Pursuit of Jade: Ep 24 Recap - Her BIL is Better than the Marquis of Wu'an
Previous Recaps: Ep 1-5, Ep 6-9, Ep 10-11, Ep 12-13, Ep 14-15, Ep 16-17, Ep 18-19, Ep 20-21, Ep 22-23
Novel fan translation: Chasing Jade
Main characters:
Zhang Ling He as Yan Zheng/Xie Zheng, title: Marquis of Wu'an, courtesy name: Jiuheng
Tian Xi Wei as Fan Changyu/???
Ep 24: Princess Qi Shu has arrived with the Pig Butcher Squad at the military camp. Fan Changyu threw her up the mountain. Xie Zheng is very rightly like, "Wtf are you doing here, you could die. You are a freaking princess." She is mostly there to see Gongsun Yin.
The Pig Butcher Squad are calling Fan Changyu "Big Sister" and it's so cute!
Fan Changyu is asking everyone if they know her husband. The drama then tortures us by making them be very close together but not realize it.
The Princess goes to work in the hospital, but she's ridiculously out of touch with what they actually have available in the military for common soldiers. It was very Rich Doctor joins Doctors Without Borders. I feel sorry for her babysitter
Fan Changyu runs into Gongsun Yin and the sisters are back together!
Fan Changning is really impressed with her brother in law
Fan Changyu is making medicine for wounded soldiers. Xie Zheng is wounded... has the drama decided to stop being so mean? Hair Ribbon of Fate?
Yes! Fan Changyu found her Pretty Princess husband. He sees her and turns right back into a Damsel in Distress immediately
Fan Changyu proposes to take him away and slaughter pigs to support him, which is Illegal Desertion, but it's all good. Gongsun Yin getting everyone out of the way and spying is killing me.
The Princess is amused and surprised to learn Xie Zheng is married to a pig butcher. Princess Qi Shu and Gongsun Yin meet over his fan. She says she should be able to distinguish herself too and not be trapped in the palace.
Fan Changyu goes to give her husband Sexy Wound CareTM and then she mentions divorce and HE LITERALLY SPITS BLOOD ABOUT IT
because that man is so dramatic. She explains that if she divorced him sooner he wouldn't have been conscripted. Then she confesses to him and he apologizes for how he acted when he left. She leaves and says she will get meat for the army which Xie Zheng REALLY should have inquired about before she went away (my girl is going to do something crazy I just know it)
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Gongsun Yin thinks they should hide Fan Changyu's identity as her sister, Changning, was already targeted. Then the advisor is like, "Um maybe tell your wife who you are?" which he should totally do...
I will survive with only this one episode because we got so much good stuff!
Novel additions: description of Fan Changyu from Xie Zheng's perspective
When he first met her, he only thought this woman was coarse, but now he felt that within that coarseness, there was a vigorous life force.
She was like wild grass in an untended field, growing upwards with sheer tenacity. She could break through frozen earth, split rocks, endure harsh winters, and survive scorching summers. No matter whether the emerging sprout faced frost or rain, the roots below continued to burrow deep into the thick soil, constantly providing nourishment for the sprout to grow upwards.
Posted Mar 16, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC