#luomen

[princessbakarina]

obsessed with the la clan. nerds who are too smart for their own good. would rather not involve themselves in politics but gets involved to get what they want. became too important in their jobs and can't quit. hyperfixations that last a lifetime. loyalty that can be bought by dangling their current want in front of them. any information that isn't about what they're interested in enters one ear and out the next and out the window. the most cockroach clan in the country.

[magadauthan]

Thinking about the Japanese tendency towards nuance and understatement and Luomen's reaction to Maomao going missing. She's his daughter, she means the world to him, he's taught her his pharmaceutical and differential diagnosis skills even though it leans towards the taboo for a woman to do so. It hits like a brick for him to dismiss her short disappearance so casually in front of a freaking-out Jinshi.

One year, with Luomen not knowing whether Maomao was alive or dead; a year of worrying and waiting, and nothing he can do about it even if he hadn't been exiled from the rear palace. Jinshi is pitching a fit about ten or so days, and meanwhile the machinery of the emperor's rear palace is responsible for the disappearances of so many young women who get picked off the streets to serve, with their own parents left to wait and worry and watch.

"One time, Maomao went missing for a year" is a deserved slap in the face for the men responsible - hey, Jinshi and fam, this time you and your retainers are concerned because Maomao is your pet House MD, and how do you think Luomen felt? Suck it up, buttercup, and maybe it's about time to rethink how things are done around here.

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

La Clan Supremacy 🫡

[bluebelledmoon]

THE WAY LAHAN LITERALLY TATTLE TAILED ON LAKAN FOR ARGUING WITH JINSHI TO HIS UNCLE. CRYING ON THE FLOOR

only one who can reign in the master strategist who's helped to topple nations is his uncle the apothecary

[jinkazuiyue]

[neo--queen--serenity]

This scene is so funny because the answer to their question is laughably obvious.

Maomao would rather die than acknowledge it, but THIS is the type of person the girls were imagining:

These ladies have never met Lakan—they don’t know him either by face or character—yet his personality was what they had been expecting when they were told they were getting to meet the man who raised Maomao.

[sayammm]

sometimes, i'd like to think that Luomen is quite lucky bc he's the father of this cutiepatootie then i remember, this cutie is also a gremlin and has probably caused Luomen so many sleepless nights and had him resort to burning precious medical books (he did it so she wouldnt read them)

[onedivinemisfit]

Courtesan!AU - solving of the first plot, and where to find Luomen in this verse~