I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

The emperor likes people who value friendship and loyalty, and hates people who are ungrateful. It is very likely that he has been betrayed in the past. Liu Zhirou vaguely thought of this, but she could not connect it with the information she had received before.

"My beloved, what's wrong with you?" When the emperor saw that Liu Zhirou looked unhappy, he hurriedly held her hand and asked softly.

"It's okay. I just didn't sleep well last night, so I'm not in the mood. I deserve to be damned for letting Your Majesty see such a terrible side of me." Liu Zhirou came back to her senses and replied softly.

"Is that so? My beloved, you must take good care of your health." The emperor seemed to believe her, but also seemed not to believe her. However, he obviously had no intention of continuing to pester her. He just laughed heartily twice and let this one go.

"I was reckless in the matter of Lady Lan. After all, she was pregnant with my child. I got angry with her over a small matter, which made her uneasy and lost the child." The emperor's words were full of pity. "I will issue an edict to promote her to a concubine."

Liu Zhirou quickly stood up and thanked the emperor on behalf of her good friend Ai Ziyi. Although this was a favor she had asked for, the emperor must have had this intention before. Otherwise, she would not have achieved such an excellent result just by sending a box of osmanthus cake.

Ai Ziyi didn't need to worry for the time being. Since the emperor was willing to say so, it proved that he didn't intend to touch her for the time being. As long as he was smart and didn't step into other people's traps, there would be no danger.

Liu Zhirou was quite satisfied with the result of this matter. On the one hand, she helped Ai Ziyi escape from the situation of being disliked by the emperor and found herself a better helper in the palace. On the other hand, she also indirectly proved her influence on the emperor. Although it was not great, it still existed.

In this situation, as long as she was a little more careful and didn't act recklessly and reveal those strange things, she wouldn't suffer any particularly serious blows. She didn't take the calculations of the concubines in the harem seriously. With her current abilities, she could handle it completely. As long as she didn't violate those particularly serious taboos, she wouldn't really suffer any accidents.

However, she felt that everyone in the palace now looked weird, and the atmosphere in the palace was quite tense. If she really committed a serious crime, it would be useless even if the emperor just had a little affection for her, even if he really regarded her as his beloved.

Because this kind of danger does not only come from the secular world. If some strange guys cause trouble, even the emperor will not be able to deal with it.

The emperor is just a secular supreme being. Without imperial power and those who support him, he is just an ordinary person.

Liu Zhirou decided to speed up her progress. She had a hunch that this palace would only become more and more dangerous. Concubine Xiang's plan of using someone else as a substitute might just be the simplest and most basic one.

As a concubine in the palace, Liu Zhirou could not easily reach out to the outside world. Although she was quite favored and was promoted to the position of the head of a palace just one year after entering the palace, she also had certain connections with relatives outside. However, her relatives were not powerful people either. All they could hear were either some rumors whose truth or falsehood they didn't know, or common sense known to the public. They really couldn't bring her any particularly important help.

However, when she climbed up the big tree of the empress dowager, the situation might change to a certain extent. After all, the empress dowager's family background was good. In other words, no matter whether the empress dowager's family background was good or not, having an empress dowager was enough to make the Zhang family glorious and occupy a considerable position in the court.

This queen mother was not like other queen mothers who just quietly practiced in the Buddhist temple and enjoyed wealth and splendor. The queen mother made great efforts for the emperor's ascension to the throne, although the emperor was now fully grown and ready to do the thing of abandoning him after his death.

However, the Queen Mother still has a force that cannot be ignored. Liu Zhirou does not ask the Queen Mother to be open-hearted to her and treat her as the only heir, but she must at least borrow some of this power.

At least she could have a good relationship with the Queen Mother. After all, she was not an ordinary concubine. She had many gadgets with strange powers in her hands. If she was not worried about being discovered by some powerful forces still lurking in the palace, she would have planned to use some of these things on the Emperor and the Queen Mother.

However, considering the various strange things she had encountered in the past, Liu Zhirou did not dare to act so boldly. If she could be sure that this was just an ordinary world with an ancient background, Liu Zhirou would never be so suspicious. But since it has been confirmed that there are many forces in this world that cannot be understood or predicted by ordinary people, she dared not stand out like this anymore.

She had no doubt that if she used her miraculous powers to benefit herself every time, she would be as conspicuous as a firefly in the dark in the eyes of those who were truly virtuous.

She couldn't take the risk of being the first to be shot, but she also couldn't put all those strange powers aside. After all, after coming to this world, her real foundation was not the emperor's favor, but these strange powers.

If she hadn't had the help of the golden finger, she would have died under the torture of Concubine Shu not long after entering the palace. How could she have the glory and honor she has today? Although this glory and honor is not guaranteed, at least she is living a good life. When you are alive, you have opportunities, but when you die, you have nothing.

While Liu Zhirou was chatting with the emperor in a random manner, she was distracted by random thoughts. She knew that although her current position seemed glorious, it was actually precarious. She couldn't really figure out what the emperor was thinking. She didn't dare to make any moves without being asked, and for various reasons, she simply stopped guessing and continued to maintain the image of being naive but loyal.

The emperor did not really love her like a treasure. He just gave her some symbolic rewards and favored her for several days in a row to show his importance to Concubine Chun.