Surprised no one wondered about that ending of her shouting out Cárcel’s name. Raul also observed that she’s pale. It’s just a cold but Ines is reacting like it’s a graver sickness.
There won’t be a chapter next week. The next chapter release is the last week of the year.
The manhwa adaptation hasn’t done a good job of explaining how things started between Ines and the men she previously chose. I see some act as though Ines loved only one man. Wrong. Ines fell for Emiliano after they were fugitives together and he was very kind to her. He treated her better than Oscar. One thing that Ines likes is guys who are kind to her. The reason she fell for Oscar is because he treated her nice and special at first. She loved Oscar during their engagement and their first years of marriage. They were married for 10 years so I would say maybe the first five or so were good years. Ines never denies this fact. She said it in ch 9 and says again later in the story.
As to Emiliano, she woke up/regressed wanting to love someone after Oscar treated her so terribly. Ines will always admit she chose love first then added the man to the equation. So, it didn’t even have to be Emiliano. It could have been just another random nice guy and she would have fallen for him. Ines also idolizes her life with Emiliano because it’s a stark contrast to her life with Oscar and Emiliano practically worshipped her (which shows they weren’t equal like partners should be). The jewelry store shop keeper hinted at this too when he finally met Ines and wasn’t as impressed with Ines’s beauty like he was told by the person who left the pendant that almost killed her.
With Carcel, she had firm walls erected against him She never intended to love him and she always tries to deny anything she feels for him. However, wouldn’t it be something that despite her walls and all the ways she talks herself out of staying with him that her heart loves him even if her mind doesn’t want to? It would be ultimate proof that she fell for him in spite of all her schemes and inspite of herself. It would also mean she met he first man she never intended to love but couldn’t help loving.
As to all three men, Carcel is by far the most suited for her. She has the most in common with him, they are equal in status and quite frankly, they get along swimmingly. The manhwa hasn’t even done justice to the relationship that is shown between Ines and Carcel since they began their marriage. All the times Ines has laughed, all the times they bicker, all the times they complement each other, etc. Hopefully the manhwa will now begin to show it as they go into the next stage of the story.
Also, if readers are basing Ines being with a guy because of a kid, then they’re building their foundation on sand because story will reveal a hidden fact about Ines’s past that makes that point moot.
According to Inés, Cárcel was criticized for not being married in the CP TL. So BOTH noble men and women were expected to marry.
Novel excerpt:
Of course, if she thought about it a little more, she didn't even know that 'original' Cárcel Escalate very well. A playboy with many followers. A man who avoided duty and marriage.
Words that could've been used to devalue him were not as varied then and now. Everyone only sees the loudest aspect of others.
Not getting married was considered a major flaw, regardless of gender, and he, who was considered to be the most handsome man in the world beyond borders, was too conspicuous wherever he was.
When Cárcel did one thing, ten stories were created the next day.
I see all these posts trying to justify everything Inés does by her past “trauma”. Does Inés even think like you? No, she doesn’t. Inés has pretty much moved on from her past with Oscar. She even says a little later that her past with Oscar is like reading a book because the feelings about that life are so distant. Even in this dream, what the manhwa doesn’t tell the reader is that Inés Escalante was watching Inés Valenza as an observer. She even acted as though that life had nothing to do with her current self.
Furthermore, Inés needs to acknowledge when she’s wrong in order to change. Fortunately she’s not like people who think she’s always right. Since she’s not like that, she will get character development and become a self that she can love and anyone who wants the best for her would look forward to her learning to love herself. Right now she cannot love herself as she is and that’s why she has said before that Carcel deserves better.
In manhwa episode 10, Inés talks about her choice of Oscar. Either readers are too busy watching the pictures or they only read one thing is the ch because Ines states that she loved Oscar and chose him herself. I suggest people re-read it before claiming Ines didn’t choose him.
This is copied and pasted directly from the manhwa pages in ch 10:
SHE COULDN'T TELL WHETHER SHE HAD DONE IT ALL TO BECOME ThE PERFECT WOMAN FOR THE CROWN PRINCE.. .OR IF SHE HAD SIMPLY USED HIM TO ACHIEVE HER PERFECT LIFE.
BUT SHE DID LOVE HIM. SHE LOVED HIM THOUGH IT HAD ONLY BEEN A FEW YEARS, AND EVEN THOUGH HE HAD MADE HER FALL FOR HIS DESPICABLE LIES, AND EVEN IF HER REASONS HAD BEEN VAIN AND IT WAS ACTUALLY THE REPUTATION AND STATUS THAT SHE LOVED...
I keep seeing comments about Inés didn’t have a choice in her marriage. The story doesn’t support this. Inés always chose her own husbands. There will be a flashback that shows she was into Oscar. It should be a couple chapters ahead. She even used to affectionately call him “My Oscar”. When she was young, she even played hard to get for Oscar. She used to have her father take her to Mendoza and then act standoffish to entice Oscar.
There is a part the manhwa cut before this dream that shows Ines’s self-reflection on the way she judged Carcel solely based on rumors. During that reflection, she said this about Carcel:
“Not getting married was considered a major flaw, REGARDLESS OF GENDER, and he, who was considered to be the most handsome man in the world beyond borders, was too conspicuous wherever he was. When Cárcel did one thing, ten stories were created the next day.”
The above is Ines saying that “both” men and women are expected to get married if they’re nobles.
Later, Inés also states she doesn’t regret her choice of choosing Cárcel as her husband. So when people here talking about Inés didn’t have a choice, they’re making false statements. Inés never regrets choosing Cárcel. Ines also believes that a man and woman should marry more than Carcel believes it. Inés also believes in having children. She will never stop wanting a child now or in the future. In short, Ines is thoroughly an aristocrat and believes in the obligations of aristocrats. She and Carcel will have a big fight in the future about children and she even physically beats him up. lol Marriage and children are very important to Ines.
Inés began to dream about the CP timeline because before she fell asleep, she began to question if all the rumors she believed about Cárcel were false. She began to think of Cárcel in the CP timeline, viewing him in her memory at various times mostly from afar. Then she remembers his love confession and breaks down crying. Cárcel finds her crying and immediately melts and goes into overprotective husband mode. All of this was cut by the manhwa storyteller.
Inés then develops a fever and falls asleep. Since she was thinking of the CP timeline, she begins to dream of it. She recalls the hell she was living in and the day her brother discovered the truth. The brother and Ines’s conversation was being monitored by the CP guards who were standing outside the room. The purpose of this dream is to reveal to Inés things she missed out on during the CP timeline. Like the way she finally noticed the “hatred” in her brother’s eyes that was aimed at her abusive husband. Then, of course, to discover something new that she didn’t realize before about Cárcel.
Inés’s brother will give her a bullet at some point later and tell her that they can’t live in a world with Oscar. Either she kill him or he’ll kill him. Inés eventually killed herself and her brother kidnapped the deposed Oscar and tortured him on a daily basis by cutting off a limb per day. He cut off his right foot, left foot, left wrist, etc.
I love it so much when Carcel told Ines that she would’ve have given him the crazy lady’s name if he had said he wanted to sleep with the woman sometime in the future. At least now he knows for sure that his wife wants him to sleep with others. What now for Ines and her grand plan?
I see some commenting that Carcel is groveling and begging. The lady from last week essentially told Carcel that the wife he’s been treasuring all this time doesn’t care a whit about him. So, Carcel, from his pov, finally gets to understand he’s living a lie with a woman who cares nothing about him. He hasn’t a clue that he was chosen to be dumped for her purpose.
Now that he has an inkling of the truth….that at least he’s in this marriage alone, he asks questions to his wife. Why does she live with him? Why did she choose him when she hates him? In his thoughts, he wonders why she didn’t choose Oscar instead of him. He also wishes he hadn’t treasured her and loved her now that he knows of her indifference to him. Unfortunately for him, his love is unwanted or so he thinks. Even if he says in his thoughts he wants her to love him, ultimately Carcel always comes back to his senses. He can accept the reality that she doesn’t love him. He doesn’t need to grovel and he doesn’t beg either. Just wait and see in the next chapters. He’s a man that adapts to the situation.
And those who want to laugh at him are better off laughing now because he won’t be the one who breaks down or the one who will wonder if he will stop loving her or the one who will wonder if he’s still very angry at what she did , etc.
All this talk of cheating is a clear example of double standards. When Ines slept with a stranger while engaged and set to marry in 3 months, her defenders say she didn’t cheat or they make the excuse that she didn’t have any choice when she in fact had a choice.
When Carcel slept with others while engaged and didn’t have any romantic or personal relationship with Ines, they say he cheated despite the fact she completely ignored his existence and rejected him repeatedly. Is cheating only cheating when Carcel does it then? The hypocrisy is so clear.
Even Ines calls herself a cheater later in the story when he cheating from the previous timeline is addressed. Apparently Ines knows she cheated but not her defenders. I see nothing wrong with a cheater marrying a cheater. It’s Ines’s opinion that matters. Not people who think they know her.