You Asked Me to Be the Female Emperor's Lapdog, So Why Am I Some Supreme Being?

A death sentence from the start, all because I accidentally kissed the peerlessly beautiful empress who stands above everyone else.

Everyone thought I was as good as dead. But she, Xia Qingyuan, ruler of the Great Xia Dynasty, the woman who regarded all living things as mere dogs, gave me a chance to live. The price was becoming her most loyal, most secretive “dog.”

I had no choice.

So I became her sharpest blade, cutting down every enemy at court. I became her strongest shield, turning aside every open attack and hidden ambush. I solved natural disasters for her, feeding millions of starving refugees with the “poisonous” crop cassava and leaving the entire court dumbfounded. I filled the treasury for her, using business methods far ahead of their time to strip enemy nations of their wealth. I expanded her territory for her, using unbelievable tactics to make the surrounding barbarians bow down and submit.

Step by step, I rose from a condemned prisoner on the execution grounds to a man with power over the entire court. The officials feared me like a tiger, and the people revered me like a god. They all said I was the most favored minister at the empress’s side. Only I knew that every time she summoned me to her chambers late at night, I was met by those icy phoenix eyes, filled with scrutiny and suspicion.

“Lin Fan, your abilities frighten me.”

“Lin Fan, your achievements are almost eclipsing mine.”

“Lin Fan, tell me, what is it you really want?”

How should I answer this peerlessly beautiful empress, who depends on me and fears me, and has developed complicated feelings for me? Tell her I only want to be a well-behaved lapdog? She wouldn’t believe me. Tell her I want the throne? No, I have no interest in the crown.

What I want, from the very beginning, is only you, seated high upon the dragon throne. You want me to be your dog? Sorry, I came to conquer you!