What makes The Apothecary Diaries enjoyable is that in a rear palace, where everybody wears a mask, Maomao alone lives as herself. Maomao, secure in her attachment despite growing up in the pleasure district, and Jinshi, who has everything and is starving for recognition — the distance between two opposites closing is fine teaching material on the psychology of love.
This page reads 15 The Apothecary Diaries characters through three layers: MBTI as the outward personality, attachment style as the hidden side, and a Big Five type. Rather than simply assigning a type, Why this type from what they do in the story and where they came from — that is how this site works.
📊 Attachment styles across the The Apothecary Diaries cast
The comparison baseline is the attachment split across 42,256 quiz responses: 30.1% secure, 15.5% anxious, 13.7% avoidant, 40.6% fearful-avoidant.
Maomao's unflappability comes from the calm way her adoptive father Luomen raised her. Not where she was born, the pleasure district, but whether there was a carer who answered her — a heroine who embodies the core of attachment theory.
🧩 Reading the relationships in The Apothecary Diaries through attachment
The Apothecary Diaries reads relationships inside the closed world of a rear palace. Maomao grew up in the pleasure district and is not bent by it, because her adoptive father's love is underneath. Jinshi is so beautiful that nobody ever reacts to him normally, and Maomao failing to react at all was the first time he was treated as a person. Consort Gyokuyou holding wariness and sociability together, Lakan's inability with people — the subject throughout is how distance is kept.
📖 Character list (tap to jump)
The artwork is 16 MBTI types × 4 attachment styles = 64 combinations character images. When the same picture appears twice, those two match all the way down to the 64-type level.
Gaoshun
ISFJ
Avoidant
Maomao
INTP
Secure
Jinshi
ENFJ
Anxious
Consort Gyokuyou
ESFJ
Secure
Consort Lihua
ISTJ
Anxious
Lakan
ENTP
Fearful-avoidant
Consort Ah-Duo
ISTP
Secure
Xiaolan
ESFP
Secure
Shisui
ENFP
Fearful-avoidant
Lihaku
ESTP
Secure
Consort Lishu
ISFJ
Anxious
Luomen
ISFJ
Secure
Basen
ISTJ
Anxious
Suzume
ENTP
Secure
Suirei
INTJ
Avoidant
🍵 Gaoshun: MBTI ISFJ, attachment avoidant
Jinshi's faithful caretaker. He is a hard worker who does not show his emotions and arranges everything from a distance.
MBTI radar (ISFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Gaoshun is ISFJ × avoidant
He keeps Jinshi's days and Jinshi's mood in perfect order — an ISFJ of reserved introverted sensing × extraverted feeling (Si-Fe). He shows nothing on his face and takes everything in from a step back. Loyalty in the shape of a duty: a professional's avoidant type, holding the distance.
🧪 Maomao: MBTI INTP, attachment secure
Curiosity about poison and medicine is walking around wearing clothes. Even though he grew up in a red-light district, he is an unwavering observer whose foundation is his adoptive father's love.
MBTI radar (INTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Maomao is INTP × secure
Tasting for poison and experimenting on herself: curiosity wins every time — an INTP of introverted thinking (Ti) absorbed in pharmacology. Born in the pleasure district, with her adoptive father Luomen's quiet affection underneath, she is unmoved by the intrigues of the rear palace. She looks eccentric and her attachment is secure: the strongest observer there is.
🌙 Jinshi: MBTI ENFJ, attachment anxious
A eunuch who rules the inner palace with the beauty of a celestial maiden. The reason I only show my real face to Maomao is because I want people to see me, not my role.
MBTI radar (ENFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Jinshi is ENFJ × anxious
Sociability in its finished form, ruling a rear palace with the smile of a celestial maiden — an ENFJ of extraverted feeling (Fe). He has lived a role since the moment he was born — imperial brother, and a eunuch in pretence — and though people adore Lord Jinshi, nobody has ever seen him. That Maomao's flat treatment attracts him is because for the first time the role…
🌺 Consort Gyokuyou: MBTI ESFJ, attachment secure
A senior consort who fends off the conspiracies of the inner palace with a smile. An intelligent and stable person who balances vigilance and sociability.
MBTI radar (ESFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Consort Gyokuyou is ESFJ × secure
A clever consort who handles even an attempted poisoning behind a smile — an ESFJ of sociable, watchful extraverted feeling (Fe). Disadvantaged by foreign blood, she swims the rear palace on wit and character. The capacity to treat Maomao as an equal comes precisely from a settled self.
❄️ Consort Lihua: MBTI ISTJ, attachment anxious
High dignity is the opposite of responsibility. A proud princess recovers from the sadness of losing her child.
MBTI radar (ISTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Consort Lihua is ISTJ × anxious
A pride that holds to the form and the duties of a consort — an ISTJ of disciplined introverted sensing (Si). In the grief of nearly losing her child and being poisoned herself, she accepted Maomao's rude advice and recovered. The hauteur is armour worn by someone who has spent a life meeting expectations: an anxious type…
♟ Lakan: MBTI ENTP, attachment fearful-avoidant
A tactician whose face looks like a Go stone. My life is scarred by the regret of not being able to drop the one person whose face I could see.
MBTI radar (ENTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Lakan is ENTP × fearful-avoidant
A genius strategist to whom human faces look like go stones — an ENTP of board-reading extraverted intuition (Ne-Ti). The regret of not buying out Fengxian, the one person whose face he could see, is the great wound of his life. Behind the eccentricity, a fearful-avoidant type carrying one failure of love.
🗡 Consort Ah-Duo: MBTI ISTP, attachment secure
A former senior consort dressed in dignity. A quiet strength that doesn't waver even after losing everything.
MBTI radar (ISTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Consort Ah-Duo is ISTP × secure
The bearing of a woman in men's dress, and a quiet capacity to decide — an ISTP of active introverted thinking × extraverted sensing (Ti-Se). Having lost her child, her position, everything, she did not come apart, and chose her next way of living herself. A mind that carries a loss without wavering belongs to a mature secure type.
🍡 Xiaolan: MBTI ESFP, attachment secure
A servant girl who loves gossip and snacks. Natural brightness that acts as a soothing frame for cats and cats.
MBTI radar (ESFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Xiaolan is ESFP × secure
A maid who puts everything into gossip and snacks — an ESFP of extraverted sensing (Se), enjoying today. Bound to hard indentured service, she laughs without a cloud on her, and remains one of Maomao's few ordinary friends. A secure type in whom brightness of temperament beats harshness of circumstance; her presence is what keeps the rear palace…
🦋 Shisui: MBTI ENFP, attachment fearful-avoidant
An innocent maid who loves insects—her true identity is Consort Loulan, who is burdened with the fate of her family.
MBTI radar (ENFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Shisui is ENFP × fearful-avoidant
She chases insects wherever her interest goes and laughs with Maomao — an ENFP of extraverted intuition (Ne). That innocence, though, is the real self a girl raised as a piece in her clan's revenge was permitted only briefly. For someone whose attachments were made into a family's instrument, having a plain relationship at all is…
🛡️ Lihaku: MBTI ESTP, attachment secure
Military officer of the inner palace. He treats cats and cats without worrying about differences in social status, and has an honesty that is rare in the royal court.
MBTI radar (ESTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Lihaku is ESTP × secure
He reacts to what is in front of him with his whole body — an ESTP led by extraverted sensing (Se). The grounds for a secure reading are that he stands inside a rear palace full of scheming and does not measure people by rank or by usefulness.
🌼 Consort Lishu: MBTI ISFJ, attachment anxious
A girl who entered the inner palace at a young age. I lived my life by erasing myself so that no one would hate me.
MBTI radar (ISFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Consort Lishu is ISFJ × anxious
She reads what is expected of her and fits herself to it — an ISFJ of introverted sensing (Si) and extraverted feeling (Fe). The grounds for an anxious reading are how thoroughly she puts the other person's mood ahead of her own wishes.
🧪 Luomen: MBTI ISFJ, attachment secure
Cat and cat's adoptive father. Although he lost everything as a eunuch, he could not let his grudge be passed on to the daughter he raised.
MBTI radar (ISFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Luomen is ISFJ × secure
He helps people by stacking up knowledge and procedure — an ISFJ of introverted sensing (Si) and extraverted feeling (Fe). The grounds for a secure reading are that his leg and his position were taken from him unjustly, and he never brought that anger into how he raised his daughter.
🛡 Basen: MBTI ISTJ, attachment anxious
Jinshi's bodyguard. My father's back is too big and he is always straining too much.
MBTI radar (ISTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Basen is ISTJ × anxious
He builds by procedure and precedent — an ISTJ of introverted sensing (Si) and extraverted thinking (Te). He tries to carry out the role he is given carefully, and does not change a judgement because of the mood in the room.
🐦 Suzume: MBTI ENTP, attachment secure
An elusive maid. Convey only the necessary information accurately while remaining easy-going.
MBTI radar (ENTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Suzume is ENTP × secure
She lays out possibilities and moves a room with them — an ENTP of extraverted intuition (Ne) and introverted thinking (Ti). She disarms people with a joke and, in that opening, leaves behind only what needed saying.
🌿 Suirei: MBTI INTJ, attachment avoidant
Medical officer's assistant. They treat even their own life and death as a means to an end.
MBTI radar (INTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Suirei is INTJ × avoidant
She decides the ending first and works backwards — an INTJ of introverted intuition (Ni) and extraverted thinking (Te). She moves by plan rather than by feeling, and takes a long time bringing things towards one result.
❓ Frequently asked questions
How many The Apothecary Diaries characters are listed here?
The Apothecary Diaries currently has 15 characters listed. Each one carries MBTI, attachment style and a Big Five type, with the reasoning for the call. (Gaoshun, Maomao, Jinshi and others)
Which attachment style is most common in The Apothecary Diaries?
Of the 15 listed here, the most common is secure at 7 (47%). On MBTI, ISFJ leads with 3. Ways of keeping distance differ even inside one work, so the same MBTI does not mean the same way of relating to people.
Is this type assignment official?
Not official. This is our editorial reading, based on actions and descriptions in the work. It is not a psychological diagnosis and not the view of the people or studios involved.
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