就把和离书写与你
“I would have written the divorce papers”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
早知道
“If I had known,”
就把 和离书 写与你
“I would have written the divorce papers”
让你去别处养伤
“and let you recover somewhere else.”
“I should have let you go earlier so you wouldn't have ended up hurt like this.”
Unlike unilateral repudiation by the husband, 'heli' represented a mutual and relatively amicable dissolution of marriage in traditional Chinese law.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
divorce agreement / deed of mutual separation
A historical legal term referring to a mutually agreed-upon divorce contract in imperial China.
to write for you / to hand over in writing to you
A classical, literary phrasing where '与' acts as a preposition meaning 'to' or 'for'.