There was such great potential with this story. ML was kicked out of his family due to his 'lacking' talent, MC was an orphan who can't support ML with his background. There was so much the author could've done with just this and MC's budding skills. If only author created some sort of department or something so that MC could also go to the military with ML and have more plot development and romance development that way. Or if the author didn't want to go the military route, that's ok as well, I wish ML would've actually had a lack in talent but had amazing business acumen - so maybe a character like Ye Yin instead for there to be romance/plot development that way. There was just too much the author wanted to do but never actually had the time/chance to flesh out. For example:

1. MC and ML's color blindness/talent/backstory: as someone had mentioned previously, this was glossed over so quickly that you honestly forget that this was a thing. The family politics clearly showed at least one antagonistic branch/individual - this could've been capitalized on more as MC being an orphan and having no backstage would be easier to bully. The ML's talent was negligible, if he had this amazing talent, wish the story focused on it more, since author didn't, it would've been better to get rid of this point so that could actually be a unique point to the ML when matched with MC and they develop a business empire or something together.

2. ML's multi element/military career: honestly kind of a random backstory or plot device to make it believable that MC was able to meet ML. Other than right near the beginning, MC was never really shown to have done anything else for ML, and don't get me started on the military career, only one arc was kind of shown just to show how devoted ML is for handling a peach blossom, and another arc was shown to display his prowess but otherwise, negligible. If focus was going to be purely on MC's stone gambling -- honestly would've preferred our ML to have lacking talent but amazing business acumen instead.

3. MC's golden finger of seeing color in people and stones: was this due to the mutation from the radiation of the meteorite stone or just because he 'awakened' his spiritual powers? Since he could help identify ML was a multi line user, maybe he could've helped the empire ID other 'tr*sh' people to see if they are multi line or not? The whole spiritual power thing was randomly thrown in but never truly explained or fleshed out which is a shame since MC supposedly had "S" level evaluation in it.

4. Duke Andrei (or Andrew?) from the Federation brings MC and ML back to his home planet and get involved in the federation's succession politics/scheme. This would've been a great plot point to have MC/ML intervene or help out a friend etc. But they just took it as a vacation while their friend went to deal with their country's succession issue.

1. Basically MC was abandoned because he was colour blind. As much as I wanna feel sympathy for the MC. The chapters and the problems that he could/had faced were brushed through or just mentioned in a few sentences. Author could have given few more hardships odor the mc

2. So half way through the story, the author kinda forgot MC could transform into his animal form and stopped mentioning it. Last time it was mentioned, it was like he could avoid the media by transforming, but he never did that.

3. Although it's a nice relationship between MC and ml, I think it lacked fluff and emotional stimulation.

4. There was too much unexplored possibilities, such as MC was from an orphanage, so why wasn't anyone from there introduced or why didn't MC never go back there or introduced ml?

5. The story itself was kinda fast, like majority of story happens in half a year since MC and ML meet. The progress of MC and ML both were really fast both in terms of their relationship but also withe their abilities.

to go to the army and became the youngest major general