
Lots of great and enjoyable elements. Far from your typical rofan story, and I actually love how ambiguous FL's relationship is with the empress. I'm choosing to look at it as a bisexual love triangle with the ML, though it sucks the empess is married, and the other yuri coded relationship involves the real villainess. Speaking of the villainess, she actually deserves the title here. She's what every other caricature of a villainess wishes they could be. I just wish the story ended after her defeat like it was supposed to, but I guess this last arc is intended to show the empress's character growth so FL could be "free" to live her own life? ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭

From the comments, I thought the ML was a playboy who slept around despite having someone he loved, but it turned out he just went on dates for political reasons, and it's never really stated he was in love with the girl he met years ago. He just thought of her as his savior. He wanted to see her again, but if it was love, he'd have sought for her himself. It seemed he just didn't think it was possible for them to meet again, so "betraying his feelings" wasn't even a consideration.
I don't care if it's evil or whatever, don't let that scumbag instigator in. Just leave him and the rest of the shitty ones out to die.
i’d take him out myself