THEY LOST CONTROL?! | The Apothecary Diaries Episode 2 Reaction 

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"She's like a puppy," he says as she, the girl named Cat Cat, bounces around with cat ears on her head Also, Nesa's pronunciation of Concubine is adorable lol

Silver vs Poison: Silver does not react to poison, it react to heavy metal, and most of the poison made then include heavy metal in powder form, which would react with silver. So silver isn't anti-poison, but it allow to detect most of those not fully natural poison.

Maomao clothes VS other Ladies-On-Waiting clothes. - It is not a spoiler, as it is never address in the anime. - When she was a servant, Maomao had the same clothes as the other servants. All of them are commoners, with the lowest status in the rear palace. Nearly every ladies-in-waiting are nobles' daughters or high-standing rich families. Maomao, commoner lady-in-waiting, is higher rank than servants, but lower rank than others ladies-in-waiting. Her clothes show that distinction, so everyone know their status, their power and their place, just by looking at them.

Aphrodisiac: So, a MILITARY OFFICER, a man, offer Jinshi expensive Baozi buns, laced with aphrodisiac. It is safe to say he want Jinshi little butt. If he is attracted to the beautiful male eunuch, he is possibly not attracted to women, may be even seen as women-hating military person. In the mean time, Jinshi ask Maomao for a strong aphrodisiac for unknown purpose. May be those unrelated random stories will come back in the futur?

when she is super happy, she is a cat. that is our Mao-Mao.

Yes there is an inner and outer area of the palace. The palace itself is like it's own city within the city, where the richest and highest status people live I'm not too keen on the details of which concubine is favored highest, but it seems to essentially come down to who the emperor favors most and which woman has a child first, particularly a son. In medieval and renaissance Europe, Eastern Europe, and northern African nations, many rulers would have 1 official wife, some had multiple wives, but usually they had concubines to ensure that the family name and bloodline had a successor. In most of these cases, the child of the wife would hold more status than the child of a concubine, even if the child was younger. Really enjoying your reactions to this series!

22:35 In the first episode they say there are "2000 concubines and servants and 1000 eunuchs" so the emperor has possibly hundreds of concubines. But they are ranked and there are only 4 on the top, the most likely candidates to the position of empress. They absolutely competing, that's why Gyokuyo's food was poisoned twice during pregnancy. It was done by other concubines trying to prevent her to possibly give birth to a boy and win the emperor's favor. Also, there are no "functioning" men allowed in the rear palace at all, it's not because the reasons you listed, but to ensure that every child is the emperor's and therefore a legitimate heir to the throne.

Many ingredients as the cacao and sugar had to be imported from far away, so they were expensive and out of reach of most people, nowadays we are born surrounded by those stimulants since they are cheap and abundant everywhere. Thus the effect of chocolate on a low-class person of the XVI century, would be noticeable.

Lady Gyokuyou daughter name is Lingli. When we see her, Gyokuyou call her Xiaolin. Xiao is a prefix meaning Small/little with an affectionate undertone (like -chan in Japanese). It will come back.

20:07 "is he doing this on purpose?" He ate one of the cookies, that's why they show the tray

A consort is a woman who is selected usually by her family to give birth to the Emperor’s children. They are not wives, but are high status in the society albeit they are isolated and within the Rear Palace there is a pecking order. If a Consort bears a male child she maybe promoted to Emperor’s wife or Empress.

love this show and the writer did a ton of research for it. except that Cacao is native to South America

For the most part, yes, all of the information are real - as well as the inaccuracies, since this usually is a biproduct of the times and isn't trying to be an actual fact.

Man, that are there do not have their "Parts" only Jinshi is the lucky one.😂

Eunuchs cannot have “sex” with semen, thereby never impregnating a Consort. However, they can have some sexual pleasure but also grant that to others men and women. Jinshi is so beautiful men and women lust after him.

A consort is a woman who is selected usually by her family to give birth to the Emperor’s children. They are not wives, but are high status in the society albeit they are isolated and within the Rear Palace there is a pecking order. If a Consort bears a male child she maybe promoted to Emperor’s wife or Empress.