as a Light Novel reader, the new Apothecary Diaries OP is so brilliantly done, with so many details, hints and so much foreshadowing about what is yet to come in the entire first cour.
And it really confirms that the studio is invested in adapting the source material accurately.
Do you see. DO YOU SEE. Maomao spends most of S3 trying to sabotage her relationship with Jinshi as she believes they can’t never be together, their worlds too far apart. But she still reaches, YEARNS for the waning moon. For the imperfections that make him not prince, but HUMAN.