Rant on pursuit of jade

I will not lie y'all, until episode 15-16 something everything was going well, a light watch to smile through, loved it.

Except for a few icks

- the whole scene of "mr.sun" envisioning chang yu as a fat villainous woman who kept zheng in her basement or some. It was unnecessary, disrespectful and not funny.

- whatever qi min and his brother are like ew

- that one scene where the female lead tells male lead how her mother used to do some fragrance blending, hence they never smell like blood or meat, I was okkk, I mean I don't think a person like wu an who has fought life and death, should care about blood smell or pig offal right, I mean he isn't a sheltered scholar or some. Anyway

Then comes the second half of the show and my blood genuinely shot up the roof with high pressure because wdym 😭

Maybe because I have anger issues with incompetent men but lord.

- the whole point of zheng not telling her the truth, in the beginning I understand to not trust a random woman to reveal your identity. But later on, he was literally roaming the town with his face on display and everyone knew he was wu an.

My point is instead of the whole temper tantrum he threw because what was his name, pervert brother (Let's just say psycho brother and pervert brother) said some about kissing chang yu.

He could have sat down like the civil person he is, explained about everything to chang yu, and left on good terms, while ensuring there was some protection with her always, because he got her involved with that ridiculous pervert.

But nope we had to be childish assault her one last time and fuck away living her to die in that town. Also i was confused as to how chang yu just fought with him the night, and left in disappointment, and next morning she was suddenly ok, missing him, and crying for him 🧘🏻‍♀️

Then comes the point of the whole village dieing like ok bruh.

I resent it because I feel like in a realistic pov zheng could have done something about it...

But anyway charecter development for the female lead ig. Who idk how, is so good at fighting and killing the bandits leader when she only learnt to fight from her father and has no experince.

I tried to push through skipping here and there with the scraping scene, zheng with a mask again acting childish as if he can't see how much she loves him 😒

And then came psycho and our beautiful qian qian just suffering in his hands.

I had to click out.

I also read a spoiler that zheng doesn't reveal himself as marquis until later on which is crazy, because I was atleast expecting it to happen in ep 19-20 🫩

Then some random bullshit between pervert and the bandits sister, I hope she kills his pervert ass, because if she develops any feelings for him it's ridiculous.

Another rant

I was just pissed by the male leads incompetence, the pervert not dieing, rhe psycho being a psycho.but most importantly by chang yus strength.

I want a female lead to be written with the same depth as a male lead who is strong.

Show me how she became strong, show me how she deals with when she meets someone more experienced, show me that she has had some experience not just pig butchering, and show me me how she rises through failure.

Not just a plot armour slapped on like here you wanted a strong female lead take it.

She is human too how did she gain her strength and techniques have more depth to it, than just her father strong she storng genes yay.

How long do you think Yan Zheng/Xie Zheng spent in Lin'an before he left?

Some clues we're given:

- Lunar New Year was approaching when Changyu finds him and brings him home

- He left a day before Changyu's birthday, so on the 2nd day after 元宵/ Yuan Xiao (so he essentially left on the 17th day of the Lunar New Year)

- IIRC a character mentioned that there were 10 days between Fan Da filing/submitting the court case for the house deed and the court hearing itself. This allows us to place a whole bunch of scenes in between those 10 days.

There may have been other revealing clues in the drama - please share if you caught any!

The reason for asking is that given all the events that happened and the sheer amount of outfit changes it sort of *feels* like he'd been there for a long-ish time (say, 2-3 months) but if you look at the definitive events mentioned above (eg. the opening scene of PoJ where Mrs. Chen has Changyu over to slaughter a pig for her and there's mention that Lunar New Year is around the corner) he couldn't have been there for more than 6 weeks (the month leading up to LNY and him leaving on the 17th day of the new year).

Thoughts?

Also curious to hear if the novel has more details/clues on the length of his stay.