I Really Don’t Want to Be a Treacherous Official

Great Chu Kingdom, Imperial Court.

“Prime Minister, please speak calmly!”

Seated upon the imperial throne, the emperor was a youth of barely eighteen or nineteen. Though his features were strikingly handsome and refined, at this moment he trembled in fear, his body instinctively curling in upon itself.

Fan Li sighed.

He ascended the imperial steps, approaching the dragon throne, and astonishingly, placed a hand upon the young emperor’s shoulder.

Fan Li wore the purple robes of high office, the mark of a prime minister at the pinnacle of power. Yet he was still a subject; such a gesture toward the emperor bordered on outright rebellion.

“Your Majesty, is it so difficult to call me ‘Father Prime’?”

“But… but the late emperor has not been gone a month, and you’re scarcely older than I am…”

“Hm?!”

With Fan Li’s cold snort, the Emperor of Chu’s eyes welled with tears, nearly frightened into sobs.

“Fa… Father Prime?”

At last, the emperor changed his address, and the court erupted in astonishment.

The Son of Heaven acknowledging a minister as his father!

Some rejoiced in secret, others seethed with indignation, and some gazed at Fan Li with worshipful awe, as if they had discovered the ultimate goal of their lives.

None of this mattered to Fan Li.

“Ding!”

“Congratulations, host, for completing the novice task: ‘Deceiving the Emperor!’”

“Host has received a reward: one Life Extension Pill.”

“The First Villainous Minister System will continue to serve you.”

Fan Li che