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As usual, the manhwa cuts Inés crucial reasoning in this section where she blames herself. Don’t know why they’re always so afraid to show her admitting she was wrong. They did that regarding her treatment of Carcel and now did it again with her taking responsibility for her part in the tragedy of the previous timeline. All of this is part of her character development and it also shows she’s maturing as a person.

She thinks the following just before she suddenly gets the flashback memory of Luciano giving her a bullet. Novel excerpt:

For his sister, the lowly painter would have been a partner whom he didn't even fake a smile at, BUT more than that, the problem would have been that Valeztena's daughter fled in connection with another man just before her marriage to the Crown Prince.

How much Óscar must have pressured Luciano. What threat he must have set with her and Valeztena.... So she understood, and was frustrated because she understood. In front of the cliff of that day when nothing was reversible.

After all, she was the one who killed Emiliano. Because she dragged that innocent, nice man into her gutter life in front of Óscar.

Translation completely missed the mark/context regarding the line where it has Isabella say ‘He may not be the sharpest but he certainly is a strong one, right?’ What Isabella said in the direct translation of the Korean novel is:

"It's not your fault. Cárcel was really fine. That child's IGNORANTLY STRONG. The only thing that wasn't okay was inside the mind of his mother who dared not say a word while watching that (His abuse).”

The topic is about how foolishly strong Cárcel is to the point that he disregards his pain. A good example would be the time when he deliberately and foolishly injured his hand at the navy banquet as punishment for breaking Ines’s no-kissing rule. At the time, Inés was alarmed by his indifference to his pain. During this revelation of Isabella’s, the reader learns that Carcel developed an apathy to his own pain since he was a 6-year old child as he endured Oscar’s torment. One day there was a serious incident where Carcel’s mother cried after she was summoned to the palace to find her child seriously injured. That led to his parents arguing at home that night while Carcel lay sick in bed. After overhearing all of that, Carcel, as a small child, decided to hide future incidents from his mother. That’s how he learned to endure and eventually ignore physical pain. That’s how he became ‘ignorantly strong’ in other people’s eyes like Inés and Isabella who think he shouldn’t ignore his pain.

Now Ines better understands that Carcel is the kind of person who ignores his own pain. Considering she just asked him to visit her in Mendoza, she’ll probably see the scar of the bullet graze on his body and realize he’s hiding something from her.

As usual, this manhwa cut important info. The reason why Ines vomited is because during the carriage ride home, Isabella told her that Oscar’s gaze on her was like one of passion, like passionate love. When Ines gets home and remembers the conversation, she started to vomit like crazy and it was like bugs were crawling on her skin kind of disgust.

After she finished vomiting, she deliberately thinks of Carcel to brighten her mood. The manhwa instead put Carcel (see the sun rays around his silhouette) in the scene at the palace when that wasn’t the case in the novel. The author made a point of showing that just the memory and image of Carcel brightens Ines’s mood after she finished vomiting. That’s why there’s that soundtrack for the manhwa title Midnight Sun sang by Korean artist Alexa. Carcel is her Midnight Sun.

Another thing the manhwa cut is the fact that Isabella told Ines that Oscar cruelly bullied Carcel as a 6 year old child. (In fact he almost killed 6 year old Carcel) All of this info leads Ines to realize that Oscar has been threatening Carcel’s life since he was a small child. She doesn’t even know yet that he sent assassins after him recently. All of this is supposed to culminate in her realization that Oscar is a threat to them.

The purpose of asking her to wear a wreath is so that she can declare herself his mistress at the Formente match. He actually thinks Ines would still like him.

It’s amazing how obsessed she is with Ines’s womb. In 3 out of 4 timelines, she has something to say or something to do with Ines’s womb. Anyway, this woman is the second antagonist in the story as the ch reveals. However, there is more to her atrocities than even Ines currently knows. The story will reveal them all.

This chapter reveals more about Mendoza’s noble society:

* Nobles would rather live unhappily than get divorce because according to them divorce is beneath them and it began as a means by which wealthy commoners divide their property.

* Ines mentioned early in the story that nobles would rather kill their spouses instead of divorce them. To live peacefully, a married couple who doesn’t get along would choose to live separately. For example, one in Mendoza and one at the family estate.

* Married couples are known to have lovers. This is practiced by both men and women. For example, Marchioness Barca who attended Ines’s social gatherings in Calztela has lovers and her husband has lovers. Same for the empress and emperor. Their lovers can also be other married people.

* Most nobles look down on love. Ines even gets embarrassed when Isabela mentioned she heard she and Carcel share the same bedroom. Ines’s mother’s letter to her in Calztela had also advised her not to live like a lover with her husband Cárcel. This is why the rumors that Carcel is in love with his wife seem so absurd to everyone and will continue to be that way when they realize Ines and Carcel are in a love relationship.

Back in chapter 61, Carcel asked Raul to spread rumors about how much he loves his wife. Those rumors are now widespread and as soon as they reached the capital of Mendoza, the assassination attempts began. Author uses ordinary moments to turn them into something relevant and important later.

Spoiler. There’s something amusing that Carcel’s mom tells Ines later and Ines kind of scuffs at Carcel for talking so bluntly to his mom. Then she realizes that Carcel must have taken after his mom with bluntness. This is what his mom told her:






Isabella tells Ines that Carcel lectured her on treating his wife nice. She tells Ines this:

"When I asked him if I looked like that, (someone who would scold his wife) he said that sons don't usually see their mother as 'such a person'... But then he seriously asked me where all the terrible mother-in-laws in the world came from."

LOL When Ines heard that she wanted to scold Carcel for saying such a thing to his mother.

Among a sea of comments that asserts that Carcel’s mom only thinks of him as a whore, other readers might have realized that Carcel’s mom provided insight into the engagement period. Other readers might have noticed that Carcel’s mom pointed out that Ines showed ZERO interest in her son. Ines confirms this by responding that this is no longer the case. For those who are actually interested, Mendoza arc will reveal increasing information about just how lightly Ines took Carcel’s life and all the things Carcel endured as a small child because of that engagement.

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.