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FYI, there will be no English chapter next week. The next chapter will be released on August 23rd. Of course if you can’t wait to see images, the Korean raws are out on social media websites like X and Instagram.

Sometimes I wonder if people read this story speedily or selectively. Ines chose Carcel solely to divorce. To assuage her conscience, she even persuaded herself that in the end she won’t harm him because she erroneously believed he would appreciate a divorce so he can live freely pursuing women for the rest of his life (that’s why she got upset when before marriage he told her he intends to be a faithful husband and she slapped him) but also gain the duke’s title. Carcel has never inherited the duke title because there’s a rule that he has to be married before inheriting or shortly after inheriting the title just like Luciano had to in the first true timeline. So Ines convinced herself she would not be harming him despite the fact that nobles rather kill their spouse than divorce their spouse because divorce is seen as scandalous among them. The fact remains, she planned out this significant event for Carcel and intended to follow through with it unbeknownst to him. I really don’t see what his premarital lifestyle has to do with it because it’s not like Ines decided to scrap the plan. She continued with her plan and in fact never had any intention to live a genuine married life with him since she even went as far as consulting lawyers at the mere age of 12 years old when Carcel was just a little boy learning succession lessons.

So I ask, did she consult Carcel about choosing him to marry for divorce? Did she consult him about the fact she wanted to bear his child then divorce him? Did she consult him about wanting to raise their future child with only one parent be it him or her? The fact remains, she was planning to upend his life and he hadn’t a clue. It’s not even from partway through knowing him. She planned to upend his life from the time she chose him at 6 years old.

If author thinks it wasn’t a big deal, why is the truth coming out now? Why did Carcel find out the truth now? Why will it be addressed in a few chapters? Carcel will pretend he didn’t find out but thankfully the author will still address it soon because it’s something she chose not to sweep under the rug.

Chapter 104 (ch 107 on this site) was released in South Korea today and Ines & Carcel has a beautiful reunion. So many panels of Ines hugging him from behind as if her world is finally at peace. I missed seeing them together and the best thing is, their relationship is only going to get better and better from here.

Readers sometimes comment on the fact that Carcel has loved Ines in every timeline but do you realize that he has fallen for her every single timeline WITHOUT the influence of memories? This definitely sets his love apart because he was never living on old memories to influence his love. He always loved Ines anew. I really love that Ines answered his love in this current timeline BEFORE she received any old memories of their hidden timeline because it shows she also fell in love with him again once she truly got to know him again.

That’s why the Apostle returning her memories AFTER she was already in love is truly wise. Actually the Apostle specifically told her, since she made a GOOD choice (Carcel) this time, he will return her hidden timeline memories.

The greatest purpose of the Bilbao story arc is to explain how the world works and for Carcel to regain his memories. It was not only about Emiliano and Ines but about Carcel learning about Ines from someone who had the opportunity to talk to the Apostle. It also served to show how Carcel helped Ines and Emiliano in the previous timeline which showcased the lengths he would go for Ines. It also showed that Emiliano has basically repaid him for that favor by explaining what he learned from the Apostle. Now he has also asked Carcel for another favor to deliver the fake necklace to Ines with a message of forgiveness. Ines has a lot of guilt over killing her child so perhaps eventually she can forgive herself a little after receiving that message.

Carcel also received a lot of memories so that he can know Ines better, know why there’s a threat to their lives (Oscar attempted to assassinate him and he wasn’t sure of the depth of the reasons why) and he can protect Ines better. If and when Ines one day confide in Carcel as she promised to do when they were at the hunting lodge, she will find a comrade in her story of the past because now Carcel has some of those memories too and she won’t feel utterly alone. One day they will basically be the same in remembering all three timelines until everything is resolved and they can freely live their lives and pile up on new memories over the next decades of their lives.

As far as the length of the Bilbao arc, it’s appropriate because it covers 13 chapters or so and it has a lot of info about the world and religion. The artist and storyteller cut out parts of it to get it down to 6 chapters. Now it’s over and we can finally get back to Ines and Carcel’s love story which has new information and development ahead. We already found out there was a hidden timeline so that needs to be introduced now.

It’s kind of amazing how people here are talking about Carcel taking away Ines’s right to decide but completely turned a blind eye to Ines plotting for 50+ chapters or 17 years to take away Carcel’s right to decide his life. I simply love how this story arc is exposing just how two-faced readers of this manhwa story are. Never mind that Carcel is actually proposing to fulfill the wish she poured a stunning more than half her life into.

Carcel has lived FOUR times and not once does he need anyone to smack sense into him. All Emiliano did was tell Carcel to NOT FOLLOW IN HIS FOOLISH FOOTSTEPS where he abandoned Ines and made very STUPID decisions in the previous timeline. Furthermore, Carcel’s reasons aren’t absurd. It is a fact that Ines’s goal in this life was to divorce him. It’s not like Carcel is the one who first decided on divorce. He always put Ines first and wants to fulfill her wish and was considering a plan of action. Furthermore, if Emiliano and Ines didn’t have the fatal flaw that they couldn’t stand to face each other, no one knows what his answer would've been to Carcel’s proposal.

Using the new abridged information given in this chapter, we learn the following about what happened at the port in Sevilla and how Emiliano ended up dying:

1. Carcel found Ines before the soldiers sent by the crown prince and Luciano and his soldiers. (See end of ep19 when Ines asked in her thoughts why did Carcel help Emiliano and there’s a flashback to Carcel in uniform on the pier in the night in Sevilla standing before the fugitive couple.)

Ep19 - Pages 30 - 31
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-118640/pg-30/

2. Carcel puts up Ines, her child and Emiliano in a safe house for the night since soldiers were everywhere looking for them in the vicinity

3. Ines was hostile to Carcel at first thinking he was there on the crown prince’s orders to retrieve her.

4. Carcel had actually been tasked by the crown prince with finding Ines years before but didn’t bother. He stayed in Calztela living his life and doing his duty.

5. Carcel decided to find Ines only after an imperial order was issued and soldiers sent out to find her.

6. The imperial family and nobles wanted Ines brought back and punished with her family for humiliating the imperial family

7. Carcel saved Emiliano’s life twice.

8. At some point, Emiliano and Carcel were alone and he asks Carcel for a favor. He asks him to retrieve the pendant from the jeweler and give it to Ines. It’s the pendant her pawned to cover medical bill for their sick child. He’ll leave the place with the child.

9. Carcel asks him why would he leave without Ines after going through all this trouble and Emiliano answers pretty much about the same thing in this chapter about Ines living a better life.

10. After Emiliano runs back to Ines in that dangerous situation where the soldiers were still looking for them everywhere and he got caught.

11. That’s why in Ep. 11, Ines’s narrative said:
Emiliano managed to escape for a short while with the help of another person (Carcel)…but in the end he returned on his own two feet to die before her very eyes (see manhwa panel) https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-103432/pg-4/

12. This is why present day Emiliano asks Carcel to tell Ines to blame him for the child’s death. He thinks if he had stuck to the plan he arranged with Carcel, then Ines wouldn’t have been burdened with the child and he could have raised the child himself. It’s all explained in the novel. This also explains why he was apologetic to Carcel for making his efforts to save him twice come to nothing.

Edit: corrected info.

Ines finally appears next chapter. Remember the last time we saw her, she had fainted on the busy streets of the shopping district in Mendoza after receiving a vision of her death and while dying she was dreaming of she and Carcel by the shore of the lake in Esposa.

I’m utterly amazed how Carcel as a character is often called stupid by some readers and the characters who made dumb decisions are somehow called smart. The latter kind of characters only learned after they already made HUGE mistakes rather than thinking things through before acting on them. It seems that unless the story spells it out explicitly, some readers cannot figure this out.

This all started because Carcel found out his wife of 1 year had been plotting for 17 years behind his back to divorce him so he decided he wanted to grant her long held wish. Then there is the guy who left the pendant for her to find. Using those two facts, Carcel concluded they still wanted to be together. Right on the spot, unlike the stupid couple from the previous timeline, he already thought of a way they can escape together out of the reach of the crown prince. He decided he would buy a title and mansion in another country for them, they can leave Ortega and he will deal with Oscar.

While I don’t agree with Carcel’s decision, I don’t see why he gets lambasted for daring to think of divorcing Ines when Ines spent 17 years of her life plotting to divorce him behind his back.