UTTERLY chilling! And the SILENCE, it was SO effective.

I had a violent scare from it genuinely

left me numb and uneasy for a couple minutes

I thought there was a glitch in the site

which chapter is it?

In the Light novel it is just described as a terrifying face. So I guess it is up to the interpretation :3

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The manga was actually used by Hyuga-sensei to "fix" some parts of the LN. Maomao being terrified and disgusted is more in line with how she generally reacts to Lakan thanks to her first encounter with him. The anime is following the LN in this part.

I wouldn't call it was a terrified face. Disgusted for sure.

everytime someone asks about her relation to he-who-shall-not-be-named; she says "He's a total stranger"

Also, she's technically right. Lakan was ennobled for his service in the military, so when she was born he wasn't a noble yet.

You are both right and wrong. Maomao is disgusted by her father. To accept she's a noble means recognizing he's her dad. Regardless, she is a noble, even if she doesn't live like one.

@@andrewsuryali8540 just to add, she is a noble now, too. Lakan has not disowned her, and even wants her to move in with him. Since he accepts her as his daughter, she is rightfully aa noble. This is why he keeps trying to buy her from the Verdigris house.

@@Ncyphen Yes. She is a new noble. My point is that her low birth is literally true. This is not too much of a problem in the European feudal system, but due to the Chinese (and Japanese) caste system, in China traditionally only children born after the ennoblement of their father is considered a proper noble, unless the children themselves then get ennobled (which is impossible for Maomao because she is a woman). In Maomao's case she'd be considered a noble daughter but not one to be sought after unless Lakan has no other heirs. Conversely, as shown in Dreams of Red Mansions, proper noble daughters were highly sought after even when their family was destitute and ruined. Basically, Chinese nobility were very strict about the actual circumstances of a birth. Ironically, Maoamo technically has EXACTLY the right social status to be eligible as a consort in the rear palace.

So well said! Because her adoptive father always told her not to make speculations, she dismisses her theories, not even realizing how close she’s hitting the truth.

What chapter is this in the manga?

@@zaos6605 chapter 29

Original Source is still the Light Novel from which it is adapted. Manga adaption, as is often the case, is just used to take reference for Character designs, especially ones who have not gotten a Illustration in the LNs

@@zaos6605 Chapter 29 and 30/Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 7-10 for this Episode

@@Sheppart92 I never read any light novels but the manga's art style on this one is just soooo detailed and superb. I bet both manga and anime did justice on the LN. 💕

I hear you. I cannot wait for the episode with Go. I can't wait to see (spoilers byond for those who do not know) . . . . . . . . . Lakan break out in hard emotion when he realize the woman he loves is still alive. The story handles it so well, making you hate and detest the guy as some kind of villain, when really he was heartbroken "knowing" the woman he loved was dead and longed to be a father to Maomao. Maomao dancing to celebrate the purchase of her mom felt amazing. Where I'm at in the novels, Maomao's mom has already passed away. Lakan was heartbroken again and lost his mind in grief for several months.

He became so powerful to the point that even the Emperor himself don't want Lakan to be his enemies.

​@@belleboni2016damn it mean he acutally high in militry rank

well I wouldn't say that's so much from the power of his position, but just rather how insanely intelligent he is, especially as a strategist.@@belleboni2016

@@runajain5773 In the LN and manga Jinshi equated him to Taikoubou (Taigong Wang / Jiang Ziya). For context, Jiang Ziya in history was the grand strategist and head of the military of the Zhou dynasty who was also co-founder of the dynasty. In fiction, Jiang Ziya was the man who literally "created" the Chinese gods; elevating the great heroes and supernatural beings involved in the Zhou Usurpation to divine status by petitioning Heaven. That is to say, Lakan occupies the post of top military strategist and is in charge of personnel promotions in the army.

@@andrewsuryali8540 oh okey because I do not know chinese military post and emperor history stuff I know how many dynasty come and gone but not detail I know tang dynasty ruler are mongol , song dynasty help human discoveries like invent paper and stuff for better for han dynasty where chinese got original identity as han chinese and Ming dynasty I do not know about dynasty then quin dynasty defeat Ming then quin rule ruler over china Tibet Mongolia xin quina region then European weak quin dynasty then a lot of revolution and new government form then japan invade slaughter million of innocent chinese and kmt fight back them they civil war between nationalist and communist and communist control mainland China and kmt form government in Taiwan Sorry english is my second language so it could grammatical mistake

Leoman (or Luoman, I can never remember) and the Verdigris house know. They told Maomao to hide because Lakan keeps trying to buy his daughter to be a father to her.

@@Ncyphen My bad, by no one I meant that no govertment official knows

Er, no. GAOSHUN told her not to go to the military section. She herself already went there TWICE to get to the herb mound.

@@andrewsuryali8540 while wishing "he's" or "that person" is not there each time she goes there... The foreshadowing is already there

@@zellrang This is a spoiler, but... Maomao didn't know until Jinshi told her what kind of official Lakan was. Not even Meimei (who actually loved him) did. The crazy thing is that none of the women in Verdigris House ever bothered to ask Lakan what his job was, probably because it's ingrained in their minds to maintain customer confidentiality. Plus, they got used to seeing him as the monocled weirdo villain who hurt one of their own (except Meimei, who knew the full story because she was Fengxian's servant girl). Lakan himself kept everything a secret outside of court. Only Luomen knew (because Lakan is his nephew) but nobody asked him either. Fengxian's whole tragedy stemmed from exactly this ignorance. The reason she thought she'd been abandoned was because she didn't know Lakan was a military officer who had to deploy away from the capital for years. To be fair, most people expected military officers to look like Lihaku and Basen (or Gaoshun), not a sneaky suspicious nerd. The Three Kingdoms trope of military strategists being geeks is a result of the writer of the novel being a Confucianist scholar promoting his biases. IRL most military strategists were more like Zhou Yu than Kong Ming. For that matter, the real-life Kong Ming also led troops from the front while riding a chariot in full armor.

will need more tissues!

I think it will be the finale of this season. There was a shot of Mao Mao dancing on the walls in the trailer and it is part of the same arc.

so the poison used in romeo & Juliet is suposed to be Belladona, which looks similar to morning glories, according to google.

I was gonna say this😊

Problem would be whether he would understand it or not. It's quite confusing the first time, because rather than story plot, it's more about individual emotions.

the anime particularly, want's you to hate Lakan SO Badly that it kinda spoiled it for me, thee effort is too great for it to be real...

Though, the reason she is disgusted with him is different.

@@Sup_D Spoiler: No it is not, she does tell in the manga that the reason is that since she was young he daily visited the verdigris house in order to meet her, giving her the wrong vibes about the reason why he wanted it, and he was really insinstent even though he was told off... over time she learned to despise him based on the reactions of all the other ocupants of the verdigris house. in the light novel this is stated to be only part of the issue, the real problem is that she never forgave what he did to her mother. This revelation comes much later.

​@@m3divh I have read the Manga, so i know. It's more to do that, when Lakan first appeared in front of Maomao (who was a child), he was quite bloody (because Madam had beaten him priorly) and was acting like a manic/madman. That scared the heck out of Maomao which also instilled a sense of disgust she has toward him. And he kept appearing like that infront of Maomao continuously regularly (aka., getting beaten by Madam to the point of being bloody and then laughing like a manic in-front of young Maomao, and it was this that desensitization her towards him).

Nope. Lakan has legally recognized Maomao as his daughter and she is thereby a noble, even if Maomao does not want to be associated with the creep. Later in the books, beyond the scope of this arc, Jinshi abuses Maomao's noble status to drag her along on a journey. I won't go into more detail to avoid spoilers.

Morning glory seeds can also be hallucinogenic

Ahhh I can't wait to the next episode then. I haven't read the manga. I wish I could read it.

that lady is clearly mao's mom, how clear do u want it to be. she is a high level courtesan, lakan took her virginiy and she get pregnant with mao. she is reduced to nothing as what mao said in this episode because of that. her name is FengXian.

LOL

im like Saitama trying to disguise himself