
I agree. He has no idea she was abused. Beck he likes her because she's acted strong to him and Isn't chasing after him. I mean as long as he doesn't turn abusive or do something totally jerk like later i think his thinking was logical given what he knows of the situation and all. Heck he was planning to be nice it sounded like. Amd given how nobles of any time period tend to be, thinking he might come out ahead only being an after thougjt probably shows just how much he actually likes her for her. @ least in his own way. So till he does something I don't hate him right now

It’s not about the present drama he already speculated how her life is going to be like in the future, being abandoned by the royal family with no power and in my opinion sounds like he’s going to use loneliness to his advantage to get her on his side to even eventually spite the emperor/king or whatever
Although I respect your opinions in his likability standing just for me personally I won’t get 2nd lead syndrome from him probably ever
But if he had worded it differently he would sound like one of those cold ML that has to go to an academy leaving their lover behind y’a know
All those people already disliking the 2nd ML. Dude, he is just confident. That's not like he doesn't have any right to be confident huh? And he thinks far in the future so that's his right. Now that doesn't mean it will happen but at least, it's not wrong to think like he does. That's just confidence guys. Stop trying to find fault at every imperfect guys.
Even ML here is quite possessive (a lot actually) so it's totally wrong to hate on 2nd ML while loving real ML.