I love this. THIS is how you write a villain love interest. You make them morally questionable, and even if you write reasons for their manipulations you have to make them feel threatening to get what they want. I've kinda gotten annoyed how nowaday comments and readers will bash or drop a series because the love interest isn't the perfect nice guy. In other series "perfect nice guys" also get hate for being to boring. The WHOLE summary of this story was that she got involved with the VILLAIN.
Now if a character who we are supposed to like is actively promoting bad things then it makes sense for the social justice warriors to pounce, but if all stories were completely politically correct then they'd be ridiculously boring. There would be no conflict and no need to resolve it.
I'm always looking for stories where the male lead, or any important character, is NOT a good person. Also the reason I love yanderes. OBVIOUSLY in real life they'd be horrible, but it's fiction so I can like them all I want.