可若是被我发现你有一丝的异心
“But if I find you having the slightest disloyalty,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这磨好了 日后制墨的每一步 我愿意带你一一进入
“Once you are tempered, I will be willing to guide you through every step of ink-making in the future.”
可 若是 被 我发现 你有一丝的 异心
“But if I find you having the slightest disloyalty,”
别说是墨坊 整个李家
“let alone the ink workshop, the entire Li family”
“I am giving you a rare chance, but cross me once and you will face severe destruction.”
In traditional Chinese craft guilds and family workshops, handing down core trade secrets required absolute moral loyalty, with betrayal met by severe exile or ruin.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if / in the event that
A slightly formal, literary conditional conjunction used for serious hypotheticals.
the slightest trace of disloyalty or secondary motive
A formal and dramatic expression referring to harboring traitorous thoughts or hidden agendas.
