tbh, my theory is: The lady in waiting dont like Lishu (Shown in beginning of this ep when they talking behind her back) cause they think she is picky and is a brat WHILE not realizing Lishu only acts that way cause she is allergic to fish and it could kill her. Also, the reason why Lishu is wearing bright pink same as Gyokuyou is because the lady in waiting is messing with her by not telling her that color is Gyokuyou's color theme to make it seem like Lishu is trying to go against Gyokuyou. As for the food situation, the lady in waiting thought Lishu was picky with fish, so she swap Gyokuyo's food (aka fish) with Lishu's food (Jellyfish), since Gyokuyou isnt picky, she be fine eating the jelly fish... BUT Lishu is allergic to the fish and would get sick and the lady in waiting never knew this. COINCIDENTALLY.... the Jelly fish dish that was swapped to Gyokuyou originally belonged to Lishu, and it had poison. SO... someone was trying to poison Lishu and luckily because of the swap, the lady in waiting essentially saved herself and Lishu from eating it and nobody was hurt cause maomao ate it.
The reason the food taster was so scared by her threat is because she swapped the dishes (not knowing it was poisoned) so that the little girl would eat the fish which she's allergic to just to mess with her. It's why she was so smirky of "ha ha picky eater has to eat food she doesn't like" They keep establishing lady in waiting stupidity of giving their ladies poison unknowingly. Beauty powder and now allergic food. That's 2 concubines with stupid ladies in waiting...Will the third have a stupid one accidentally poisoning them now as well 😂
LiShu's ladies in waiting are bullying LiShu, because she is young and "picky" they resent her "presumption" that is why they picked a dress that would clash with Gyokyo's, and wore a clashing color (white) when all the other ladies in waiting wore a complimentary color to their concubine. Swapping out the dish was supposed to be just more bullying her. they did not know her dish was poisoned when they swapped it onto Lady Gyokyo's tray. Gyokyo has Maomao test all her dishes, that's why she was there. At this point no one knows who was trying to poison LiShu, or why.
Fish*. She was under the impression her lady was a picky eater so she swapped her lady dish for fish to bully her. She didn't know her lady was Allergic. The soup was another plotline.
@@JayJayM57 thats Thats what I said. The tester swapped the soup and fish bc she wanted to fuck with lishu The soup was originally intended for lishu, jinshi says this at the end of the episode
Lishu's food was poisoned. The poisoner knew that nobody else would eat it because Lishu is a "picky eater" who won't eat fish, so a separate dish was specially prepared for her. Lishu's ladies in waiting neither like nor respect her, so they are constantly gaslighting and bulling her - in this case, Lishu's food-taster is the culprit behind the dishes being swapped. She didn't understand that Lishu is allergic to fish, but rather thought she was just being a brat and wanted to punish her for "being picky." She also had no idea that Lishu's original dish had been ACTUALLY POISONED. Her malicious prank ironically ended up saving both of their lives, thanks to MaoMao's bizarre and coincidental poison fetish. (As an aside, being a picky eater myself, you would not believe how far some people will go out of their way to "punish" you for not liking certain foods... it borders on deranged. Like, why the hell do you care what I do and do not want to eat? How is that your business?)
It's interesting how you guys are very suspicious of our homegirl Gyoukuyou 😂 I only see her as this playful auntie who loves teasing Jinshi and Maomao.
For some reason "chaos gremlin" comes to mind when I think of her and I have no idea where it came from... she is just so much fun to watch laughing at Maomao and Jinshi being, well, themselves .
There is a clue in the very first of the chapter, where their own ladies-in-waiting were criticizing the little girl concubine, but in their eyes, she was just picky with the food and "odd" with her mannerism, they did not know about the allergy or her possible feelings in the castle (as mentioned on this episode, even she is young, she is concubine from previous emperor, so there is an automatic rejection towards her. Another point the concubines hinted at in the previous chapter is that the lady in waiting suggests the clothes for the concubine to use, so the issue with the color being high contrast was also a bully move from their own lady in waiting, there is like a bully level power play and the high level (poison) power play in place.
I love the thoughts, but Lady G doesn’t have a malicious bone in her body! Keep in mind, she tried to save Lihua’s son, even if it meant her own child would be a lower status. I think the Lishu’s dishes were swapped by the taster, since none of her ladies in waiting seem to like her. They wanted to embarrass her, so they forced her to eat the fish (since one can’t refuse in front of the emperor). They assume she’s picky, but she just has allergies, which wasn’t common knowledge in those times. As for the poison, I think Lishu’s taster is actually not the culprit. While sure, the other ladies in waiting don’t seem to like her, to attempt to kill her seems drastic. Lishu’s taster actually SAVED Lishu and herself by swapping the dishes, since if Maomao didn’t receive the poison, the taster would’ve and she would’ve been hurt/died. I think someone else if trying to get rid of Lishu, and my money is only one of the other concubines’ ladies! The concubines seem to all be pretty civil, it’s the ladies in waiting that have beef with the other concubines. What if it’s the fourth concubine’s girls? They said she was in her thirties, right? She’s passed her “baby making prime”, she can’t give the emperor a child, so she’s probably going to “age out” of being a concubine! What if her ladies want to get rid of Lishu because they’re jealous of Lishu’s youth? That despite being a child that everybody hates, she will be allowed to live in luxury while their lady gets the boot!
Full respect man, there isn't a single reaction channel on youtube that pays as much attention to the intricate details of Apothecary Diaries as you guys, amazing videos as usual!
The younger concubine's lady in waiting switched the food, not knowing it was poisoned. She did it because she thought the concubine was just being a picky eater. She wasn't aware that she was allergic. You hear the lady in waiting at the beginning of the episode complaining about her being a picky eater. She didn't switch it to hurt her she only did it because she thought the concubine was just being a spoiled brat, but doing so probably saved her own life.
There are multiple dishes. 1st fish, 2nd soup. The child concubine has an alternative to the fish dish. Her food testers/lady in waiting swapped the alternative for fish thinking her lady was a being a picky eater. The child concubine gets bullied a lot and she doesn't know it. An example of this is her dress. She got a pink dress but her ladies-in-waiting got white which is the color of the child concubine title, The Pure Concubine. By wearing pink she looked ridiculous and by not matching her ladies-in-waiting she looked more ridiculous. There was no intentional attempt to poison her but Mao Mao made it clear allergies are no game. We don't know who poison the soup.
12:22 Lishu's taster switched the bowl to bully Lishu because she knows Lishu's allergy but accidentally switched out the poison. Lishu wearing crimson color is also part of the bullying, her servants want her to have beef with the top Concubine.
Yeah, so I'm pretty sure the situation is that the poison that MaoMao drank was originally intended for Lishu, but the food-taster of Lishu, who wasn't aware of the poison, wanted to bully Lishu by switching the dishes between Lishu's, which had mackerel because she is allergic to fish, with another concubine's dish, which just had fish. So the poison dish was originally intended for Lishu but because Lishu's food-taster switched it with Gyokuyou's dish unaware of the poison, MaoMao got to taste it. So we don't know who actually wanted to poison Lishu, but the target was Lishu and no one was aware of any poison.
13.54 The fish is not poison though. Lady G's original food is not poisoned, so if she ate the fish or any of the dishes served, she would've been fine. Lady L's original food is the one with poison. The problem is the food meant for Lady L is switched (you'll find out why later on) with Lady G.
My son and I have this simple memory hack: Princess Pink, Princess Blue, Princess Purple and Princess Loli (Gyuokyo, Lihua, Ah Do, and Lisha, respectively)
Lishu is voiced by Hina Kino who also voices Alas Ramus (The Devil is a Part-Timer), Miri (Buddy Daddies), Hanako (Asobi Asobase), Kaede (Steins;Gate 0), Cu (Classroom for Heroes), Ranka (Seton’s Academy: Join the Pack), Sui (Campfire Cooking in Another World …), Funicia (Astra Lost In Space), Sylvia (Masou Gakuen HxH), Sayaka (Toji no Miko), Fa (RPG Real Estate), Koharu (The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess), Masha (Masha & the Bear), Lucy & Tanumaro (Ayakashi Triangle), Linel (SAO), Julie (Princess Principal), Ueno, Alexander, Slime, cat, & Raphiel’s admirer B (Gabriel DropOut), Kuuderika (Overlord), Flora (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear), Milu & Melo (Isekai Cheat Magician), Mikiti (Love is War), Pam (She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise man), Misato (Erased), Collon (WorldEnd), Tiki (Symphogear), Lorea (Management of a Novice Alchemist), Ohma (Heavenly Delusion), Fine (Spy Classroom), Mina (Dragon Quest), Kenta (Heaven’s Design Team), Deadly Hamster (Africa Salaryman), Moon Rabbit (Cookie Run: Kingdom), Confessor’s daughter (JoJo), Kyousuke’s friend B (Mieruko-chan), & many more
The lady-in-waiting wanted to bully Lishu and swapped the dishes so Lishu would be obliged to eat fish. Ironically enough , that saved Lishu from a legit poisoning. There's someone targeting her but the dishes got swapped and that's why Maomao got it instead
Lady Gyokuyou has no involvement in this mess 😂 she's genuinely kind af that silhouette was Lishu's bully food poison taster. she meant to bully Lishu for being a "picky" eater by swapping Lishu and Gyokuyou's food by doing that tho, she luckily saved herself from digesting the poisoned food since Maomao got it. now, the question is who poisoned the food that was supposed to be for Lishu? y'all will find out in the following episodes.
Two dishes on one platter The fish dish (no fish in Lishu's) and soup Lishu's food tester swaps the entire platter because shes thinks Lishu is just a picky brat, not knowing allergies are even a thing. Unbeknownst to the taster Lishu's soup was also poisoned, so incidentally she saved her own life.
Honestly, I'm impressed with how the Apothecary Diaries approaches the dark sides of the reality within this style of historical fiction. It's not satisfied with leaving it at "that's the way it was, no further comment" but is actually interested in noting that things like human trafficking, having underaged concubines and keeping women as (essentially) breeding stock is actually fucked up. I know this is kind of obvious, but there are a lot of series' that will just show you some brutal shit and not comment on it once lol
Ok so here’s the thing…the previous emperor is a FREAKING LOLICON and the reason why Maomao’s adoptive father is mute and limping, the thing about the “younger brother of the emperor” and the first consort of the emperor. Like they’re all inter connected
You guys realize Jinshi's outfit are so much different than those official,right? And he about to join the party by sitting next to emperor the way he enter from the back corner...he is high a chance the 2nd prince..
You know that would make so much sense, especially with how he acts around MaoMao. Would also clarify why the hell someone would gift him aphrodisiacs if he’s supposed to be a eunuch.
I genuinely wonder why no one in the court bothers to think that certain food can't be eaten by some people. Maybe that luxury only goes to the emperor.
the poisoned dish was supposed for lishu and her lady in waiting unknowingly swapped her poisoned dish with gyokuyo. this is why the poisoned dish ended up in maomao. lishu lady in waiting just want to troll her master and at the same time she saved her, even tho she didn't realize that lishu dish was poisoned.
I think the first food for lady G and lady Lishu should have been the same but the lady in waiting of Lishu changed it to the fish she's allergic to for her because *spoiler*. Then the second food was i think a soup that is actually the poisoned one for just lady G. TLDR: 1st food, allergic for Lady Lishu, 2nd food, poison for Lady G.
They were both for the young consort I think. Her taster was lucky she switched the meals to troll her cause then Maomao was the one who got the poison instead of her
The soup was poisoned in general, I think, and may have been served to everyone. Since after Maomao declared it to be poison, we later learn that an official tried it himself and fell ill too. The main dishes for the concubines vary depending on their preferences, and Gyokuyou's and Lishu's got swapped, which was bad for Lishu due to her fish allergy.
remember the start where the lady-in-waiting are complains how Lishu is picky with food. that because they didn't know she has an allergy as she doesn't really tell them maybe out of distrust, and they just thought she is spoiled. so when the food tester of Lishu switch the food, she wasn't aware that he har harming her mistress, she thought of it as a joke and prank to force her food she didn't like because Lishu can't say no in front of the emperor. only to learn through MaoMao that Lishu can't eat a type of fish or it can kill her, and that Lishu isn't really a picky eater. Maomao also called on the Lady in wating so she doesn't do it again and if she does, first suspicion is on her. she also wants to give her a chance because as servants their life is dispensable.
If you like the whole imperial china aspect, I really recommend Guardian of the Spirit or Seirei No Moribito. It's about a bodyguard protecting the imperial prince of a fictional China.
To be clear, the one supposed to get the poison is Lady Lishu (young mother in-law) but her lady-in-waiting (silhouette) doesn't like Lishu for being picky eater (probably knowing a bit Lishu can't eat but not knowing it can be severe ¿) so she bullied Lishu by swapping the food with Gyokuyo's food (thus, the poison ended up as Gyokuyo's). Others including Gyokuyo's food have food with fish but Lishu's food has none of that bcs she can't eat it. The lady-in-waiting wanted to see Lishu got forced to eat fish....bullying her (thus the smirk). If the food taster found the food is fine and the food reached Lishu, Lishu had to eat it, in front of emperor she had to eat it. Lishu's lady-in waiting did not know that Lishu is not simply picky eater but she is allergic to fish or the term that time "food she can't eat". The lady-in-waiting did not know allergic can be that severe. If she knew, she wouldn't try because if her lady got sick or died, she as the food/poison taster would get punished too. That's why she's shocked to hear allergic can be that severe and that feeding Lishu knowing she's allergic is the same as poisoning her (but she didn't know so she did not mean to poison Lishu and she's not the one who put poison because she will taste that food before going to Lishu. She wanted to bully her for being picky eater). However, lucky for her, swapping the food saves her life. As food/poison tester for Lishu, if she did not swap the food, she's the one who has to taste the poison. By swapping food, the poison ended up with Mao Mao who's more resistance to it.... who loves tasting the poison and Mao Mao is grateful for that 😂 up to this episode, who gave the poison is still unknown and the reason why the person gave poison to Lishu is unknown. That's the mystery 🙊😮 The reason Mao Mao keeps quiet about this, Lishu's food taster will be found guilty and be punished anyway in this case because: 1. Even without poison, swapping the food and giving food Lishu can't eat means pretty much the same as poisoning Lishu. 2. With poison, indirectly, knowing or not, she gave the poison that was meant for Lishu to Gyokuyo...in a way, she gave poisoned food to Gyokuyo, knowing or not. Higher ups won't care, that's how little they think about lower rank's life. "Life of food taster is expendable". By keeping quiet, Mao Mao can simply warn the food taster. The food taster is just like ignorant but with proper teaching and some threats😅, her life can be spared and she can be given a chance to do her duties to Lishu more seriously. Sorry, long read~
Yeah... previous emperor was VERY sick. Brrrrrrr... Actually Maomao isn't going to think too deeply about the hairpins. Maomao tends to be... 1.) Disinterested in things that aren't related to drugs or medicine. 2.) Prefers to remain or pretend to be ignorant since it's safer. And yes we should probably be a bit worried about her desire to be poisoned. As for why Maomao got the bowl meant for Lady Lishu, they'll literally explain it next episode. 😉
So basically Lady Lishu's servants are bullying her cuz she's a kid and she's married to her ex-step son. Her servants gave her the wrong colour dress to embarrass her. Then the tester swapped the food to harass Lishu by making her eat the food she's allergic to (they just thought she's picky & they don't understand the severity of allergies). In doing so, she accidentally swapped the poison unknowingly (which was the next course, the soup following the fish). Some third party meant to poison Lishu, but the poison ended up in the wrong place cuz of the tester trying to harass her master. In other words, the tester lady in waiting meant to harass Lishu with the fish, but didn't know about the poison. Original plan: Gyokuyo gets fish dish + no poison, and Lishu get vege dish + poison. Cuz it got flip flopped, Maomao got to have a good time lol
What i like and dislike is the potrail of People who dont believe in Allergies. In this time it makes sence, since there was'nt much known about the condition. (And people were more robust back than) The Problem is that there are People to this Day who dont believe in it!
Its the young one's soup that was poison. The meal contrain main dish, soup and tea. The green eye lady dish suppose to be mckerel, soup and tea which all got no poison, the young one dish have jellyfish, soup(poisoned) and tea. The tray got switch between the two, we saw the taster of young one have nasty smile so we can assume that she the one switched the tray so that her lady got to eat mackerel instead of jellyfish, reason why she trembled when mc found the poison was because it would have been her that got poisoned(thus she didn't know about the poison) as for why she switch, we saw at the beginning that they sht talk theirs lady behind her back that she a btch(talk bout chasity ot some shit) and a picky eater "not like she gonna die if she eat that fish" or something like that so we can assume that they got no idea of their lady allergies, that taster just wanna see her "spoiled" lady suffer eating what she hate.
I'll let you cook but you both missed the part where Lishu's ladies-in-waiting were bullying her (made her wear pink which is the same hue as Gyokuyo who is famous for wearing red/pink hue clothing within the inner court, and the fact they were whispering between themselves at the start of the episode how she's picky with food, which is why the taster switched it with someone else's food coz they saw it was fish which Lishu 'doesn't seem to like' not knowing she was allergic to it). Notice how every concubine and their ladies-in-waiting have matching colour clothing, it's to represent they're from a certain concubine's side. Lishu ladies are all wearing white instead of matching her because they also don't want to look like they're agreeing with their mistress's decision to embarrass herself, and she also doesn't understand these rules so she just goes along with what her ladies tell her to do. Also the silhouette from last episode that had the same style of hair as Gyokuyo is actually the taster - if you see her hair, it looks the same, so it might be easy to miss.
I mean, the episode decidely paints the empress dowager's age and the young consort relathionship with the previous emperor as creepy. But there is always the possibility the previous emperor was very young himself. I'm pretty sure there have been cases in history where the emperor ascended the throne as a boy.
Consider the age of his actual son the current emperor and the fact that Lishu is like 14 rn and 9 at time of being with the old emperor. The current emperor is clearly an adult man so he’s around twice her age. That means at best the old emperor was three to four times her age… and she was nine. Bro…
this is poison
Kore doku desu
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tbh, my theory is:
The lady in waiting dont like Lishu (Shown in beginning of this ep when they talking behind her back) cause they think she is picky and is a brat WHILE not realizing Lishu only acts that way cause she is allergic to fish and it could kill her. Also, the reason why Lishu is wearing bright pink same as Gyokuyou is because the lady in waiting is messing with her by not telling her that color is Gyokuyou's color theme to make it seem like Lishu is trying to go against Gyokuyou.
As for the food situation, the lady in waiting thought Lishu was picky with fish, so she swap Gyokuyo's food (aka fish) with Lishu's food (Jellyfish), since Gyokuyou isnt picky, she be fine eating the jelly fish... BUT Lishu is allergic to the fish and would get sick and the lady in waiting never knew this. COINCIDENTALLY.... the Jelly fish dish that was swapped to Gyokuyou originally belonged to Lishu, and it had poison. SO... someone was trying to poison Lishu and luckily because of the swap, the lady in waiting essentially saved herself and Lishu from eating it and nobody was hurt cause maomao ate it.
it do be poison fr fr
The reason the food taster was so scared by her threat is because she swapped the dishes (not knowing it was poisoned) so that the little girl would eat the fish which she's allergic to just to mess with her. It's why she was so smirky of "ha ha picky eater has to eat food she doesn't like"
They keep establishing lady in waiting stupidity of giving their ladies poison unknowingly. Beauty powder and now allergic food. That's 2 concubines with stupid ladies in waiting...Will the third have a stupid one accidentally poisoning them now as well 😂
oh boy....you're in for a storm
@@shadowhood100 A certain cousin of one of the concubines?
@@shadowhood100 😂🤣
They probably already watched it, but why you spoiling the next episode?
LiShu's ladies in waiting are bullying LiShu, because she is young and "picky" they resent her "presumption" that is why they picked a dress that would clash with Gyokyo's, and wore a clashing color (white) when all the other ladies in waiting wore a complimentary color to their concubine.
Swapping out the dish was supposed to be just more bullying her. they did not know her dish was poisoned when they swapped it onto Lady Gyokyo's tray.
Gyokyo has Maomao test all her dishes, that's why she was there.
At this point no one knows who was trying to poison LiShu, or why.
The silhouette in the last episode was lishu's food tester. The soup maomao ate was intended for lishu, but the tester swapped them 😭
Fish*. She was under the impression her lady was a picky eater so she swapped her lady dish for fish to bully her. She didn't know her lady was Allergic.
The soup was another plotline.
@@JayJayM57 thats
Thats what I said. The tester swapped the soup and fish bc she wanted to fuck with lishu
The soup was originally intended for lishu, jinshi says this at the end of the episode
@@hardcoregamer9878 yes
Love that ignorance is the villain of this anime.
Lishu's food was poisoned. The poisoner knew that nobody else would eat it because Lishu is a "picky eater" who won't eat fish, so a separate dish was specially prepared for her. Lishu's ladies in waiting neither like nor respect her, so they are constantly gaslighting and bulling her - in this case, Lishu's food-taster is the culprit behind the dishes being swapped. She didn't understand that Lishu is allergic to fish, but rather thought she was just being a brat and wanted to punish her for "being picky." She also had no idea that Lishu's original dish had been ACTUALLY POISONED. Her malicious prank ironically ended up saving both of their lives, thanks to MaoMao's bizarre and coincidental poison fetish. (As an aside, being a picky eater myself, you would not believe how far some people will go out of their way to "punish" you for not liking certain foods... it borders on deranged. Like, why the hell do you care what I do and do not want to eat? How is that your business?)
It's interesting how you guys are very suspicious of our homegirl Gyoukuyou 😂 I only see her as this playful auntie who loves teasing Jinshi and Maomao.
For some reason "chaos gremlin" comes to mind when I think of her and I have no idea where it came from... she is just so much fun to watch laughing at Maomao and Jinshi being, well, themselves .
There is a clue in the very first of the chapter, where their own ladies-in-waiting were criticizing the little girl concubine, but in their eyes, she was just picky with the food and "odd" with her mannerism, they did not know about the allergy or her possible feelings in the castle (as mentioned on this episode, even she is young, she is concubine from previous emperor, so there is an automatic rejection towards her. Another point the concubines hinted at in the previous chapter is that the lady in waiting suggests the clothes for the concubine to use, so the issue with the color being high contrast was also a bully move from their own lady in waiting, there is like a bully level power play and the high level (poison) power play in place.
I love the thoughts, but Lady G doesn’t have a malicious bone in her body! Keep in mind, she tried to save Lihua’s son, even if it meant her own child would be a lower status.
I think the Lishu’s dishes were swapped by the taster, since none of her ladies in waiting seem to like her. They wanted to embarrass her, so they forced her to eat the fish (since one can’t refuse in front of the emperor). They assume she’s picky, but she just has allergies, which wasn’t common knowledge in those times.
As for the poison, I think Lishu’s taster is actually not the culprit. While sure, the other ladies in waiting don’t seem to like her, to attempt to kill her seems drastic. Lishu’s taster actually SAVED Lishu and herself by swapping the dishes, since if Maomao didn’t receive the poison, the taster would’ve and she would’ve been hurt/died. I think someone else if trying to get rid of Lishu, and my money is only one of the other concubines’ ladies! The concubines seem to all be pretty civil, it’s the ladies in waiting that have beef with the other concubines.
What if it’s the fourth concubine’s girls? They said she was in her thirties, right? She’s passed her “baby making prime”, she can’t give the emperor a child, so she’s probably going to “age out” of being a concubine! What if her ladies want to get rid of Lishu because they’re jealous of Lishu’s youth? That despite being a child that everybody hates, she will be allowed to live in luxury while their lady gets the boot!
About that it's a funny thing and spoileriffic.
It involves Jinshu as well.
huh? she already did gave birth, the oldest one
Uhm... Light Novel reader here of AD ... so SPOILER!
currently reading Volume 9, something is brewing and Lady G MIGHT be the final villain boss
@@purplemermaid2736 And let me guess, it turns out to be nothing.
@@purplemermaid2736 i thought the villian is the minister and his wife. and his daughter of the prev emperor's lineage.
Sheera at 7:45 ! She caught that Quick! Great instincts 😁
Being allergic to fish is one of the worst allergies. It can literally kill some people.
The damn Sheerengan bro.
8:30 The hell was that one minister thinking?
"The food taster said this is poisoned!"
Oh, well I'll just take a big bite of it and see if I _die."_
Full respect man, there isn't a single reaction channel on youtube that pays as much attention to the intricate details of Apothecary Diaries as you guys, amazing videos as usual!
BLIND WAVE DOES AS WELL
@@Thedarklordmiabellethey don’t even watch the show…
@@animusswtor4822 I read the first comment wrong oops I thought they meant details of different shows in general 😅
That's why they're the best 💪
The younger concubine's lady in waiting switched the food, not knowing it was poisoned. She did it because she thought the concubine was just being a picky eater. She wasn't aware that she was allergic. You hear the lady in waiting at the beginning of the episode complaining about her being a picky eater. She didn't switch it to hurt her she only did it because she thought the concubine was just being a spoiled brat, but doing so probably saved her own life.
There are multiple dishes. 1st fish, 2nd soup. The child concubine has an alternative to the fish dish. Her food testers/lady in waiting swapped the alternative for fish thinking her lady was a being a picky eater.
The child concubine gets bullied a lot and she doesn't know it. An example of this is her dress. She got a pink dress but her ladies-in-waiting got white which is the color of the child concubine title, The Pure Concubine. By wearing pink she looked ridiculous and by not matching her ladies-in-waiting she looked more ridiculous. There was no intentional attempt to poison her but Mao Mao made it clear allergies are no game.
We don't know who poison the soup.
Bro is out here explaining the next episode in detail 😂😂😂
@@username-ql8ox I mean all of that was already shown in this ep. Next episode just spells it out for those who didn´t get it.
@@sojtus8681 yeah exactly. So you think the next episode doesn't serve a purpose? Lmao
12:22 Lishu's taster switched the bowl to bully Lishu because she knows Lishu's allergy but accidentally switched out the poison. Lishu wearing crimson color is also part of the bullying, her servants want her to have beef with the top Concubine.
Yeah, so I'm pretty sure the situation is that the poison that MaoMao drank was originally intended for Lishu, but the food-taster of Lishu, who wasn't aware of the poison, wanted to bully Lishu by switching the dishes between Lishu's, which had mackerel because she is allergic to fish, with another concubine's dish, which just had fish.
So the poison dish was originally intended for Lishu but because Lishu's food-taster switched it with Gyokuyou's dish unaware of the poison, MaoMao got to taste it. So we don't know who actually wanted to poison Lishu, but the target was Lishu and no one was aware of any poison.
Find yourself a GF who looks at you the way MaoMao does at 8:21.
No matter how toxic the relationship 💀
She is putting the fear of Mao Mao in them. 😂
Reading Manga of this and I'M OBSESSED Can't wait for y'all to see the other episodes that gets animated!!!
I love hearing the point sheera makes and the theorizing at the end! Cant wait for the next
Sheeragan at it again she’s too good
13.54 The fish is not poison though. Lady G's original food is not poisoned, so if she ate the fish or any of the dishes served, she would've been fine. Lady L's original food is the one with poison. The problem is the food meant for Lady L is switched (you'll find out why later on) with Lady G.
I love that you guys get so deep into thinking through these schemes and making them seem all elaborate... when alot of the time its way simpler
I feel like Maomao used to just lick rat poison in the corner as a kid
"This is poison" was the most iconic manga panel of the series.
My son and I have this simple memory hack: Princess Pink, Princess Blue, Princess Purple and Princess Loli (Gyuokyo, Lihua, Ah Do, and Lisha, respectively)
courtyards actually keep out a shocking amount of wind
this one doesn't count
it's massive
Lishu is voiced by Hina Kino who also voices Alas Ramus (The Devil is a Part-Timer), Miri (Buddy Daddies), Hanako (Asobi Asobase), Kaede (Steins;Gate 0), Cu (Classroom for Heroes), Ranka (Seton’s Academy: Join the Pack), Sui (Campfire Cooking in Another World …), Funicia (Astra Lost In Space), Sylvia (Masou Gakuen HxH), Sayaka (Toji no Miko), Fa (RPG Real Estate), Koharu (The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess), Masha (Masha & the Bear), Lucy & Tanumaro (Ayakashi Triangle), Linel (SAO), Julie (Princess Principal), Ueno, Alexander, Slime, cat, & Raphiel’s admirer B (Gabriel DropOut), Kuuderika (Overlord), Flora (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear), Milu & Melo (Isekai Cheat Magician), Mikiti (Love is War), Pam (She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise man), Misato (Erased), Collon (WorldEnd), Tiki (Symphogear), Lorea (Management of a Novice Alchemist), Ohma (Heavenly Delusion), Fine (Spy Classroom), Mina (Dragon Quest), Kenta (Heaven’s Design Team), Deadly Hamster (Africa Salaryman), Moon Rabbit (Cookie Run: Kingdom), Confessor’s daughter (JoJo), Kyousuke’s friend B (Mieruko-chan), & many more
The lady-in-waiting wanted to bully Lishu and swapped the dishes so Lishu would be obliged to eat fish. Ironically enough , that saved Lishu from a legit poisoning.
There's someone targeting her but the dishes got swapped and that's why Maomao got it instead
Has anyone noticed where Jinshi wanted to come in?😏
Lady Gyokuyou has no involvement in this mess 😂 she's genuinely kind af
that silhouette was Lishu's bully food poison taster. she meant to bully Lishu for being a "picky" eater by swapping Lishu and Gyokuyou's food
by doing that tho, she luckily saved herself from digesting the poisoned food since Maomao got it.
now, the question is who poisoned the food that was supposed to be for Lishu? y'all will find out in the following episodes.
Two dishes on one platter
The fish dish (no fish in Lishu's) and soup
Lishu's food tester swaps the entire platter because shes thinks Lishu is just a picky brat, not knowing allergies are even a thing.
Unbeknownst to the taster Lishu's soup was also poisoned, so incidentally she saved her own life.
That dish with the fish and vegetables in vinegar is actually delicious. I recommend people try it at least once.
Honestly, I'm impressed with how the Apothecary Diaries approaches the dark sides of the reality within this style of historical fiction. It's not satisfied with leaving it at "that's the way it was, no further comment" but is actually interested in noting that things like human trafficking, having underaged concubines and keeping women as (essentially) breeding stock is actually fucked up.
I know this is kind of obvious, but there are a lot of series' that will just show you some brutal shit and not comment on it once lol
Maomao and her "little" sense of justice....
Ok so here’s the thing…the previous emperor is a FREAKING LOLICON and the reason why Maomao’s adoptive father is mute and limping, the thing about the “younger brother of the emperor” and the first consort of the emperor. Like they’re all inter connected
The ladies-in-waiting believe that Maomao was trapped with the competition for two whole months, not realizing that it was the other way around. 🤣
Careful on silhouette- others may match. We have more characters to appear. She’s onion with lots of layers.
Trans Shrek?
She is a person with many many layers and secrets. Well at least a few. @@iamhungey12345
You guys realize Jinshi's outfit are so much different than those official,right? And he about to join the party by sitting next to emperor the way he enter from the back corner...he is high a chance the 2nd prince..
You know that would make so much sense, especially with how he acts around MaoMao. Would also clarify why the hell someone would gift him aphrodisiacs if he’s supposed to be a eunuch.
I'm very impressed with your name recognition well done.
Is it true that jinshi is emperor younger brother?
Because if u notice when he peek at the right of the emperor
Look were jinshi way coming for to take a sit, so jinshi was the emperor brother i think
I noticed that too.
"They just raw doggin the open air?" - tell me you're from Florida without telling me you're from Florida
9:25 I imagine MaoMao’s face if in the future it turns out that he is not a eunuch but a normal man who loves women
I genuinely wonder why no one in the court bothers to think that certain food can't be eaten by some people. Maybe that luxury only goes to the emperor.
It's always the smallest, tiniest and shortest people that be the baddest and most scary.
the poisoned dish was supposed for lishu and her lady in waiting unknowingly swapped her poisoned dish with gyokuyo. this is why the poisoned dish ended up in maomao.
lishu lady in waiting just want to troll her master and at the same time she saved her, even tho she didn't realize that lishu dish was poisoned.
I think the first food for lady G and lady Lishu should have been the same but the lady in waiting of Lishu changed it to the fish she's allergic to for her because *spoiler*. Then the second food was i think a soup that is actually the poisoned one for just lady G. TLDR: 1st food, allergic for Lady Lishu, 2nd food, poison for Lady G.
They were both for the young consort I think. Her taster was lucky she switched the meals to troll her cause then Maomao was the one who got the poison instead of her
The soup was poisoned in general, I think, and may have been served to everyone. Since after Maomao declared it to be poison, we later learn that an official tried it himself and fell ill too. The main dishes for the concubines vary depending on their preferences, and Gyokuyou's and Lishu's got swapped, which was bad for Lishu due to her fish allergy.
Correct
@@frap12709 the poison only for lishu, latest ep already show who the culprit
What can be said for Lishu, she needs a butler who can shoot laser from his ass.
13:07 pure PTSD
remember the start where the lady-in-waiting are complains how Lishu is picky with food. that because they didn't know she has an allergy as she doesn't really tell them maybe out of distrust, and they just thought she is spoiled. so when the food tester of Lishu switch the food, she wasn't aware that he har harming her mistress, she thought of it as a joke and prank to force her food she didn't like because Lishu can't say no in front of the emperor. only to learn through MaoMao that Lishu can't eat a type of fish or it can kill her, and that Lishu isn't really a picky eater. Maomao also called on the Lady in wating so she doesn't do it again and if she does, first suspicion is on her. she also wants to give her a chance because as servants their life is dispensable.
If you like the whole imperial china aspect, I really recommend Guardian of the Spirit or Seirei No Moribito. It's about a bodyguard protecting the imperial prince of a fictional China.
Raw dogging the open air is a phrase and a half.
FBI-kun is about to raid that palace for having that young concubine.
Maothridates.
No, the apothecary does not have a poison addiction, she can quit anytime she wants.
Man.. That's some wild cooking ya'll doing.
To be clear, the one supposed to get the poison is Lady Lishu (young mother in-law) but her lady-in-waiting (silhouette) doesn't like Lishu for being picky eater (probably knowing a bit Lishu can't eat but not knowing it can be severe ¿) so she bullied Lishu by swapping the food with Gyokuyo's food (thus, the poison ended up as Gyokuyo's). Others including Gyokuyo's food have food with fish but Lishu's food has none of that bcs she can't eat it. The lady-in-waiting wanted to see Lishu got forced to eat fish....bullying her (thus the smirk). If the food taster found the food is fine and the food reached Lishu, Lishu had to eat it, in front of emperor she had to eat it. Lishu's lady-in waiting did not know that Lishu is not simply picky eater but she is allergic to fish or the term that time "food she can't eat". The lady-in-waiting did not know allergic can be that severe. If she knew, she wouldn't try because if her lady got sick or died, she as the food/poison taster would get punished too. That's why she's shocked to hear allergic can be that severe and that feeding Lishu knowing she's allergic is the same as poisoning her (but she didn't know so she did not mean to poison Lishu and she's not the one who put poison because she will taste that food before going to Lishu. She wanted to bully her for being picky eater).
However, lucky for her, swapping the food saves her life. As food/poison tester for Lishu, if she did not swap the food, she's the one who has to taste the poison. By swapping food, the poison ended up with Mao Mao who's more resistance to it.... who loves tasting the poison and Mao Mao is grateful for that 😂 up to this episode, who gave the poison is still unknown and the reason why the person gave poison to Lishu is unknown. That's the mystery 🙊😮
The reason Mao Mao keeps quiet about this, Lishu's food taster will be found guilty and be punished anyway in this case because: 1. Even without poison, swapping the food and giving food Lishu can't eat means pretty much the same as poisoning Lishu. 2. With poison, indirectly, knowing or not, she gave the poison that was meant for Lishu to Gyokuyo...in a way, she gave poisoned food to Gyokuyo, knowing or not. Higher ups won't care, that's how little they think about lower rank's life. "Life of food taster is expendable". By keeping quiet, Mao Mao can simply warn the food taster. The food taster is just like ignorant but with proper teaching and some threats😅, her life can be spared and she can be given a chance to do her duties to Lishu more seriously.
Sorry, long read~
Yeah... previous emperor was VERY sick. Brrrrrrr...
Actually Maomao isn't going to think too deeply about the hairpins. Maomao tends to be...
1.) Disinterested in things that aren't related to drugs or medicine.
2.) Prefers to remain or pretend to be ignorant since it's safer.
And yes we should probably be a bit worried about her desire to be poisoned.
As for why Maomao got the bowl meant for Lady Lishu, they'll literally explain it next episode. 😉
So basically Lady Lishu's servants are bullying her cuz she's a kid and she's married to her ex-step son. Her servants gave her the wrong colour dress to embarrass her. Then the tester swapped the food to harass Lishu by making her eat the food she's allergic to (they just thought she's picky & they don't understand the severity of allergies). In doing so, she accidentally swapped the poison unknowingly (which was the next course, the soup following the fish). Some third party meant to poison Lishu, but the poison ended up in the wrong place cuz of the tester trying to harass her master. In other words, the tester lady in waiting meant to harass Lishu with the fish, but didn't know about the poison.
Original plan: Gyokuyo gets fish dish + no poison, and Lishu get vege dish + poison. Cuz it got flip flopped, Maomao got to have a good time lol
What i like and dislike is the potrail of People who dont believe in Allergies.
In this time it makes sence, since there was'nt much known about the condition. (And people were more robust back than)
The Problem is that there are People to this Day who dont believe in it!
Yeeesss!!! I love your reactions!! ❤❤❤
ngl, this show made me feel so dumb because i couldn't follow these plotlines lmao 😂
😂Nah imma need Lupa’s reaction for episode 8, force him to catch up PLEASE 😂
Maomao for the streets is crazy😭
Its the young one's soup that was poison. The meal contrain main dish, soup and tea. The green eye lady dish suppose to be mckerel, soup and tea which all got no poison, the young one dish have jellyfish, soup(poisoned) and tea. The tray got switch between the two, we saw the taster of young one have nasty smile so we can assume that she the one switched the tray so that her lady got to eat mackerel instead of jellyfish, reason why she trembled when mc found the poison was because it would have been her that got poisoned(thus she didn't know about the poison) as for why she switch, we saw at the beginning that they sht talk theirs lady behind her back that she a btch(talk bout chasity ot some shit) and a picky eater "not like she gonna die if she eat that fish" or something like that so we can assume that they got no idea of their lady allergies, that taster just wanna see her "spoiled" lady suffer eating what she hate.
Maomao is the kind of girl Rick James was singing about
I'll let you cook but you both missed the part where Lishu's ladies-in-waiting were bullying her (made her wear pink which is the same hue as Gyokuyo who is famous for wearing red/pink hue clothing within the inner court, and the fact they were whispering between themselves at the start of the episode how she's picky with food, which is why the taster switched it with someone else's food coz they saw it was fish which Lishu 'doesn't seem to like' not knowing she was allergic to it). Notice how every concubine and their ladies-in-waiting have matching colour clothing, it's to represent they're from a certain concubine's side. Lishu ladies are all wearing white instead of matching her because they also don't want to look like they're agreeing with their mistress's decision to embarrass herself, and she also doesn't understand these rules so she just goes along with what her ladies tell her to do. Also the silhouette from last episode that had the same style of hair as Gyokuyo is actually the taster - if you see her hair, it looks the same, so it might be easy to miss.
Sheera-gan was fully charged today
What would happen if Mao Mao and Mithridates had a kid?
My kingdom for a Blue Eye Samurai reaction T-T
Any questions about the food poisoning and food swapping will be answered in next episode, good theory crafting, though.
y’all need to watch kamisama kiss omg
Y'all cooking but next episode will explain it all
At this point the only one who has beef with lady gyokyuo or something her name is just sheera and roshi
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What is with all the Gyokyo hate? Do you believe south park that she is a soulless ginger?
Let them cook
Ok
I mean, the episode decidely paints the empress dowager's age and the young consort relathionship with the previous emperor as creepy. But there is always the possibility the previous emperor was very young himself. I'm pretty sure there have been cases in history where the emperor ascended the throne as a boy.
Except the previous was a pedo thanks to his mom fucking him up mentally. Want to know how old the current emperor's mom was when she had him?
nah the previous emperor is a legit pedo freak
Consider the age of his actual son the current emperor and the fact that Lishu is like 14 rn and 9 at time of being with the old emperor. The current emperor is clearly an adult man so he’s around twice her age. That means at best the old emperor was three to four times her age… and she was nine. Bro…
@@friendist9323 Ah. Well... I somehow forgot to factor in the age of the current emperor. Forget all I said.
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