Time Travel: The actress's acting skills exploded, and she was favored by the harem

Concubine Zhao lay at the legs of Empress Dowager Zhao with a look of grievance and tears on her face. She had endured until now and paid such a price to finally get the position of a concubine.

Now, the position of imperial concubine was taken by Shen Zhiyao first, and she was powerless to change the situation. It would have been fine if she had not won the fight. She had wanted to be promoted to the position of imperial concubine, and it seemed that she was about to succeed, but she was framed so badly...

The emperor refused to listen to her explanation, and the queen refused to speak for her. Queen Mother Zhao was now only concerned with entertaining her grandson and taking care of her health...

Concubine Zhao looked at Queen Dowager Zhao with tears in her eyes. She was so unwilling to accept this.

She is out of favor, and the eldest prince is also disliked by the emperor. What should she and her son do in the future?

"Yuhan, please get up. I know you didn't do it. But I can't force you to do it now. The more I do, the more the emperor will hate you in the future. There will always be a day when I will let go..." Queen Mother Zhao shook her head and sighed.

Although there is no definitive conclusion on Concubine Wei's miscarriage, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Concubine Zhao was being plotted against.

However, Bo Muxi pretended to be ignorant even though he knew the truth, and allowed the accusation of murdering the royal heir to be pinned on Concubine Zhao. However, he had other intentions.

"Aunt, then I should..." Concubine Zhao became more and more sad the more she thought about it.

"I have already sent a message to your mother's family. Your father and two old ministers in the family will retire soon. The emperor will not do anything to you. No matter what, he still has to remember the affection for your mother's family." Queen Mother Zhao said while twisting her Buddhist beads.

"Aunt, is our Feng family retiring like this? In the future, the eldest prince..." Concubine Zhao said worriedly.

"There's nothing good in being an idler for a while. Why do you have to bother the emperor? If the people in the clan know when to advance and when to retreat, the emperor will still remember the kinship of the maternal clan and will reuse them when necessary. If you are too obsessed with power and refuse to give in, this kinship will really be gone..."

Queen Mother Zhao was really angry that her niece was not living up to her expectations. She had supported her wholeheartedly, but she was helpless.

If the situation were reversed, and Gu Yunran or Shen Zhiyao were his nieces, the incident would have probably happened long ago.

Sure enough, a few days later, three important officials of the Zhao family submitted memorials to retire one after another.

After the emperor rejected the first memorial, he submitted three more memorials in a very humble manner, requesting to return home to retire.

Bo Muxi had shown enough pretense before he approved the three men's resignation letters. However, he still did not treat them unfairly and still bought them a lot of land.

The three most powerful members of the Zhao family were assigned to different positions.

Under the pretext of allowing new forces to gain more training locally, they were actually broken up and sent to various remote cities.

The Zhao family system was broken up all of a sudden, leaving only a few side branches, which were also assigned to various positions.

Only one Grand Secretary, Zhao Qing, was left, to keep a spark for the Zhao family.

From then on, the Zhao family no longer had the power they once had.

At the Queen Mother's signal, Concubine Zhao knelt outside Changdeok Palace to apologize. Afterwards, the Emperor went out to see her in person, which was a rare occasion.

"Empress Zhao, I still cherish our old friendship. However, now it seems that I spoiled you because I was too sentimental. For the sake of the eldest prince, I will not demote you this time. I will fine you two years' salary, require you to copy all the palace rules, and confine you to house arrest for two months. If you do it again, I will demote you immediately!" Bo Muxi said coldly.

Concubine Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty, I will never dare to do it again."

She finally got smart for once and stopped arguing. The emperor wanted you to bear the blame, no matter how unfair it was.

"Go back." Bo Muxi sighed and waved his hand weakly.

Concubine Zhao responded respectfully and did not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction with the emperor's punishment.

What the emperor wants is balance in the harem. He doesn't want any one family to become too powerful. If Concubine Zhao is demoted, it may not be a good thing for the emperor.

In Fengyi Palace, the Queen and Shen Zhiyao almost clapped their hands when they heard this.

The Zhao family suffered a heavy blow. Although Concubine Zhao was not demoted, it would be difficult for her to cause any big waves in the future unless she had the support of the emperor...

"Empress..." Although Shen Zhiyao was happy, she looked at the Queen with some worry.

The Queen naturally understood her anxiety and reached out to shake her hand. "I have thought about this a long time ago. General Shen Li is now forced to retreat due to the situation. When the time is right in the future, he will hand over the military power. With my father and me as guarantors, the Shen family can enjoy prosperity for generations."

No matter how trusted a general is, he will become a thorn in the emperor's side when there is no war to fight.

"Your Majesty is very insightful. The eldest princess and I still have to rely on you." Shen Zhiyao said with a smile.

"You...if I don't tell you, how could you not guess it? You just play tricks in front of me." The queen rolled her eyes at her, but there was no anger in her tone.

"Oh, how dare I... I just want to take this opportunity to praise you... Really..." Shen Zhiyao simply acted like a spoiled child and hugged the Queen's arm and acted coquettishly.

The queen felt her heart fluttering, but she pretended to be fine and smiled, "Okay, you'll keep pestering me day by day..."

Shen Zhiyao smiled, pretended to be well-behaved, and went over to hold the hands of the Fourth Prince and the Eldest Princess to learn how to walk.

The Fourth Prince was already stumbling and had a hard time walking, and the Eldest Princess was making trouble, attacking him from time to time, causing the Fourth Prince to almost fall several times.

Shen Zhiyao didn't tolerate it either, and glared at the princess with a stern face.

Although the eldest princess was young, she seemed to be able to read people's expressions. She fearfully broke free from her hand and staggered towards the queen.

The queen saw this scene, and she hurried forward and took the eldest princess in her arms with a loving heart.

"Look how fierce your mother is. Come to her." The queen held the child in her warm arms.

The eldest princess threw herself into the queen's arms and rubbed her little face against her chest.

"Oh... kid... what are you doing... how disgraceful..." Shen Zhiyao was so angry at this "little bandit" that she laughed.

Shijin was too embarrassed to watch, thinking: Princess Jin, you still have the nerve to teach the eldest princess a lesson? You have also been a "hooligan" to the master! Many times I wanted to call the guards! This child really inherited your essence...

"Okay, the child is just over one year old, just teach him slowly... Our Fourth Prince is a man, it's okay for him to be bullied. He will become stronger after falling down, right?" said the Queen with a smile.

Shen Zhiyao was speechless. My goodness, people who didn’t know would think that the eldest princess was the Queen’s biological daughter!

The fourth prince seemed to understand and laughed, "Yes... yes... ah..."

Everyone was speechless after hearing this. As expected, sons take after their mothers and they all like the eldest princess so much...

"Empress...if you keep pampering her like this, she will definitely cause trouble in the future..." Shen Zhiyao complained with a smile.

I don’t know if the eldest princess understood or not, she hugged the queen’s neck and protested chatteringly.

"How can it be so serious? Children are naughty when they are young. They will be fine when they grow up. After all, she is a girl. I don't believe she can still be naughty." The queen touched the eldest princess's head lovingly.

Although Shen Zhiyao usually believed what the Queen said, she was deeply skeptical about this sentence.

Although this child is young, she has the temperament of a "little witch". She will not be a quiet girl in the future.

The name "Shuyan" is probably wrong...