你对离儿真是视如己出啊
“You truly treat Li like your own son.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
索性将他兄弟二人一起册封了
“we might as well confer titles upon both of them together.”
你对离儿 真是 视如己出 啊
“You truly treat Li like your own son.”
离儿是朕的义子 朕自然着意偏宠些
“Li is my godson, so I naturally favor him a bit more.”
“Your favoritism towards him is unusual; are you treating him better than your biological children?”
Treating an adopted son 'like one's own' in imperial times often carried significant political risk, as it threatened the strict Confucian birthright line of succession.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to treat someone as one's own flesh and blood
An idiomatic four-character expression praising someone for loving an adopted child, stepchild, or non-biological relative like their own.
towards... really is
A common evaluative pattern used to comment on an attitude or behavior toward a specific person.
Adds an exclamatory nuance of genuine or feigned sigh and contemplation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And now you're the one who had to get divorced. That was the old me.”
“Li. Impossible.”
“Li and I never desired that position.”
“This can't be true. Li!”
“Just look after Li for me.”
“If you really want to divorce me so much, that's fine.”