This, everyone... is actually a real type of man.
He is unsatisfied with how capablehiswith is and can't depend more on him, he feels that he is lesser as a man. So in order to feel better with himself he brings a woman who has no one but him. He is infatuated, but clearly he lovesthe empress. So he tries to makeher jealous. He is so sure that she is jealous that he is even willing to use this lame divorce trick.
Thing is. He was corret,he is WAY WAY LESSER than her. Unfortunaly there's no way a woman like our empress will be jealous of a man who disappointed her so much. And if it wasn't that she was raised to be a responsible woman, thinking about everyone else before herself, she would have gone out of this wedding a long time ago.
I honestly hate this type of man. They are already unbearable when they have no power at all. When they have it (like an emperor), ugh. Nauseating.