Maomao

Maomao (猫猫マオマオ, Maomao?) is the protagonist of The Apothecary Diaries series. She is an illegitimate member of the La Clan raised in the Red Light District. She is a pragmatic individual who is well aware of her position in the world as someone with no status who can be considered expendable at a moment's notice if it means needing to indulge a noble. She often follows direct commands without outward protest and forces herself to not acknowledge (and even withhold) significant events she had witnessed in the Imperial Palace as a form of preservation to herself and others, such as the fact that Jinshi is not the Emperor's brother but his son by Ah-Duo. In part because of her own self-preserving attitude, she finds people who will help others to their own detriment painful to watch.

Three months later, Maomao is later working as a lady-in-waiting. As you're making your way around the inner Palace of Li and towards the location to ask Maomao about something, you suddenly bumped ri…