>>280324691
Genuinely my favorite character in all of anime this past year.
She's obviously very polarizing, but that she took what she had to work with and pulled off something this big was quite impressive.
>>280324950
My impression was that she sold the hair pin before she got on the boat overseas so that, on the chance that someone from the palace found it for sale on one of the trinket stands and somehow ends up back at the palace (perhaps on another girl's head), it would be her last message to Maomao that she made it. I think Maomao said as much that this is where they might find it.