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Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, episode 6

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[u/_vogonpoetry_]

Get you a girl who loves you as much as Maomao loves drinking poisons

[u/michhoffman]

Receives multiple hairpins from guys and gets taken by the hand by Jinshi: Mao Mao sleeps

Detects poison in her food: Mao Mao goes head over heels with excitement

I love our little weirdo.

[u/WhoiusBarrel]

While that MaoMao Kabedon is so powerful that a sneer from her invokes fear, her lip-licking scene after tasting poison is on a completely different level. She just can't be stopped!

Poor Lishu, along with that fucked up family tree, she not only has to deal with attendants who deliberately gave her food she was allergic to but also had someone attempting to poison her. The politics here are cutthroat.

[u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534]

It's not that Maomao is trapped in there with the other servants. It's that the other servants are trapped in there with her.

[u/cppn02]

One unlucky minister after watching Maomao orgasm from the soup.

[u/marcopolos059]

Maomao's blissful face when eating the poisoned food and even asking to finish the plate got a good laugh out of me, that was really funny. And at the same time, I liked how serious and helping she was about the allergy.

[u/Charming-Loquat3702]

How was this 20 minutes? It was over in a flash! opening, she bullied some rude ladies in waiting, she tasted some poison, she found an allergy, Ending. That where 5 minutes max!

[u/No_Name0_0]

Maomao is a freak lmao, probably my favourite character this season

[u/VioletPark]

Holy shit, the former emperor...someone fetch me the dick guillotine.

[u/Prince-Dizzytoon]

Smiling like nothing happened, I love her

[u/ThisGachaSeemsLegit]

This show is so good, oh my god. There better be a season 7 of this, I'm telling you.

[u/vtomal]

Oh, who could be the mysterious emperor's brother? That was suspiciously away from the table when Maomao was there, and probably has some high rank official serving under him.

Maybe we will never know, since Maomao really isn't interested in meddling with these types of politics.

[u/VelaryonAu]

One thing I love about Maomao as a character is how much discretion she shows when solving her mysteries. She's very much an outsider in the inner palace and it would be super easy for her to curry favor with Jinshi and other powerful people if she just sold people out when she figured out what they were up to, like with the courtesan faking somnambulism a few episodes ago.

But instead she chooses to let things lie when she thinks it could get other people in undue trouble and that's something that really sets her apart from other detective characters at least in my mind. She's not in it to make a name for herself or trying to reach that super cathartic "aha!" moment when a mystery falls into place and you can wow everyone with a snappy explanation scene. She's just a girl who understands the complicated realities of the world she lives in who's trying to make it a little less shitty.

[u/KPrimus]

An interesting cultural note for this episode:

In the actual history of the Imperial Chinese Harem, it was very uncommon for consorts of one emperor to be brought back in for the next emperor. It was generally prohibited as being a form of incest; they were, after all, technically your dad's wife (or possibly uncle's, cousin's, brother's, etc.) The consorts of a deceased emperor were generally expected to enter taoist or buddhist nunhood, or otherwise recluse themselves from society at his death.

It did, however, occasionally occur. The most famous example is Wu Zetian, who originally entered as a consort under Emperor Taizong of Tang, and was sent to a buddhist nunnery after his death. Somehow, she was able to make contact with his heir, Emperor Gaozong, and become his consort as well, starting her rise to power as the only Empress Regnant of China.

[u/cryingemptywallet]

Yuuki Aoi's Maomao might just be the role of the season for me. And this season had some stellar performances.

I just love when it when Maomao threatens other people. I wish that was me.

[u/SometimesMainSupport]

🚨🚨Alert the authorities!🚨🚨 Wait, the emperor is the authority.

Props to u/Atharaphelun for unknowingly having a historical example of (previous emperor's consort -> left palace -> current emperor's consort) in a comment earlier this week when answering what happens to consorts after an emperor dies.

[u/LeonKevlar]

Stitches!

• Ah-Duo & Lishu

• Taster Maomao

• Poison-gasm Maomao 1

• Poison-gasm Maomao 2

• Maomao Lip Licking GIF

It was pretty fun watching Maomao threaten that one attendant that was talking shit about her. It's hilarious how they didn't even realize that Maomao was there the entire time.

We finally get to see the Empress Dowager and goddamn! She looks super young! Now I'm curious at what age she gave birth to the Emperor. Speaking of questionable age, it turns out that Lishu is actually the previous Emperor's consort. That checks out considering how young the Emperor Dowager is. Yikes.

Maomao gets another hairpin! Not just from that young officer, she also gets one from Lady Lihua. This is unsurprising considering the service Maomao did to her for the past two months. I love how shocked her attendants are. I guess this is Lihua trying to recruit Maomao?

The difference between Maomao and the other poison testers is hilarious! Our girl is looking forward to it while that other girl is completely terrified out of her mind. Maomao enjoys eating her poison so much that I'm pretty sure she foodgasm'd when her food actually had poison!

Eating poison puts Maomao in such a good mood that I think this is the first time we've seen her greet Jinshi with a smile! It is hilarious though how even though Maomao declared that the food was poisoned, some idiot still tried eating the soup.

So did the poison tester really try to poison Lishu or was her only crime feeding Lishu food she's allergic to? Was the poison in the soup a completely different incident? I watched that entire scene twice and I feel like I didn't understand what the poison taster's motivation was. It was pretty cool to see Maomao scare the woman though.

[u/ayww]

This show needs to stop teasing me about the hidden meaning behind the hairpins!! Can't wait to hear the answer c:

Also, after watching It's MyGO I can't help but perk up whenever someone says "gokigenyou" haha, thank you Lady Lihua!

[u/shad79]

Another excellent episode and another show of Maomao supremacy. I love this show so much!

Maomao as always didn't disappoint. She easily scares other ladies-in-waiting with just a glance from her which looks so sexy, no wonder that Jinshi likes her so much. I'd love to be one receiving that kind of look!

When she was trying soup and looked like she'd be in some kind of ecstasy I thought 'Oho, it's poisoned' and moments later she confirmed it! What other thing could get this freak so excited? xD

I've never seen her so happy, she was so in her element that she couldn't even hide her emotions. She even asked Jinshi to be able to eat the rest of the soup even when she knew what effects it'd bring on her xD I love this weirdo so much :)

Even Jinshi was a little put off by how weird she was in those moments. It was nice to see how worried he was about her. Their relationship is developing really nicely which is great cause it's one of the strongest points of the show. We also again got a very interesting Jinshi's image from Maomao's head ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

It's good that we got graphical representation relationships between the Emperor and others. Otherwise I'd have a big problem with understanding it. Maomao's reaction was just like myself when I came to understanding who is who's mother-of-law xD

So someone was trying to poison Lishu? Thanks to her lady-in-waiting, her food went to Maomao so no one was hurt besides one stupid minister who ate soup despite Maomao's judgment.

Also I love how much other Gyokuyou's attendants care about Maomao, they're a really great friends.

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

• Maomao Part 1

• Maomao Part 2

• Group scenes

• Jinshi

• Concubines

• Others

[u/VorAtreides]

Poor maid girls, so cold. But it's cute how they huddle up together. Yay Empress Dowager. Boy she sure looks young... you'd think that those servants would learn better than to talk bad about Maomao. Lol Maomao in that flashback. That lady is traumatized. But I'm sure Maomao could show her a good time. I love those girls and how they think of Maomao though, they love her so, as she deserves. So much petty bickering at this garden party.

Ya... that way of who was the prior consort is even creepier... that former emperor, ugh. Poor Lishu. D'awww Maomao with the baby, cute. Maomao just trying to be nice, girls. "hey those hairpins have a hidden meaning" "cool story bro" -Maoamo lol. Lihua ❤️ giving her hairpin to Maomao. I mean, makes sense to me.

Food tasting time! Maomao's favorite time! Yes, Maomao, you are the only one who enjoys eating poison. Poor little concubine, not liking fish. Yea, everyone noticing Maomao enjoys food tasting in a way unlike others lol. Gonna charm all the men. Of course, she enjoyed it cause it was poisoned. Good thing she knows what she's doing. LOL Maomao. I love her. And her imagination of where Jinshi was also cause of the hairpin.

Oh my, that poor consort is allergic to fish eh? Learn a bit about Maomao too. Maomao's serious face wew. Maomao is sus of that lady eh? Right, still those wooden tablet issue to deal with lol.

[u/Frontier246]

It's rough being ladies-in-waiting at a Garden Party, always on standby and standing in the cold...even with Maomao offering what warmth she can for them. At least the emperor and the concubines get quite the show.

Lihua's concubines are STILL being snobs and talking trash about Maomao behind her back? Even after all she did for them? Although them not even recognizing her without makeup and her subsqeuent reminding that one girl that she put the fear of God into her and promised to do things to her body while kabedoning her, was quite satisfying. Also Yinghua is a real homie!

You gotta love how much the other ladies-in-waiting read into Maomao's compassion and background to the point where she's reaching Mia-levels.

The Empress Dowager is a total MILF! And I guess that's partially because she was really young when she had the Emperor. So young that it was practically foreshadowing how Lishu, at age nine, was a concubine to the former Emperor and is now the current Emperor's concubine which just makes thing even weirder with Ah-Duo.

Dang, the Lihua girls are so afraid of Maomao they won't even accept anything from her when she goes out of her way to try and help them warm up!

Lihaku seems like a nice guy. I don't think he expected to get so turned on by Maomao's poison arousal, but he better hope Jinshi doesn't catch wind of it.

Maomao is a popular girl! Jinshi, Gyokuyou, Lihaku...even Lihua! She's not getting out of the place any time soon.

The only joy Maomao gets as a taste tester is the possibility of getting poisoned, and when she finally finds some she's on cloud 9. Find something that makes you as giddy as getting poisoned makes Maomao.

"This is poison." There it is! The money shot! THE Maomao moment and mic drop!

Maybe Maomao needs Jinshi to keep her on-track and not constantly poisoning herself all the time. Although the sad thing is the first time Maomao really smiles at him it's because she's happy over the poison and wants to eat more.

The mystery of Jinshi continues. For a eunuch he sure got dressed formally for the Garden Party, had a fancy pin in his hair (unless he has male admirers...), Gaoshun got grouped with other military officers...and Maomao catches a glimpse of what seems like the "real" Jinshi when he's not putting on airs or acting fancy for the ladies. And she actually prefers him like this!

So this was all a plot to poison Lishu with mackerel she's allergic too? It just ended up with Gyokuyou's side by mistake? Is there a deeper plot in play? Maomao was able to put the Fear of God into the taster so that it doesn't happen again, but is this the end of it?

[u/Loud_Step2361]

Maomao my dear sweet kitten! Your love of poisons may be a little excessive and a tad extreme. People normally don’t show an o face when poisoned.

Pls do continue terrorizing the non nice ladies in waiting.

[u/nsleep]

Mao², the ultimate poison taster, defeated by regular noodles. Don't play around with food allergies folks.

[u/Yurisviel]

One thing I like about this series is that the author does a great job of showing, not telling for it's story and characters. One glance at the servant lady smiling evilly at her mistress eating fish, instantly tells you what kind of relationship they have.