你就这么想当皇帝吗 城内已伏尸枕藉
“Do you want to be emperor that badly? So many people have died in the city”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
走水了 走水了
“Fire! Fire!”
你 就这么 想当皇帝 吗 城内已伏尸枕藉
“Do you want to be emperor that badly? So many people have died in the city”
“and the streets run red. Are you, who treat the people as weeds,”
“You are a monster drenched in innocent blood, and you do not deserve the throne.”
In Chinese political thought, a legitimate ruler must value the people's lives; slaughtering commoners to seize power strips a monarch of moral legitimacy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to become the emperor
A classic historical drama collocation describing claiming the imperial throne.
corpses piled upon corpses; heaps of dead bodies
A formal literary four-character idiom (chengyu) depicting the devastating aftermath of a violent massacre or battle.
Forms a rhetorical question loaded with moral rebuke and incredulity rather than an inquiry for information.
