本王万万没有想到
“I truly never expected”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
认罪
“confess.”
本王 万万没有想到
“I truly never expected”
这一切竟是县令所为
“that the county magistrate was behind all this.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Royalty did not use generic first-person pronouns like 'wo' in official contexts, instead using formal status-based markers such as 'benwang' to reinforce authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
this prince / this king (self-appellation)
An archaic self-designation used by titled royalty (princes or vassal kings) in historical period dramas.
never in a million years would have thought
An emphatic expression used to convey complete shock or unforeseen revelation.