her answer that she had always wanted him.
•Alfonso (the butler) realized Ines's seizures were linked to psychological issues and wanted her to reveal them to Carcel. She didn't want to yet since she doesn't want the divorce to be blamed on her side but she said she had planned to leave Carcel since the engagement and forced Alfonso to help her. She got a lady to dressed and looked like her and placed her in their bedroom to get Carcel to cheat on her. Carcel knew instantly she wasn't Ines after touching her for a bit and got enraged at the lady for posing as Ines. The lady told Carcel that he can release all his perverted desires on her since Ines is too noble to do perverted acts with him at broad daylight. Also Ines had told the other ladies before that she doesn't care if Carcel sleeps with other women if he enjoys it. Carcel got upset hearing that. At that moment the door opened and Ines saw and excused her. Carcel chased after her and stopped her. After releasing her hair, he brought her to their room and had that lady ran off when she thought they were going to have sex. When Ines told him she doesn't care about the ladies, he told her that it's him she doesn't care about. He also told her to place good friends by her side because he cares for her since he loves her. Eventually she cried and realized she was stupid. She had tried to get him to cheat but then didn't want him to get caught and had rushed to the bedroom hoping no one will find out. In the end she was relieved he went after her.
•She got a fever and dreamt of the past lives again. Carcel took care of her without sleeping for a few days. When she woke up, he was coming in from smoking cigar out in their balcony and she told him why he was out there. He should either just smoke in the bedroom or kick Alfonso and build a new cigar room. He didn't want to do either. Ines noticed he doesn't look too well.
•Around end of v3, Ines started displaying more concern for Carcel when he got sick after taking care of her fever. She had ordered Raul to check up on Carcel in the guise of sending him end of the year gifts. Carcel was happy with the gifts and when Raul told him secretly that Ines was worried about him, he got estatic. Later when he walk out of the carriage carrying gifts, he fainted from fever. Raul and Jose had to help carry him back home and he fainted there again and she got concerned for him. Leads to her displaying more affection for him. Carcel wanted him to show more concern for him started to act more stupid around her to get her pity and care.
•At v4, they went on a trip alone to the mountains where they hunted. Carcel found out Ines is very good at horseback riding and can shoot well, though not as good as him since he's perfect shooter. Carcel gave her a valued gun that belonged to his grandfather. Ines recalled that was the gun Oscar had given her in 2nd life. She realized it was actually Carcel's gun. He gave Oscar to give to her because he was worried she would hurt her arms from holding the man's guns. (It was also the same gun she used to shot herself in the head hoping to mock Oscar since she thought Oscar gave it to her.) Ines confessed she now wants to have kids with him not just out of obligation. It was from here that he stopped using the drugs to remain sterile since he also want to have kids with Ines. They had a shooting competition where whoever wins can name their future kids. He won and named their future kids Ricardo and Ivana. Ines did threw a childish tantrum since she lost and Carcel thought it was cute. While she slept his men informed him of assassins. At the end of the trip, he told her to return to Mendoza because he spotted some assassins when they were at the trip and tried to find out who the assassins were aiming to kill.
•Ines was back at Mendoza while Carcel stayed at Calztela. He found out the assassins were aiming for him since they tried to kill him in their bedroom. It was Oscar who was trying to kill him to get Ines. Ines stayed with Carcel's family at the capital. She found out that Carcel was abused and almost died from Oscar when he was young. She went back home to check their old letters for clues. Ines felt guilty for not seeing the clues before.
•Carcel found out about Emiliano. The store owner eventually told him the owner of the medallion. He can't sell the medallion to Carcel without his permission so Carcel was going to get Raul to get permission from Emiliano, but then when talking with Raul, he realized that Ines might've known Emiliano from a very young age. That painting of Seville from before was painted by him and he made the connection. He decided to go see Emiliano himself later on.
•Oscar continued his pursuit for Ines. Ines continued to ignore him. Even Isabella knows her nephew wants Ines. Alicia, OScar's fiancee, continues to spew jealousy of Ines. Ines missed Carcel and wrote a very short letter to him saying Mendoza was boring without him. Carcel was ecstatic to get a letter from Ines since she rarely writes to anyone. He immediately rushed to Mendoza to see her after reading the letter. He arrived when Ines was in the middle of Oscar celebrating his a party for his half sister. Carcel helped Ines excuse herself and they left. On the way back, Carsel kept asking her if she likes him. He was feeling insecure as he had been having visions of their past lives. He knew she has some connection with Emiliano and Oscar and that she didn't love him before. Carcel stayed for the night before heading back when she made him stay. This whole smut scene, he kept asking for her to tell him she likes him and she did.
•Carcel went to the city where Emiliano is. This is when he started recalling more of his memories. Emiliano recalled his full memories of his past life (Ines 3rd life). The reason why people recall memories is because they have sinned. Emiliano didn't sin but he volunteered himself to remember so she won't repeat her sin and meet him again. Ines recalled her lives because she sinned by committed suicides. Carcel tried to recall his lives so he broke the statue of the apostle of Anastasio to regain his memories. When he did that he recalled some of his memories of trying to help Emiliano, and his memories of loving Ines secretly before. When he saw Ines in his memories, he realized that's the face of someone who loves someone and knew Ines loved Emiliano. He thought Ines still loves Emiliano so he was somewhat reluctant to let Ines marry Emiliano. He wanted Ines to be happy, but since he wasn't willing to give up on her, he decided to just leave it to his own death as a soldier to "leave" her. Emiliano told him that Ines and him can't be together and also Ines killed her own child. He told Carcel not to make the same mistake as him. IN the end Carcel couldn't leave Ines.
•In Volume 5, Ines went through another bout of seizure when she saw Anastsio. She wanted to return to Calztela so she did. She bought a bunch of gifts for Carcel to give to him, but when she got there, he wasn't home. She waited 5-6 days for his return. Carcel was surprised to see her. He was feeling guilty about her past so he avoided her for a bit but that resolved quickly. One morning she went to prepare to give him gifts to surprise him, and while she was checking on one of the gifts, she found his drugs and almost hyperventilate in anger realizing Carcel had been trying not to get pregnant with her when she had been trying to get pregnant. Carcel got worried and soothed her. After putting her to bed, he picked up all her gifts and found all her notes. He was happy with them.
•They went to test her gifts together. She had gifted him a bunch of arsenal and weapons so he can use them to keep himself safe. It was around here when she admit to him her secret that she was crazy and suicidal, and about some of her "dreams" (she called her memories dreams since she didn't know Carcel already knew about it and had met Emiliano). She also told him that she had chosen him as a fiance to ruin the marriage to begin with since she was going to leave him. Carcel cried to her asking for confirmation that it isn't like that anymore since she wanted to have his child and they'll live together for a long time. After that they had sex very frequently. On one day they, then, got news of Miguel's fiancee.
•They had returned back to Mendoza together when there was news Miguel's fiancee died. Miguel had a rough time dealing with his loss. He even tried to commit suicide. Carcel felt bad Ines had to deal with his family's issues but she didn't mind. She felt bad for Miguel. It happened in the other lives as well. Miguel never recovered or found someone else. Oscar also came to attend the funeral and Carcel got worried Oscar will try to do something to her. She told him she's fine. Ines held down her anger for Oscar when talking to Oscar since she doesn't want her or Carcel to ruin this life just because of Oscar so she plans to live well diligently. The empress tried to get her adopted daughter as the new fiancee for Miguel, but Miguel hates her cause she used to bully his fiancee.
•Ines tried to help dissuade the empress's plan. She knows the maid that takes care of the princess, Regina. She was a maid who had an illegitimate son with the emperor. Ines had helped saved that son from being killed by the empress before so the maid is indebt to Ines. Ines told her to continue to keep Delores, Oscar's half sister, from wanting the engagement with Miguel. Oscar set up a plan to try to get Carcel to go to war with the pirates and die there. He told his father to send Carcel to war to increase his own standing. Carcel would have to go to war if he doesn't want his younger brother to be forced to marry Delores. Juan didn't want his son to go but Carcel made the choice himself since he felt he can gain bigger power through it. He recalled the sign the apostle had given him before when he broke the statue telling him that he will arise so he trust he will survive and come back with a greater position that the imperial family can't control him.••

Nah... im obsessed she's such a badass