Running away with the fiancée of the crown prince is by itself a crime. The wedding was just three months away, the entire country was preparing for it and the painters were hired and sent by the royal family. In other words, not only was the monarchs humiliated, the prince was publicly cuckolded by another man. When the nobles and commoners condemned Ines and the painter guy, how does Valeztena try to save her to keep her life? Kill the man who committed the crime with her and ask for pardon from the royal family for Ines.
To put this under modern light, if Princess Diana has ran away with another man just before her wedding, would it be a worldwide scandal or not? They say approximately 700 million people from 74 countries across the globe watched their wedding. Even by today’s standard she would have been scandalized worldwide if she had done something like that. Then imagine in Ines’s time more than a century ago. Ines was condemned by both nobles and commoners and Valeztena tried to save her life when everyone else wanted her punished, They weren’t concerned about the painter who is a stranger they don’t know. Ines herself believes Luciano didn’t really have any particular feeling about the painter. Instead, he made a cold-blooded decision to save his sister’s life.
Do you guys think maybe in her second life the crown prince manipulated her brother into killing her husband?
We know he was surprised she loathed him for it and that he's usually protective, even to the point of helping her potentially kill the Crown Prince in her first life despite how it'd cost him his life.
I am not buying he did a 180 and just found her being with a poor commoner gross or disgraceful and that was all it took. Just some thoughts..