你那些旧事我烂肚子里
“I'll keep your past buried forever, but now that you're living in luxury,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“just to get a little silver from you.”
你 那 些旧事我 烂肚子里
“I'll keep your past buried forever, but now that you're living in luxury,”
但你现在风光无限
“but now that you're living in luxury,”
“Your secrets are safe only as long as you pay me off.”
In Chinese social interaction, possessing someone's past dirt ('jiushi') creates an asymmetric power dynamic often exploited through indirect negotiation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
keep a secret to oneself till the grave
Colloquial idiom used when promising—or feigning to promise—absolute secrecy regarding scandalous information.
past events; old affairs
Often carries a nuanced connotation of buried secrets or past transgressions.