普天之下谁敢
“Who in the world would dare make him do that?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Xie Jiuheng actually became a matrilocal husband?”
普天之下 谁敢
“Who in the world would dare make him do that?”
“Even the Emperor wouldn't dare make him a matrilocal husband.”
“That is absolutely unthinkable; nobody on earth would dare treat him like that!”
In patriarchal imperial China, becoming a son-in-law married into the wife's family (zhuixu) carried heavy social stigma, making it unthinkable for a powerful nobleman to endure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
under the whole sky, everywhere in the world
A traditional, grand idiom used to emphasize all-encompassing universality or authority.
who dares
A rhetorical challenge commonly used to imply that absolutely nobody has the courage or audacity to do something.