好好地准备 当我们杜家小老婆 不就得了
“If you'd just prepared well to be a mistress in the Du family, wouldn't that have been enough?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也怀了他的孩子
“and were pregnant with his child.”
好好地准备 当我们杜家小老婆 不就得了
“If you'd just prepared well to be a mistress in the Du family, wouldn't that have been enough?”
“But you insisted on going and picking a fight with Xia Xiaolan.”
“Know your place and stop causing unnecessary trouble.”
Referring to someone pejoratively as a 'little wife' (concubine/mistress) reflects harsh social hierarchies and explicit boundary-setting regarding domestic status.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wouldn't that settle it / wouldn't that be fine
Used at the end of a rhetorical question to suggest an obvious, simple resolution with an impatient tone.
properly / dutifully
Placed before a verb to urge someone to behave conscientiously or stick to what they should be doing.
Combined with '得' in '不就得了' to mark a concluded suggestion with an impatient rhetorical nuance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“the Du family is bound to get into a mess.”
“that we the Du family all have poor manners?”
“your entire Du family for his sake?”
“Xia Ziyu, the affairs of my family have nothing to do with you!”
“The Du family wouldn't dare do anything to you.”
“and securing a place in our Du family,”