I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

After finally settling Ai Ziyi's matter, Liu Zhirou was able to put her mind at ease, and she leisurely went in a carriage to serve the Queen Mother.

Serving the empress dowager is certainly a job that requires caution, but it is still not as hard as engaging in intrigues with many concubines in the harem and constantly being on guard against being framed or poisoned by others.

The only bad thing was that Liu Zhirou found that the speed at which she accumulated energy had slowed down a lot. Except for the time when she just left, when the concubines in the harem helped her, which made her energy bar grow a lot. After she actually arrived in Shoukang Palace, she didn't gain much.

After all, in the eyes of the concubines in the palace, she would not pose any major threat in the next few years. She couldn't even see the emperor, so how could she be considered a favorite concubine? As for the future, her beauty would fade and her love would fade. Since she didn't leave any children, how could the emperor care about her when her beauty faded further?

Having lost the emperor's favor, what achievements can she, a merchant girl, make?

To be honest, many people in the palace looked down on Liu Zhirou, a concubine who was able to enter the palace to serve the emperor by chance, and they never stopped making sarcastic remarks about her. When Liu Zhirou was still in the palace, some people's bad words reached her ears. When she was about to leave the palace, those people were even more excessive. Chuntao was so angry that she cried several times, and even Tanxiang, who was usually steady and dignified, couldn't stand it.

After all, in the eyes of those real daughters of officials and ladies from noble families, merchant daughters are undoubtedly a rather unpresentable label. If it is really within the standards, people like Liu Zhirou are not even qualified to talk to them.

But after entering the palace, Liu Zhirou won the favor of the emperor and was fortunate enough to become pregnant with the emperor's fetus. Although she lost the pregnancy in the end, she was able to advance a lot through this opportunity. For these ladies from aristocratic families, when they saw a merchant's daughter, they had to bow respectfully and call her sister, which was undoubtedly a very unpleasant thing.

Liu Zhirou did want to show weakness, but she would not always be a coward without thinking. On the contrary, she complained to the emperor several times and forced several concubines who seemed to have good status and were favored by the emperor to copy books or kneel as punishment, making her many enemies.

Liu Zhirou didn't take these little enemies to heart. Even though she knew that these people would slander him to the emperor after he left the palace, she didn't care. For her, the so-called leaving the palace was just an excuse. He could come back anytime he wanted. The real threat to her was still up to the emperor, the queen, and the queen mother.

These people are people that Liu Zhirou cannot understand. They all seem to have something hidden in them that is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. It is precisely because of this that Liu Zhirou has always been very cautious when facing these people, and tries her best to maintain her image of a lucky but incompetent naive person, so as not to be taken seriously by them.

The current palace is actually like a dark forest. Whoever shows up first will be sniped first, that's all.

In order to enrich her methods and strengthen her combat capability, Liu Zhirou also wanted to find out the effect of her golden finger, so she chose to use up all three accumulated chances.

After a familiar animation, Liu Zhirou obtained a skill that surprised her, but she also felt it was natural.

Puppet line.

This thing sounds very much like an item, but in fact it is indeed a skill. However, this skill seems a bit useless and can only control a person or creature when the user is awake. Once the user loses consciousness, the control will end.

What's even more annoying is that the person being controlled has no way to react on their own, and all the reactions she can make depend on the reactions of the person controlling her. As for being able to control only one person at a time and not being able to perform group control, this is a more acceptable shortcoming.

Liu Zhirou looked at it again and again, and finally chose to put the puppet aside. She had not yet figured out how to use this thing, and looking at the description given by the golden finger, this skill did not seem to have any particularly strong growth potential, and there was no way to become stronger by increasing proficiency.

Liu Zhirou drew the lottery for the second time, and the one she won was a technique called "Calm Mind", which could, to a certain extent, protect one from the influence of supernatural creatures, curses and other messy things. Liu Zhirou was quite satisfied with the result, as this technique would most likely be useful in the end.

The third time, the reward she drew was also a skill. It looked a bit confusing. It was called Object Animation. It seemed that it could give life to the inanimate objects around it. However, there was a time limit. If the effect of this skill was not maintained, it would become ineffective within 7 days.

But if you use the same skill on an object every day for 30 consecutive days, you can make it semi-permanent. Or as mentioned above, if you use the same skill on an object every day for consecutive days, you can make the object with the skill gain life semi-permanently.

The reason why it is semi-permanent is that it is not so easy to gain life. Even if he really gains life under the effect of this skill, he does not have the wisdom and emotions of ordinary people. He is just a body that can breathe and is alive.

Liu Zhirou slowly came up with an idea, but she didn't want to do such an outrageous thing unless the moment was really critical.

At least her current situation is not so serious that she needs to use this method to save her face.

Of course, if possible, she hoped that she would never reach this point.