I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

Concubine Shu seemed a little moved. She thought carefully for a while, then suddenly became depressed and replied hesitantly: "Based on my experience of getting along with Concubine Xian over the years, she doesn't seem like such a person."

Guo Cairen was already worried, thinking that there was something wrong with her plan. When she heard what Concubine Shu said, she couldn't help but laugh and cry and replied: "Sister, you have been with Concubine Xian for so many years, of course you know her, but Pure Beauty has just entered the palace, how can she understand Concubine Xian?"

"We don't need to let Concubine Xian actually harm Pure Beauty. We just need to let Pure Beauty think that Concubine Xian will harm her. That's enough."

"Please tell me in detail." Concubine Shu suddenly became interested in this.

Guo Cairen organized her words a little before speaking: "Mrs. Chun has just become pregnant, and she is already quite suspicious and uneasy. As long as we let her think that Concubine Xian will be a threat to her, she will try her best to seek help from others. There are actually very few people who can help her, and we are one of them."

"So Liu Zhirou first betrayed me and joined Concubine Xian, and then caused me to be confined by the Emperor. Now I have to rush to help her!" Concubine Shu was so indignant that she didn't even call her by her title, but simply called her by her name.

"Sister, a little impatience can ruin a big plan. What's more, once she is in our hands, it will only take a word to mold her into something we want, right?" Cairen Guo comforted her.

Only then did Concubine Shu calm down.

Seeing her sister like this, Guo Cairen couldn't help but feel worried.

To be honest, Guo Cairen didn't think her sister had the talent to survive in the palace, but she had such a beautiful face. Before she got married, she was hailed as the most beautiful woman in the capital, and attracted countless young talents to pursue her.

This also included the emperor who was just a prince at the time.

At the beginning, Duke Deng regarded the child as a treasure and was waiting to marry her to the winner of the final fight for the throne.

After the current emperor ascended the throne, he naturally took this unparalleled beauty as his concubine in the first selection.

Only three months after Shufei entered the palace, she was promoted from a beauty to a concubine and became pregnant. That was the time when she was at her most high-spirited. However, when she was five or six months pregnant, she suddenly and inexplicably miscarried and gave birth to a fully grown male fetus.

The emperor was furious and purged the entire palace, killing many people, but it was of no avail. Since then, Concubine Shu has been injured and has never been pregnant again. Her temper has become more and more irritable as she lives in the palace day after day.

The only comforting thing is that the emperor seems to still be deeply in love with Concubine Shu, but when Guo Cairen looked at the wrinkles at the corners of her sister's eyes, she couldn't help but think of what she once read in a book: Those who serve men with their beauty will lose their love when their beauty fades.

How long can the emperor's favor last?

Guo Cairen couldn't imagine what would happen if Concubine Shu lost favor.

"Although you had a conflict with Chun Meiren in the Imperial Garden before, this conflict is actually not a big deal. Chun Meiren's own belly is very good, but her father and brother outside are not so good. Her father and brother both rely on our family to survive. Chun Meiren can't and dare not turn against us."

Guo Cairen couldn't help but shudder, then forced himself to shift his attention away from the cruel future and began to analyze the current situation.

"What we need to do now is to choose a suitable person to congratulate Chun Meiren and express our intentions. In fact, if Consort Gan is still alive, it would be the most appropriate person to let her go. Her sister married into the Liu family and would be Chun Meiren's sister-in-law."

Guo Cairen sighed somewhat unwillingly.

"Don't worry about that. Although Concubine Gan is dead, our family's relationship with the Liu family is still intact. I remember that just a few days ago, a daughter of the Liu family married our Wulang as a concubine." When Concubine Shu said this, she laughed quietly.

She really looked down on the Liu family, a merchant family that had only made a fortune for one or two generations, and she had never even tried to hide this fact. She was the eldest daughter of the current Duke Deng, the niece of the late Emperor's Consort Su Jing, and the cousin of Princess Changyang.

As soon as she entered the palace, she was favored with the utmost love, and her honor and favor have not diminished to this day.

“If you really want to get closer to Lady Chun, you might as well say that I miss my family and ask the women in my family to come to the palace to pay their respects, then invite Lady Chun over and ask her to meet your sister.” Concubine Shu smiled softly, with a hint of contempt in her smile.

Guo Cairen felt a little bad and said quickly: "This is not a good idea. How about I write a letter home and ask Dad to make this girl from the Liu family Wu Lang's legal wife..."

"Is a bastard daughter of a merchant family qualified to be the legal wife of the man from our family of Duke Deng? I tell you, this is the end of your life as a concubine! You can't be so careless any more, you are losing the dignity of Duke Deng's Mansion for no reason!" Not only did Concubine Shu disagree, she turned around and lectured her sister.

Guo Cairen knew very well that the plan she proposed was doomed again.

This is not making friends, this is making enemies!

Although the Liu family was not powerful and was quite humble, Chun Meiren was still the daughter of the Liu family. Even if it was for the sake of Chun Meiren who was pregnant with a dragon fetus, she could not be humiliated like this.

What's more, not only did Concubine Shu intend to humiliate her like this, she even wanted to call Chun Meiren over and let her watch with her own eyes as her sister became a concubine for Concubine Shu's brother.

What kind of thinking is required to feel that one can still gain the trust of pure beauties?

Now, Cairen Guo only hopes that this pure beauty is truly blessed, with a good body and a good temperament, and does not wait until she gets upset in Concubine Shu's palace and has a miscarriage.

If something like that really happened, the sisters' situation in the palace would be even worse.

When the emperor was young, he loved beauty the most. Concubine Shu had a pretty face, so of course she could win the emperor's favor. But the emperor is old now, and he values ​​offspring more. Pure beauties with good health who can easily give birth to offspring are undoubtedly more valued.

If Concubine Shu, whose appearance had already faded, really started a fight with Pure Beauty, who was pregnant, Guo Cairen didn't think her sister would be able to gain the upper hand.

Guo Cairen knew best what kind of personality Shufei had. The people Shufei had offended were so numerous that they circled around Minghua Palace three times.

If Concubine Shu really lost the emperor's favor, or was even disliked by him, there would be no shortage of people who would take advantage of her misfortune. When Concubine Guo thought of that future scenario, she felt extremely desperate.

But she really couldn't convince Concubine Shu.