Why Harem Intrigue When You Can Just Raise a Dog Instead (w/ long spoiler!)

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Fantasy Romance

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Ancient China Appearance Changes Beautiful Female Lead Betrayal Clever Protagonist Cute StoryFemale Protagonist Handsome Male Lead Love Interest Falls in Love First Loyal SubordinatesMisunderstandings Nobles Pets Politics Power Couple Transmigration

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The "Dog Emperor" gets adopted by his fake "Favored Consort." This story follows their story as they experiences all sorts of trials in the imperial harem and find true love.

P.S. Only the dog emperor will be abused in mind and body, the female lead will not be abused.

The dog king will recover his human body.

This is not a legitimate harem drama novel - there will be love, there will be pampering.

Enormous silver platters, shocking melodramas, all part of the package.

Looking at his own concubines and imperial offspring from a doggy's perspective:

Who used to be the sweet and gentle eloquent flower turns out to be a venus fly trap behind the scenes.

Who used to be the filial and courteous, intelligent and adorable imperial princes and princesses transform into demons in a flash.

The progression (of the story) overturns understandings and unmask countless illusions.

But by the protection of the gods, the dog emperor met a healing owner. Although the path is rough, the end is pleasant.

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https://pavilliononline.wordpress.com/translation-projects/why-harem-intrigue-when-you-can-just-raise-a-dog-instead/

________________ REVIEW AND SPOILER CORNER

This is amazing! MC reminds me of MC from To Be A Virtuous Wife. Her main priority is to keep her life and live as comfortably as possible.
She's completely indifferent to the ML and considers him an employer, at most. But MC is really loving towards her family, servants, and her dog (ML). She's a really gentle and kind person, as seen from how she treats her dog like her own child, though she hides it under her tough exterior.

The story is from ML's POV. ML is the typical hatable scumbag emperor; he's a good emperor and is very intelligent in managing the country, but in the beginning/before the story starts he's a complete scum with how ruthless he is to his women. He used his other women including MC to balance power in the court (because he's an emperor and is paranoid) and to shield his actual favorite woman (the antagonist).

Spoiler

For one, to prevent MC's family from getting too powerful, he had been giving her birth control poison to prevent her from giving birth to an heir. He had been completely using her while pretending to favor her, though MC knowingly allows this to keep her and her family's life.

It's really satisfying to see him getting his world view shaken (faceslapped, basically. This is a dream come true payback against this kind of emperor MLs lolol) as he lives as a dog. With truths getting revealed left and right (since no one guards against a dog), he even realized how he was too blindly trusting to some and over-paranoid to others. He gets humbler as time passes, and falls in love first with MC (meanwhile MC remains unbothered).

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It's about a story on how the dog of an emperor slowly know and understand the FL. He discover the true masks of the people around him. With this discovery he will see things in a new light.

Because of the pampering and love by the FL to the 'dog emperor' she will tame him into a cute little puppy.
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So amazing... it is realistic story about harem.... dont hate the emperor becouse he is not like other male lead who pure and doesnt like to be touched by women, he is realistic emperor who has many wife and children and his first love before he meet with the female lead... but the story really make the emperor heavily pay what he beliefe and view of his harem.. hahaha...
----- Spoilers

Chapter 13

"Your Ladyship you understand His Majesty so well, is it because of deep rooted love for His Majesty?" Nurse Feng asked hesitantly. Only love would make a woman so attentive of a man.

Emperor Zhou'wu clenched his paws, full of hopefulness, waiting for the woman's answer.

"Deep rooted love?" The Virtuous Consort enunciated these four words, her expression like a smile yet not a smile, "Nurse, would you fall in love with a person who uses you, hurts you and throws you away after you're no longer of use? I'm not a masochist, I won't take a path to death like that. His majesty and I are just employer and employee relationship, we're just both using each other, there's nothing else to it. A woman with a heart and emotional would not be able to survive in this palace."

Emperor Zhou'wu's furiously beating heart abruptly stopped. In his head other than chaos there was only the four words - both using each other!

(A/N: Serve you right!)

Wait for us to get our body back, we will definitely love you, care for you, protect you well. Please don't say those words that stabs our heart again!
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What happens when he returns to his original body?

He regains control of the court and tries to win mc’s affection

After ML returns to his body he gives her real health improving medicine to make her able to get pregnant.

What happens to A' Bao?

He died. When mc found his collar, she was so distraugt she fell sick

Does he punish those fake people at his side?

He ruins the shen family by exposing their schemes

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Mc doesn’t fully trust the ml, and always puts on a facade when dealing with him. Ml throughout the novel tries to thaw out her heart. Some other ladies try to get with the ml, but his heart is steadfast with the mc.

He dismisses all his concubines near the end when the mc is pregnant

Mc gets pregnant near the end, but is distraught due to thinking about the future of her child.

FL still doesn't trust him, even after she gets pregnant - she thinks its another one of the ML's schemes

She yells at the ml, and is angry at him. The mc doesnt fully trust the ml till near the end, where she gives love a chance.

In short....when ML found out that FL was pregnant

ML was of course happy but the FL was terrified because she thought ML was scheming again. ML was happy and was like, I'll make him crown prince, make her queen etc. etc. and the FL just went into total shock and distress - begged him not to do that to the child. She tells him he can do anything to her but leave the child out of it (she thinks he is still scheming and using their child in his schemes). ML was in shock and finally realised how much stress his doting and change of behaviour has been stressing her. He then found a way to send all the concubines away and made sure her and the child was protected.

______Funny Scene

Dog!ML was locked out of his and MC's room after a bath and could hear MC moaning, telling her servant to go harder. ML froze and thought 'Is this why she never fell for me? My rival is a girl!?' and started barking at the door to get them to let him in. He entered and was entranced by MC, he started drooling. MC laughed at him and he finally noticed his drool and ran away in shame.

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