The best and worst of Pursuit of Jade is the first 17 episodes. So much time was used on leads and their village…
agree with this sm it’s like the director just wanted ppl to pair up so he did we didn’t really get to see anyone “fall” in love every couple was just super attractive and already 100% ready to commit to their partner lol
the marquis role was such a waste because in the novel he has a back bone and knows his priorities.. how can a general let his wife do whatever she wants in his military, the fl has crazy plot armer and the ml is just there to boost her character it feels like he’s a side character to her tbh we don’t even get any interaction of him growing up or with his uncle or any of his trama/revenge stories
The best and worst of Pursuit of Jade is the first 17 episodes. So much time was used on leads and their village life that none of the characters ever had any back stories. We never knew who they were or their motivations. I was not even able to know the names of most of them.
Even though this is a female lead oriented drama, we never got to see the real Marquis. He only came across as a dumb person with no acumen of strategy or basic common sense. FLs character was elevated to a stupid level that she is able to kill career military generals in 2 blows.
At the end, this is such a wasted potential. It could have been more. Rating 7/10
Whether it is in political sense or in war-field sense this drama is really weak . It feels like Wind has blown in opposite direction this time on MDL instead of mass downvoting the show , there seems to be an upvoting . I have seen enough of rating manipulation on MLD so it is nothing new , Romance and character development is good but backstory of many character lacks or maybe director failed to show in the way it should be . I do not know if book is better or not but in drama depth is missing . It is 8.5-8.7 max in my opinion .
Wth really why don't they just made a solo drama on FL without ML it was really laughable ML was a general and FL fight all the battle and ML just sit on horse they just made ML a side character it happened all the c drama i have seen that's why i never watch c drama but i heard this drama was good and see the rating was soo high so i give it a try Same things happened in this drama also
FL was greater than ML as always in this drama ML was just for show and for romance nothing else c drama with women empowerment obsession is just soo high the only thing i like about this drama was starting 15 episodes was soo good and fluffy
I just drop this drama at 30 episodes things just don't make sense and look nonsense
what happened to you ZHU yu?!?!?!?! lesson for today: never judge a drama until you finish it!!! sigh. like other dramas, there will be withdrawal, like a drug you can't move on... but this, it leaves you feeling totally knocked-out and waking up to the worst hangover of your life. that's what it felt like to me. i just hope yours is different. lol.
You may check reviews giving full 10 and lower ratings to know what this drama truly is.
Same. I really care about plot and hate when they fall off half way through. Which is a usual problem I’ve noticed with some of the newer Cdramas because they tend to focus more on casting good looking actors and a great start then they lose the plot later on or it just becomes meh.
Okay I just completed poj nd here's my two cents. 1. Less YQQ n QM would have been better. Some of their scns were completely unnecessary. 2. Idk why last 10 eps felt slow to me. 3. In some scns Ml seemed like a supporting character tbh. 4. Where was the angst and seperation arc after knowing the TRUTH of her father???
I really liked this one as a whole, one of the best Chinese dramas I have watched in a while. I would have given it a higher rating if it was not for the last few episodes.
They showed so many scenes and characters that were not that important, even showed us a "what if" in the post-credits but did not bother to show us their wedding (even tho the ML spent a big chunk of the drama promising her a proper one) nor show us their kids (only mentioning them right before the ending like it was just an afterthought).
If they did not reserve so much screen time for Yu Qian Qian and Qi Min (why are they even listed as supporting characters when they got almost as much screen time as the main leads?), maybe there would have been more time to show us what we REALLY wanted to watch.
I hate when I love a drama so much and then the last episodes are disappointing because now I do not leave this drama feeling the way I wanted. I wanted to be so satisfied with the ending and empty on the inside that no other drama would be able to fill this emptiness for a while. Unfortunately, that did not happen. T T
There were several things about the way things were wrapped up that I did not agree with or thought could have been done better but listing them all would take a while and would only make me feel even more disappointed than I already am and I want to remeber this one in a good light so I will stop here.
Replying toHyunelovebot•Mar 27, 2026•Liked Mar 28, 2026
I feel like the 40 episodes restriction really sacrificed the story a bit. Had it been 50 episodes long, I'm sure…
They knew about the 40 episode limit before they even began filming. That the drama feels rushed to some people is the fault of the screenwriter and film editors. They needed to make the plot fit into 40 episodes, not increase the number of episodes. In hindsight I wish they had shortened the scenes with Qi Min and QianQian. The support actors were excellent but the writers gave too much time to secondary characters at the expense of moving the plot forward at an even pace.
the writing fell apart for me in the second half but like the first 10/15 eps of the story and acting were IMMACULATE.…
so true. It started a 10 out of 10 for me and then dropped significantly. I still enjoy watching it but I'm really getting annoyed by the whole Mary Sue aspect of CY like her struggles don't really seem tht big because well others face the consequences of her actions instead of her and of course she can never be defeated. heavy plot armor for the main characters makes it worse. and this whole dragging romance between the leads is very annoying too. I do like the leads together tho if only the writing remained as strong as the first couple of eps...
Replying toSushi88•Mar 28, 2026•Liked Mar 28, 2026
People these days forget to enjoy the moment.I mean when I was young,our national TV showed a lot of C dramas back then. All my classmates, our families watched two episodes per week for any drama with tons of commercials in it.Next morning,everyone talked about how the plot ,heroine ,hero, villains like crazy.Like we never knew their real names of the actors or real name of a drama back then.After many years later and looking back, it's all about decent memory of family gathering, friends I forgot their names or faces , but always remember the thrill we got from that moment of shared experience.It's very nostalgic and unique memory of viewing a drama or film or movie together.Hope POJ passed down the exact experience to all the viewers.
lol im confused. this drama is trying so hard to promote this as a strong FL drama but then makes her journey too easy. we never see her do any martial arts practice, and with no military experience, she kills a bunch of main villains, easily, one by one, without any logic. she then gets promoted to a higher rank, not because she earned it, but because of politics. yup, using a woman as a political pawn! lol that’s not a strong woman. that’s a caricature of a strong woman and simply insulting to women in general.
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the marquis role was such a waste because in the novel he has a back bone and knows his priorities.. how can a general let his wife do whatever she wants in his military, the fl has crazy plot armer and the ml is just there to boost her character it feels like he’s a side character to her tbh we don’t even get any interaction of him growing up or with his uncle or any of his trama/revenge stories
Even though this is a female lead oriented drama, we never got to see the real Marquis. He only came across as a dumb person with no acumen of strategy or basic common sense. FLs character was elevated to a stupid level that she is able to kill career military generals in 2 blows.
At the end, this is such a wasted potential. It could have been more. Rating 7/10
It feels like Wind has blown in opposite direction this time on MDL instead of mass downvoting the show , there seems to be an upvoting .
I have seen enough of rating manipulation on MLD so it is nothing new ,
Romance and character development is good but backstory of many character lacks or maybe director failed to show in the way it should be .
I do not know if book is better or not but in drama depth is missing .
It is 8.5-8.7 max in my opinion .
Same things happened in this drama also
FL was greater than ML as always in this drama ML was just for show and for romance nothing else c drama with women empowerment obsession is just soo high the only thing i like about this drama was starting 15 episodes was soo good and fluffy
I just drop this drama at 30 episodes things just don't make sense and look nonsense
1. Less YQQ n QM would have been better. Some of their scns were completely unnecessary.
2. Idk why last 10 eps felt slow to me.
3. In some scns Ml seemed like a supporting character tbh.
4. Where was the angst and seperation arc after knowing the TRUTH of her father???
They showed so many scenes and characters that were not that important, even showed us a "what if" in the post-credits but did not bother to show us their wedding (even tho the ML spent a big chunk of the drama promising her a proper one) nor show us their kids (only mentioning them right before the ending like it was just an afterthought).
If they did not reserve so much screen time for Yu Qian Qian and Qi Min (why are they even listed as supporting characters when they got almost as much screen time as the main leads?), maybe there would have been more time to show us what we REALLY wanted to watch.
I hate when I love a drama so much and then the last episodes are disappointing because now I do not leave this drama feeling the way I wanted. I wanted to be so satisfied with the ending and empty on the inside that no other drama would be able to fill this emptiness for a while. Unfortunately, that did not happen. T T
There were several things about the way things were wrapped up that I did not agree with or thought could have been done better but listing them all would take a while and would only make me feel even more disappointed than I already am and I want to remeber this one in a good light so I will stop here.