若不是你一回来就惹得她不高兴
“If you hadn't irritated Mrs. Huo on the day of your return,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Do you really not know Mrs. Huo liked Xiang best?”
若不是 你 一回来就 惹得她不高兴
“If you hadn't irritated Mrs. Huo on the day of your return,”
“she wouldn't have canceled the engagement in front of everyone. Now,”
“Everything went wrong solely because you showed up and ruined our family's big chance.”
In traditional Chinese society, elite marriages were strategic alliances for the whole household; failing to secure one brought intense domestic finger-pointing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if not for; were it not for
Commonly used at the beginning of a sentence to introduce a counterfactual premise, often to attribute blame.
as soon as... then...
A paired grammatical construction expressing two immediate, sequential actions or cause-and-effect.
to provoke into; to cause someone to
Used before an emotional state to show an action provoked a negative reaction in another person.
