
Why did he had to fall for an innocent idiot? Like, he's putting hisself into danger to save him, and he doesn't even get this. And he was supposed to be the crown prince. Shouldn't he be able to have a better understanding of characters if he was supposed to become an emperor?

Then I will disagree with you. From raws it's easy to see - the cheerful twin and ex crown prince are totally 100% just half brothers. He avoided serious twin because he made ex crown prince uncomfortable with his thirsty staring.
Also, ex crown prince just generally good person and totally not suitable for imperial schemes, that's how he got framed and deposed (〜 ̄△ ̄)〜

I think what @firefudger meant was that the ex crown prince should've known the consequences of his action by sending that letter and the current crown prince is doing all that to help him hence putting himself in a vulnerable position yet shao qi didn't understand him. And considering he was once a crown prince we would have expected him to be smart enough to realise.
anyone who read the raws at kakao and wants to share some spoilers?
spoiler
tbh i just read until chap 50 but lemme summarize things
- sienna and dyan will together bring red king down bcs it revealed that red king really did dirty to make sienna empress and sienna doesn't like it and there was a moment that red king hurt her aide and sienna confront her
- kuhn confessed to sienna
- it revealed that kuhn is the future husband of sienna but seems like they are hating each other (idk but in sienna's dream, sienna kept reject kuhn's invitation to meet him personally and once they were met but it was really awkward and cold)
woww, thank uuu