She meets Gyokuyous head lady-in-waiting Honnyan and the three other ladies: Yinghua, Guiyuan, and Ailan.
The previous girl took ill during the times gyokuyous food was poisoned during her pregnancy.
She also earns hazard pay earned as a food taster and the baddies dont get a cut of that.
But she gets a new chance to shine when asked to make an aphrodisiac.
She also offers vital counsel regarding an incident between poisoned soldiers and barbarians.
Maomao gets an earful from Honnyan, but she never intended the treats for anyone other than herself.
While alcoholic, shed built up a tolerance for them such that theyre no big deal forherto consume.
We learn his very presence in the Rear Palace serves as a test of the concubines loyalty.
When one such concubine invites him to her room for tea shes technically failing that test.
Well see if that disinterest lasts, or if Jinshi devises other ways to mess with her.
