The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway Chapter 27

Chapter 27

Chapter 3. The Betrayal of the Promise "I Won't Betray”

'I'm sorry, but you can't live without me. Ines Valeztena.’

Seventeen years after six-year-old Ines made groundbreaking plans for a new life.

Here is twenty-three-year-old Ines Valeztena, obsessively tapping the heel of her shoe against the floor.

The upper body visible on the table is an image of tranquility. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] Noble and stern expression, upright posture, calm eyes, a gentle touch flipping through the pages…

If she hadn't crumpled the pages of the book while turning them, Ines would have looked as peaceful as a swan on the water.

At that moment, the maids who were tidying up the room were looking for the source of the incessant crackling sound, and when they saw Ines frozen with a crumpled piece of paper in her hands, they each exchanged strange looks. Even though she felt it, her feet in her shoes did not stop and continued their obsessive movements.

'You will kiss me dozens or hundreds of times and overlap your body with me thousands of times. I will never touch a woman who is not you, and I will satisfy you and make you satisfy me, until you have a child, and until you have another child, and no matter what.’

The more Ines recalled that day, the more embarrassed she became. To say she was embarrassed was not enough; she was even devastated.

Contacting a man like that was something she could barely remember, and her shock was indescribable, but what's bothering Ines now was not Cárcel's sudden kiss but not knowing when and what triggered it.

Ines was turning the pages of the book she was holding in her hands as if she was going to tear them, then nervously putting them down. That was rather okay.

The short but overly explicit kiss was, yes, a little embarrassing, but she could pass it off as a sincere greeting from her fiancé. Ortega was promiscuous to begin with, and that's something everyone does openly even if he only flirts for a moment at a night party... It can be done out of a sense of duty toward the future.

The blatantly clear desire that pierced her knees, too, was easily dismissed as the vigor of youth. Looking at that robust physique... well, it could be confusing figuring out where and how to use one's own strength, so, those things were okay.

However.

'I won't even touch a woman other than you.'

The declaration of overlaping bodies thousands of times with her didn't cause as much agitation as the statement, 'I won't touch another woman even with my fingertips other than you.’

"Not even touching another woman with his fingertips... Does this mean he would touch with everything except for his hands? Ines formulated another hypothesis, denying reality. However, not using hands was too complicated...…So why……?

Why on earth?

'Until you have a child, and until you have another child, and regardless of the child, I will satisfy you and you will satisfy me.…..’

Does it make sense to say ‘children don’t matter’ in a noble couple’s relationship?

Even the only marital s*x that Ines decided to allow herself in this life was for the purpose of having children. Or, something like an event held once every distant cycle… This is a proof that the marital relationship has not completely disappeared.

She decided to add the last part, albeit very reluctantly, in order to avoid the stigma that she had not fulfilled her marital obligations in the event of a divorce.

Valeztena's lawyer said that the continued refusal to sleep together is a cause for blame for both men and women. 'Perhaps in order, the other person's cheating would be followed by the other person's refusal to sleep with the other person, then assault, and then, well, luxury. In fact, there is nothing that goes together more easily than cheating and refusing to sleep...….' The lawyer's constant blabbering about her divorce has become distant again.

Thirteen-year-old Ines' plan, developed in more detail through the advice of a lawyer ten years ago, was as follows.

Infidelity, and refusal to sleep.

Of course, both are things that the future Cárcel Escalante should do. Not her.

'It's impossible without these.’

Violence... If she had hit Cárcel, she would have hit him, and she had no chance of hitting him, and she did not want to be hit either. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] Both Escalante's family fortune and Valeztena's dowry were too large to be consumed by luxury.

So, there's no need to take the difficult path. It's okay to go the easy way. The affair of the lowly Cárcel Escalante is inevitable. In his past life, he was a remarkable scoundrel. While he might feel somewhat unjust in the noisy rumors compared to his actions, from this perspective, it's truly a remarkable advantage…

What was the reason for choosing such a sloppy man as her husband, even after clearly seeing his bad habits? It meant paying for a handsome face. It means whether you get married or not, just live your life as you normally would.

Ines of this life fell far short of the great discernment that allowed her to select and meet only the most beautiful women among the women of Mendoza who twinkled like stars in the night sky. This is by no means the humility of thinking oneself short, but the result of effort.

Ines of this life fell far short of the great discernment that allowed her to select and meet only the most beautiful women among the women of Mendoza who twinkled like stars in the night sky. This is by no means the humility of thinking oneself short, but the result of effort.

She had been preparing for this moment for a very long time. Her insistence on a closed life in her third life was largely due to her boredom with her previous social life, but everything else was the result of her thorough calculation and meticulous preparation.

For example, for seventeen years, she has been sticking to the black and dark clothes when no woman is allowed to wear 'unless someone dies, enters a monastery, or goes insane.'

Mendoza society is a very funny world where people think that if a noble woman wears black clothes, the world will end. And Ines shattered their world as soon as she appeared.

In addition, her hair was tied up tightly like a governess, or her hair was braided in an unfashionable way like a ranch girl, and sometimes, to make the stuffy feel of the dress come out better, she let her black hair down as it was straight and lowered her head, sometimes with a gloomy look in her eyes...… As time passed, methods developed more diversely and systematically.

Ines stayed like that wherever she went. Actually, this method wasn't bad. There were times when she longed for the days when she occasionally adorned herself in front of the mirror, satisfied with a more beautiful appearance. However, when she truly recalled those days, the longing vanished without a trace. The boring and long hours she spent in front of the dressing table, along with the days she pondered for half a day to choose the perfect dress…….

Back then, even if she did things without knowing much about living life only once, after dying and waking up, she didn't want to repeat those tedious actions.

She no longer even chooses a dress before going out. No matter what she chooses, it's black anyway. If you look for colors, there are very dark navy blue, very dark brown, very dark gray, and sometimes green, which is close to black, as a flashy color for special days. The shape was also the same. Every dress has their collars raised strictly up to the end of their necks and wrapped tightly around their entire bodies.

It was like that for a full seventeen years. All these years, she has even abandoned the tenet of life that says it is not a color unless it is a bright color, and have maintained an unfriendly attitude toward everyone as much as possible, and have maintained it with great effort.

In less than half a year, Ines was called the 'Crow of Valeztena', sporting a perpetually stern face that made her peers among the nobility feel uneasy. From being described as 'somehow unsettling to look at' to eventually being labeled as 'a woman who seems excessively faithful.' It might be a bit more elaborate to say she became something like a 'nun in a chapel.’

People whispered, seeing a face that seemed to lack any trace of joy or happiness. Perhaps she had fallen into despair, unable to fulfill an unrequited love for a too-handsome fiancé, seeking solace in religion.

But Ines was fine no matter what the world said. As she built up a reputation that was completely opposite to her brilliant past life, she felt rewarded. Appearing tacky only in front of Cárcel Escalante wasn't necessarily a reliable method. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] Because looking at only pretty and glamorous things can make one dizzy. Relying solely on his visual judgment is not enough.

The world had to brainwash him. 'Ines Valeztena is not good enough for you.' like this. Not letting him have even a passing interest in her. As soon as he felt interested, to consider himself stupid and foolish.

Ines Valeztena was well aware of her attractiveness to the opposite sex. No matter how much she insists on wearing an unattractive look, what should she do with her charm that can't be completely covered? What should she do with her face, which is quite pretty even without makeup? What should she do since there's nothing to hide anymore when she takes off her clothes? …With the arrogance inherited from her past life, she thought that as if it were natural.

No matter how impressive Cárcel Escalante might be, there would come a moment in this long entangled relationship when he would fall for her.

And that was a problem. Absolutely.

Closed attire. Closed human relationships. Closed eyes...… Creating an environment where Cárcel Escalante feels suffocated just by thinking about her was necessary. He had to get sick of it before she got interested. So far, this has been successfully achieved.

In the time when he was genuinely scared of her, Ines sent fervent letters and various gifts for years, hoping he would feel overwhelmed and distance himself.

Back then, Cárcel didn't escape as easily as she hoped, but there was some success. Eventually, he was frightened enough to weave through military school and the army to evade marriage.

However, now the inevitable time has come, and Cárcel Escalante's fiancée, referred to as "neglected," finally steps into Escalante's life. It's an inevitable event that he cannot avoid, and it fills him with fear.

Nevertheless, at first, he won't be able to do anything else because he'll be worried. So she willingly loosened the reins in advance. She intended to make him feel as guilt-free as possible. Because they had to get married and he had to have an affair.

Finally, getting married, which was delayed for a long time, puts a lot of stress on Cárcel Escalante. So, he naturally looks for romantic relationships outside of marriage. Though he has to spend some moments with his wife due to marital responsibilities, he would only touch her a few times on certain dates, but he felt disillusioned by her stiff and boring reactions, and whenever he saw his wife's gloomy clothes and irritable attitude, he felt skeptical about life. To cope with this, he resorted to having affairs again.

Before marriage, I used to say, ‘Live as you want,’ ‘It's okay,’ ‘It doesn't matter.’ But now, I'll discard all of that. In reality, you can't live as you want, I'm not okay, and it does matter. I'll show you what it means to say one thing and mean another. Then he'll be out of breath. He is so out of breath that he just wants to go outside... He cheats and cheats like that, and in the meantime, whenever he and his wife have no choice but to sleep together on a certain date, he feels that his passion has cooled off for thousands of years, and when he finally manages to have a child, he feels a sense of freedom and starts cheating again.

Since she detested responsibilities that demanded commitment, around that time, she would probably use the child as a weapon to invoke responsibility and attention.

Then, once again, it will feel suffocating. He might have thought having a child would bring liberation. He will no longer desire another child, decide not to share a bed with his strict and gloomy wife again…. It was around this time that Ines would ask him to sleep with her, which was the crucial point. Because then she okul be rejected by him.

How terrible would it be to have a wife you hate, a wife you are uncomfortable with, to constantly ask you to sleep with her? Although he is a slu*, he is kind by nature and may give himself away a few times, but even that has its limits.

So, he would probably cheat again due to stress. [ʏᴜʟʜᴇʏᴜɴ] When he comes back, Ines would ask to sleep with him again, Cárcel would refuse again, and he would cheat again due to stress.…..

As the rejections pile up again and again, and he is able to fill out petitions with the names of the women he spent one night with, she becomes Ortega's successful woman.

The Duchess of Escalante, who does not live with the Duke of Escalante.

There was such a perfect, meticulous plan. Until two days ago.…..

'I don't need the f*cking freedom or privacy you want to give me so much. In the marriages I know, there is no such thing in the first place.'

'…….’

'I might be an as*hole, but I'm more faithful than you think, Ines Valeztena.’

It was the moment when the grand plan that she had maintained alone and without friends for 17 years collapsed.

'That's why I never betray my family.'

Cárcel betrayed her expectations by saying he would not betray her.