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May 24, 2025 12:24 AM
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Villagers from the west with "colour blidness" eh.
Maomao with her usual detective skill found the hut with drug experiment and also "gun".
Shenmei looks scary
Plot thicken....
May 24, 2025 12:27 AM

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Feifa workshop found. Shenmei seems to traumatize everyone.
Hope Maomao and kid will be safe ๐Ÿ‘€
May 24, 2025 2:05 AM

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It's all been connected to this village.....and this Shenmei is the ringleader.
May 24, 2025 2:42 AM
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The episode was interesting, the mix of historical & fantastical elements is kind of weird tho!

16th century pistols, merchant caravans from the west and some conspiracy involving HRE citizens....
May 24, 2025 4:24 AM

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Shenmei is kinda scary
May 24, 2025 4:27 AM

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And so this village is place of origin of that foreign colour blind family that keep on marrying to royal family to keep bloodline "pure" huh..

Ah that resurcation medicine isn't complete could lead to paralysis or worse loss of memory don't mind try on me....
Maomao need to be keep in check.

Shisui/Loulan is still attending Maomao and taking care of her even after kidnapping her. The only one of this colour blind family I can't hate.
Shenmei her mother (probably) is scary...
May 24, 2025 5:04 AM
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Maomao seems excited on her new adventure, but I hope she will get free of all this situation, she’s still an hostage.

I wonder who is that woman from the final part of the episode.
May 24, 2025 7:02 AM
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Aight, let's all forget abt Jinshi... Maomao x Shisui FTW!!!! The ship is strong this one... wwwwww

Suirei was cornered by Maomao!!!! not even the kuudere is immune to Maomao's obsessions... wwwww

If everything went as predicted, and no new chaps of the manga adaptation released before, by EP22 (at least just before EP22 ends) the anime adaptation will officialy surpasses the manga adaptation (potentially even earlier, depending on how much detailed EP20 is going to be).
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PS:
If you ever tried eating locusts before, you'd know it's actually legit tastes great, a little bit spicy (even without seasonings) and crunchy. Never tried grasshopper tho... And frogs tastes similar like chicken.
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May 24, 2025 7:03 AM
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Hmm nice episode but I'm more interested on what is happening on Jinhsi's side of story at the moment, I hope it would be in next episode.




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May 24, 2025 8:40 AM
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Maomao’s ability to get caught in trouble astounds me! She really gets her curiosity get the best of her, and always end up in the middle of something ๐Ÿ˜ญ Meanwhile Jinshi is fighting for his live and so stressed
May 24, 2025 9:17 AM
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Shisui one of the rare colorblind girls apparently, I'm sure that will come up later (why do they even have the option to use green paint?, guess the author couldn't think of a better way to show who is colorblind). Guess this lady is the final big boss of the show.
May 24, 2025 10:59 AM

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Can somebody tell me if Maomao already knew who Shenmei was? I mean, it's the first time we see her but maybe somebody talked about her already? There are lots of characters and names so I kinda forgot.
May 24, 2025 11:01 AM
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Nasty cliffhanger after two weeks of waiting, yikes. Finally meeting Lady Shenmei and boy, she is creepy. Maomao might be in serious trouble now but thankfully the next episode preview is suggesting not the worst case scenario.

Little kid's shining moment. with the secret passage xD and I burst out laughing when he started picking the locks. I love the usual banter from Maomao! "Please use the drug on me." - right after showing the scars from using it - please never change...

Back to the Imperial Capital for a bit next week, I'm curious if they're starting to figure something out themselves. Colour blindness - I'm glad Maomao is just literally spilling the beans for us here. I doubt I'd be able to pick up on those hints otherwise, lol. I wonder how this will all tie up eventually. Also, Shisui's mother drop. Interesting, I'm sure Maomao would've loved to enquire about that but the hostage situation isn't exactly a favourable position to get personal answers like that I'm sure.
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May 24, 2025 12:12 PM

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uncleqrow said:
Never tried grasshopper tho... And frogs tastes similar like chicken.
I have eaten grasshoppers. Neither impressed nor revolted. Frong taste like fishy chicken, as does alligator meat.
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May 24, 2025 1:59 PM

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It's nice seeing Maomao back up to her usual mischief after a few weeks. I do feel kind of bad for Jinshi though, with how little she values his hairpin.

The villagers in general don't seem too bad, but Shenmei looks like she'll be trouble. That's some wicked make-up she's wearing.
May 24, 2025 8:59 PM
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Maomao de-frogging therapy.was.going great until the last 10 seconds
May 25, 2025 5:47 PM
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Maomao should ask "why" instead of guessing.
May 25, 2025 8:35 PM

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Honestly, this is the type of festival I had expected from this show. Masks, archery, bonfire, etc. It seems there's actually a more deeper meaning behind those masks.

Maomao handles herself very well imo, despite being in unfamilar territority.
Another crazy episode!
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May 26, 2025 1:00 AM

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Shenmei looks freaky! She's Shisui's mom as it seems. Interesting, so she or her faction wanted to assassinate Jinshi? Why though?
Right now Maomao first needs to get out of this sticky situation.
May 26, 2025 7:31 AM
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Shenmei face to closed the episode!!!!
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May 27, 2025 12:26 PM
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I NEED MY JINSHI AND MAOMAO TOGETHER AGAIN PLS I NEED HER LOOKS OF DISGUST TOWARDS HIM DX
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May 28, 2025 2:27 AM
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can't wait to see MaoMao and Jinshi together again!
May 29, 2025 2:12 AM

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I wonder why Shisui chewed on the lantern flower berry before spitting out...Although narratively speaking, it's implied the reason would have been the same as Maomao's warning about how the courtesans of the red light district used the berry's toxicity for----before Shisui interrupts Maomao saying she already knew about that fact, just like how she said she already knew it was toxic as she was popping it into her mouth and spitting it out shortly after, probably as to not get too big a dose of poison to cause serious harm.

I suppose that answers my previous question in the last episode of
Of course, it could be for a totally different reason altogether, but it doesn't seem likely. If there's anyone who read the novels that might be able to provide more context, that'd be great.

I simply thought Shisui painted her fox mask green because she liked bugs...but it turns out she's also a decedent sharing the genetic trait of being unable to differentiate between red and green.

Side note tangent:

Manufacturing the same guns from assassination attempt, the resurrection drug research, the fact that Suirei had also attempted to assassinate Jinshi as a prince, the special envoy from the west probably making backroom deals with the treasonous rebels to supply them with arms, or weapons manufacturing knowledge...All those different elements are now in the same small shed...All of it is finally starting to come together, with seditious rebellion conspiracies afoot.

My god, is Shenmei hideous af, probably to mirror the reflection of her rotten personality, no doubt. She looks like a clown with all that caked-on white power makeup.

They didn't show it it in the episode preview, but it's pretty much a well-established at this point, especially when you re-watch for certain new details in this episode which leads you to only one logical conclusion after Shenmei is the only new named character introduced. Nonetheless, I put my comment partially as a spoiler anyway in case other people aren't quite up to speed or haven't seen other comments in this thread before reading this post...although it's going to be officially revealed at the start of the next episode anyway.

4 more episodes left of this season...
May 29, 2025 6:40 PM

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Most laid-back kidnapping ever!! Man, I almost (almost) feel bad for Jinshi now. Dude's out there losing his shit over the idea of Xiaomao being enslaved or worse, meanwhile the girl in question spends her days painting masks and studying herbology...

4/5 episode. Yeah, Xiaomao's kidnapping resembling a vacation of sorts makes me raise an eyebrow but the intriguing lore surrounding the color blindness trait within the Imperial Family is kinda making up for it.

And the big baddie of the arc is finally here, apparently.
May 29, 2025 11:43 PM
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Good to have Maomao back but this was another of those weeks where the script couldn't trust the audience to work out what is going on. I really didn't want the info dump on what the masks symbolise - the village backstory was enough exposition for one week on its own.

The script writing this season has been very inconsistent. Some weeks it assumes that you're actually watching and understanding, then the next week it's all flashbacks or characters' internal monologues explaining their own or other people's motives and connections to the plot.
May 30, 2025 10:51 AM

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Jinshi & Lakan: We must find her asap, we've wasted a week already and she's probably being tortured right this instant!
Jun 1, 2025 8:17 AM

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And the plot deepens.

Damn this is soo good!
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Jun 1, 2025 10:44 AM

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That was a really warm festival.

But DAMM THE CLIFFHANGER !!!
Jun 4, 2025 4:21 AM
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Thing's about to get real, Mao mao just chilling like in some school trip and get caught by the scary laolan mom . The kid got some skill to open the door but his situation also kind of messed up. Jinshi eunuch is no longer there only the Moon prince. I wonder if he will drop the act and move the army to caught Shisou or just saving Maomao

It looks like maomao just surrendered and don't want to escape at all. she keep digging into stuff she not supposed to sneak into.
Jun 4, 2025 11:37 AM
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The village is connected to all the cases we had before, and even though Maomao is pretty relaxed that ending with Shenmei is way too tense..
Jun 4, 2025 2:51 PM
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A very un eventfull episode compard to others. Still chill and nice, but one of the least impressive episodes so far. But you also get introduced to a whole new village. Maybe that is what's taking up so much of the playing time
Jun 5, 2025 2:58 AM

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Damn I never thought Shisui was Loulan!!!
Jun 10, 2025 6:17 PM
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just random crazy characters are introduced and i'm so over it
Jun 15, 2025 11:04 AM
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The episode startet with a festival at the , what was really nice to watch. There the conversation between Maomao and Shisui about their "food preferences" was funny. Then at the next day they had something like a deeper conceration, what I really liked. How Shisui talks to her, does her hair and takes care of her was very nice to watch. After this comes at the top a good Maomao moment again, where she solves a mystery at the storage house. Finally she and her "follower" finally get into trouble with Shenmei, but the transition to the next episode remains exciting. :O
Jun 19, 2025 7:58 AM
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I'M SO CONFUSED BY EVERYTHING!!
The way Maomao avoids giving the hairpin to someone else AND SHE IS TRAUMATIZED FROM FROGS TOO LMAOO
I'm so confused about Shisui too what is she thinking?? And she is acting weird to Maomao too
Maomao is, of course, so normal about this
Her relationship with Kyou-u is so funny too xD
Aaaand she got herself in trouble AGAIN

Excited for new episodes/seasons! <3
Jun 20, 2025 11:52 AM

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Shisui taking care of things for Maomao for the impending festival at the mysterious Fox Village, and some deep-diving infodump on how the village came to past, alongside how the tradition is being done in the hidden village and currently run, it definitely brings a different sense all around for the people enjoying the festival.

After coming all this way, Maomao wanting the resurrection potion, and even agreeing to take care of Suiren's anecdotes by using her time of hostage to read up on herbs, she's on a roll. Even having Shisui tend to her hair is all sorts of great (minus how she's harshly supervised around the family) and Kyou-u on the near impossible instances where she's able to geto out of the mansion temporarily and investigate on the plough of land that's not seeing harvest, which intrigues her interest all the more.

The surprise bit of one of the buildings being the feifa workshop, which reveals Shenmei and the special envoy of Ayla, Maomao is in for one serious trouble...
Jul 3, 2025 4:00 PM
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Mao Mao is just casually playing along with Shisui, doing rituals like nothing’s wrong—as if she’s not kidnapped! This reminded me of episode 1 from season one!

As for those rituals, like the fox masks—they don’t really interest me personally, and I’m not curious whether they’re historically accurate or not.

As always, Mao Mao’s curiosity gets her into trouble! Let’s see what happens next in Episode 20.
Jul 7, 2025 1:39 AM

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this marley ass setting shift is offputting but im excited to see how theyre able to find maomao
Jul 27, 2025 6:16 AM

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The envoy's involvement has been revealed. And Shenmei is the mother of Loulan right? I wonder why both Loulan and Shishou went missing at the same time. Are they going to execute their plan soon?
Jul 27, 2025 4:14 PM

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I'm still confused about what's going on. Why is Lady Ayla over there? Who is this creepy lady? Is that their mom, cuz she also has the purple hair? Maybe.
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Aug 6, 2025 9:48 PM

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Why do they make the guns and do the experiments inside the same building that looks shady from the outside lol it just looks so obvious, anyone could stumble into that little hut
Aug 13, 2025 7:53 AM
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who is her? in my opinion they are a family
Oct 11, 2025 6:43 PM

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Maomao can't stand to give Jinshi's hairpin away - I'm glad she's finally wearing the damn thing. She's keeping her promise to him even when they're away.

Ah, finally we get to the payoff about the color blindness. Not only is Shisou of this particular village, descendants of Western settlers, the suggestion seems to be that almost everyone of this village is closer in blood to Wang Mu than perhaps even the current ruling family is. These Westerners are likely Wang Mu and her caravan, huh?

Maomao really can't stop her autistic special interest from just jumping out at people even in the middle of a hostage situation, huh. Watching Suirei grow exasperated with her antics makes me like her a little bit more.

Finally, we get a look at the face of our enemy in Shenmei. To my memory Apothecary Diaries hasn't really had a villain so far, all we've had are minor characters committing harmful acts either out of ignorance or malice, but none of them were particularly threatening and were all promptly taken down by Maomao in one way or another. Shenmei seems genuinely threatening in a way Kusuriya hasn't had yet. Neat!

Maomao, in a hostage situation, being told by both of her captors not to leave lest she suffer implied violence: Today I will go inspect a random old rice storage house with a random boy that I think is annoying because I am curious why the rice doesn't grow, and stumble upon the lab where my arch enemy studies how to resurrect the dead, and an illicit weapons factory producing the guns that were used to shoot my not-boyfriend.

Guess we know how those assassins sent by Shishou got the guns - the envoy brought them. It was suspected, but now confirmed.

How the hell does she keep getting herself into these situations??
Oct 25, 2025 10:24 AM

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Maomao convinced that kid to show her that building, and it's a gun making facility.

Now that Maomao's been caught, what will happen to her?

Nov 20, 2025 9:32 PM

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Festival in Shisui 's village. The people who visited this village once are from the same group the Mother Royal came from. That's why many of them are color blind. Also explains why Shishou is color blind.

Suirei and Shisui leave for their personal agendas and Maomao was left behind to study the herbs books. Out of curiosity, she checked the old storehouse and happened to find the experiment location of Suirei's resurrection potion. Further inside, is a workshop pf feifa which was used in the assassination attempt on Jinshi.

Those western princesses are also involved in a major scheme. Lady Ayla and Lady Shenmei are scheming something huge.
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shisui will eat the bugs and she will be happy at the festival, unlike mao.
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