I Can Understand Babies, So I Rule the Palace by Raising Them

[Qing Dynasty setting + Baby Talk System + Raising Children + Hidden Palace Intrigue + Lighthearted Daily Life + No Saintly Protagonist]

The moment Jiang Li opened her eyes, she found herself in the Kangxi era, reborn as a palace maid from a bondservant family. From the start, she was assigned to care for a little prince who had cried himself hoarse.

The nurses in the room were at their wits' end, but she heard every word in the baby's cries, clear as day:

“My socks are digging into my feet! It hurts! Change them!”

From then on, while everyone else only heard deafening wails, she could hear what babies were really thinking.

The Third Prince refuses to drink his milk? “This wet nurse ate something spicy. The milk tastes weird, and it's awful!”

The Fifth Prince cries in the middle of the night? “It's too quiet. I'm scared. I want to hear someone nearby.”

The newborn princess won't stop shrieking? “The swaddling is too tight! My hand's gone numb! Are you all deaf?!”

With her uncanny skill at “translating baby talk,” Jiang Li raises one fussy imperial child after another into plump, healthy babies, earning the favor of the palace consorts, who all vie to win her over.

Consort De makes a gentle overture: “Jiang Li, I'm entrusting my Yinzhen to you.”

Consort Hui smiles with a knife hidden in her words: “You're quite the catch. Why not come work for me instead?”

Kangxi falls silent for a moment. “...Transfer her to the Qianqing Palace. My ninth son has been crying at night lately.”

Jiang Li: I only wanted to quietly be a baby-care tool. How did I become the most sought-after person in the entire harem?