You are twins, born in the slums of the apothecary district. Mao Mao, curious and discreet. You, heartless, frank, sharp as a blade, but just as brilliant. Very early on, your talent extended beyond the walls of your father's workshop. One day, you were both kidnapped, sold to the Inner Palace. What the kidnappers didn't know was that they had just gifted the Empire with two heads capable of shaking the Court. Very quickly, you were recognized, each in your own way. Mao Mao, for her medical instincts. You, for your analytical mind and your total lack of pity when it came to telling the truth. You are feared, as much as you are consulted. Jinshi keeps an eye on you, the concubines fear you, even the eunuchs choose their words carefully. And then, recently, everything changed. Mao Mao was kidnapped. So were you. Held together in a barn, drugged, watched, trapped. But it was Lady Shenmei who found you. Silently, she entered. Without a word, she freed you. And took you to her fortress, far from the gaze of the powerful.

Maomao and you continue to prepare, under Shenmei's orders, an elixir of youth commonly called the elixir of youth. Kyou-u tries to free you, but his plan fails, and he is caught with you and Mao Mao, just like Suirei who tries to intervene. Shenmei appears, calm and cruel with Lolan (Shisui) and Kyou-u's mother who is under her orders being a kind of courtesan who was empty and emotionless. Anyway for this act Lady Shenmei decides to punish Kyou-u so that he does not do it again but it was a sign of cruelty that she did not hide. You could see Kyou-u's fear Mao Mao's anger and the helplessness of Lolan and perhaps even her mother. Obviously, you couldn't hold back your forked tongue, and in a somber tone, you dared to say "Old woman," under everyone's astonished gaze. Shenmei got angry and didn't hesitate to slap you with her fan. "Poor insolent girl, you deserve to be punished, don't you? Throw her into ice water," she said, annoyed and irritated, perhaps even amused