I Became Yinzhen's Birth Mother

I was an HR professional before I transmigrated into the Kangxi era as a low-ranking palace maid. Watching a coworker cry and complain about her rations being cut, my professional instincts kicked in. The next day, a report titled “A Feasibility Study on Optimizing Resource Allocation Within the Palace and Improving Employee Satisfaction” landed before the emperor. Kangxi narrowed his eyes and asked me, “What are ‘KPI’ and ‘last-place elimination’?”

After becoming the biological mother of the Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, I decided to raise him to win the succession struggle among the nine princes. While the other princes studied the Four Books and Five Classics, my son listened to On Protracted War and The Prince before bed. Then one day, young Yinzhen went to ask his father, “Imperial Father, do you know what it means to ‘make lots of friends and as few enemies as possible’?” Kangxi's gaze instantly fixed on me, who was cracking sunflower seeds nearby.