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[[Broken Ring] I think the “forgotten timeline” in The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway is actually the FIRST life… and it changes everything about Cárcel and Inés]
I think the “forgotten timeline” in The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway is actually the FIRST life… and it changes everything about Cárcel and Inés... (I mean, Cárcel has suffered in EVERY timeline.)
There’s something that has fascinated me since the very beginning of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway, and the further the story progresses, the more convinced I become that the timeline Inés DOESN’T remember… might actually be the very first one.
And honestly, if this theory is true, it completely changes how we see:
- Inés,
- the Crown Prince,
- and especially Cárcel.
From the very start of the story, something already feels off.
A little girl would not randomly choose another child as her future fiancé for no reason. From the first chapters, Inés feels far too aware, far too calculated. It immediately gives the impression that she has already lived through something before.
But as the story continues, we realize something even bigger:
this isn’t just one reincarnation.
It’s multiple lives.
At the current point in the story, Inés believes she is living her third life:
- one where she was with the Crown Prince,
- another where she ran away with Emiliano,
- and the current one, where she marries Cárcel.
But the problem is that Cárcel’s memories contradict that entire structure.
Because the first strange memories begin with HIM. Yes, with Cárcel.
And in those memories, he is living moments with Inés that do not belong to any of the lives she remembers.
That was the moment I started suspecting there was another entire timeline hidden from us.
A forgotten life that Inés later started to remember. (Again, the first memories of that life in this current one were connected to Cárcel.)
And at this point, I think the story has given us enough clues to assume that we are actually seeing a FOURTH life: the current one.
What’s interesting is that Inés doesn’t remember that hidden life at first… but Cárcel starts remembering fragments of it together with all the others. It’s just that he does not know how many lives there are, but he knows they are different.
The most important detail: Calistena
When Inés finally begins recovering memories, something very interesting happens.
The memories take place in Calistena.
But she herself becomes confused because she thinks:
“I’ve never lived here before.”
And from her perspective, that makes sense, because in the lives she remembers, she was never there with Cárcel.
For a moment, she even wonders if she’s seeing the future.
But then the studio scene happens.
And I honestly think that scene completely confirms to her that this is NOT the future, but another past life that she was not remembering.
Because she is physically standing with Cárcel in the exact same place while experiencing the memory.
That means she is not seeing something that will happen.
She is remembering something that already happened in another life.
And I think that’s the moment Inés begins to realize that there is a life she completely forgot.
The most painful part of that timeline
In those memories, Inés treats Cárcel horribly.
She tells him she hates him.
That she detests him.
That she hates carrying his child.
That she cannot stand him.
And the more memories appear, the clearer it becomes that Cárcel suffered immensely in that life.
So the question becomes:
Why did Inés hate him so much?
And this is where my main theory begins.
My theory: the “forgotten timeline” is actually the FIRST life"
I think the timeline Inés is recovering did not happen later.
I think it happened BEFORE everything else.
The true first life.
And if that’s true… everything suddenly makes sense.
Because let’s remember something important:
Before the Crown Prince ruined her life,
Inés genuinely loved him.
She admired him.
She chased after him.
She wanted to marry him.
All the trauma came AFTER.
So if, in that first life, she ended up forced to marry Cárcel while still being in love with the Crown Prince…
that would perfectly explain the hatred she directed toward him.
Not because Cárcel was cruel.
But because, to her, he represented:
- obligation,
- separation from the man she loved (the nasty Crown Prince),
- and probably a life she never wanted.
That would explain why she treated him so cruelly.
Second part of the theory: “The Crown Prince probably remembers that life too”
And this is where things become even more disturbing.
Because in Cárcel’s memories, he has scenes where the Crown Prince says things that make NO sense within the timeline Inés considers her “first” life.
Things the Crown Prince told him in a life where the Crown Prince was actually married to Inés, but things that did not make sense to Cárcel at the time.
He remembers the Crown Prince making comments toward Cárcel about:
- stealing something that belonged to him,
- desiring what was his,
- taking Inés away from him.
But none of that happened in the life Inés remembers.
And for Cárcel, it is confusing because he is suddenly getting many memories from different lives without control.
- The question: So where are those memories coming from? (The ones where the Crown Prince says these things.)
- The answer: The forgotten timeline, of course.
Which means the Crown Prince probably remembered that first life before everyone else did. (But only in the second life was he able to remember the first one. It does not look like he remembers any of the other lives after that.)
And if that’s true, then many of the horrible things he did to Inés in the next timeline:
- the cheating,
- the diseases,
- the humiliation,
- the abuse,
may have been partially motivated by his obsession with the fact that Cárcel “had her first” in that original life, that we are only getting fragments of now.
And maybe he wanted to make Cárcel suffer because the Crown Prince knew Cárcel loved her, and he wanted Cárcel to witness all of it.
And honestly…
that makes the Crown Prince even more terrifying than he already seemed.
The part that emotionally destroyed me
If we look across all the timelines…
Cárcel is the only person who has consistently loved Inés.
In EVERY life.
Meanwhile, Inés:
- hated him in one,
- ignored him in another,
- loved other people,
- or simply could not truly see him…
but Cárcel always remained emotionally tied to her somehow.
And that made me realize something heartbreaking:
This fourth life may actually be the FIRST time Inés has ever truly loved Cárcel back.
And that completely changes the tragedy of their relationship.
Because it means he has been loving her through multiple lifetimes… without truly being loved in return.
(I still have some hope that maybe she loved him a little near the end of that first life where they were also married.)
And honestly, that turned Cárcel into the character I pity the most in the entire story.
Because even though Inés suffered tremendously, and I absolutely do not want to minimize her pain, romantically speaking, Cárcel seems to be the one carrying the most constant and one-sided love throughout the entire narrative.
And now I’m desperate to see what happens once Inés fully recovers the memories of that lost timeline.
Because I genuinely think that hidden life contains the true origin of the tragedy.
My final thoughts
I don’t know if anyone else has connected the timelines this way, but the more I reread certain scenes, the more convinced I become that:
the forgotten life is not an extra timeline.
It’s the original one.
And if that’s true…
then the entire story of The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway has been a circular tragedy from the very beginning.
And Cárcel has been suffering since the first turn of the cycle.
What do you guys think?
