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Seems some people just can’t read. Cárcel never tarnished Ines image especially in a society that is promiscuous and married people are expected to cheat because nobility rarely married for love. Ines never even cared about Carcel’s past and wanted him to sleep around. Ep46 or so has Ines telling Carcel that his past nor her past matters. As the manhwa already shows, it’s only recently that Ines actually began to get jealous of ‘her husband’ Carcel and that’s because she now has feelings for him.
For the record, Ines herself promoted and relished in a bad reputation in society. She did this because she didn’t want people to interfere with her. After she saw how society reacted to her wearing black dresses and a modest hairstyle, she double-downed on it and was glad when society began to call her a crow. She also wanted society to remind Carcel that she’s a boring woman and therefore set a psychology for Carcel to be encouraged to think she’s not a good catch so that he can seek other women elsewhere.
The manhwa absolutely suck at portraying the truth about Carcel’s life before marriage because Ines herself began to realize that the rumors she based her knowledge of Carcel on from the crown princess timeline were inaccurate and she realized after living with Carcel in Calztela that he lived unlike the majority of navy men there. He lived a quiet, boring disciplined life there for nine months out of the year. Ines found this out from seeing it herself coupled with Raul’s surveillance of Carcel over several weeks. It’s when Carcel went to Mendoza and felt pressured by all sides that he would sleep with other women that he did not seek out or entice himself. It’s women who pursued him and even then, Carcel had standards. Manhwa of course won’t reveal that because they were too busy cleaning up the things about Ines that they didn’t want to reveal in the manhwa just in case readers come to dislike FL. They obviously think it’s okay for readers to dislike ML but not FL. I guess Serena manhwa shows there is some truth in that.
Thats a very good point you made about main leads not being a authors priority, tho i do wish that wasent the case I feel like if bith leads were the priority the story would have a whole lot more dephs into it which would not leave it with a bunch of loop holes. I feel like the authors keeps making the side characters remind us of his scandalous past in orde to induce the hatred towards him but I just don't see the point of that? But what I do like is the touch on how it affects the victims of these scandals because you rarely see the effects of it maybe a few shocking scenes but that's it never about how they truly feel about the situation.
Last week was the hiatus that occurs after every four chapters. This week the Mendoza arc begins where we meet Carcel’s mom and Ines’s waiting lady once again. Change of scenery should be interesting as more characters enter the scene.