Maomao has found herself working in the “rear palace” of the Imperial palace where the Emperor’s consorts and concubines live but not of her own accord; one day while gathering herbs she was kidnapped and sold to the palace as a common worker and here she remains stuck. She’s not looking to stand out or even excel in her work because people who do are noticed and given better, more permanent jobs and Maomao has every intention of getting out of the palace as fast as possible (plus, a part of her wages go to her kidnappers and she certainly doesn’t want to fill their pockets).
But Maomao does excel in one area, in the use of medicinal herbs and compounds to soothe or poison, and when she realizes why some of the imperial consorts are falling ill she can’t help but leave a note warning them of the dangers in their (most likely lead-based) face paint.
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