
10/10. Great pace, the main characters aren't that "op" from the beginning and actually lose, train and learn from their mistakes. I thought the girl would be annoying but she's actually awesome, she's not useless in the team at all and actually tries to become more than just a "radar". There's no hint of romance between the main characters (as of now from ch. 1 - 120).

I feel like the emperor really liked the mc in the past but didn't really know how to express his feelings, I think he changed after spending a lot of time with the mc.

I don't think so. To me, he seemed to think of him as a toy he really liked. Which means nmhe absolutely never cared about what yeodam thought. And the fact that yeodam fell in love at first sight only made it easier for the emperor. Just fucked him whenever he wanted, then fucked other women/concubines also. Killed his own son and fucked him in front of his dead body. I guess he liked yeodam's ass a lot
The crimson showing some affection to Nitao was something, but his BROTHER??