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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.

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.

After Carcel heard the gunshot, he left the cabin but put two guards directly outside the cabin to protect Ines who was fast asleep inside. By the end of the hunting trip, Ines has no clue that guards were present on the hunting grounds to protect them. Carcel kept everything like secret protection whose presence didn’t interfere with their couple time.

Kim ChaCha MTL response about BR manhwa adaptation that casts Ines as purely innocent in the engagement period when it did not in the novel:

Dear fan:

I fully understand what you mean.

But cartoons have limited scenes. That's what might be included.

Perhaps that's why, unlike the novel, Ines' selfish purpose was not emphasized. I am also sad that only carcel has become a bad character unilaterally.

I think they're both flawed people, and they're both bad people. To each other. They are selfish in different ways. Even when they were young, Ines overwhelmingly did. In the past life, too.

So in the early days when the novel was serialized, Ines was also criticized a lot. If carcel is the man who betrayed his fiancee her, Ines is the woman who used her young fiancé.

I think that the two main characters are both imperfect people. And I think they are a perfect couple who can fill in each other's imperfections. No matter who blames them, each other is the best option for them. The journey to show it was my novel.

This is the second time within 7 days certain readers keep complaining about Carcel’s past. I’m not sure what those readers expect from other readers who already got over that. Do they want other readers to persuade them about something they’re determined to be bothered about? Even Ines do not care about Carcel’s past. She said it in ep46 or so and says it throughout the novel. All Ines cares about is the current Carcel and the only time she began to feel uneasy about Carcel and another woman is around ep43 that’s covered in the novel. Manhwa didn’t include it but Ines began to feel uneasy about Carcel having dinner with another woman in their home after she divorces him. Yet, even after that, she still tried to get him to cheat by inviting a crazy woman in the house. She only stops trying after she accepted him during the sick arc. Her jealous side was finally ignited during the dream of the palace. Before marriage and during the first couple months of marriage, she didn’t care. Even then and to the end of the story, she absolutely hates it when Carcel puts himself down about his past.

If readers can’t make their peace with the beginning of this story, maybe they should consider that this story is not for them rather than posting every week about Carcel’s past. Kim ChaCha, the author of this story, has repeatedly said this story is not for everyone and she is not trying to please everyone. She writes purely what she loves for her fans and herself. She has stated this on her Naver blog and on Twitter many times when people send her hateful comments about her female leads and her male leads. Every reader has to decide what story is for them. This one just might not be it. There are plenty of other stories out there with strictly pure male leads. Inés and Carcel aren’t those.

No chapter this week.