I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

Liu Zhirou cannot read other people's mental activities. She does not have this ability when she is in the ghost state. However, she can also discover something wrong with Concubine De by observing her emotions.

Just think about it, the other concubines were busy showing their courtesy to the Emperor, and everyone was feeling terrified but full of expectations. Only Defei had a strong sense of despair and malice that almost turned into a substantial black mist that spread out.

However, after Liu Zhirou thought deeply about it, she found that this matter had nothing to do with her. Perhaps she could use this opportunity to force out the emperor's true strength.

This was beneficial to her with no disadvantages, so she just ignored it.

Liu Zhirou shifted most of her attention to the eldest princess. This eldest princess was truly a magical creature.

That’s right. Liu Zhirou felt that the current princess could not even be called a human being. A normal six-year-old child could not jump around with 80% to 90% of the exposed parts of her body burned, and even hurt several adults who tried to hold her down.

Through the eldest princess' current condition, Liu Zhirou can roughly infer that the relationship between the eldest princess and her father is far from as simple as it appears on the surface.

The reason is very simple. Basically, everyone with some connections in the palace knows about the eldest princess's madness, and the queen will never let her leave her Changning Palace.

What was the most serious disaster that happened in Lianmeng Palace? That's right, it was a fire. Lianmeng Palace was almost burned to ashes. Concubine Chen and the child in her belly, or more accurately, the child she might have, were buried together in Lianmeng Palace.

The eldest princess also showed extremely severe burns on her body, and she looked as if she had just rolled back from a sea of ​​fire.

The emperor suddenly began to pay great attention to the eldest princess, whom he had never cared about before. He even held her in his arms with doting affection and comforted her softly.

It is unbelievable that the eldest princess had nothing to do with the emperor being able to escape the disaster in Lianmeng Palace unscathed.

What we need to understand now is what role the queen played in this. No matter what, the eldest princess is her own child and has an inseparable blood relationship with her. In this case, does the queen know about this strange connection between the princess and the emperor?

Or was this something that was planned jointly by the Queen and the Emperor, or by the Emperor and the Queen as a couple?

But giving birth to a child with special qualities, and using that child as a shield or a weapon -

If the emperor made this decision, Liu Zhirou would not be surprised at all, but if the queen made the same decision, Liu Zhirou would be a little hesitant.

Before this, the queen had always played the role of a loving mother. Even though the eldest princess often suffered from madness, which caused her a lot of trouble and even affected her status and reputation in the harem, she never thought of giving up the eldest princess. Instead, she became more caring for her. For the sake of the eldest princess, she was willing to give up attending many important ceremonies in the palace and give up the opportunity to establish her authority in front of the concubines.

If these were things that could be performed, then on the other hand, Liu Zhirou was puzzled. The queen did not receive any special preferential treatment because she was a princess. The power she had was almost the same as that of an ordinary queen.

The emperor has always been indifferent to the eldest princess, almost treating her as if he doesn't have this child. Only at special times like this does he show a little bit of warmth and care to her.

The queen herself is the most respected person in the harem and enjoys extremely high treatment. Seeing her own child being treated as a tool to be used when useful and thrown away when useless, would she really not feel a little resentful in her heart?

If the eldest princess really gave the queen the opportunity to have an equal dialogue with the emperor, that would be fine. At least the queen did gain enough benefits through this child. But this is obviously not the case.

Although the Queen's position in the palace was relatively stable, she actually had no chance to compete with the emperor, who was so authoritarian and dictatorial that he held all the power.

When the emperor made some decisions, he would not consider the queen's thoughts and attitudes at all. The relationship between them was like that of a sponsor and a canary, not an equal partner.

Perhaps he should think of a way to test the true relationship between the emperor and the queen, and the importance of the eldest princess.

Liu Zhirou looked around and finally fixed her eyes on the beautiful lady Yu who entered the palace with her.

When this beautiful lady first entered the palace, she was favored for a period of time, but she never conceived a child, so she was gradually forgotten by the emperor.

Later, she went against the Queen's initial arrangement and asked to move to the Palace of Concubine Chen. This time, Concubine Chen was in trouble, but Lady Yu was lucky enough to escape alive and appeared in Changning Palace intact, which could be considered quite lucky.

But this luck could only help her save her life, but was not enough to allow her to gain a foothold in the palace.

She had long passed the fresh period when she first entered the palace, and the emperor's attitude towards her was indifferent, and he did not summon her in any special way. Her patron, Concubine Chen, had fallen again. No matter how beautiful the posthumous title the emperor gave her, Concubine Chen was dead and there was no way she could come back to life and speak well of her in front of the emperor. She now urgently needed a new patron.

Liu Zhirou did not intend to take the initiative to return to the palace to serve as her backer. She would not do such a stupid thing. Commanding the younger brothers under her to charge into battle may seem very glorious on the surface, but in fact it is also very dangerous. More importantly, it directly puts herself in the open, which is easy to arouse people's vigilance.

She'd better think of a way to quietly test the relationship between the Queen, the eldest princess and the Emperor without exposing herself who is hiding behind them.

After pondering for a moment, Liu Zhirou quickly noticed the burning ambition in Ai Ziyi's eyes, so she returned to the desk to prepare to write a letter.

It is not a wise choice to directly interfere with the turbulent undercurrent in the palace. The most important thing is to take advantage of the situation.