上官死于慕清晏之手
“Mu Qingyan killed Shangguan.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那便说
“We'll say”
上官死于慕清晏之手
“Mu Qingyan killed Shangguan.”
此处已身处魔教地界
“We're already in the demon sect's territory.”
“Let's pin the murder on Mu Qingyan so nobody suspects us.”
Fabricating murders to pit rival sects against each other is a classic trope reflecting intrigue and Machiavellian tactics in martial arts fiction.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to die at the hands of someone
A literary yet common spoken structure used to denote perpetrator responsibility for a killing.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'd have died at Mu Qingyan”
“that Mu Qingyan is no good man,”
“you must've colluded with Mu Qingyan to kill him.”
“Mu Qingyan was captured because of me.”
“That's why you are overshadowed by Mu Qingyan.”
“She'll never watch him be crippled.”