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  1. Public Bookmark 91

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    Because Mankira isn't nothing, she's not a weapon. She's history, she's survival, she's a soul. The piece of his soul that, through everything, through the gap people failed to bridge, got sharpened instead of shaved.

    Zanka talks to her like she's precious, like she's worth that shred of gentleness. And it…it feels a little like Zanka is talking to Jabber himself.

    Jabber doesn't know how to act.

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    Zanka incorporates Mankira into his morning routine. Jabber copes with the mortifying ordeal of being known.

    To be loved is to be seen.

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    02 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    A very pregnant Maomao is struggling with issues related to people helping her.

    Jinshi puts those thoughts to rest.

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    29 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 74

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    Even apothecaries have their proclivities to certain bad habits.

    Or: Maomao experiments with medicine on herself as a form of self-harm, and Jinshi puts a stop to it.

    *Set after LN 4 and season 2 of the anime, and written with knowledge up to LN 6.

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    28 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 59

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    There was a long, endless minute during the second course in which Maomao froze where she stood behind Gyokuyou, a look of concentration on her face that quickly morphed into rapture. Jinshi felt his blood run cold.

    He had long yearned to see such a look on her face. With a bitter twist in his stomach, more biting than any poison, he thought: I didn't mean like this.

    Or, after Maomao is poisoned, Jinshi faces some difficult truths.

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    28 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 66

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    Maomao sneaks out at night to find herbs, along the way she finds moonflowers.
    moonflowers are known to have medicinal properties, but if too much was consumed, it also has effects such as hallucinations and anxiety, but surely Maomao was capable of tolerating the effects.
    right?

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    28 May 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 93

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    She reaches into the fold of her sleeve and presses her fingers to the small vial hidden there—her own blend, dried mugwort and yarrow, something Luomen had once sworn warded off grief. “Placebo,” she’d told him. “Powerful things,” he’d replied, with that wheezing smile.

    She closes her hand around it.

    Then she walks, one foot in front of the other, away from the only place in the world that had ever smelled like safety.

    She does not look back.

    There is no point.

    The wood is rotting. The roof leaks. And the apothecary—without Luomen—smells like mold and loose ends.

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    28 May 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 66

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    Symptoms: cough, tightness in chest, shortness of breath
    Treatment: a walk, more tea (green)
    Notes: took a walk to the herb patch, went to look into clearing some wolfsbane from the forest.
    Treatment unsuccessful.

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    Jinmao Hanahaki, except Maomao makes her life worse because she doesn't believe Jinshi loves her.

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    28 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 44

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    Jinshi is just starting to droop over his desk like one of Maomao’s herbs left too long in the sun when something cold presses firmly against his forehead. He glances up from the petition at his fingertips to see a frown on Maomao’s face and something glinting sharply in her eyes.

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    28 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 54

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    Maomao didn't feel a pang of heartache when she heard him crying at night, looking for his mother. She did not feel the intense, overwhelming, selfless love every mother should feel for her son, as everyone told her she would.

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    28 May 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 66

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    That dream.

    Maomao knew what it was, who the players were. She had been entirely familiar with it, had even lived through it. What changed was the sequence after that.

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    28 May 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 87

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    Her vision of the gardens blurs and sways momentarily as her foot catches on something. Before she can trip forward, Lahan sits her down on a bench.

    “Did you eat buckwheat?” He asks sternly.

    Maomao doesn’t remember ever telling Lahan about her sensitivity to buckwheat nor ever mentioning it in his presence. His extensive knowledge of her can only thus be the result of his freak tendencies, or worse—that monocled weirdo’s. 

    Yet in that fleeting second, with her burning throat and her trembling hands, annoyance doesn’t come to her.

    “I don’t– I don’t know,” she says, breathless.

    “How can you not know what you put in your own mouth?!”

    There it is. The everlasting exasperation she feels thrumming through her veins whenever her abacus-face of a cousin finds himself in her immediate vicinity. She goes to hit his shin but loses her balance as a new coughing fit racks her body.

    Or: Maomao accidentally ingests buckwheat, and it's not even an assassination attempt. Rude.

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    28 May 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 47

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    With Maomao’s leg injury still in the process of healing, Jinshi insists for her to take a day off despite her stubbornness.

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    28 May 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 58

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    It was a tough day for Maomao during her first pregnancy. Jinshi was away, but what would he do when he returned?

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    28 May 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 82

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    In the suffocating darkness before dawn, Maomao is overwhelmed by a terror she can't escape. Jinshi finds her trembling and lost. He becomes her anchor, offering quiet strength and gentle care, guarding her until the first light brings a fragile peace.

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    28 May 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 76

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    Maomao didn’t mean for him to read the notebook. She was just tracking symptoms, bad medicine, and one particularly persistent court official. But when she collapses, Jinshi finds the pages, and keeps finding her between the sarcasm and side notes.

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    28 May 2026

  16. Public Bookmark *

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    Another day, another tea time where Lady Gyokuyou and Master Jinshi were playing the "return/borrow" game over Maomao like she was a merely a tool being loaned between houses.

    Normally she would simply let their words wash over her.

    Normally she could handle it.

    But today was not normal, and everyone, everyone, had a limit.

    And as the conversation hit the fifteen minute mark, Maomao hit hers.

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    AKA Maomao snaps at two nobles and fears for whatever punishment it might bring.
    Meanwhile Lady Gyokuyou is upset for a different reason.

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    28 May 2026

  17. Public Bookmark *

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    “You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?” Jinshi accused her. His voice sounded more resigned than anything — like that of someone who knew he had no real chance of pulling her attention away.

    He was, of course, correct.

    “I don’t know what you mean sir,” Maomao replied distractedly and without really having heard him as she surveyed the herbs spread out before her.

    Or, Maomao and Jinshi are stranded. Maomao is having the time of her life.

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    28 May 2026

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    Jinshi has a nightmare about Maomao's rescue mission at the altar going horrifically wrong and wakes up without her by his side, causing him to spiral.

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    Jinshi wakes up without Maomao and freaks out

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    Extremely self-indulgent JinMao hurt/comfort ft. Maomao comforting Jinshi cause if you can't find something then write it yourself!!

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    28 May 2026

  19. Public Bookmark *

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    She set the cup beside him. “You know,” she said lightly, though the words felt heavier than they should, “some people consider silence a relief. Peaceful. Blessed.”

    He tilted his head, a glimmer of curiosity in his eyes.

    Maomao couldn’t suppress the hint of a smile. “Not me. I don’t like not knowing what you’re plotting.”

    His lips quirked upward, the movement slow and deliberate. He pointed at the tea, then at her, then mimed a swirl in the air.

    “Ah, yes,” she interpreted. “I poisoned you. Wouldn’t be poetic justice if I didn’t.”

    He rolled his eyes, mouthing, 'Brat'.

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    28 May 2026

  20. Public Bookmark *

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    “Maomao?” He presses, fingers closing over hers and lowering their joined hands to her lap, and she blinks in surprise at the use of her name. “What is it? What’s wrong?”

    “Their technique is sloppy,” she answers honestly. “I feel strain on my heart. They should have targeted the nervous system instead.”

    Master Jinshi stares at her like she’s spoken a foreign language he can’t even begin to try and understand. She tries to explain.

    “Certain snake venoms cause coagulation of the blood, which could have been effective and made the blood unable to move through my veins, but if the end result is simply making my heart stop beating by targeting the muscles involv-”

    “Maomao,” Master Jinshi says, very calmly, “I need you to stop speaking now.”

    (an assassin tries to kill jinshi with a poisoned blade that gets maomao instead) (she is obviously much less concerned about this than everyone else)

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    28 May 2026

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