实是因为 这药被人动了手脚
“if it hadn't been tampered with.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不是我不肯吃药
“I would've taken the medicine”
实 是因为 这药 被人动了手脚
“if it hadn't been tampered with.”
可你大哥总说我胡思乱想
“But Chen always says I'm just overthinking things.”
“I'm not being difficult or crazy—someone is literally trying to poison me.”
In historical domestic dramas, the tampering of tonic herbs and medicine is a recurring trope representing covert infighting among wives and concubines.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the real reason is; truly because
Use this spoken formula when refuting someone's assumption and revealing a grave, previously withheld reason.
to tamper with; to manipulate illicitly
A very common colloquial idiom meaning to covertly manipulate, alter, or sabotage an object or procedure.
Marks a completed change of state, stressing that the medicine has already been compromised.
