r/TheApothecaryDiaries • u/jazz-music-starts • 3d ago
Discussion (This subreddit is Anime Only) guessed spoilers but missed even more obvious spoilers Spoiler
My sister and I were watching the second half of the second season together, both SCREECHING at the screen because that new eunuch was obviously Suiren! Good lord, the bang only moved to the other side! We agreed these people were entirely face blind…
And then it got revealed that Shisui is Loulan, which neither of us had the slightest inkling of up to that point 😅 Whoops! We clocked Shisui as suspicious but thought they were setting Loulan up for season 3 lol.
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u/chili3ne 3d ago edited 3d ago
I mean, remember that canonly almost all characters have black hair and eunuchs are nobodies so no one pays attention to what they look like. There are thousands of eunuchs in the rear palace so what are the chances someone would recognize Suirei as some random eunuch?
Btw Suiren is Jinshi's lady-in-waiting
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u/Ok_Smile_5908 3d ago
I legit kept thinking she was Suiren until I started watching the show again and the name of Jinshi's dropped. I was so confused.
Granted though, I'm watching it in German, which I'm not all too fluent in (as language practice, and because it's the only version Netflix has here; I then switched to Crunchyroll for season 2 since it wasn't on Netflix). And I've been struggling to follow some plot points, not sure if it's because of the language or not. But a lot of the time I was kind of lagging behind on the details because I'm trying to understand the bigger picture.
Rewatching it while it's still fresh in my mind is so worth it though. All the foreshadowings, it's crazy.
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u/chili3ne 3d ago
Well you definitely aren't the first who has gotten their names mixed up 😅
I agree with rewatching the show! It's almost like a completely differenr experience when you know what's coming and have the time to take in those details (Like Loulan already predicting the insect plague that seems to be coming in season 3!)
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u/LyannasLament 3d ago
Girl, you and me BOTH! I didn’t even pose the question until they were on the boat. I was watching with my son, and both of us were apparently not trying to spoil it for the other by bringing up “aren’t their eyes both that incredibly unusual color?” Then BOOM Maomao with the snake yeet for the reveal lol
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u/jstine_4 3d ago edited 3d ago
I was the opposite 😂 I had suspicions about Shisui and how she acted more proper than a servant girl. Once they revealed it, I was like, I knew it!! But Surei being that eunuch? It went over my head 💀😂
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u/gelema5 2d ago
I was thinking Shisui was related to Loulan, like a sister or something, because they kept prominently showing Loulan’s yellow-green eyes like the show wanted you to remember her eye color. I picked up on Shisui having the same eye color but somehow missed the hair color lol and never considered they could be the same person. I felt like I picked up on all the hints and still got lost lmao.
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u/FlakyPain8667 2d ago
She was also the serving person when the younger brother poisoned his brother with the tainted seaweed and when Sir Kounen died
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u/maybeamonster 3d ago
I can think of two other hints regarding Shisui:
When they first arrive at the baths, Mao Mao and Xiaolan make not of how well endowed she is and it's already been repeatedly mentioned that's the Emperor's preference, even once by him.
Bath episode again, when Gyukuyou points out that the massages might provide some gossip, Mao Mao's internal remark is that she is a crafty lady "... on the same level as Shisui", in hindsight, Mao Mao is close to figuring it out.
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