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    No one knows about the golf bet between MI6’s Chief of Staff and its most infamous agent. And that’s exactly how they like it.
    Just two professionals enjoying a perfectly respectable game of golf.
    Nothing weird. Nothing suspicious.
    Except for the part where they are playing a round of strip golf.

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    22 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 48

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    Jinshi has been ordered by the Emperor to inspect the progress of the potatoes and other crops Lahan's brother helped set up in some of the more remote villages of the Eastern Province. There's a catch though... Apparently dreamed up by the Empress herself: He's to do so under the guise of a merchant traveling with his wife. And who better to play the part than a certain apothecary...

    Otherwise known as: everyone is tired of Jinshi and Maomao dancing around each other and conspire to get them to work things out already.

    Some slight spoilers up to LN14. It shouldn't be anything too dramatic, but if you want to make sure you're not spoiled for anything, definitely read the light novels first.

    ALSO: So far, if you want to skip really explicit scenes, the only chapter that has that is Chapter 5. I've made it fairly stand alone, so you can skip over it pretty easily if you want to avoid that kind of thing. I'll update here and at the beginning of any future chapters that have more explicit materials as well.

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    31 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 22

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    A collection of essays about our favorite buns. The chapters are not interconnected. A part of them is a continuation of the LN's scene, a part is a continuation of the canon. A brief description of the chapters and spoilers before each chapter. New stories can be added whenever inspiration strikes the author. Chapters 1 (Events take place after mid-Season 2 of the anime), 2-3 are continuations of the novel scenes, chapter 4 contains minor spoilers of the events of the novel, 5-7 are post-canon, all events are fictional.

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    Last updated: "Divination"
    (No spoilers. Events take place after mid-Season 2 of the anime).

    Midsummer in the Imperial Rear Palace is a time of heavy fragrances, the endless drone of cicadas, and... dangerous nonsense.

    While Maomao dreams of nothing more than the quiet sorting of medicinal herbs, her friends have become obsessed with late-night divinations. The skeptical apothecary is certain: any "magic" is merely physics, biology, or someone’s sheer clumsiness.

    Is fate truly nothing more than dry mathematics? And if the answer is already pre-determined by the number of petals - is it possible to change it?

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    31 Jul 2025

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    In the sterile logic of the 21st century, there is no room for ghosts. A lesson learned through years of therapy and medication. The life he remembers - An imperial court, a forbidden love, a promise shattered by death - is not a memory. This grief, not a wound to be healed, but a symptom to be managed. The life he remembers is given a clinical name - his memories are the illness; the prescription is to forget.

    For more than a decade, he tried to believe them.

    But when a viral video captures the face of a bottle girl in a Shanghai night club, the lie comes undone. It is her - The same cynical eyes, the same untamable spirit - The ghost had made flesh.

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    30 Jul 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 51

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    "And here now is the problem. Maomao isn’t actually a very good liar."

    (Spoilers up to the end of LN 12!)

    In the bandit camp Maomao is questioned a little more incessantly on the topic of her supposed husband.

    "The best lies, in her experience, are always the ones closest to the truth. The ones that weave the threads of fact and fiction into one, uniform fabric, indistinguishable.
    There is only one person who has ever expressed real interest in her hand in marriage. Who has held her in his arms and kissed her. There can be no future for their relationship in truth,
    but just, says the little voice in the back of her head, imagine."

    In which Maomao has to improvise and talk some more about her "husband", Xiaohong grows stronger and is smarter than anyone gives her credit for, and Jinshi is only there by hearsay, until he finally has his Maomao back. Then he is, once again, so in love.

    AU / Missing scenes of the bandit camp and what happens after.

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    29 Jul 2025