She does wonder if she was actually sold off by her father, which I don’t think this was the case based on the small glimpses we see in the background of her memories, although I would love for her to get a chance to come face to face with him again to confirm it. It’s not completely clear if she had already been working as a servant in the pleasure district before being kidnapped or if she was kidnapped first and then worked in the pleasure district before moving onto the Inner Court. Maomao is a fun character, one who I enjoyed reading about, but after this introductory volume there are a few details to her story that I’m still puzzled by, like some of Maomao’s history. Helen: Maomao has always had an interest in herbs, medicines, poisons, you name it! However she hasn’t had a chance to do any of that work lately while she serves in the Inner Court among countless other low-ranking maids.īut after recognizing a puzzling illness that was affecting the emperor’s consorts, one even the court physician was mystified by, she’s now serving Consort Gyokuyo as both a lady-in-waiting and official poison tester! Although Maomao isn’t sure she’s the best person for that job, since all of her experiments have given her a slight immunity to poisons (and even a food taster won’t be able to catch a slow-acting poison), there’s no turning down the job in a place where no one, from the maids to the consorts to the eunuchs, truly have power over their own lives.
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