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| Feifa workshop found. Shenmei seems to traumatize everyone. Hope Maomao and kid will be safe ๐ |
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| It's all been connected to this village.....and this Shenmei is the ringleader. |
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| Shenmei is kinda scary |
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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... |
| 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. |
 (ใฃโโกโ)ใฃ ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐๐ธ๐พ ๐ช๐ต๐ต ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ช ๐๐ธ๐ท๐ญ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฏ๐พ๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ ♥ |
| 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. |
| 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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| 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. |
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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.
Maomao handles herself very well imo, despite being in unfamilar territority.
| Another crazy episode! |
| I need somebody who can love me at my worst No, I'm not perfect, but I hope you see my worth 'Cause it's only you, nobody new, I put you first And for you, girl, I swear I'll do the worst If you stay forever, let me hold your hand I can fill those places in your heart no else can Let me show you love, oh, I don't pretend, yeah I'll be right here, baby, you know I'll sink or swim |
| 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. |
| Shenmei face to closed the episode!!!! kekeke |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| Jinshi & Lakan: We must find her asap, we've wasted a week already and she's probably being tortured right this instant! |
| And the plot deepens. Damn this is soo good! |
"Deceive yourself in every last detail... Deceive the world. Do this, and victory is assured. Best of luck to you, old friend. El... Psy... Congroo." -- Hououin Kyouma  |
| That was a really warm festival. But DAMM THE CLIFFHANGER !!! |
| 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.. |
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| Damn I never thought Shisui was Loulan!!! |
| 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... |
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| this marley ass setting shift is offputting but im excited to see how theyre able to find maomao |
| 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? |
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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. |
"Like rowing a boat, we enter the future backwards. All we see are scenes of the past, and no one can control the views of tomorrow" - Wit Studio  |
| 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 |
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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?? |
| 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? |
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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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