I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

Liu Zhirou didn't know that she had become a substitute for the late queen in the empress dowager's heart. She also realized the empress dowager's kindness during the conversation and gradually relaxed.

To be honest, she had been living a very depressed life since entering the palace. Being cautious and submissive were relatively easy to disguise, but no matter how well she disguised herself, it was not as good as letting her true nature bloom.

The longer she spent here, the more she missed modern life. Even if she was a rich and powerful empress, what could she do? She was still a victim of the layers of palace rules, a plaything in the hands of the emperor, a weak person who could lose her life if she was not careful.

This is really a bad thing.

After entering the palace, the only friend Liu Zhirou could talk to was Ai Ziyi. Ai Ziyi was lively and reckless by nature. If Liu Zhirou showed her fearless nature again, the two of them would really be rushing towards death.

Liu Zhirou was not afraid of these. She had no relatives here who were particularly worth caring about, and the fighting power shown by the palace guards alone was not enough to save her life.

Ai Ziyi was different, she had truly lived here for more than a decade, she had family and friends. Even if he escaped alone and was not fatally injured, he had brought trouble to his father's future and his brothers, which made her feel more uncomfortable than killing her.

You can say they are ignorant or lack vision, but they do consider the family's honor and the future of their fathers and brothers more important than their own lives.

Just like Qiu Ju, after her family suffered a disaster, she, a girl of only a few years old, did not expect her surviving brother to become successful and provide shelter for her. Instead, she became a slave and entered the palace alone, just to prove the cause of her deceased father and give her brother a chance to live a clean life.

Liu Zhirou naturally couldn't do this, nor did she think that those who did so were great, but she also didn't want to laugh at those who could do it, and she didn't want to destroy what they had upheld their entire lives just for her own momentary pleasure.

So when Liu Zhirou and Ai Ziyi were alone together, she tended to advise her to be cautious, to think more, and not to fall in love with the emperor, rather than to wantonly express her own thoughts and will.

Obtaining free will from modern society may not be a good thing for today's palace women. If they are unaware of the shackles on themselves, they can continue to live a good life, even if this life is not perfect.

But when they truly realize it, they will definitely try to find a way to break free from these shackles, which may ultimately result in a greater tragedy.

Facing the Queen Mother, Liu Zhirou certainly couldn't reveal all her secrets, or even fully reveal her character, but it should be possible for her to relax a little and not have to live as cautiously and carefully as she did in the Concubine Xian's Palace.

To put it bluntly, although Concubine Xian always called her sister, the relationship between them was more like that of competitors than sisters.

In this era where women have no chance to achieve success, they need to win the favor of the same man in order to survive better in this cruel and ruthless place.

At a time like this, don't say that you don't have any affection for me. Even if you have great affection for me, it will be useless.

The Empress Dowager is different from them. She was the champion of palace fighting in the previous generation and does not need to live a completely dependent life.

Although the Queen Mother also had to pretend to be obedient to the Emperor in many cases because of her own demands, at least she was doing much better than those unfortunate children.

Liu Zhirou and the Queen Mother do not need to compete. In fact, to a large extent, they are in the same camp - one depends on the other.

Liu Zhirou had no difficulty accepting this. After all, she had some idea of ​​what the people in her family were like.

Although her father is a little clever, he is ultimately not capable of being a big shot. Her brother doesn't even have that much cleverness. It would be better to just dream than to expect them to achieve great things and become her right-hand men.

Besides, feelings are developed through time. She is not the original owner, and she has only been with her family for a short period of more than ten days. It is impossible to say that they have deep feelings for each other.

However, there was one thing she needed to find out. The original owner's death was strange, and her crossing over was even stranger, but she had no clue about this yet.

There were only a few people in the Liu family who had the ability and motivation to assassinate her. But after thinking about it, she realized that the reactions of these people were not like those who had tried to kill her once before.

The man who was able to quietly murder the third daughter of the Liu family who was in the process of being selected for the palace must be very capable. However, as she looked left and right, she didn't think that those idiots in her family who could not survive more than three days in the palace could have such a capability.

While Liu Zhirou was thinking about what happened when she first crossed over and speculating on the situation the original owner might have faced at the time, she chatted and laughed with the empress dowager, talking about interesting things in the palace and her doubts about some of the emperor's actions.

For her now, multitasking is not a particularly difficult skill to achieve.

The Queen Mother did not realize that she was being treated perfunctorily. On the contrary, she was quite happy with the conversation. Although she did not fully approve of Liu Zhirou, at least she had a certain emotional foundation with her.

If it were a few years ago, or even a few months ago, the Queen Mother would definitely think that this person was too timid. Although he said good things, he actually didn't dare to take any action. He was simply a giant in words but a dwarf in actions, and he would never achieve anything great in the future.

But now she understood that it was better to keep things simple and to be afraid of troubles. Only by being afraid of troubles would she not cause troubles. Wealth and power were not important, as long as she was alive, it was fine.

If Liu Zhirou gains power, the Queen Mother and her family may not benefit from it, but if Liu Zhirou gets into trouble, they will definitely be implicated.

The emperor is so unreasonable that no one can do anything about it. It's their fault that they didn't see the true face of this man in the beginning, allowing him to gain power. Now that he is fully grown, the powerful officials have absolutely no way to control him.

The emperor was serious about this, and none of them could resist.