却因你的私心作祟
“yet because of your selfish motives,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那樊都尉军事舆图兵书尚且不识
“That Commandant Fan cannot even read military maps or treatises,”
却因你的 私心 作祟
“yet because of your selfish motives,”
成为了霁州府督军一员
“she became an Army Supervisor in Jizhou Prefecture.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Confucian governance, allowing private bias (si) to interfere with public meritocracy (gong) is considered an egregious moral and administrative failing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
selfish motives at work; personal bias causing trouble
A formal literary idiom describing how corrupt personal interests ruin a fair or objective process.