Does the cold-hearted Maomao have a sudden change of heart!? Jinshi is so shaken by her "extraordinarily destructive smile" that he bangs his head against a pillar! "The Apothecary Diaries"

Is she so powerful precisely because she's usually so cold!? The unexpected smile from the detached Maomao (CV: Aoi Yūki) was powerful enough to leave Jinshi (CV: Takeo Ōtsuka) severely shaken.

Maomao usually has little reaction to anything other than her specific interests, like poisons and medicine. She has never fluttered for Jinshi, whose beauty is said to be "nation-toppling," and has always given him the "cold shoulder."

However, in Episode 15, Maomao shows an unexpected expression to Jinshi... At one point, Maomao was thinking about Cordyceps (a type of fungus) and was in high spirits, giggling to herself, "Should I make it into medicinal wine or a pill? Hehehehe." Just then, Jinshi came to visit. When Maomao turned around, she had a melting smile that was unimaginable given her usual attitude. Furthermore, in her high spirits, she greeted Jinshi with "Welcome back!", words she would normally never utter.

Jinshi froze for a moment at this impossible "warm welcome" from Maomao. Then, he began banging his head against a pillar repeatedly, while Maomao looked on with a look of pure disgust.

This scene of the cute Maomao, showing such a huge gap from her usual self, had viewers on SNS knocked out, with comments like, "The destructive power of that smile was insane" and "Anyone would fall in love with that!" Responses to the severely flustered Jinshi included "Jinshi-sama hitting his forehead (lol)" and "His emotions are so unstable it's hilarious (lol)," making it a scene that is fun to watch over and over.