God forbid she actually makes her own decisions, Noah himself only knows what's the best for her, after all.
This isn't kindness, he just treats her as a puppet without any agency of her own. He's treating Cecil as a character locked into a script rather than a person capable of making her own choices.
What's particularly troubling is how he frames this manipulation as an act of kindness, when he's actually just imposing his will on her future. Noah claims to be protecting Cecil's "happily ever after," but is really just playing god with her life based on his assumptions about what's best for her.
This always annoys me in stories like this one. This, and the eternally dense protagonists