He's so damn unreasonable
I think he's just suspicious it's a set-up from the empress dowager to get close to him and be a spy or smthn
He asked his most loyal right hand to find him a secretary... and the guy did.. but the emperors first though is "shes to perfect, something must be up". Despite his right hand vouching for her and her background.
It's obvious he thinks the empress might have secretly sent her to seduce him and stab him in the back, and it might not even be the first time she sends a woman like that to him. If she's been his stepmom since he was very young, it's completely possible that his stepmother found out whether he had an ideal type, and what that type was.
Exept.. the empress didnt chose her... The Emperors most trusted right hand did and wouched for her skills and background. And yet he dosnt trust his Right hand?
So he hates her .. because shes his ideal woman physicaly, mentaly, in talents and in etiquet? So in his head she must have been sent by the stepmother, but if she isnt then..she is perfect.
In other words.. he hates that she is his ideal because that means he will definetly fall for her.