I just love that Cárcel continues to open the path for Ines to regain all the things she lost ever since she gave them up for the crown prince in the timeline she married him and became crown princess as shown in ep62, page 18.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-200994/pg-18/
First, she’s surrounded by sincere love and care in Calztela. That’s something she admits she’s never experienced before in any previous timeline.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/nml_chapter-42/pg-6/
Second, she began to do her favorite hobbies again like horseback riding and hunting during the hunting trip. But before that, she was finally able to remember her former self and how she used to be before the crown prince destroyed her life.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-204918/pg-16/
Third, she’s bonding with her MIL who’s very kind to her and in some ways acts like a mother to her.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-222148/pg-32/
Fourth, because of Carcel’s influence on her, she invited her brother to hunt in Calztela.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-232122/pg-37/
Fifth, Carcel asked her brother to accompany her to the Formente match in his stead which created a situation where for the first time both brother and sister will have to spend more time together. https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-244386/pg-46/
Inés received two love letters. One that Cárcel wrote in Calztela and brought with him to Mendoza and the one he wrote in the morning in their bedroom in Mendoza. The latter is the one featured in ch 89. The other letter written in Calztela basically talks about how much he misses her and how he doesn’t remember how he lived in that damn port city without her. He talks about coming home and hoping to see her, going up to the second floor and library and foolishly hoping she’s there. He says he feels like he’s trapped in a boring dream without her and it feels like he’ll only wake up when she returns.
Inés mentions she couldn’t show Juana all of the letter because of the lewd things he wrote. In the Calztela letter he talks a lot about inhaling her scent. lol. Inés always admonishes him not to write lewd things in his letters because their future children might read them one day. Her expectation is always that their letters will be preserved for their posterity. lol
This is the term of endearment used for this couple in this story. It was in the prologue chapter signifying it’s not a one-off endearment. Gotta smile how Ines is blushing profusely over the term.
https://www.tappytoon.com/en/chapters/326067343?
That is to show he has always loved her
Glad the artist didn’t forget Carcel’s bullet graze from ep76. I can see the bruise/scar on the left side of Carcel’s body in ep87. Will Ines notice it? Hmmm. The plot thickens.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-223489/pg-1/
Ines doesn’t even realize she’s the one who influenced Carcel to be a clean freak. It was only featured in ep4 of the manhwa but Carcel took that lesson to heart ever since he was a kid and he’s obsessed with being clean. In the novel, even after sex, Ines is usually annoyed that he looks clean and put together while she looks like a mess. It’s mentioned a few times throughout the story to emphasize this is habitually a part of his character so he won’t sleep with Ines unless he’s clean. lol
Anyway, here in ch4 is where it all began when she washes his hands when they were kids:
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-101325/pg-1/
nobody knows this story more than you actually lmaoooo in a good way <333
Plz tell me where to read the novel plz plz plz
Thank you. I got to see little carcel blushing because a girl touched his hands. How cuteee!! ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
oh i want to know all about them in the novel pls i wanna follow u lmaooo
For those asking about the novel, I bought the Korean books for Broken Ring from Ridibooks. This is how I read Korean novels. I rarely read translated versions unless they’re direct translations because I prefer to read what the author actually wrote. So far I have read about 20+ korean novels that all have manhwa versions.
Oh but I don't understand korean
I read all those books with translation apps. Take for example Reminiscent Adonis, The Great Wish, Ugly Duckling, False Confessions, Honey I’m Going on Strike and many others, I read them with translation app and even provided long summaries for some of them on Novelupdates. Many users on Novelupdates use translation apps to provide spoilers on that forum. However, I know not everyone likes to read MTL.
The million dollar question. It’s too important a question to Carcel to be swept under the rug. What will he feel when he finds out the truth and how will it impact their relationship?
Ines is seated at the same table with both of her nemeses. Next chapter should be interesting. Don’t forget Oscar invited her about 3-4 chapters ago to his Formente game. He asked her to wear a garland which signifies romantic affection. He’s obviously delusional but at least he’s becoming bolder and it would make his schemes more apparent. Ines needs to be more aware of the danger that’s lurking and looming before her.
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.
Hmm, I agree that they cut it out but I'm not sure that it detracts from showing her growth (at least here)
When it comes to Emiliano's murder, if anything, cutting the expression of self-hatred/feeling it's her fault here better highlights her conflicting feelings about her brother and makes more sense with how she's interacted/responded to him in this life (with panic at times and at arms length more often). I think without the self-hatred concerning Emiliano (which I always thought was a bit unwarranted), it shows that her change here/her inviting him is really wholly out of love.
If the writer intended for a shallow ‘love conquers all’ then sure, that works but that is not the intent of the original author. The whole point and progression of this particular plotline is for Ines to come to terms with her family, why they acted the way they did in the tragedy of the past timeline and her part in triggering it.
Considering her family is a hot topic of contention, ‘love conquers all’ shouldn’t be the goal here. In fact, even afterwards, Ines didn’t suddenly begin loving her brother after 18 years. It’s an important event that she learns about in the future that further demolishes her wall. Added to that, by time the side story comes, her regret regarding her brother became deeply profound.
The fact that you think her self-hatred is unwarranted only shows the manhwa didn’t do a good job from the beginning when the author of the novel said in this current timeline Ines is like a murderer who cannot forget her guilt for even a moment. She literally plotted to drag a completely innocent stranger into her life just so she can dubcon him to runaway with to escape marriage with Oscar. In other words, he had absolutely nothing to do with her before her plot. It’s not like boy meets girl and fell in love and defied their parents. She literally went to a stranger’s bedroom one night and dubcon him. Why wouldn’t she carry the guilt and burden of getting him killed? If anything, it shows she has a conscience which is a good thing.
Oh, yeah, I wasn't saying that in a "love conquers all" type way lmfaoo jeez
More just it shows the intent of the invite being out of love rather than just guilt.
I think the manhwa chose to focus on highlighting the conflict she feels concerning Luciano. And while, I agree that it takes some depth away, at the same time if her feelings of self hatred concerning Emiliano were more thoroughly displayed in the manhwa (especially at this point where we know less about whats up with Emiliano), I think it would detract from the conveying the conflicting feelings given there's obvy a lot less space to work with in a manhwa vs a novel. It would make it seem more like she's stuck in the past when at this point she is starting to grow.
The guilt/regret about dubcon with Emiliano I'm sure will get conveyed later, but likely more in it's own arc so as not to muddy the feelings currently being established.
I think as is, with what has to be cut in a manhwa compared to a novel, it does a decent job at conveying the overarching intent.
Maybe the author of the novel requested those excerpts to be edited out because there are things that are conveyed via the facial expressions in the webtoons that's not possible in the novels...
well, as a manga, it is supposed to show, not tell. It can't spell out everything the way a novel can, and it shouldn't either. The way they interspersed her hatred for killing emiliano and her love for him for his behaviour in the 1st timeline shows that she is conflicted, and that he was always a good brother to her, even if he did terrible things in the 2nd timeline. I think it captures the necessary emotion without having to spelling out every tiny thought very well. Respects the reader's comprehension.
I think most readers would rather know how she feels about her brother regarding what he did in the previous timeline. The part they cut tells them her reasoning of why she decided not to love nor hate him and connects closer to why she could eventually restore her relationship with him. The root of the problem was always the fact that he killed the painter in the previous timeline and her reasoning sheds light on the issue. Moreover, this will not be addressed again until the side story. The chance is gone.
At the point where she invites Luciano to hunt, it seems more connected to the memory of him giving her the bullet and his declaration that he would die for her. Her invitation rightly comes off as impulsive because it was in the novel. Ines even blames Carcel’s letters which she still held in her hands for influencing her impulsivity.
Regarding how things truly started in the previous timeline, it will not be addressed again. If they’re following the novel, which they seem to be, that part is forever buried.
Yes, that’s your opinion but you don’t see all the discussions and confusions the manhwa has caused. Good for your comprehension that you understand it all. Many others don’t and novel readers explains things for them many times and they finally got it and thank readers for it. You should be fine though. Those who want to understand better can just ask
Oh jeez, my guy. Why are you being so rude/mean about this? We're literally illegally reading a manhwa on a site largely popular for the gay porn.
Just because we feel that the manhwa does a decent job at conveying intent while trying to avoid muddling it, or at the very least we understand why the cuts were made doesn't really give you a justifiable reason to be so rude. I engaged because I like discussion, but if I would've known how you would respond in such an weirdly unnecessary disparaging way, I certainly wouldn't have.
I hope people just read the novel rather than ask someone like you.
Why are you accusing me of being mean? I said if you guys understand then that’s good. Not everyone understands. What are you accusing me of? It is genuinely true that there are lots of readers who don’t understand and say so. They say they’re lost and we have to explain the particular plot to them.
ok :)
How you wrote things seemed pretty sardonic, but if not, I guess I'll trust you
I personally don't understand what plot points are lost other than just what hasn't been covered yet. And if someone is only reading the manhwa, I don't really see where they would be confused unless they see comments from novel readers mentioning things that haven't been covered.
A comment just proved my point. Due to the manhwa cutting important thoughts, some readers, if not most, feel like Ines isn’t giving herself enough credit for ‘the abuse she endured’ and can still forgive Luciano. The manhwa has completely distorted the truth. Readers still do not understand why Ines blames herself and why she’s finally facing her family in an honest way. There are readers who still accuse her family of ‘abuse’ and the only person who abused her in her family is her mother. That’s why her mother wasn’t included in the image of all the people she missed when she was crown princess.
The manhwa has done an absolutely deceptive job of revealing how things started in the previous timeline and why her family was forced to do the things they did.
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.
Another example is when Carcel was sick with the fever and ignored his symptoms until he passed out cold at work. This is constant practice of his since he was a child who ignored the plague and continued to play while he was ‘riding the fence’ with fever.
Luciano. The crown prince hates Luciano the most and fears him the most. That’s another reason why it’s great Carcel chose her brother to protect her whenever he cannot be there to protect her himself.
WAit why is oscar so afraid of Luciano?
Answer
Luciano has been responsible for his death in two timelines. They have terrible history and since Oscar remembers all timelines, he can’t help hating and fearing Luciano.
thank youu (づ￣ ³￣)づ luciano slays (literally)
Wait how do you know Oscar remembers the timelines O_o Did i miss something???
wait. OSCAR REMEMBERS EVERYTHING???
Ch 84: Oscar says she has always been like this when referring to Ines. Why would he say this when everyone in Mendoza is shocked by how much Ines has changed since she returned from Mendoza? It’s a big hint the author is giving readers that Oscar has memories. The entire Mendoza arc is to highlight how much Carcel’s love has impacted Ines to the point that she’s glowing. No one has seen her like this in this timeline especially Oscar.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_broken_ring_this_marriage_will_fail_anyway/uu/br_chapter-234849/pg-39/
Spoiler
Also, he has memories of ALL timelines. Look forward to the future reveal and how everything fits together. Readers will understand why the story is called The Broken Ring.
Correction: returned from Calztela. :)
but how did he end up killing Oscar on his second timeline
It’s connected to a major spoiler that will probably be revealed in maybe five chapters or so in the manhwa.
I can't remember how but i know it was to avenge his sisters death and suffering by the princess hand like the time he made him listen as he graped his sister
@Fin is asking about the second TL not the first TL. The truth is…major spoiler ahead..
There is another timeline before the timelines that Ines remembers. That mysterious TL is the first timeline in which Luciano killed Oscar through public execution.
OOOOOH my bad
thanks (=・ω・=)