What i understood is that the father of the MC was part of the side that supported the child emperador, a kid easy to manipulate like a puppet, maybe the dad didn’t have bad intentions who knows. But ML was an outcast soldier with a different view, he supported the prince to protect the country from invasores as the court only cared for themselves and their power not the people, but to do it he had to murder and became the prince's dog, the one that did all the dirty work.
What i understood is that the father of the MC was part of the side that supported the child emperador, a kid easy to manipulate like a puppet, maybe the dad didn’t have bad intentions who knows. But ML was an outcast soldier with a different view, he supported the prince to protect the country from invasores as the court only cared for themselves and their power not the people, but to do it he had to murder and became the prince's dog, the one that did all the dirty work.