She also jumped a couple of episodes ago, when she heard "top military official" I think he got her pregnant and maomao knows her father is a top military official
It's also where here misunderstanding about Jianshi comes from. All men in the concubine area are eunuchs so they dont get ideas. Her father was the doctor.
What's weird is that in the LN, she refers to Luomen as her adoptive father pretty early on. Even Jinshi knew it, which is how he figured out on his own that Lakan is her bio father. I'm guessing the script writers were going for a bigger reveal on that little mystery.
It was fairly obvious that Luomen was her adoptive dad, back when they had explained what happened during the childbirth of Ah Duo and the previous Empress, they did point out that he was a eunich already at that time, and given that Mao Mao is either younger or as old as Jinshi, she wouldn't be able to be his daughter by blood. Now if what we think is true about Mao Mao's mom being a former courtesan and Lakan possibly being her deadbeat dad and what he possibly did, somebody gotta put bro in a pack because he would be psychopathic.
Maomao is 17, which is also the age of the emperor's little brother and the emperor's first son. "Jinshi" is said to be 20+, but that's just a persona since we know he is really one of the two babies. So same age as Maomao.
@@Armlace According to the Eastern calendar, Mao Mao is 17 years old (one year is added at birth). But taking into account her true age as Westerners she is 16. According to this framework, 17 years ago, Mao Mao was not born.
Lakan already told Jinshi that he could not afford Maomao's mom when she was a top courtesan, so my theory is that he made her "lose" her purity to be able to lower her price, but instead, she got pregnant and her value dropped dramatically, at that point something happened that cause mao-mom death and the palace doctor got involved that's why he got "expelled" from the castle and secretly with maomao as a newborn. So either Lakan is a very perverse character or is just the most unlucky guy and has miraculously met his daughter.
No, Maomao wanted to know what Jinshi would look like if he wore lipstick, so she did that to satisfy her curiosity while she was disguising him.😂 Maomao: Since I'm disguising him, it wouldn't hurt to quickly see what Jinshi with lipstick on would look like. 😅
We did find out part of why he was kicked out. It was when the baby died when ah doa was pregnant. The nurse was angry at the doctor who didn’t service ah doa when she was giving birth and she lost her uterus. And they kept saying that lomen her adoptive dad was the doctor at the palace at that time
@@whitecat1226No, the swapped happened, but it was already established the only one know this was Ah Duo, even her Head Maid that accidentally poisoning her "son" never knew about this. Hence Ah Duo was really sad at the time, cause one of her most trusted person (the head maid), go the gallows herself as a punishment for killing "her" baby, even though Ah Duo know it wasn't her baby. If the swapped is known, Jinshi wouldn't be in his position right now as the emperor little brother, cause he is actually the current emperor son.
Love your theories at the end as always. About the eunuch thing, it was hinted at when they said her father was the doctor who gave birth to the empress's 2nd son (and ah dou was left by herself). To be a doctor in the inner palace, he had to be an eunuch. This all happened before Maomao's birth so she had to be adopted. (its easier to infer in the novel)
Wow, great deductive skills! It’s unfortunate we probably won’t get the full background this season. It will probably take early next season to understand everything
Probably the difference between Mamao saying 'my father' or 'my adoptive father' was basically to say to Jinshi that the man who raised her is eunuch. It would not make sense she saying "my father would never have children". heheh
My best guess as to what happened, assuming what we believe to be true is in fact true, Lakan wanted MaoMao's mom to himself because, like he said, she never sold herself but she had many people vying for her affections and most likely wanting to buy her services or herself completely, including himself. Since she was so expensive, he resorted to assaulting her and getting her pregnant to wipe away her value, but since he would've assaulted her she didn't let herself get bought by him even after her value was gone. As for MaoMao's adoptive dad, he would've most likely already been the local doctor for the courtesan house since he would've been gotten kicked out from the emperor's palace and would've likely built the connection with the old lady to serve as their on-call doctor of sorts. Now with MaoMao's mom pregnant, he would be the one to deliver the baby, and either the mom died during childbirth and Luomen took it upon himself to raise MaoMao or her mom felt she wouldn't be able to raise a child or possibly did not want to raise a child if it was the result of assault and gave MaoMao up to Luomen to raise. Also, what Luomen said about how MaoMao ended up in the palace could've been double meaning, with him having worked at the palace before and also if he knew that Lakan was her bio dad, how she just so happened to end up working in the same place where her actual father also works.
@returntosoilgumiho It's not really a spoiler and more common sense. We're talking high-end courtesans at a high-end brothel. If Lakan had assaulted her (YT doesn't like the r word), he would not have walked away from that with no consequences. Plus, he would not have been allowed to buy out her contract, no matter how low her value became. Neither she nor the Verdigris house would have agreed to that. Maomao's mother would have also aborted the pregnancy if it was unwanted. All of the information to put this together has already been shown in the anime.
@@GiftedFey Because Lakan still goes to the Verdigris house. If he had assaulted one of the courtesans, he'd be banned. It's shown in the anime that he's still a customer.
It has been 8 episode already we know she isn't her dad natural child. In episode 9: Honey, her dad was listed as Eunuch doctor whom gave birth to the old emperer second son and to the current emperer son (Jishi?) (from the courtisane whom left in episode 11). Those event happened 17 years ago, Jishi & Maomao are both 17 years old, the (eunuch)dad probably took the abused/hurt courtisane and her baby daughter with him(away from Lakan) when he was kicked out of the rear palace, and adopted the daughter.
There's a lot of things I didn't caught when I first read the manga. Only when I read it again the second time most of the things makes sense it's so good
My theory is that luomen is the doctor of maomao's mother when she gave birth to maomao, and her mother died when giving birth to her thats why luomen adopted maomao
All I can say is without spoiling you: This is one of the best arc of the entire series for me, the ending of that arc blew my mind when I read it, its like night and day in terms of quality of writing, extremely powerful stuff.
On the technicality, I assumed she was adopted, cause the father left the palace to attend to either the birth of the emperor or Jinshi, both of whom are older than Maomao. So it's like he was an Eunuch before she was born. This story has a very original format for its storyline.
As far as I am concerned the bit of Maomao mentally wishing Jinshi a good time in the pleasure district really showed he was growing on her. Just like she was growing on him.
There was a moment when Maomao went up to the annex at Verdigris House to sit next to a woman, I think it's implied to be her mom. I think you guys are close to a lot of it but I think the guy poisoned her mom with something that made her comatose after Maomao was born. I haven't read the novel so idk if I'm right or not lmao. Loving this series and y'all's reaction!
Personally I think whomever the guy is that’s talking to Jinshi may have SA/graped the courtesan that is MaoMao’s mom. You notice how sleazy he is and how Jinshi doesn’t particularly care for him. I think he’s sensing the sleeziness. For MaoMao’s adoptive father, they semi referenced it when we first met her. Also I believe her adoptive father may have known MaoMao’s mom, possibly after he was kicked out of the palace, and due to that trauma/drama of a baby dying on his watch, he stated to keep MaoMao as a baby. Due to MaoMao’s mom losing purity, she may not have had a choice, and needed to flee from the district she worked in. Or darker yet, maybe after losing her career or trauma of being SA’ed, took her own life, but MaoMao as a baby survived. Maybe that is also the tie to the brothel MaoMao goes to. That’s where her mom worked. Granny knows her adoptive dad and the story of MaoMao’s mother. Maybe even the other courtesans know too, and thus why they love and look out for her like they do. But no one has or wants to tell MaoMao what happened. Plus it could be bad for the brothel if that kind of story got out. All speculation on my end. I haven’t read the manga/light novel at all.
SPOILER ABOUT MAO'S PARENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mao's mother was a courtesan and her bio father is Lakan. Mao's mother was a high value cort. so Lakan couldn't afford to buy her out so SHE decided to get pregnant by him in order to reduce her value so Lakan can buy her, however he was drafted(?) in the military without knowing Mao's mother was pregnant. This drove Fengxian (Mao's mom) crazy. Lakan knows(?) Mao is his daughter due to the fact that Fengxian, at some point, cut off the tip of Mao's pinky and sent it to Lakan as a sort of "pinky promise". Mao's "adopted father" is actually her grand uncle through her father's (Lakan) side. . SPOILER ABOUT JINSHI'S REAL IDENTITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ah Duo is Jinshi's bio mom. At some point, the emperor loved only Ah Duo and desired no other women. However when Ah Duo lost her ability to have children, other concubines were brought in. This makes Jinshi the emperor's first born legitimate son and supposedly crown prince. Due to the switch, he became the emperor's younger brother. . SPOILER ABOUT THE NEW CONCUBINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . The new concubine, Loulan, is the half sister of Suirei, daughter of an unnamed lady in waiting and the previous emperor. She's a product of r*pe. Her mother was murdered by Loulan's mother. Suirei is one of the girls that hounded Mao when they saw her go in and out of Jinshi's office. The one who hit Mao at the back of her head.
I hope it's just misdirection 😢 cause I'm sure Lakan said her mother was too pricey so he couldn't bought her out, then he thought of that 'way' to reduce the price. My mind currently only think that Lakan forced on her(assaulted). The way he described what he gonna do to her is already disgusting, and then this... Mann.... I hope Maomao stay the girl she is after all this. It is horrible if it is what it is.
Right when she said that, that was when all of us had the same thought. I mean, we've seen her all dolled up, and, I could believe shes the duaghter of a giesha. The real question is, does she know, and what are these 2 men going to do NOW.
Her adoptive father got kicked out because he was blamed for the death of the Imperial prince who is under the care of Fengming, Ah Duo's assistant, that accidentaly poisoned the baby with Honey made from poisonous flowers.
The only thing about what Sheera said that ringed wrong for me was Maomao’s “dad” buying her out, I think either he r-worded her, got her assaulted or lead her on and took her purity to lower her value but afterwards he either lost interest or she hated him and refused to go with him and she stayed in the courtesan house/was kicked out and died in childbirth but was delivered by Maomao’s adoptive father.
Jinshi with women’s make up to me doesn’t make him look like a woman. He looks like a gorgeous androgynous man. He looks just like Michael Jackson from the 1990s. ❤ tell me if I’m wrong. I can’t unseen it.
Maomao and Jinshi date? Jinshi revealed as a strong swordsman warrior who served or trained with the Army. He also seems to an agent investigating conspiracies intel type do more than Rear Palace admin and tester. Maoma’s Dad (officially adopted) was a medical genius who studied in the West (Arab countries or Europe), was forced into the Rear Palace and made a Eunuch by previous Dowager Empress or current Emperor grandmother. Lakan, her apparent genetic father, made the courtesan he was interested in pregnant dropping value to zero. Her mother chose to bring the pregnancy to term keeping Maomao. Lakan does not seem to value Maomao’s mother Chasity or Pregnancy but rather her genius, skill, pride, talents, maybe looks, … so some tragedy messed things up and Laken has to atone. Maomao does not hate Lakan, but neither does she harbor any affection and wants to avoid him. I suspect the brothel family helped Maomao avoid him. Jinshi is trying to learn about Maomao to close the distance between them and she will answer his questions due to their relative status. Maomao has a bit of curiosity about Jinshi but will not ask and he will not volunteer guaranteeing the distance between them will not narrow. The Gaoshun and Suiren curious dialog about Jinshi’s childhood toys and his obsession with them seems out of place. Will a bit revealing of Jinshi character it seems weak. I suspect foreshadowing again.
I want to clarify a lot of information (as a manga reader) but it will be quite a big spoiler but Yes Lakan is Maomao biological father and all the reasons why this happened why that happened I let you guy watch the anime to find out.
Mao Mao immediately erase the girl make up cos Jinshi looks like her mom (A-duo) so much and it might be a scandal in the palace if someone see him looking like that
I legit just assumed bro knew he could never afford her so he arranged to have her snatched/assaulted to drastically reduce her value as well as the number of potential competitors seeking to buy her out 🤷🏾♀️
Exactly what I thought that Lakan is her Father and he might have seen resemblance when he saw Maomao from afar when she was getting herbs and got smacked by the woman in the outer court.
The shipping wars continue.... Maomao was right, Jinshi is too dangerous to give a glow-up. 🫦 ( And looks exactly like his actual mother with lipstick) Remember a high tier Courtesan is NOT explicitly always a coitus sex worker. That is only one of an entire range of in demand skills.... under three broad measurements which can be combined in any degree: BEAUTY, SKILLS, PURITY. The longer they can keep that off the table , and the more skills they can acquire , and the greater their beauty, the higher the overall value.... Potentially including leaving the work chaste. Devaluing is a subjective concept that falls across an entire spectrum from abuse ( Mental physical or social), scandal, or to simply Lack of purity and/or pregnancy ,which could both be entirely consensual. A courtesan who knows the SnuSnu has a 'Used Title". 🧐 A courtesan who is a babymama has a "Salvage Title" 🤔 Both can still be priceless.😏
What is going on in this show?? Is this guy her Dad!??
I think that's what the show is hinting. That pregnancy thing is a big clue
where solo levleing at
She also jumped a couple of episodes ago, when she heard "top military official" I think he got her pregnant and maomao knows her father is a top military official
Yup, you will like Lakan(mao father)
Yeah 😂
They really said “Jinshi with lipstick is too powerful for this world”
About her adoptive father, it was hinted that Maomao was adopted when she read about him being an inner court doctor during Ah-Duo's childbirth
And with emphasising his age a few times, it was always likely he wasn't here biological father
@@soymilkassassin that was the 1st thing it should have got everyone thinking😆
It's also where here misunderstanding about Jianshi comes from. All men in the concubine area are eunuchs so they dont get ideas. Her father was the doctor.
What's weird is that in the LN, she refers to Luomen as her adoptive father pretty early on. Even Jinshi knew it, which is how he figured out on his own that Lakan is her bio father. I'm guessing the script writers were going for a bigger reveal on that little mystery.
I really didn't peep that 😅
we knew the father was a eunuch long before maomao was born, but it is the first time they've explicitly used the word "adoptive" i believe
It was fairly obvious that Luomen was her adoptive dad, back when they had explained what happened during the childbirth of Ah Duo and the previous Empress, they did point out that he was a eunich already at that time, and given that Mao Mao is either younger or as old as Jinshi, she wouldn't be able to be his daughter by blood. Now if what we think is true about Mao Mao's mom being a former courtesan and Lakan possibly being her deadbeat dad and what he possibly did, somebody gotta put bro in a pack because he would be psychopathic.
Maomao is 17, which is also the age of the emperor's little brother and the emperor's first son. "Jinshi" is said to be 20+, but that's just a persona since we know he is really one of the two babies. So same age as Maomao.
@@Armlace According to the Eastern calendar, Mao Mao is 17 years old (one year is added at birth). But taking into account her true age as Westerners she is 16.
According to this framework, 17 years ago, Mao Mao was not born.
Debuffing Jinshi was definitely the hardest job Maomao had so far😆
The funny thing is he can probably still get bitches the way he looks lol
Lakan already told Jinshi that he could not afford Maomao's mom when she was a top courtesan, so my theory is that he made her "lose" her purity to be able to lower her price, but instead, she got pregnant and her value dropped dramatically, at that point something happened that cause mao-mom death and the palace doctor got involved that's why he got "expelled" from the castle and secretly with maomao as a newborn. So either Lakan is a very perverse character or is just the most unlucky guy and has miraculously met his daughter.
I really like the ending to this arc with Lakan, very bittersweet/tragic and can’t wait for the reactions.
@@Cirruscloudz the ending is shown in both 1st and 2nd OP, it's just that if you don't know it you won't see it.
Just can't wait for people to know more about moamoa background
Not a manga reader but I hope to god maomao isn't a rape baby
No, Maomao wanted to know what Jinshi would look like if he wore lipstick, so she did that to satisfy her curiosity while she was disguising him.😂
Maomao: Since I'm disguising him, it wouldn't hurt to quickly see what Jinshi with lipstick on would look like. 😅
I literally almost fell back in my chair when Roshi casually called out the pregnancy thing. Like dang, way to be one step ahead on that!
We did find out part of why he was kicked out. It was when the baby died when ah doa was pregnant. The nurse was angry at the doctor who didn’t service ah doa when she was giving birth and she lost her uterus. And they kept saying that lomen her adoptive dad was the doctor at the palace at that time
I think it was discovered that there's a swap happen not just because a baby die that kicked him out of the palace
@@whitecat1226No, the swapped happened, but it was already established the only one know this was Ah Duo, even her Head Maid that accidentally poisoning her "son" never knew about this.
Hence Ah Duo was really sad at the time, cause one of her most trusted person (the head maid), go the gallows herself as a punishment for killing "her" baby, even though Ah Duo know it wasn't her baby.
If the swapped is known, Jinshi wouldn't be in his position right now as the emperor little brother, cause he is actually the current emperor son.
It was already established that Maomao's adoptive father got his kneecap removed for letting Ah duo "child" died and then was kicked out of the palace
I love how invested Roshi is at the end. "Is that her DAAAAD???"
15:12 iirc, Her adoptive father got kicked out of palace because of Ah Dou's child incidence.
Love your theories at the end as always. About the eunuch thing, it was hinted at when they said her father was the doctor who gave birth to the empress's 2nd son (and ah dou was left by herself). To be a doctor in the inner palace, he had to be an eunuch. This all happened before Maomao's birth so she had to be adopted. (its easier to infer in the novel)
Maomao's dad was then maimed (knee cap removed) and kicked out because Ah dou's child died. He really had the worst luck.
Wow, great deductive skills! It’s unfortunate we probably won’t get the full background this season. It will probably take early next season to understand everything
Probably the difference between Mamao saying 'my father' or 'my adoptive father' was basically to say to Jinshi that the man who raised her is eunuch. It would not make sense she saying "my father would never have children". heheh
the episode where lakan talked to jinshi about the story they were focusing a lot on lakan eyes which was weird and hinting something to us
If Lakan is her Dad, then she has noble blood.
My best guess as to what happened, assuming what we believe to be true is in fact true, Lakan wanted MaoMao's mom to himself because, like he said, she never sold herself but she had many people vying for her affections and most likely wanting to buy her services or herself completely, including himself. Since she was so expensive, he resorted to assaulting her and getting her pregnant to wipe away her value, but since he would've assaulted her she didn't let herself get bought by him even after her value was gone. As for MaoMao's adoptive dad, he would've most likely already been the local doctor for the courtesan house since he would've been gotten kicked out from the emperor's palace and would've likely built the connection with the old lady to serve as their on-call doctor of sorts. Now with MaoMao's mom pregnant, he would be the one to deliver the baby, and either the mom died during childbirth and Luomen took it upon himself to raise MaoMao or her mom felt she wouldn't be able to raise a child or possibly did not want to raise a child if it was the result of assault and gave MaoMao up to Luomen to raise. Also, what Luomen said about how MaoMao ended up in the palace could've been double meaning, with him having worked at the palace before and also if he knew that Lakan was her bio dad, how she just so happened to end up working in the same place where her actual father also works.
Lakan didn't assault Maomaos' mother. She was willing. Other things happened that prevented him from buying her out.
@@2006Whippet ...at least put the spoiler tag come on!
@returntosoilgumiho It's not really a spoiler and more common sense. We're talking high-end courtesans at a high-end brothel. If Lakan had assaulted her (YT doesn't like the r word), he would not have walked away from that with no consequences. Plus, he would not have been allowed to buy out her contract, no matter how low her value became. Neither she nor the Verdigris house would have agreed to that. Maomao's mother would have also aborted the pregnancy if it was unwanted. All of the information to put this together has already been shown in the anime.
@@2006WhippetFrom the anime alone, how the heck do you come up with the assumption that she was willing? Or is it just from the ln?
@@GiftedFey Because Lakan still goes to the Verdigris house. If he had assaulted one of the courtesans, he'd be banned. It's shown in the anime that he's still a customer.
It has been 8 episode already we know she isn't her dad natural child. In episode 9: Honey, her dad was listed as Eunuch doctor whom gave birth to the old emperer second son and to the current emperer son (Jishi?) (from the courtisane whom left in episode 11).
Those event happened 17 years ago, Jishi & Maomao are both 17 years old, the (eunuch)dad probably took the abused/hurt courtisane and her baby daughter with him(away from Lakan) when he was kicked out of the rear palace, and adopted the daughter.
There's a lot of things I didn't caught when I first read the manga. Only when I read it again the second time most of the things makes sense it's so good
Luomen(maomao's father) being a eunuch was mentioned back in episode 10, which pretty much confirmed that Maomao was adopted.
The storyline is getting interesting 🧐.
My theory is that luomen is the doctor of maomao's mother when she gave birth to maomao, and her mother died when giving birth to her thats why luomen adopted maomao
huehuehue
All I can say is without spoiling you:
This is one of the best arc of the entire series for me, the ending of that arc blew my mind when I read it, its like night and day in terms of quality of writing, extremely powerful stuff.
4:51 Maomao realizes she created anime's new best girl.
On the technicality, I assumed she was adopted, cause the father left the palace to attend to either the birth of the emperor or Jinshi, both of whom are older than Maomao. So it's like he was an Eunuch before she was born.
This story has a very original format for its storyline.
Bro Maomao is standing on business 👍
As far as I am concerned the bit of Maomao mentally wishing Jinshi a good time in the pleasure district really showed he was growing on her. Just like she was growing on him.
There was a moment when Maomao went up to the annex at Verdigris House to sit next to a woman, I think it's implied to be her mom. I think you guys are close to a lot of it but I think the guy poisoned her mom with something that made her comatose after Maomao was born. I haven't read the novel so idk if I'm right or not lmao. Loving this series and y'all's reaction!
wake up babe, roshi got a new episode reaction up
I laughed so hard in this episode.
Personally I think whomever the guy is that’s talking to Jinshi may have SA/graped the courtesan that is MaoMao’s mom. You notice how sleazy he is and how Jinshi doesn’t particularly care for him. I think he’s sensing the sleeziness. For MaoMao’s adoptive father, they semi referenced it when we first met her. Also I believe her adoptive father may have known MaoMao’s mom, possibly after he was kicked out of the palace, and due to that trauma/drama of a baby dying on his watch, he stated to keep MaoMao as a baby. Due to MaoMao’s mom losing purity, she may not have had a choice, and needed to flee from the district she worked in. Or darker yet, maybe after losing her career or trauma of being SA’ed, took her own life, but MaoMao as a baby survived.
Maybe that is also the tie to the brothel MaoMao goes to. That’s where her mom worked. Granny knows her adoptive dad and the story of MaoMao’s mother. Maybe even the other courtesans know too, and thus why they love and look out for her like they do. But no one has or wants to tell MaoMao what happened. Plus it could be bad for the brothel if that kind of story got out.
All speculation on my end. I haven’t read the manga/light novel at all.
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Mao's mother was a courtesan and her bio father is Lakan. Mao's mother was a high value cort. so Lakan couldn't afford to buy her out so SHE decided to get pregnant by him in order to reduce her value so Lakan can buy her, however he was drafted(?) in the military without knowing Mao's mother was pregnant. This drove Fengxian (Mao's mom) crazy. Lakan knows(?) Mao is his daughter due to the fact that Fengxian, at some point, cut off the tip of Mao's pinky and sent it to Lakan as a sort of "pinky promise".
Mao's "adopted father" is actually her grand uncle through her father's (Lakan) side.
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Ah Duo is Jinshi's bio mom. At some point, the emperor loved only Ah Duo and desired no other women. However when Ah Duo lost her ability to have children, other concubines were brought in.
This makes Jinshi the emperor's first born legitimate son and supposedly crown prince.
Due to the switch, he became the emperor's younger brother.
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The new concubine, Loulan, is the half sister of Suirei, daughter of an unnamed lady in waiting and the previous emperor. She's a product of r*pe. Her mother was murdered by Loulan's mother.
Suirei is one of the girls that hounded Mao when they saw her go in and out of Jinshi's office. The one who hit Mao at the back of her head.
And with that, we have the antagonist of the Show.
I hope it's just misdirection 😢 cause I'm sure Lakan said her mother was too pricey so he couldn't bought her out, then he thought of that 'way' to reduce the price.
My mind currently only think that Lakan forced on her(assaulted). The way he described what he gonna do to her is already disgusting, and then this...
Mann.... I hope Maomao stay the girl she is after all this. It is horrible if it is what it is.
Jinshi is beautiful enough to topple a nation- pass it on.
--Still recommending you watch Mo Dao Zu Shi--
Right when she said that, that was when all of us had the same thought. I mean, we've seen her all dolled up, and, I could believe shes the duaghter of a giesha.
The real question is, does she know, and what are these 2 men going to do NOW.
Just noting that a geisha is not a courtesan and it’s in ancient China, not Japan
Her adoptive father got kicked out because he was blamed for the death of the Imperial prince who is under the care of Fengming, Ah Duo's assistant, that accidentaly poisoned the baby with Honey made from poisonous flowers.
The plot thickens
The only thing about what Sheera said that ringed wrong for me was Maomao’s “dad” buying her out, I think either he r-worded her, got her assaulted or lead her on and took her purity to lower her value but afterwards he either lost interest or she hated him and refused to go with him and she stayed in the courtesan house/was kicked out and died in childbirth but was delivered by Maomao’s adoptive father.
Jinshi with women’s make up to me doesn’t make him look like a woman. He looks like a gorgeous androgynous man. He looks just like Michael Jackson from the 1990s. ❤ tell me if I’m wrong. I can’t unseen it.
We do know why the step dad got kick out from the palace tho? Or am I tripping ?
i think they forgot
Bruh they said multiple times he’s a eunuch. How tf he gonna be her dad? Get it together 😂
What conspiracy is Jinshi investigating.
Spoiler
I think in the light novel and manga, her adoptive father is a relative of her real dad, thats why she was taken care by her adoptive dad
Maomao and Jinshi date?
Jinshi revealed as a strong swordsman warrior who served or trained with the Army. He also seems to an agent investigating conspiracies intel type do more than Rear Palace admin and tester.
Maoma’s Dad (officially adopted) was a medical genius who studied in the West (Arab countries or Europe), was forced into the Rear Palace and made a Eunuch by previous Dowager Empress or current Emperor grandmother.
Lakan, her apparent genetic father, made the courtesan he was interested in pregnant dropping value to zero. Her mother chose to bring the pregnancy to term keeping Maomao. Lakan does not seem to value Maomao’s mother Chasity or Pregnancy but rather her genius, skill, pride, talents, maybe looks, … so some tragedy messed things up and Laken has to atone. Maomao does not hate Lakan, but neither does she harbor any affection and wants to avoid him. I suspect the brothel family helped Maomao avoid him.
Jinshi is trying to learn about Maomao to close the distance between them and she will answer his questions due to their relative status. Maomao has a bit of curiosity about Jinshi but will not ask and he will not volunteer guaranteeing the distance between them will not narrow.
The Gaoshun and Suiren curious dialog about Jinshi’s childhood toys and his obsession with them seems out of place. Will a bit revealing of Jinshi character it seems weak. I suspect foreshadowing again.
I want to clarify a lot of information (as a manga reader) but it will be quite a big spoiler but Yes Lakan is Maomao biological father and all the reasons why this happened why that happened I let you guy watch the anime to find out.
i feel like we knew the father wasnt her real dad and was a eunuch before this.
I didn't even consider he might be her dad, is he really that much older?
What even BBL stands for??? 😭 I have no idea but I keep hearing it from your videos lol
Brazilian butt lift: is a cosmetic procedure that gives you a large behind
Mao Mao immediately erase the girl make up cos Jinshi looks like her mom (A-duo) so much and it might be a scandal in the palace if someone see him looking like that
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I need mashle episode 5😢
I legit just assumed bro knew he could never afford her so he arranged to have her snatched/assaulted to drastically reduce her value as well as the number of potential competitors seeking to buy her out 🤷🏾♀️
Anyone know where the other dude of their group went?
sometimes he isn't part of their reactions, think his personal preference is being into more flashy, fighting, and action-packed shows
maomao can out make up and lipstick on buddy and fucking make a fortune. 😳🤣
Exactly what I thought that Lakan is her Father and he might have seen resemblance when he saw Maomao from afar when she was getting herbs and got smacked by the woman in the outer court.
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Too many He & She. Who are we talking about at the end?
Reccomendation time
For action, Record of Ragnarok
For slice of life, March comes in like a lion
For historical drama, Kingdom
bro where is solo leveling
Day 63 of asking yall to watch Saiki k
FOURTH
The shipping wars continue....
Maomao was right, Jinshi is too dangerous to give a glow-up. 🫦
( And looks exactly like his actual mother with lipstick)
Remember a high tier Courtesan is NOT explicitly always a coitus sex worker. That is only one of an entire range of in demand skills.... under three broad measurements which can be combined in any degree: BEAUTY, SKILLS, PURITY.
The longer they can keep that off the table , and the more skills they can acquire , and the greater their beauty, the higher the overall value.... Potentially including leaving the work chaste.
Devaluing is a subjective concept that falls across an entire spectrum from abuse ( Mental physical or social), scandal, or to simply Lack of purity and/or pregnancy ,which could both be entirely consensual.
A courtesan who knows the SnuSnu has a 'Used Title". 🧐
A courtesan who is a babymama has a "Salvage Title" 🤔
Both can still be priceless.😏