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《The Tang Mist》 S1·E13 (14:05) HSK 6
nǐ nà xiē jiù shì wǒ làn dǔ zi lǐ

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 Tang Mist》 S1·E13
TIMECODE: 14:05 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wú fēi jiù shì xiǎng yào jǐ liǎng suì yín zi

“just to get a little silver from you.”

nǐ nà xiē jiù shì wǒ làn dǔ zi lǐ CURRENT FOCUS

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,”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN dàn nǐ xiàn zài fēng guāng wú xiàn

但你现在风光无限

“but now that you're living in luxury,”

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Scene: Crisis & Conflict
Function: VEILED THREAT
Tone: SMUG AND COERCIVE
Emotion: GREED
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Your secrets are safe only as long as you pay me off.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Secrecy and Leverage in Interpersonal Conflicts

In Chinese social interaction, possessing someone's past dirt ('jiushi') creates an asymmetric power dynamic often exploited through indirect negotiation.

INTENT TAGS: #blackmail #intimidation #extortion #coercion
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 0 PARTICLES
烂肚子 SPOKEN CHUNK

keep a secret to oneself till the grave

Colloquial idiom used when promising—or feigning to promise—absolute secrecy regarding scandalous information.

旧事 SPOKEN CHUNK

past events; old affairs

Often carries a nuanced connotation of buried secrets or past transgressions.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 2 GRAMMAR
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