Pursuit of Jade: Ep 14-Ep 15 Recap - Extra(judicial) Fun at the Festival
Previous Recaps: Ep 1-5, Ep 6-9, Ep 10-11, Ep 12-13
Novel fan translation: Chasing Jade
Main characters:
Zhang Ling He as Xie Zheng/Yan Zheng, Marquis of Wu'an
Tian Xi Wei as Fan Changyu
Ep 14: Uncle Zhao gives his wife a bracelet for New Years. Fan Changyu falls asleep before managing to kiss her fake husband so he puts her and Changning to bed. Xie Zheng finds a New Year's envelope from Fan Changyu under his pillow and thinks about when his parents were still alive.
Yu Qianqian and her son arrive to visit. Bao'er is wearing a tiger on his head?
A woman approaches Bao'er and he lies about his age and name. The kids go missing briefly again. They all have a snowball fight.
the lack of mittens disturbs me
Qi Min learns from his nanny that the child's birthday is wrong to be his kid, but he's kidnapped Bao'er's nanny as well and figures out the truth. He's not acting yet because of Xie Zheng.
Wei Xuan's soldiers are arrested for harassing citizens, he marches up and arrests He Jingyuan in revenge. He demands a huge amount of grain from the remaining people in charge (like an idiot). But back to the cute family!
Fan Changyu discovers that women are writing her former fiance's name on their lanterns and starts wiping them off to "save the girls." She is discovered by Song Yan, who offers to release a lanterns with both of their names (dude, stop). Fan Changyu talks back to him and the magistrate's daughter, eventually helped by Xie Zheng, but says she's not satisfied by verbal attacks... so they leave Changning to count and beat him up
couples who beat up annoying ex fiances together...
Xie Zheng fixes Fan Changyu's hair
Gongsun Yin sees and paints a picture of them. He tells Xie Zheng it's time to go back because the military situation is critical. Xie Zheng says he can leave in 3 days (after his wife's birthday). At the palace, the Princess Qi Shu has a plan to NOT marry Li Huaian.
Ep 15: Yu Qianqian has arranged a room for them with Only One Bed, but Xie Zheng escapes. To be fair, they forgot about the little sister being present but also he's having angst about leaving town soon. He goes and sleeps with a snoring worker. When they eat breakfast, Fan Changyu sees some men mocking a matriarchal husband and tries to get Xie Zheng to pay for the meal. He only has an ancient $100 bill, which impresses everyone and he gives to her.
The solders are taking both money and grain from the poor. Fan Changyu goes to see if her grandpa is okay. Her aunt is loudly complaining about how old people should die
It turns out Fan Changyu owns her aunt's house. She kicks her out for not taking proper care of her grandfather. The grandfather confesses that Fan Changy's father wasn't his real son, they arranged for him to take the name of the original Fan Erniu. Changyu's parents visited before they died, saying that they had to go to save the girls, but the uncle burned the letter they left for their daughters. Fan Changyu is in a funk.
Fan Changyu says she wants to investigate her parents' death, though Xie Zheng warns her that the bureaucracy is corrupt and complicated. She wishes she could become an official. Xie Zheng asks what she wants as a birthday present and she figures out that he's leaving.
Li Huaian learns that He Jingyuan is in prison. His grandpa tells him that to do any good, he needs to oppose the corrupt Wei officials. Li Huaian says he wants to ally with Xie Zheng, but his grandfather forbids it. Wei Yan gives orders for his useless son to be brought back to the capital and He Jingyuan to be released.
Li Huaian discovers slaughtered villagers, but it's not Wei Xuan. A third party, Lord Changxin is stirring up dissent among the common people (Wei Xuan being an idiot isn't helping though, he's not innocent here).
Outside the restaurant, a crowd is claiming that someone died from eating food there. It's extortion. Fan Changyu knows how to deal with extortion!
She discovers that Advisor Guo (Bitcher Guo's fancy relative) was the one who framed them. Yu Qianqian says no one will defend her and goes with the police. She leaves Fan Changyu in change of Bao'er. And then Fan Changyu is startled by her husband and pulls a knife on him
(the extrajudicial fun referenced in the title was beating up Song Yan)
Random novel bits: >!I believe the first kiss in the novel was during the lanturn festival and Fan Changyu was so surprised she punched Xie Zheng in the face. Also, if I remember correctly, in the novel Yan Zheng and Fan Changyu never divorce, but Xie Zheng basically kills his other identity so Fan Changyu is "widowed" and he is extremely indignant about people thinking that she ever had another husband because HE is her husband and he's angry about... himself being married to his wife. Anyway, I hope we get him being weird and insane about that!<
Posted Mar 11, 2026, 11:53 AM UTC