HOLY COW! THANK YOU!! When I read the first few chapters on another site some novel readers reassured us that the ml was a walking green flag, so i was thinking "ain't no way THATS the ml right?!". Adaptation did him dirty then cuss holy crap did that chapter about the Perdue's backstory with him make me find him the darkest of dark RED flags. I can be totally okay with a "fake rake", but the moment the adaptation had him take her to bed for real in the flashback, and tell that poor girl all that, I lost ALL thoughts that he might be a cold, but kind green flag.

If it helps in the novel the ML was notorious for being an incredibly cold man. He was deeply admired by women of high society but never gave a single one the time of day and had never been in a relationship with anyone let alone slept with them and in the manhua it seems his relationship with women were purely for gathering information for the sake of crown prince
(Why did they change the ML into a manwhore ughhh im so freaking disappointed)