A maid walks alone in the evening. She sees a female ghost who wears white clothes in The Apothecary Diaries Episode 3. The maid is startled. There’s a white clothes female ghost tale in the palace. Maomao knows the rumor through Xiaolan.
Maomao doesn’t care for it. She thinks it’s just an old-fashioned ghost story. She goes to the pharmacy. Quack Doctor changes his attitude after knowing Maomao can make medicine. He shares some herbs Maomao doesn’t know with her. He invites her for tea.
Is the job actually idle? Quack Doctor gives the tea and some cookies to Maomao. She turns into voracious girl. He knows her taste after he made contact with her. Jinshi interrupts the two. He asks Quack Doctor to go to get him a cup of hot tea.
Quack Doctor goes to prepare. He leaves Maomao who wants to cry. Of course he doesn’t just come for tea. He wants her to do a favor. But her good mood is gone. So she doesn’t want to listen to what he says. She comes up with an idea and she wonders if his position is very high.
He doesn’t look like a personal bodyguard. Is it possible that he’s Emperor’s lover? Does he come for the medicine after he used it up? Quack Doctor returns with the tea. Jinshi gives a note to Quack Doctor. He lets him leave. Quack Doctor’s good mood is gone.
Maomao wishes to know why Jinshi visited her. It’s very simple. He just wants to know if she knows the specter case. She knows it but she only treats it as a rumor. So it’s not a rumor but sleepwalking? Maomao is interested in it.
Jinshi knew Maomao would do that. He wants to know if she can heal sleepwalking. She cannot do that because sleepwalking is a mental illness. She cannot heal it with only medicine. But Jinshi mistakes that she can heal sleepwalking without medicine.
She dislikes him and he pushes him away. She claims that she can only make medicine. But he tangles her. She has to agree to it.
Gaoshun takes Maomao to the place of the midnight ghost. He stops suddenly and he asks her not to look at Jinshi as caterpillar. The weird hobby of Jinshi is increased. Gaoshun and Maomao see the female ghost soon. Maomao finds out that there’s a girl wearing white clothes to dance when she faces the moon.
She’s obsessed with the scene. Gaoshun explains it to Maomao that the female ghost under the moon is Consort Fuyou. She’s just a middle-rank consort. She’s going to be given to a military officer. Maomao has an idea after she heard what Gaoshun said.
The next day, she visits Quack Doctor and she asks him about Consort Fuyou. She learns that Consort Fuyou is a timid princess according to his description. But Consort Fuyou is good at dancing. But she tripped when she debuted in front of Emperor.
It wasn’t her mistake. But the accident sent her to the cold palace. She was given to a military officer. Maomao thinks Consort Fuyou was painful after she was given to someone else. So she got sleepwalking. Maomao knows the people who get the illness are mentally unstable.
But she needs more information to prove her guess. She thanks Quack Doctor and she tries to leave. But he remembers something. He leaks that Consort Fuyou is the princess of the small kingdom Anan. He adds that the reward place is there. He thinks the consort doesn’t wish to go there.
Maomao visits Xiaolan. After all, Xiaolan is the best informed. Xiaolan doesn’t let Maomao down. But it makes Maomao meditation. She knows the truth after she asked Quack Doctor and Xiaolan about it. But she cannot speak out the truth. Because it’s just her guess.
Maomao completes the task and she visits Jinshi’s palace. She doesn’t expect that Consort Gyokuyou is interested in it. But she still tells the two about what she knows. But Jinshi isn’t satisfied with the answer. It’s the day that Consort Fuyou is given to the military officer.
Maomao comes to the place to see Consort Fuyou off. Consort Gyokuyou shows up. She knows Maomao has concealed something from her. She wishes her to tell it to her. She promises not to tell it to others. Maomao claims that it’s just her guess.
She tells Consort Gyokuyou that it’s not exactly right. Consort Gyokuyou claims there’s no problem. The military officer who got the reward is Consort Fuyou’s childhood lover, according to Maomao’s investigation. Consort Fuyou and the military officer come from same hometown.
The military officer got reward after he took a big credit. He expressed that he wishes to get Consort Fuyou when he was asked about the reward. He and Consort Fuyou had the wish when they were in hometown. Consort Fuyou’s debut wasn’t a mistake.
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She intended to do that. Because Emperor wouldn’t be interested in her if she did so. She still keeps her chastity. But it’s not guaranteed that Emperor wouldn’t give her to someone else. So she pretends to get sleepwalking. The battlefield is on the east side. The dancing place Consort Fuyou chose is exactly at east gate of the palace.
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It indicates that she danced there for praying the military officer to come back safely. Fortunately, the two’s efforts weren’t wasted. They get what they want. Consort Fuyou might think the scene and the love aren’t real. After all, the man she loves deeply shows up in front of her in such a way.