Good.  Giving a hint of her problem without stating it clearly.  It allows 
you to be more thorough later without interrupting the story now.  It also 
gives us a chance to speculate.

***I thought about how to rephrase it for a few weeks.  Glad to know that 
came out better.***

Now I'm wondering why she would have learned Japanese at all.  Everything 
she knows about that is of interest to her is in China.  It apparently 
didn't even occur to her to look outside China for husband material.

***Clarified.  Can't advise an Emporer if you don't have some familiarity 
with the languages of potential emissaries.  Zhu Shu just doesn't speak any 
of them too well.  She knows the major dialects of China, (Mandarin and 
Cantonese) and can converse (barely) in: Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetian, 
English and Indian.  Pretty much in that order of fluency too.***


Do you think telling him it's actually about 29 days will make him feel
better? :}b

***Probabaly not.  ;P ***
Apparently Zhu Shu saw a reason to not want Ranma as her husband.  You
don't need to be explicit about it yet, but I will be watching for more
about that later.

***It does, but to recap:  Ranma acts too male even as a girl.  Zhu Shu 
likes him, and since she's convinced herself that whoever she marries will 
be miserable, since she can't give them "love", she doesn't want to inflict 
herself on him.

This is a point I've been trying to figure out how to hint at without 
explicity saying it.  Zhu Shu's convinced herself that she will never 
resolve her quest happily.  Ranma seems like a last second reprieve, yet 
further exposure reveals he's everything she wants but one... Female.  Zhu 
Shu's first love, Ying Ying/Cherry Blossom, was a very feminine girl, and 
Zhu Shu is looking for someone like her.  Sarhia was like that as well.  Zhu 
Shu isn't butch, and she's not looking for a Butch dyke, but a feminine 
personality.  Ranma, even if he was stuck permanately, is way too macho to 
be anything but Butch.

So, by the Amazon village, Zhu Shu has realized her final hope was instead 
the final nail in her hope of reprieve.  Only being asked to help Shampoo 
hunt down Ranma and get him married to her is saving her from going back 
home in defeat.

When she finds out about the Sister-wife bit, while it seems to be an answer 
to her dilemma again,  She reluctant to jump at it until she's more sure.  
Getting Shampoo married to Ranma will give her a chance to re-evaluate him.  
We she finds out about Akane it's a complication in her temporary quest, but 
as she's been raised to serve in a Court where the Emporer would have 
multiple wives and concubines, Ranma having several wives doesn't bother 
her.


Here's a question for those of you who have looked into this, as my memory 
may be faulty.

As I recall, the nobility in both China and Japan had multiple wives, and it 
has only been since western religion has been introduced that the practice 
has declined.  Since I have had several questions on this, maybe it's a good 
idea to verify.

The problems start when Zhu Shu falls for Akane...

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