你竟然一直都是装的
“You've been faking it all along.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“coming to bring disaster upon our Ye family.”
你 竟然 一直都是 装的
“You've been faking it all along.”
“You fooled everyone all along!”
In Chinese narrative and strategic culture, feigning madness, illness, or senility is a classic stratagem to protect oneself and observe enemies unnoticed until the right moment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
unexpectedly; to one's surprise
Used as an adverb before a verb or adjective to highlight that an outcome defies expectation.
faking it; pretending
A very common colloquial expression used to describe someone feigning ignorance, illness, or innocence.
Functions as part of the emphatic pattern confirming the state or nature of the action as a pretense.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We've been interrogating him, and he keeps playing dumb.”
“So, you kept pretending”
“He actually played dumb for so long.”
“playing the fool all along.”