When Jinshi finds the meeting place, Maomao prepares to leave, and he grabs her arm, almost out of panic, and asks why. She says she’d blow his cover if she accompanied him further, and so their jaunt about town ends suddenly and without, as Maomao puts it, any “apparent emotion” despite Jinshi’s line of questioning cutting so close.
He heads to her pops’ to sleep, but wakes from a nightmare influenced by her talk with Jinshi, where she, a mere babe, is about to be stabbed to death by her own mother. While she ostensibly has the day off, her dad asks her to take some medicine to the Verdigris House.
Turns out the medicine is for a woman in an isolated annex of the house who is suffering from syphilis, and is, judging from her green hair, most likely Maomao’s mother. That’s never confirmed or stated by anyone, but why else would she dream of a similar-looking woman trying to murder her when she was a baby?
Maomao doesn’t show them this week, even when she’s bathing with Meimei and the other two Verdegris princesses, but her arm scarring looks an awful lot like the scarring on the bedridden courtesan I assume to be her mom. Despite that mark, the ladies once again relay the Old Madam’s offer to make her a courtesan, which Meimei considers a good deal.
Back at Jinshi’s, Suiren can see how Maomao’s surface lack of interest in Jinshi is affecting him, and as they share a drink during their break, Suiren tells Maomao that only categorizing people by birth and status can lead to “missed opportunities.” While Maomao is at at the military apothecary for a pick-up, she encounters Suirei, one of the court ladies Maomao believes doesn’t care for her too much.
Jinshi is paid another visit by Lakan, who calls Jinshi a “thief” for snatching up Maomao before he could. Lakan will pay whatever price Jinshi asks, but it’s clear Jinshi has no intention of selling Maomao at any price. That said, he may be hampered by what Lakan knows of his true identity, something he’s managed to keep from Maomao. When Jinshi relays Lakan’s desire to meet with her, he sees a haunting face he’s never seen Maomao make, and assures her he’ll turn him down.
When Maomao happens upon a mound of earth where an ersatz herb garden is growing, she geeks out until she’s confronted by Suirei, who moonlights as an apothecary and has been planting things there. She “jokes” that she’s growing plants to make a medicine that resurrects the dead, but Maomao initially took her dead seriously. If such a medicine exists, Maomao would want it more than anything. The question is, who does she want to resurrect?
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