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What exactly is Carcel’s downfall that some wish for. I’m frankly quite puzzled. Are they talking about Carcel losing Ines? If so, Carcel would make way for Ines to be happy in any way he could even if it means she leaves him. He has already proven that he can live a life of unrequited love for her twice already. In the crown princess timeline, she was married to someone else yet even when he got the chance to encourage her, he told her all he wants is for her to live safely. In the Fugitive timeline, he helped her and her people because he didn’t want her to lose anything. In both of those timelines, he quietly loved her and helped her where he could and never crossed the line. Ines didn’t even realize he loved her until she became his wife and experienced flashbacks that revealed he loved her because now she knows him better and can see the signs.
What about Ines? Ines is already at the point where all she wants to do is live for a long time by Carcel’s side. The manhwa cuts stuff but Ines already determined this before they went hunting. She acknowledged that Carcel makes her feel safe and he worries more about her than she worries about herself. She even cried when she realized this. The chapter ended with her saying that she always wanted time to pass quickly but she didn’t want this moment with Carcel to end. That’s related to the scene in the manhwa when she and Carcel were lying on the bed and she began to confess she can hunt and ride horses.
Aside from the fact that Carcel and Ines are currently in love with each other (even when Ines hasn’t verbally confessed it), there’s also the fact that Ines is always in danger of Oscar and his crazy wife’s scheme to get Ines to become Oscar’s mistress. Who acts as a buffer for their plans? Carcel. That is why Oscar wants to get rid of Carcel. Carcel also comes with layers of protection for Ines. In the absence of Carcel, there’s his father. Then there’s Ines’s brother, Luciano, whom Ines has begun to warm up to mainly because of Carcel’s influence on her and the chance Carcel created as a bridge between her and her brother. So, because of Carcel, Ines now has Carcel, his father, his brother, Miguel, and her brother, Luciano and soon her father as her supporters and defenders. On the political side, which dictates the crown prince cannot act recklessly, Carcel’s father and Ines’s father are important because they can meet the emperor at any time and can keep the crown prince in check.
Just a reminder that Inés has already lost her life twice because of Oscar. This is her last chance to break this cycle and Cárcel and everyone and everything he comes with makes a difference.