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Apothecary Diaries Ep 21: Unedited Access (Patreon)

Published:
2026-01-06 01:00:03
Edited:
2026-01-14 14:56:07
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2026-01

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Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy your access to my detailed analysis of episode 21 of the Apothecary Diaries. I have been overcooking in the last few episodes due to the writer's masterful misdirections and tropes, which I fall for often!

What an interesting interaction between Jinshi and Lihaku, our innocent and entirely clueless golden retriever boy, which I suspect is an extension of Jinshi's 4D chess match with Lakan.

Our very own clueless Maomao, with Jinshi's feelings, also noticed his jealousy for the first time. What does this mean for our JinMao??

And, boy oh boy, Lihaku really is golden retriever energy but built like a buff pit bull. He has quickly become one of my favorite side characters in the show! Such a good comedic relief and complement to the show.

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Levanah

About the empress: the woman who banned the cutting of trees, and required that palace doctors be eunuchs, was the previous Emperor‘s mother--the mother of the pedophile. That was why it was important for the quack doctor to save his younger sister from going to the rear palace—because the emperor at the time was the pedo guy.

Waiting4Erik

Saliva contains the enzyme amylase which begins the process of breaking down starches. 30% of starch digestion occurs in the mouth. Starch is a crucial ingredient in paper making. As starch is also a key ingredient in beer, if you end up with a lot of head (foam) on your beer, just add a bit of your saliva and it will dissolve the foam.

JAMES D'ALESSANDRO

Yes, Maomao has black hair in the Mahwah. Maomao got the jealousy thing half right. She thinks he is just being vain . That he only cares about being better looking than Lihaku. She doesn't understand that Jinshi has feelings for her. She reminds me of Frieren a bit here.

Levanah

Why does MaoMao give incomplete answers to questions? Because when there is a vast difference in status, she has learned, from childhood I imagine, to answer only exactly what’s asked. Similar to what your lawyer will tell you If you’re giving a deposition, or if you are a witness in court.

KapteynG

Can't wait for your yapping for next episodes to come. This is my favorite series you react to. And Freiren is soon gonna drop, am so excited for that as well. So pumped!

KapteynG

Jinshi's black hair as well, actually.

Waiting4Erik

So Jinshi was willing to ruthlessly strike Lakan at multiple levels. Since Lihaku has succeeded as an officer with Lakan’s support, Lihaku could be viewed as one of Lakan’s chess pieces. First Jinshi was willing to buy Lihaku’s loyalty for 20K silver. Then if that happened Jinshi would be rubbing salt in Lakan’s wounds by making it possible for Lihaku to purchase a Princess of the Verdigris House - something Lakan had failed to do. But instead Lihaku chose his honor - a pleasant choice for Jinshi and Lihaku. A man that can be bought once, can be bought again. That person would be a potential threat. But that begs the question of why Lakan would support Lihaku as an officer and the implications. What’s clear now is that Jinshi has steel behind that pretty smile and Lihaku was oblivious to the potential danger of that interaction with Jinshi.

Krisko94

I just love that Pairin, someone who probably gets immense adoration, just genuinely loves Lihaku for who he is. Obviously his physique and stamina got him in the door, but his guileless nature, honesty and happy go lucky attitude were what sealed him as her prince. He really is kind of the whole package. Also, I dont know if this is ever fully explained in the anime, but Lakan has been frequently visiting MeiMei over the years and is planning to buy her out. MeiMei in turn does actually love him. Wont say more on the matter till events transpire.

JAMES D'ALESSANDRO

I never thought of that scene with Lakan and Jinshi about anything but Jinshi wanting Lihaku not being competition for him with regards to Maomao. Now I am questioning that being the only, or the reason at all.

Jan Negrey

I can only see first 5 seconds of the video and it took 20 minutes to load. Patreon has issues

Jan Negrey

Current Empress Dowager and Previous Empress Dowager are probably the most different between original Web Novel, Light Novel and Anime. In Light Novel both did a lot of good things, but since previous Empress Dowager was a mother to a PDF they decided to shift positive policies she did on the newer Empress Dowager. And the Emperor has been Emperor for 5 years. That often isn't enough to significantly change policies in a vast country, where new Policy in a distant province might take 2 years to enact, because it takes 18 months to travel there. Which is something that Web Novel Portrayed better. If the change was done 5 years ago, they would now only be entering period of policy harmonization. This is the change I dislike the most.

Jan Negrey

Maomao is like Demi-Romantic Asexual or demi-romantic-demi-sexual person. She doesn't fall in love or feel romantic AND sexual attraction unless she develops a longer and deeper relationship with the person. She can judge them aesthetically, but she herself isn't interested unless she develops a deep emotional attachment (which for her isn't easy) to someone (specifically guys in this context) first and then has time to develop other feelings for a person. She still isn't there for Jinshi, though partially it is because she stops herself from even thinking about it - because she knows her place. Which is a bit sad. I don't know too many people who have both romantic and sexual attractions at "demi" level (which basically means that it's a secondary attraction - after developing other type of relationship and some time). I know some demi-romantic asexual people, but I don't know anyone who is demi in both. It is likely that one of these traits is suppressed because of her traumatic upbringing (spending childhood in brothel - even if she wasn't beaten or abused, it could still be traumatic, in the sense that certain types of attractions got repressed in her). Of course it is possible that she was born with these traits, but even if this is the case, it could (and probably is) be aggravated by upbringing. I don't know if "trauma" is even the correct word, since it sort of means "injury" and has negative connotations. It could be as well "nurture" - it's just that she was brought up in very specific circumstances.

Jan Negrey

I forgot: This is one of these times where author was writing as they were creating the Web Novel (which was original). Maomao is 18 and Pairin is "close to retirement age", which is 30. Let's give the show benefit of the doubt and assume Maomao is 17 and Pairin is 32 (which is stretching the definition of "almost 30" to it's limits). Pairin would be breastfeeding Maomao at 15 then. Possible, but this is with giving them about a 3 year leeway at least since if you wanted to be closer to the text (Pairin's age isn't stated AFAIK and certainly not up to this point, we just know she and Meimei are roughly the same age and Meimei is close to retirement age, which in LN is stated to be 30) - then Pairin would be 10-12 years older than Maomao. There are hormonal disorders that could cause girl to lactate early, but the honest answer is that author was making up thinks as they were writing. So some stuff wasn't exactly thought through. Of course Pairin could be like my Mom was - when I was a kid and asked my Mom her age, she always answered: "I'm 18" - for years. So Pairin might be "perpetually 30". Again, we don't know her actual age, but Math ain't Mathin' here.