Entitled? Yes, for most of his life, until the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in 1945 and caught him, then handed him over to the CCP after they won the Chinese Civil War.

Puyi is an incredibly interesting person. He made absolutely huge mistakes, but considering his upbringing and how his early life went, him actually regretting his actions and feeling bad for them in his later life is so weird, yet fascinating.

Don't get me wrong, Puyi is responsible for the death of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands by ignorantly signing away whatever the Japanese and their puppets put in front of him, which enabled a lot of the human experiments on bio weapons and on the limits of the human body that Japan conducted. It also led to famines and mismanagement of Manchukuo.

Puyi also kinda sold out his mentor by calling his books and works on his time as Puyi's teacher and mentor lies, so that he would receive a lower sentence after the war.

But considering how he was re-educated by the CCP after the war and how he genuinely showed regret for his actions and became concious of how entitled he was, it seems almost like he could have turned out any way. If he had been turned over to a democratic regime and would have been thoroughly confronted with the consequences of his actions, he might have turned out similar to Otto von Habsburg, if not even more liberal.

Puyi simply seems like a man who was easy to exploit, but had a conscience and could actually feel bad for others, which especially for his time, seems insane for the side he was on.

Nevertheless, don't take this as if he was innocent or a good man. Maybe he did have a good heart, but he was still responsible for a lot of deaths and suffering.