2024-03-24, 04:17 | Link #541 | |
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That's why I think keeping Fengxian in the annex was both a mercy (the hag would have been justified in letting Fengxian and her daughter die in a ditch) and punishment. It was too late for her health and sanity by the time Lakan came back, but yes, he could have made her more comfortable, and Maomao at least wouldn't have had to worry about starving because of how bad Luomen is with money. |
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2024-03-24, 07:46 | Link #543 | |
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1. At that time Fengxian was the only Princess of the brothel. There were girls with skills and looks good enough not to restore tob sex to keep cuistomers but noone of her level. While today it has 3 of them so no need to train the spre immediatelly. 2. The anime omitted it for some reason but famine happened in the empire that year so it was even worse for extablishment.
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2024-03-24, 08:46 | Link #544 |
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It's a shame because these things didn't need to happen. Poor communication was the root of a lot of it. If word had gotten to him he would have bought her in a hurry and saved the reputation of the brothel. If the brothel owner trusted Loumen when he arrived in the district he could have treated the syphilis before it got to a stage where it was incurable. Things didn't have to end this way, but they did.
This is the closest thing to a happy ending they can get.
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2024-03-24, 08:50 | Link #545 | |
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It is Maomao who knew that even if Lakan didn't understand her message with the withered flower (and of course he did, he's clever), he would fall back to Meimei, becasue she's the only other courtesan he feels any connection with even though he can't recognize her face at all. Maomao wants to see all three Princesses happily married off in the way they'd each fantasize about, hence entertaining Lihaku's ambitions toward Pairin if he's able to satisfy her tastes. Meimei has seemed especially focused on loyalty to Fengxian as her former kamuro. Meimei's interests are seeing her Big Sister get the happy ending that misfortune and miscommunication held off for so long. Why did she keep it a secret this long? Maybe she didn't realize how bad Lakan's face blindness is because he's still been able to recognize her for many years, maybe she thought he would reject an infected woman, who knows for sure, but her breaking down leads me to believe that she really never understood the depth of how much he loved Fengxian back. I also don't think reconciliation with Maomao is possible. She fully views Loumen as her father figure, and the three princesses as her older sisters/mother figures. She's so clinically detached from both her biological mother and father, that it's just not likely for any reason. |
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2024-03-24, 09:12 | Link #546 | |
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There aren't any herbal remedies or folk medicines that can cure syphilis or most of the other sexually-transmitted diseases. There were some treatments that could reduce the symptoms before penicillin was developed but they weren't very effective or they could make things worse -- some involved mercury compounds based on cinnabar.
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2024-03-24, 09:39 | Link #547 | |
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Tragedy is tragedy in the end.
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2024-03-26, 14:38 | Link #549 | |
I disagree with you all.
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2024-03-26, 19:10 | Link #551 | |
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Way later in the series a certain character appeares who sort of plays this scenario (not bin terms of ralation with Jinshi, though).
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2024-03-27, 09:39 | Link #554 | |
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It's a fictional story, in the end. We can't be sure that MaoMao really knows that the disease can actually be cured in some manner but given her omnipotence and omniscience in matters medical and plant lore (thanks to the writer) if the story required it then of course she could cure this disease totally. For good story reasons the disease can't be cured so of course she can't cure it. In-story, a reliable cure for syphilis would be worth a lot of money in that historical milieu. Curing just a few rich nobles would set MaoMao and Luomen up for life. In our world we do have actual cures for syphilis and they cost a few pennies a dose.
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2024-03-27, 11:03 | Link #555 | |
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- Syphilis is curable if it's diagnosed in the early stage. - Luomen, also studied western medicine as well, so it's possible that he might know about non-herbal alternatives as well (he knew about Lead being toxic, which i doubt Chinese Herbal Medicine teaches about). - Nobles wouldn't want to get treatment from a Doctor who was a Eunuch and was banished from the Palace (so there is no chance of them earning money by providing the cure to rich people). Plus, apparently Syphilis is only present in the poor and unprivileged (rich people have their set of STD's to worry about).
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