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The Apothecary Diaries, S.1, Ep.20, - Thornapple (Patreon)

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2026-01-29 16:00:22
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Of course Maomao figured it out.

Of course Maomao would get a little TOO excited about a "dead" body.

I was concerned at first at how aggressive everyone was with her after everything happened. Jinshi seemed upset, but it could be that he was still concerned for Maomao?

Anyway...Maomao did it again. She figured it out.

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Luis Arispe

The plot thickned. If you rewatch closely, the episodes that "detective Maomao" investigate the death of master Kounen and the poison of the seaweed case, you can see Suirei in disguise in the background. The author cooked from the beginning and we didn't know. Master writing.

Spadeas

Sorry for the wall of text, but there is a lot of thing that need some clearing, a lot of things said in previous episodes, that converge here. The show throw us some hints for many many things, for exemple, Maomao already said that Basen remind her of Gaoshun, so the show telling us that Basen is Gaoshun's son is just a follow up on that. And about Jinshi, they hinted a lot of the fact that "Jinshi" wasn't is real identity, even in a convo with Lakan saying that he could do nothing against someone of his status, that Jinshi is really high up. Once again in this episode in correlation with the ritual incident, we know only high up do it and with Jinshi saying that the current emperor should hurry to make a prince. It is easy to assume that the real identity of "Jinshi" is that of the crown prince, the current emperor's younger brother (who always hide his face and doesn't go out often as they said during the party early in the season, when we first met all the concubines). But you need to also remember what happen in the episode of Ah-Duo leaving the rear palace. The story goes that the crown prince and Ah-Duo and the current emperor's child were born the same day, but Ah-Duo's child died because of the honey incident. Maomao however with her imagination, thought, what if the babies were swaped after that ? Since Jinshi really look like Ah-Duo. But she throw this idea up because Jinshi was too old to be the younger brother or the child of the emperor, who happen to be born 19 years ago and not 24 as "Jinshi" is supposed to be. Maomao even said that sometimes Jinshi act more child like that his age is, another hint that he hide his identity. So yeah, basically, this episode tell us that Jinshi is in reality either the younger brother of the current emperor or his child with Ah-Duo, so really high up, enough that someone would attend to murder him. Also another thing, it is said in this episode that the current emperor have no interest in Lishu, the youngest of the concubine (who is 15 if I remember correctly). But in the same episode with Ah-Duo leaving, we learn that Ah-Duo before becoming a concubine was the closest friend of the current emperor and have a very mother/daughter relationship with Lishu. So yeah, we can assume that the current emperor did take Lishu as a concubine not to have a child with her, but to protect her and have her close to Ah-Duo once again. Maomao say in this episode that the current emperor seem more kind than just a "lewd middle age man", so that tell us already something about him, even if he didn't appear much in the show. He was the one tasking Maomao to take care of Lihua when she was sick after all, so he do really care.

Andrew Hellebrand

Watching these after the fact, on what is also my third or fourth run through of the series (not including reading the manga adaptation) and it's proving enjoyable to not only try and spot all the plot breadcrumbs and teasers that make more sense in retrospect, but also hearing some of NittPicc's wild takes as she takes some things too literally and/or at face value. Plus also how she's applying modern societal standards to behaviour and attitudes in a non-specific fantasy historical setting version of dynastic feudal Asia.