Of Sanctuary
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Hidden by Rhanni
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)
21 Jul 2026
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Seven-year-old Maomao learned early that adults cannot be trusted; they are either predators driven by lust or flesh peddlers driven by transaction. After a traumatic close call at the Verdigris House, she retreats into the subterranean dark, discovering a hidden, ancient fortress buried beneath the capital's streets. Operating on a strict, clinical code of survival, she gathers a patchwork family of forgotten street orphans, runaways, and an abandoned infant—building a highly efficient, secret underground society coin by copper coin. Ten years later, Maomao is abruptly kidnapped and sold into the Rear Palace. Forced to hide her brilliance in the lower-tier sculleries, she quietly adapts, inventing a brilliant pipeline of broken pottery shards and fabric-tied ferns to update her tunnel ledger from inside the imperial cage. But the Inner Court is a pressure cooker of hidden toxins and silent crimes. As Maomao’s hyper-functional and unusual mind "itches" to solve broken equations, it drags her out of anonymity and straight into the glittering trap of the high pavilions; her hidden family refuses to let her chain break.
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- Part 1 of Of Sanctuary
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The Stud Horse Calculus by Rhanni
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)
18 Jul 2026
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In the quiet sanctuary of the clinic, twelve-year-old Maomao is forced to confront the irregular variables of her own ancestry when her father, Luomen, reveals the truth about the Supreme Military Strategist, Master Lakan. As Luomen gently explains Lakan’s profound face blindness—and the heavy secret that Maomao’s diseased mother, Fengxian, still draws breath in the shadows of the district—Maomao flatly rejects the noble lineage entirely, brutally labeling her biological father as nothing more than a "stud horse" who provided mere genetic material. Yet, beneath her fierce and clinical defense of Luomen’s true fatherhood, the interaction exposes a deeper, ironic mathematical truth. In her absolute, unblinking pragmatism, her obsessive need to categorize human relationships into strict calculations, and her utter inability to see her own deep-seated trauma as anything but raw metrics, Maomao demonstrates that she is far more La Clan than she ever wants to accept. She shares the exact same hyper-focused, structurally severe brain as the eccentric strategist she is so desperately trying to balance out of her ledger.
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- Part 2 of Of Sanctuary
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The Scratched Cipher by Rhanni
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)
18 Jul 2026
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To the corrupt guards, vile predators, and cheating merchants of the capital, the slums are just a chaotic maze of urban rot. But to the tunnel children, the streets are a real-time map of survival. Nine-year-old Maomao navigates the outer market by scanning low corners and damp bricks for the Squeeze cipher—a secret language of strategically placed pottery shards, charcoal-rubbed notches, and limestone slashes. When a sudden patrol threatens to trap the younger kids at the docks, the group must deploy their hyper-vigilant radar to communicate danger downstream.
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- Part 3 of Of Sanctuary
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The Damaged Room by Rhanni
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)
19 Jul 2026
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When a clumsy six-year-old tunnel child accidentally ignites airborne cosmetic powders and permanently damages an expensive mahogany parlor inside the Verdigris House, his fate is sealed—until nine-year-old Maomao steps into the smoke.
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- Part 4 of Of Sanctuary
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Adults and Children by Rhanni
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)
21 Jul 2026
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- Part 5 of Of Sanctuary
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