Err from what i can tell, she definitly means more to him than someone he can just fuck. Shexs not just someone random, they knew each other before the Empress came along so I can only assume that something happed between them to make him love and trust her so much. Yeah he's very stupid for being blinded by love but its not easy to belive esomeone else over someone whose literally been there for you.
She just licked his wounds and acted pretty in him arms. Anyone that had a huge empty gap and needed severely attention would have fallen in this. She's there. She's sweet. She's sad and hurt from something somehow similar (I guess her rape and beat up or whatever. I forgot what was her trauma since everyone have one in this story.) and she's willing to fuck him as much as he likes. i'm just surprised she's not with his child already.
Yeah but thats all we've seen her do, they have a past together we haven't seen. So you can't really assume thats all she did to get in his heart. But yeah if someones there to comfort you when you're sad and emotionally damaged you can't really fault them for trusting them and falling in love either.

I'm very confused by why yall hate him so much. Yeah he's been blinded by love but I don't think he's that bad. Definitely not bad enough to not deserve sympathy