She said it in this chapter. She said Ines showed ZERO interest in her son. I don’t like how Tappytoon translated the line about Carcel and unrequited love. What Carcel’s mother said in direct translation is that she feared that her son would have to live his whole life looking at Ines’s back.
I never read the novel but I heard Ines brainwashed carcel to sleep w a bunch of ppl, maybe the mom did not know? so she didn't excuse her son's action even if he was suffering an unrequited love for Ines. and the mother already spoke about the zero interest thing about Ines in this chapter. does she delve more deeper into it later?
I think a lot of ppl defend carcel which is great but most readers don't know why some ppl defend him bc they have not read the novel so being frustrated about the same thing will not get you anywhere. and some ppl will always have diff perspective from you
She didn’t brainwash him to sleep with others. What she brainwashed him about is thinking that he’s a rag, that’s it’s okay to be a rag and that he should be shared with the world like a salt mine. Keep in mind she was doing this since he was a young child. She did this intentionally to make him think since a young age that it’s okay to sleep around. Added to that is the fact that their society thinks love in marriage is a joke so how much worse during the engagement.
Nevertheless, Carcel always takes responsibility for his actions. Ironically, he is the only character in this story who always ‘readily’ takes responsibility for his actions. As such, he will always own his faults and that’s why he would express regret over his pre-marital lifestyle. For her part, Ines always get annoyed or upset when he apologizes for his past. That’s because Ines knows she’s not innocent in the way she treated him in the engagement period and the way she kept brainwashing him about how it’s normal for him to want to sleep with other women.
Regarding Carcel’s mom, all she is pointing out is what she observed herself. She noticed that Ines chose her son then proceeded to disregard his existence as a fiancé. His father will make the same comment in his thoughts much later in the story. Both parents couldn’t believe how much Ines has changed to the point that now she fiercely protects their son. Before, they never expected this kind of interest or behavior from her.
Personally I think Carcel has every right to have lived his life as he saw fit during the engagement period. While his fiancée was plotting to use him since she was 6 years old and feeding him lies about liking him when she didn’t, he came to realize subconsciously that she didn’t care about him at all and basically parted ways with her. Some demand he act like a clingy person waiting faithfully for a fiancée that was going crazy over the memories of another man for four years. I don’t know why he should be expected to spend his youth clinging to someone who didn’t like him, didn’t care for him and was only interested in marrying him to dump him. That’s the way I see it.
Oh, and what I mean about disregarding him as a fiance, notice that during the flashback to when she was the crown prince’s fiance, they had been courting since they were young right up to their marriage when Ines was 16. They did lots of things together as an engaged couple. That was nonexistent for Carcel. They had zero courtship. They only met at formal events and she would write him letters to love bomb him and attempt to make him scared of her. She employed all sorts of tactics to make him afraid and disinterested in her.
You should post this. Well said! Loved every word haha.
ahhh I see, that sounds like emotional abuse. I feel bad for kid carcel :(
I think that you are correct that he has his right to do what he wants to do since Ines even pushed his "freedom" before they got tied down. as he is not expected to wait faithfully for a woman who is cruel to him and changed his life in a few words, that does not mean he is free of criticism.
he wasn't very "graceful" with his choices and not everyone knows his life so obviously his mother is a bit distasteful towards his previous lifestyle and other readers too. a lot of ppl think sleeping around cheapens oneself even if that mindset is toxic. his mother being a big example.
they don't know that he was technically forced in that position by Ines's brainwashing and neglecting him piled up with society and carcel's way of coping. I feel for him, it feels like victim blaming
His mother didn’t even mean what she said in a bad way. What manhwa doesn’t explain is that the entire society of Mendoza is promiscuous. The empress, who is Carcel’s aunt, has lovers. The emperor, who is Carcel’s uncle-in-law has lovers. Marchioness Barca, who appeared at Ines’s house party is a married woman with lovers. She even asked Carcel to send Raul to her so that Raul can sleep with her. How did Raul respond? He simply asked Carcel if sleeping with Marchioness Barca would benefit him or Ines. Carcel was left speechless by Raul who had immediately expressed his willingness to do this if it benefited him or Ines. We will meet a princess in the Mendoza arc who mother was married to another nobleman when she gave birth to her. In other words, the emperor has a daughter from a married woman. She was married already when she slept with the emperor and gave birth to her. That is the kind of crazy society they live in.
Can’t wait for the part where Carcel’s mother iirc will speak about how Ines had zero interest in Carcel. And as someone stated, the 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.
But of course, most people only focus on the fact that his mother indirectly called him a “whore” And how they love her for calling him that, and how that’s what his mother sees in him.
I don’t think his mother doesn’t hate him for that or anything. Nothing to be ashamed about, and no his mother doesn’t see that in him. That’s literally her son.