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the horseless carriage implies the existence of a "horse"

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The delusions have taken over … Consort Maomao + Lady-in-waiting Xiaolan

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i keep coming across these "maomao is raised by lakan and fenxian" au ideas and there's also a criminal lack of consort maomao fics on ao3 so now i've got an idea cooking and i want to brainstorm with yall here

La Mao, consort to the Moon Prince

yapping under the cut because this got long

so lakan finds out fengxien is pregnant before he has to leave so he buys her out, but it's not a good idea to take his pregnant wife with him so he leaves both of them behind.

fengxien, not trusting herself to be a mother on her own (because she herself was raised without a proper motherly influence) finds out that lakan's uncle that he dearly trusts has moved to work in the pleasure district and they live together and maomao still grows up around the brothel and her sisters

maomao still cares for her great uncle/adoptive father much more than she cares for her actual parents and she still grows her love of medicines and poisons, but when lakan returns, she's publicly recognized as his daughter.

knowing that she can't visit the pleasure district without drawing attention if she's recognized as a member of the La clan, so she goes to great lengths to dress up very well when she's recognized as La Mao and she takes great care to be as unassuming as possible elsewhere.

flash forward, maomao overhears rumors about both the imperial children dying (and gets curious) and strange whispers of what the Shi clan might be up to (and wants to keep an eye on things closer than her careless father does) and decides to kill two birds with one stone and asks if there's any way she can enter the rear palace.

Lakan obviously doesn't want to give his daughter to the emperor but there's not exactly a way to sneak her into the palace. So he devises a plan- he'll offer her, not to the emperor, but to the moon prince (who obviously can't visit her often or without great preparation if he wants to pretend to be the enuic of the rear palace.

the emperor knows it's not a good idea to refuse the La clan and he's been wanting to push Jinshi towards becoming the prince again so he accepts.

Jinshi is not amused with this situation but he also can't make an enemy of the La clan

so he makes an appearance as the moon prince the first night she's there and imagine his surprise when this beautiful princess with her parents' cold calculating eyes looks up at him and apologizes that they won't be able to keep each other company tonight.

why not? why she's noticed something odd and it seems someone's attempted to poison the moon prince.

Jinshi watches as she solves the mystery and then pointedly asks if the Moon Prince like to leave after such a scare and also asks if someone would fetch Jinshi after all this is sorted out

so obviously she knows the truth.

by the time 'Jinshi' gets there after taking care of the aftermath of the attempted poisoning maomao's changed into her commoner outfit freckles and all and explains that if he lets her do as she pleases she won't force him back into the role of the moon prince

the series then ensues, but with maomao playing a sort of double role as both La Mao (pretend) consort to the Moon Prince and Maomao, La Mao's lady in waiting.

The only problem is, Jinshi is falling head over heals for Maomao, but he's already agreed that their 'relationship' is just for show...

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Apothecary diaries AU with consort Maomao.

Lakan returns but after Fengxian just got sick he buys her and is super protective of her and baby Maomao he takes over clan and also reinstates Luomen as a clan member despite all protests because he is caring for Fenxian.

The emperor hearing about Luomen being back and occasionally stopping by and asking about his medical advice on something in the rear palace only it's Maomao who answers (He and Lahan are of course listening in)

This leads to emperor suggesting Maomao enter rear palace Lakan of course protests but come up with idea Maomao enters as high ranking consort only not assigned to anyone so she's just there and no one can approach her. She'll be able to go where she pleases and have authority so she can be respected with decisions.

Lakan still to happy and wants to make sure she doesn't go in alone so to make sure she has people she can trust with her he gets Meimei, Pairin and Joka to go with her as ladies in waiting. Madame isn't happy about 3 getting bought out but also wants to make sure Maomao is safe (Plus she knows those 3 can show up all the others in there and they've promised to send customers her way)

Maomao of course being adored by the other constorts and after sher and the 3 princesses see Lishu being bullied she is nbasially adopted.

Lishu just nearly always at Moamao's pavilion being doted on my Meimei, Pairin and Joka who adore new baby sister and is anyrone looks at her funny they will end them.

Jinshi absolutely intrigued and smitten by Maomao (He's caught her out in servant clothes picking herbs and hanging around the clinic) and also he's trying to figure out who she's a consort to (Just because he's curious that's all he's not jealous despite what Gaoushun says)

The emperor is just watching waiting until he can convince Lakan to assign Maomao as moon princes consort.

Bonus: Lihaku falling head over heels for Pairin and ending up with Jinshi trying to figure out about Maomao and her amazing sister.

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No one else could've handled them. They won but at what cost.

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I keep forgetting to post things on places that aren’t just TikTok…

This idea came from @ghostinthegutter and their post with the original meme!! I saw it, couldn’t stop thinking about it and had to try :)

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The Apothecary Diaries + AO3 tags

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my favourite part of the apothecary diaries is jinshi freaking out over maomao's impulsive freaky tendencies (but he's lowkey into that)

jinmao in a nutshell:

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I love how immediately Gaoshun has to tell Maomao to stop treating Jinshi like a bug because he's being an absolute freak about it. He's like hey, I know we only met a week ago, but you've already given my insane boss a sexual complex and for all of our sakes you should probably try to avoid activating it

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Maomao, every time she looks at Jinshi:

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Loulan get behind me loulan get behind me LOULAN GET BEHIND ME. This fandom does not have enough media literacy for you I am so sorry

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maomao and her dedication to never discovering anything about jinshi's personal life

fake idgafer final boss

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the love language of hairpins 💔

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your local man who practices all 7 virtues and eats an entire bible everyday is suffering from nutrient deficiency and calls it stigmata