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YEEEEEEEEES! And I am living for it, he is one of the very few I actually see he regrets his mistake and wants to pay for that.
At this point he is not even in love with her, he genuinely wants to make her happy.
The amount of ML that I have seen, ugh, their motivation is always "I fell in love" "I must have her love now", his guy realize she was a human as him, and that broke him, I trust him to give him a second chance.
I am upgrading him from 'trash' to 'recyclables' just off the fact that he is sincere in following what SHE wants.
In so many of these stories where the ML treats the FL poorly and then regrets it late, the ML's ultimate goal is to get the FL to love him and be with him. Yes, he pampers and spoils her, but the idea of letting her go and leaving her alone is never even presented as an option. So Leon gets big points for the fact that he is leaving everything, including being with him or not, entirely up to Lizzie. If she wants to marry him then he'll marry her even if he has to run away with her. If she doesn't want to marry him, he'll annul the engagement so she can be with someone else.
That fact shows a sincere repentance that makes me willing to give him a second chance the way I'm usually loathe to do with 'redeemed' ML's whose motives and methods are ultimately still entirely selfish.