It just hit me so hard, like in the last chapter/part, we see Maomao checking her finger that it has rather grown well, and here when it comes...
<3 to Maomao, and <3 to Rakan as well (I mean, he has some faults + bad circumstances, so even he needs some love)
Obviously, Maomao > Rakan
PS - This also shows the reference to the part when Maomao calls a courtesan "an idiot" who gets infected by syphillis by her "lover". She says so because her own father sorta abandoned her.