It was Shishou, yes! The story does a good job of explaining exactly wtf their deal is in a short amount of time imo but there is definitely room for extrapolation. Timeline wise, I would guess not, because iirc Loulan never goes to the palace-- actually Loulan isn't even born until after the emperor dies/is on the verge of death askdjhfskjhsks. Since the emperor dies/is on the verge of death shortly after Suirei was born and Suirei is a good uh three or so years older than Shisui, so unless Hiroe was at the Imperial Palace before meeting Shisui, I doubt either of them would have met the former emperor. Which frankly, thank god.
God right. I also wish we saw more Shisui as Loulan if only because her act is great and sad at the same time. But there is quite a bit of it in the coming episodes! And why she's so singed in my icons. Well. :D
Re: her ladies in waiting that is an excellent point and I have thought so much about it. My final theory is that only a few handful of them i.e. her extremely inner circle knew that Loulan would sneak off to be a maid because they probably knew when she disguised herself at the main Shi house as well. But that's all they knew because Loulan wanted them to have some level of plausible deniability to keep them safe and they had practically no idea of the rebellion beyond maybe a couple of whispers back at the main house, except for maybe one or two. I think that because she had like 50 of them out of necessity and she obviously couldn't have let everyone in on the issue. Considering I believe Renpu didn't know, I think this is the most likely theory. Coin toss on whether that succeeds or not because of the severity of the crime committed by the Shi clan, but I assume she tried her best with how tied her hands were.
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God right. I also wish we saw more Shisui as Loulan if only because her act is great and sad at the same time. But there is quite a bit of it in the coming episodes! And why she's so singed in my icons. Well. :D
Re: her ladies in waiting that is an excellent point and I have thought so much about it. My final theory is that only a few handful of them i.e. her extremely inner circle knew that Loulan would sneak off to be a maid because they probably knew when she disguised herself at the main Shi house as well. But that's all they knew because Loulan wanted them to have some level of plausible deniability to keep them safe and they had practically no idea of the rebellion beyond maybe a couple of whispers back at the main house, except for maybe one or two. I think that because she had like 50 of them out of necessity and she obviously couldn't have let everyone in on the issue. Considering I believe Renpu didn't know, I think this is the most likely theory. Coin toss on whether that succeeds or not because of the severity of the crime committed by the Shi clan, but I assume she tried her best with how tied her hands were.