殿下说笑了 说笑?
“You must be kidding. Kidding?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It's a perfect fit for your great merit.”
殿下 说笑了 说笑?
“You must be kidding. Kidding?”
本宫可是认认真真想给太傅赏赐
“I'm being really serious to give you this reward.”
“Please tell me you are not actually being serious right now.”
Calling a dangerous remark a 'joke' is a classic Chinese diplomatic buffer to give the other party an honorable way to back down.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
you must be joking; you are jesting
A courteous, face-saving formula used to brush aside statements that are too shocking, inappropriate, or intense.
Functions as part of the idiomatic phrase '说笑了' to denote an ongoing perception or state change in a polite deflection.