I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

It's not that the emperor hadn't thought about taking shady measures. As soon as the news of Concubine Chun's pregnancy came out, he had already secretly recruited many secret agents who were lurking in the Cining Palace.

However, these secret agents failed to bring him the desired results. Instead, most of them were caught and killed one by one by the Queen Mother's men before they could take any action.

The Queen Mother has the support of the evil Buddha, and under this subtle influence, most of the Emperor's spies have been corrupted. Even those who are particularly determined and loyal to the Emperor find it difficult to cause any big waves around a bunch of extremely abnormal colleagues. This incident disappeared before it even reached Liu Zhirou's ears.

The emperor's anger was hard to contain at that time. Liu Zhirou was with the empress dowager, and he couldn't say that she had violated any palace rules. After all, the empress dowager would definitely protect her, and the evil Buddha behind the empress dowager would also protect her.

If the emperor really wanted to get rid of Liu Zhirou for any reason, the empress dowager and the evil Buddha would not allow it. At that time, the final result would be a repeat of the incident in Lianmeng Palace.

Sometimes the emperor even became pessimistic and thought that if something like what happened to Concubine Chen happened again, he might no longer be the final winner.

What is the Cining Palace? It is the Queen Mother's home ground, and the Queen Mother has been corrupted by the evil Buddha for so many years. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is the incarnation of the evil Buddha. In this case, he really has no confidence in winning this battle, even if the person behind him really tries his best to help him, it is impossible.

What's more, the emperor never dared to truly trust anyone, and the existence behind him was no less scheming than the evil Buddha. It was just that their interests were the same at the moment, so they were able to stand on a united front.

If something really unusual happened, or if the emperor was stubborn enough to confront the evil Buddha head-on, the one behind him would abandon him without hesitation and look for the next host.

The title of emperor has never belonged to just one person. When this emperor dies, there will naturally be another emperor to take his place. There will certainly be many twists and turns in the process, but experiencing twists and turns is always better than death.

So under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the emperor set his sights on Liu Zhirou's family.

Nowadays, women generally regard their families as quite important. If not, Concubine Xian would not have risked causing trouble in the palace.

You know, even if General Lin fell, the emperor would at least spare his life because Concubine Xian had carefully served the emperor for so many years. But Concubine Xian still plunged headlong into the vortex of conspiracy without hesitation, all because she could not give up the father-daughter relationship.

But in fact, the reason why she was sold to the palace and became a servant was largely because her father was idle and had no proper job, making it difficult for him to earn money to support the family, and her mother happened to be sick.

The virtuous concubine was originally the daughter of a respectable family, but in order to pay for her mother's medical treatment, she had to sell herself into the palace, and from then on she lived a life of hard work and treading on thin ice.

The virtuous concubine had not done anything wrong to General Lin, but General Lin had done many things wrong to the virtuous concubine. Even a heartless emperor had to make such a judgment.

But the fact is that General Lin was arrogant and domineering outside and seldom thought about what kind of danger his daughter who was still in the palace would face. Even though Concubine Xian worked diligently in the palace and lost several children, she never resented her father outside.

If something happened to Liu Zhirou's father and brother outside, she would definitely suffer a huge blow. The emperor certainly knew that under the influence of the evil Buddha, it would not be so easy to lose the child in her belly, but affecting the mother's mental state would also have a certain effect on influencing the evil Buddha's cause.

What’s even more interesting is that Liu Ming and Liu Zhen are both men who worked hard in the previous dynasty. Their fate is completely in the hands of the emperor, and even the empress dowager cannot change it at will.

As a result, just when the emperor was about to put this idea into practice, he sadly discovered another terrible fact: Liu Ming had a daughter who had gone crazy.

If it was just a daughter who went crazy, it wouldn't be a big deal. Every big family in the capital has some shameful secrets behind it.

But the problem was that he sent secret guards to investigate carefully and found that the girl named Liu Zhijin was not talking completely crazy. She even spoke coherently about many secret matters.

The emperor knew very well that such things were not accessible to an ordinary concubine's daughter from a foreign merchant family. What was even more tragic was that many of his inner reactions, things that even his closest eunuchs were not clear about, were all clearly described by this crazy girl. It was as if there was another personality in his body without his knowledge, and it passed on all this information.

This made him so angry and humiliated that he almost wanted to kill the other party. However, not long after, the other party disappeared inexplicably from the imperial city, and even he, the emperor, could not find him.

The emperor's psychological pressure instantly rose to a new level. After all, he was not sure who told this valuable information to an insignificant concubine's daughter. However, he was also very clear that in this world, besides the one behind him who liked to appear in the form of Bai Gu, and the evil Buddha behind the empress dowager, there was also a bastard who played with the world.

To think more seriously, perhaps the two grown-up daughters of the Liu family are both pawns in the hands of that being, and one of them may even be connected with the evil Buddha.

His former queen, the girl called Yan Yan, was favored by this great being. The emperor paid a great price to defeat that woman. Even he had to admit that the woman was difficult to deal with. In addition, the generous unknown being generously gave her abilities, allowing her to easily win the love of everyone.

The emperor was no exception, but he was very smart. Before contacting the other party, he had already prayed to the existence behind him and divided his reason and emotion into two parts. It was because of this that he was able to kill the other party with the most decisive means while deeply loving the other party, and even killed his own blood descendants for this.