Hello! I'm both the Untamed nominator (for Lan Qiren/Wen Ruohan/Madam Wen) and the down-on-his-luck scholar/female general looking for a ruzhui husband (OW) nominator.
For a ruzhui husband, this tends to indicate imperial-ish China setting. A ruzhui (or matrilocal) marriage was historically when a man would marry into a woman’s family (where they would live with the woman’s family, their children would get their mother’s family name) instead of the other way around.
This would often happen if there was a powerful or noble family (or just a rich one) who only had daughters, who would then recruit a son-in-law (often a younger son from a poorer or lower status family) to marry into the family and so continue the family name.
Tropes associated with it are mainly exploring societal expectations of different genders, namely how the ruzhui husband is able to navigate society and his family when he is the one in the 'wife's' position, linked here with the female general's implied unusual status in society compared to a normal woman of the time (as they would not be soldiers, let alone generals).
For the Untamed, as Shadaras said above, Madam Wen does not appear on screen in the tv series, but is implied to have existed as she would be the mother of two of the antagonists (Wen Xu and Wen Chao) and Wen Ruohan's wife.
Thank you for all your work, and please let me know if you want me to clarify further!
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For a ruzhui husband, this tends to indicate imperial-ish China setting. A ruzhui (or matrilocal) marriage was historically when a man would marry into a woman’s family (where they would live with the woman’s family, their children would get their mother’s family name) instead of the other way around.
This would often happen if there was a powerful or noble family (or just a rich one) who only had daughters, who would then recruit a son-in-law (often a younger son from a poorer or lower status family) to marry into the family and so continue the family name.
Tropes associated with it are mainly exploring societal expectations of different genders, namely how the ruzhui husband is able to navigate society and his family when he is the one in the 'wife's' position, linked here with the female general's implied unusual status in society compared to a normal woman of the time (as they would not be soldiers, let alone generals).
For the Untamed, as Shadaras said above, Madam Wen does not appear on screen in the tv series, but is implied to have existed as she would be the mother of two of the antagonists (Wen Xu and Wen Chao) and Wen Ruohan's wife.
Thank you for all your work, and please let me know if you want me to clarify further!