便不会再杀人了
“he wouldn't kill again.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
便不会再杀人了
“he wouldn't kill again.”
可谁知
“But...”
“We naively believed that satisfying his vengeance would end the bloodshed, but we were completely wrong.”
In traditional storytelling, stating an optimistic assumption ('便不会再...') right before '可谁知' (who would have guessed) creates dramatic irony and highlights unavoidable tragedy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
then would not
A literary connective structure indicating a logical consequence or assumption based on preceding conditions.
to kill someone or commit murder
A common verb-object collocation referring to homicide.
Marks a change of state, indicating cessation of killing from that point onward.