你却为了别的女人殚精竭虑
“Yet you exhaust yourself for another woman.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
该做的我都做了
“I've done everything I should.”
你却 为了 别的女人 殚精竭虑
“Yet you exhaust yourself for another woman.”
你每次下山回来都耗尽修为
“Every time you return, your cultivation is drained.”
“I care about you, yet you are literally destroying yourself for someone who isn't me!”
In Chinese romantic and xianxia dramas, expending one's vital energy or cultivation for someone is the ultimate proof of love, making devotion to another woman an unbearable emotional betrayal.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to exhaust one's mental and physical efforts; to rack one's brains
A formal idiom used to describe exhausting all intellectual and emotional energy on a task or person.
for another woman
Commonly used in dramatic or real-life romantic arguments to highlight perceived emotional or physical infidelity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Seeing a bunch of women fighting over you,”
“You want me to find another woman...”
“Don't end up landing yourself in jail”
“She did all those things for you.”
“You take women too seriously.”
“If there were any, they'd be left by another woman.”