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Important things this chapter:

1. Inés starts to trust Cárcel a little more with the things about her true self.
2. Inés admits this is the first time she’s lived a life where she feels ‘safe and secure’. Hence, she’s never lived a life like this before.
3. Inés actually admits to being exhausted. Manhwa posed it as a question but novel explicitly has her say she’s exhausted from ‘walking and crawling in anxiety outside the safe boundary’ which is (Cárcel).
4. Inés decides she wants to live as her true self. This is actually a pivotal moment. Inés’s goal in this life was to live carefully so she can finally die for good. In this episode, she wants to live like her true self now. She no longer wanted to live the way she used to.
5. In the novel, this section ends with Inés wishing the present moment she and Cárcel shared wouldn’t pass. She found her thought contradictory because she’d always been living wishing time would pass quickly yet she didn’t want this moment to pass.

A sweet moment that Inés and Cárcel also shared is their bickering over her safety. Cárcel always treats Inés like she’s delicate glass after her near-death experience so he was opposed to Inés riding a horse to the hunting lodge especially since he doesn’t know the extent of her horseback riding experience. He’s also worried that she would be tired since she’s been living confined to their home. Inés complained that he always treat her like she’s so delicate. Cárcel asks her how many times does he have to explain how much he cares about her. (His statement brings tears to her eyes) She wonders why does he make everything okay. Cárcel then tells her his worries about her will always surpass her stubbornness. Ugh. These two.

Today’s chapter released in South Korea is moving. One of the best images is of Ines’s former self (hunting girl) greets her current self and tells present day Ines that she (hunting Ines) missed her present self. So touching.

STOP! PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED. THIS CONTAIN AN IMPORTANT SPOILER ON CROWN PRINCE.

The truth is, Ines and Carcel are perfectly matched in their sexual performance and enjoyment.

While Ines can indeed be an aggressive and rough woman (she takes after her father in this), she has always acted within normal sexual boundaries in her prior experiences. In the novel she admits the crown prince was a real sexual deviant and there’s nothing she didn’t experience with him. Ines grew to hate encounters with him and as a way to shorten enduring it, she learned how to please him as quickly as possible.The painter was inexperienced and Ines was the one who seduced him so it’s expected that her experience there was within normal bounds especially after she experienced an overdose of the crown prince’s perversion before regressing.

In the novel, Carcel’s performance, on the other hand, had Ines persuading herself early on that she enjoys it only because he’s exceptionally good at it. She told herself any woman would enjoy it so that’s why she enjoys it. The problem is, at some point Ines actually began competing with Carcel. lol Just like she would be upset when after a night of sex he looked refreshed and she was exhausted, she actually began to compete with him and it only took their sex to a higher plane.

Still, after Ines accepted him fully, she became more openly aggressive. There was one point before she accepted him that she felt that she was becoming lewd like him because she felt an “unusual sense” of satisfaction watching him masturbate on her. This would have been back in ep43 but of course they wouldn’t include that in the manhwa. Nevertheless, the more Ines accepts Carcel, the more aggressive and perverted she becomes. She even begins to engage in dirty talk which she used to frown upon when Carcel talked like that early in their marriage. Somehow the more time she spends with Carcel, dirty talk becomes such a part of their sex life that it’s hard to believe that Ines was so rigid and strict in the beginning. They even engage in roleplaying with dirty talk later in their marriage.

So while Carcel is here in this ch talking about another man knowing her true face and how she can be so rough and aggressive, he doesn’t even know it’s him that is bringing out this side of her. This is also evident later in the novel when the crown prince realizes Ines and Carcel had engaged sexually in their carriage. Ines realized the crown prince was irritated because he remembered she refused to engage in that kind of thing with him when they were married in the crown princess timeline. In this instance, it was even Ines who instigated Carcel in the carriage and was completely fine with engaging in sexual activity with him inside their carriage. It shows the contrast with how different she behaves with either man. There’s an even more blatant scene that shows that Ines has completely given herself to Carcel. She even tells him to do “anything” he feels like with her body. It’s probably the hottest scene in the novel’s main story. They were seriously behaving like love-starved animals. lol Even tearing off clothes and not once doing it on the bed. Ines would never tell just anyone to do that. That’s how much she trusts Carcel completely and how much she’s changed from the beginning of their marriage.

So Carcel thought in this ch about her prior experience is pointless. She’s never been like this with anyone else.

Guys, Inés did not love Cárcel in the crown princess timeline. She’s only blushing in this chapter because she adores the gift that the crown prince gave her. She’s not blushing because of Carcel. Ines will never disown that during this time she liked the crown prince and was completely on his side.

However, at least she acknowledges, in hindsight, that Carcel was a cute boy who was good at everything. I’m pretty sure that looking back now, Ines feels regretful that she never took notice of him before because she was too hellbent on defeating him so she held a sort of mild grudge against him. She saw him only as a rival while she saw the crown prince as her life’s goal.

Yes. It’s the gun and who gifted it. Think what that means since she killed herself with it.

Flashbacks mostly serve to enlighten Inés of something she didn’t realize before and also to reveal to the reader more details of her past that often connects to Cárcel.

I like how subtly the artist hints at the two lies told in this chapter. Hope you guys picked up on them.

Some people keep bringing up the fact that other readers were upset that Ines was using Carcel like a tool since he was 6 years old and even brought a woman into their private home in an attempt to entrap him. Apparently people can’t have a different point a view because since a character had trauma, it’s okay to walk over everybody els. Instead of moving on from that time, some readers like to keep reminding us that Ines suffered when it’s completely unnecessary at this point. Even Ines doesn’t harp much on her trauma like these readers do. 

This ch is all about Ines reflecting on the days when she was the happiest. There was no other time in any of her lives so far when she was happy like this where everything she saw was beautiful. It’s clear that the environs of Perez and doing the things she loved most were the best time of her life. She says it herself in this ch. 

I’m just glad that Ines repeats again that she chose Oscar and there was a time she liked him so much that she willingly gave up her family and all the things she liked for him. At least it puts to bed the false belief that she didn’t choose him herself. 

Most importantly, the purpose of these flashbacks is to teach her something she didn’t realize before. It will be interesting to see what this flashback reveals.

Some people keep bringing up the fact that other readers were upset that Ines was using Carcel like a tool since she was 6 years old hen even being a woman into their private home in an attempt to entrap him. Apparently people can’t have a different point a view because since a character had trauma, it’s okay to walk over everybody else. Instead of moving on from that time, some readers like to keep reminding us that Ines suffered when it’s completely unnecessary at this point.

This ch is all about Ines reflecting on the days when she was the happiest. There was no other time in any of her lives so far when she was happy like this and everything she saw was beautiful. It’s clear that the environs of Perez and doing the things she loved most were the best time of her life. She says it herself in this ch.

I’m just glad that Ines repeats again that she chose Oscar and there was a time she liked him so much that she willingly gave up her family and all the things she liked for him. At least it puts to bed the false belief that she didn’t choose him herself.

Most importantly, the purpose of these flashbacks is to teach her something she didn’t realize before. It will be interesting to see what this flashback reveals.

There’s no chapter this week as well. Next ch will be February 15th.

A reminder that there’s no chapter this week.