So the main reason why I'm dropping this and that I think I've lost so much interest is because of how the main character is scaling in power. It sets itself up for him to be somewhat weak, with his past life him never being a 4th level with him relying on his wife for everything, but this time along he just basically solves everything with brute force. His power allows him to conceal that he is 4th grade, which by itself makes me think the story is setting itself up for him to be weak in frontal fights due to the more support type ability, with him having to again rely on his wife and knight order to be the main fighting force with him using his actual power as a trump card but instead it turns into his knight order being basically worthless, including his wife, and he himself has to be the main fighting force which I just feel like is a missed opportunity. Its not bad, a lot of stories do it, but with how he was set up it felt like it would of been better to develop his actual knights as the main force, with him acting more as a leader with hidden power.

Then you get how he obtains his power, which just feels like plot bs with him being a player. Its something I can overlook but it just feels lackluster on how he keeps getting these broken abilities (Cutting through space, white tiger, azure dragon, ect.)

The player aspect itself I think would of been really interesting if they framed it as him being a player but not understanding a lot of the terms that we use to describe things, but it doesn't which just makes me feel like its something the author is using to make him powerful.

Last the novel feels very dry romance wise... It sets up the female lead pretty early with him being his past wife, and it would of been interesting based on how their relationship was closer to allies in their past life but the novel just never goes anywhere because its always "I need to focus on x enemy" over and over.

To kind of expand it feels like he is lacking any real goals or motive. He doesn't seem to have a strong attachment to being emperor, he doesn't care about his relationship with female lead (Where he wants to make it safe for her, ect.), he doesn't have a major grudge against the cult, where just overall it feels like he doesn't have a main motive. He wants to gather the player stuff, but why... He doesn't seem to admire players, he doesn't seem like he is using it for power, ect. which I think just overall makes him feel very flat as a character.

Overall, the story itself was not bad but I feel like it had a lot more potential and it just didn't meet my expectations.