All the Officials at Court Are Fuzzy Little Creatures I Raised

Lin Yan, a seasoned modern-day 996 corporate drone, dies of overwork and wakes up inside a political intrigue novel as the lowest-ranking fake eunuch in the Great Chu palace, assigned to sweep the floors.

He has no money, no power, and has to watch out every moment in case he loses his head.

Just as Lin Yan plans to keep living by the corporate drone's motto and scrape by, he is summoned by the rumored cruel and unpredictable mad former emperor, all because he stepped through the palace gate with his left foot first.

Kneeling on the cold palace floor, Lin Yan thinks he's about to meet his end.

Instead, the terrifying tyrant on the dragon throne shoos everyone away, tumbles down, grabs Lin Yan's leg, and wails:

"Meow, meow, meow! Dad! You finally came to get Big Orange! The fish in the imperial kitchen isn't fit for a cat!"

Lin Yan: ?

Next, the famously spoiled, arrogant, and outrageously beautiful favored consort kicks open the palace doors and charges into his arms like a cannonball, rubbing wildly against his neck:

"Woof, woof! Dad! There's not even a frisbee in this lousy palace. I'm going stir-crazy!"

Then the chancellor, a powerful and unfathomable elder who has served three reigns, shuffles in on his cane. After taking the time it takes to burn a stick of incense to kneel, he says slowly:

"Fa...ther... you... fi...nal...ly... came..."

Looking at the cat, dog, and turtle who have turned into people, Lin Yan falls into deep thought.

Later, a strange rumor spreads throughout the Great Chu dynasty.

There's a little eunuch in the palace with overwhelming power. Offend him, and the tyrant will execute your entire clan, the favored consort will whisper in the emperor's ear and have you killed, and the chancellor will drown you in spit during court.

Everyone wonders who this eunuch could possibly be. Could he be the long-hidden Prince Regent?

A hostage prince from an enemy state watches from the sidelines. He assumes Lin Yan is the most calculating mastermind behind Great Chu, a sinister, devious, and deeply scheming overlord.

Until one night, the hostage prince sneaks into Lin Yan's room to assassinate him, only to see...

The tyrant lying on his back on the bed, all four limbs in the air, asking Lin Yan to rub his belly;

The favored consort biting Lin Yan's clothes and enthusiastically wrecking the place;

The chancellor trying his hardest to hold his breath in a washbasin.

The hostage prince: ...Maybe Great Chu should just be destroyed after all.

[Content Notes / Reading Guide]

The male lead is a fake eunuch! A fake eunuch! A fake eunuch!

A laid-back, lie-flat corporate drone gong x a delusional, brain-addled emperor / a black-bellied hostage prince from an enemy state shou

The pets only show their animal nature in front of the gong. In front of everyone else, they're a proper tyrant, wicked consort, and powerful minister.

No angst throughout, an outrageously silly wish-fulfillment comedy. The pets' feelings are purely familial and one-sided: everyone is devoted to "Dad."

Theme: Care for stray animals. Every meeting in this world is a reunion after a long separation.