The crown prince and third prince smuggling weapons to enemies during wartime just to get the MC killed.

Both of them sending assassins after the MC multiple times.

All of this is known to the king, but he keeps letting them off without consequence. No punishment. And it isn't like he's indifferent towards it, hes downright furious about their actions and wholeheartedly supports the MC. Nothing. And the reasoning given is flimsy at best on why he can't punish them with obvious evidence, instead the emperor keeps hindering MC because he fears mc's growing power and thinks he might rebel. Really ridiculous, do nothing towards people who frequently damages their empire and burden the guy with who keeps making their country flourish with endless rask and not reward him. The writing is actually super frustrating that I don't really care whether the novel is well written or not (it's not).

It's just so... frustrating. Not to mention how many times this MC keeps accepting peace offerings after being invaded and he claims he cares about his people and stuff. MC literally accepted peace offerings from the same exact barbarian tribe that invaded their country 3 times. One of it literally goes barbarians invade > they lost > send peace offerings > MC accepts > immediately go to war with them again once they recuperated and armed themselves > lost again > offer peace > MC accepts. Now what happens is they go to war once again and many of his people die and he "loves" his people.

The worst part is the novel tries to sell all of this as part of the MC's genius 200-IQ plan. But when his military strategies boil down to "pretend to retreat > bait the enemy > ambush, " it's hard to take that seriously. It's rinse and repeat tactics, over and over again. MC is basically carried by having guns (oops I mean crossbows) in a war where people still use swords.

finally dropped it when I saw a chapter hinting a romance between MC and the empress of a kingdom that tried to kill MC and killed many of his men. Guess this MC is ruthless till it involves a hot woman. Absolutelt disgusting, MC giving her food, kissing her to make her drink water, and treating her wounds after she literally chased him the whole day with her army trying to kill him and his companions

you know how exactly did the author show cased the MC as a commander? Collect intelligence on the enemies? Properly maintain order in the army? Strategize? No, no, no, that's too advanced. He's just gonna start flying and magically kill all of the enemies with his new cultivation bullsh*t in a chapter or so. The actual combat fit in one chapter, while the rest of the chapters are spent Glazing how strong and powerful the MC is. It's infuriating how they (the author) could treat WAR so lightly, in such a fervent gaze, used only to glaze and show off the MC's power. Have they never seen the consequences of war? The scar on those who survived? How even children are killed, one way or another, intentionally or not, mercilessly in an actual war? How much pain it brings? How many families did it rip apart? And the MC is gonna walk away with glory and valor, and the author won't even talk about the aftermath of it.