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he's a scholar jock and she's a bimbo jock. match made in heaven.

#like literally their romance falls under the fated category #which actually is not my fav cause it's so rarely well done #chasing j #pursuit of jade #ep4

it would have been interesting if the show hadn't shown us anything of xie zheng's past before changyu found out about it, like if it made it a big reveal for both changyu and the audience. so the whole time in lin'an we get these glimpses of yan zheng acting fucking crazy (for someone who's just a regular person and not a noble let alone a marquis and a general) and when it's revealed he's the marquis of wu'an it's like oh shit for both changyu and the audience.

that would also have given them the chance to let changyu be sharper about how xie zheng acts sometimes as opposed to just thinking he's being silly. like we'd know "somet*thing is up, but just wouldn't know what.

i know they likely made the decision because the novel was popular and most people were into how 'unhinged' xie zheng was in it, but wholeheartedly leaning into changyu's experience could have made the tv show stronger.

#chasing j #ep7

scream, i love a story that says you know what, never mind all that bullshit, this is what we actually care about

#yan zheng! yan zheng! yan zheng!#i looooooove that he's not just some fake identity but like this safe warm true loving place for both xie zheng and changyu #chasing j #ep40

zlh def dialed in most of this performance, but his best moments are when xie zheng is sad about his mom and trying to explain it all to changyu, like he showed up for work for ep36

#chasing j #ep36 #the show didn't tone down how ''unhinged'' he is in the novel it just ignored it cause it was interested in other aspects of him #like how and why changyu is important to him #like in the novel he's super intense about her but it's all kinda overshadowed by how super intense he is about everything #like he only has one register there #but the show goes to great lengths (which i appreciate) to illustrate that changyu is like a lifeline for him #and he wants to be with her because he wants to make and build a life with her #and that that is what he had the opportunity to do in lin'an #like the show is telling a whole different story than the novel #the novel was more about changyu really growing out of her life in lin'an and into her destined/fated life as a general #and into someone who is socially and politically important + powerful enough to marry marquis xie zheng #and xie zheng like fighting his uncle (weakest part of the novel by far imo)

scream, he fainted

#watching xie zheng be all high and mighty with people is so funny cause opposite changyu he's just her pouty baby #''have you seen my matrilocal husband? he has a mole on his nose and he likes to pout.''#chasing j #ep35

one thing that makes bimbo changyu (i refuse to use himbo here; i feel like people think himbo is well meaning and bimbo is misogynist? actually, acting like the word used for men--a word created for men after bimbo already existed cause people din't want to use bimbo for them--is gender neutral and connotes harmless, fun ignorance while bimbo has some unsavory connections to it is what needs to be examined) work opposite xie zheng is that her non-traditional performance of womanhood helps her never question all the wild shit she sees xie zheng do.

oh, he can perfectly aim a piece of candy to make someone feet away from him trip and fall? makes sense, cause she can do it too. he can scale down a wall and run after a man for ten miles and then shoot him with an arrow as he falls off a cliff? seems legit, cause she can probably do it, too. he can protect changing while fighting off and killing a bunch of trained guards and then even though he's internally injured he can still get up and help her fight them off too? well, her dad was in the same line of business as he is, and her dad's the one who taught her to fight, so it makes total sense!

like, she can do a whole bunch of shit other women can't/don't and aren't expected to do, so when she meets someone (who's also not performing gender to the tee, *because* of his connection to her, *because* he agreed to be her matrilocal husband) who does things that he really shouldn't be able to do, she doesn't question it. you know who she reminds me of (wait for it)......catherine morland! what is it henry says about her?

"How very little trouble it can give you to understand the motive of other people’s actions. With you, it is not, How is such a one likely to be influenced, What is the inducement most likely to act upon such a person’s feelings, age, situation, and probable habits of life considered — but, How should I be influenced, What would be my inducement in acting so and so?"

#chasing j #poj #ep17

people keep talking about how everyone knows yang zheng is xie zheng except changyu but just as much of a problem is that everyone knows changyu is the butcher girl who saved dozens of children from trafficking and stopped the enemy army from knowing about marquis wu'an's plan except for xie zheng, only she's not deliberately keeping it from him!

#chasing j #poj #ep23

i mean i haven't gotten to the stunt changyu pulls that has everyone forgetting to drink their i love women juice but the fact that xie zheng's lie means that he's also keeping the man who massacred her entire village hostage and doesn't tell her.......the lie is him failing her as her husband and keeping sui yanqing's capture a secret is another kind of failure towards her