Chasing Jade

Source Material: 逐玉 by 团子来袭 (Tuan Zi Lai Xi)

Genre: Historical Costume

Network: iQIYI🥝 and Tencent🐧

She honed in on a man she had just rescued. This person had been beaten black and blue, and possessed nothing but the bare necessities and a handsome face.

The two quickly reached an agreement: she would take him in to help him recover from his wounds, and he would pretend to marry her to help her protect her family assets.

Later, her family business stabilized. So as part of their pact, Fan Changyu was duly just about to write the divorce papers when a war erupted and her enlisted “husband” vanished without a trace.

The next time she saw that man again, he was lying in a tent, covered head to toe in blood: his blood-drenched face as handsome as ever, and his military uniform torn to shreds. Seeing what pain he had suffered during the war, Fan Changyu whispered with reddened eyes: “Don’t be a soldier anymore. Come home, I’ll be a butcher and take care of you.”

He narrowed his eyes at her, coughing up blood. “But you want to divorce me.”

Fu Changyu’s eyes welled up with tears. “I don’t want a divorce anymore! I don’t!”

【Take 2】

The Marquis of Wu’an, Xie Zheng — he with the outstanding military record that had won him the title of marquis, he who was second to none in the entire Dayin Dynasty — had become renowned at a young age, his ruthless military command only making him even more infamous across the land.

But his troops thought that their marquis was recently acting a little strange.

He didn’t live in his own commander’s tent anymore, but rather squeezed himself into the tiny, dilapidated tent meant for the wounded. And that wound he’d taken to his body — previously, it would have taken him two, maybe three days to be back on his feet, but this time, he was still lying in that small tent even after practically half a month had passed.

The grizzled old counselor who went to see him tsk’ed. “If you have someone wiping your brow and giving you medicine day and night, of course your wound won’t get better by itself!”

Not until his never before seen wife — frightened that her frail, sickly husband would be hacked to death on the battlefield — secretly donned a tattered soldier’s uniform and snuck onto the front lines to fight on her husband’s behalf did this “gravely injured” marquis who had been bedridden for so many days leap to his feet in shock and hastily put on his armor to chase after her.

The setting sun was like blood, and the wild geese wept in the vast sky.

Having just decapitated an enemy general with a butcher’s knife, Fan Changyu looked at the allied troops in the distance hurrying towards them in a cloud of golden dust. She squinted at them a bit, then pulled over a nearby soldier.

“That general of yours — the one leading the charge up front, the one riding the tall horse and wearing the gleaming armor with the Qilin shoulder guards — why does he look a bit like my husband?” she asked.

Meanwhile, the soldier was thinking: maybe because he is?

The director, 曾庆杰 (Zeng Qingjie), directed the upcoming drama Blossom (Meng Ziyi, Li Yunrui).