She concludes that the makeup that many of the courtesans wear contains poisonous chemicals that are affecting not only the babies, but the women who wear them. Seeing as there are currently two babies born to the emperor’s favorite concubines who are both sick with unknown illnesses attributed to the curse, Maomao decides to investigate. But when she hears about a curse on the royal family that kills all of the emperor’s heirs in infancy, Maomao becomes suspicious. For the first three months of her new employment, she was able to keep it a secret in order to avoid getting a higher position that would only end up lining her abductor’s pockets with her hard work. What makes Maomao so different from the rest of the maids at the palace, was that she was taught how to read and write and trained as an apothecary. The story follows Maomao, a young woman who was taken from her family and forced to work at the inner palace as a maid and any earnings she receives is sent back to her “family” (aka her kidnappers).
While the definition of apothecary includes selling medicines, our protagonist in The Apothecary Diaries doesn’t get that economic luxury because of her slavery status. Apothecary: a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.
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