lady gyokuyou always saying "i will *lend* her to you" or "you may *borrow* her" is so. if maomao isn't the favored concubine's girlfriend then what is all this.

. . . Like, all the class conflict subplot, the overworld/underworld conflict. Cait becoming a military dictator. Mel's. . . Everything. Jinx's mental health stuff. All that. This is how it ends? That was really it?