Updated July 2026
What does 已老实，求放过 mean?
已老实，求放过 (yǐ lǎo shi, qiú fàng guò) means I have learned my lesson, please stop in internet Chinese slang. Comic surrender after a shock or an ordeal — "I have behaved, please spare me". Said when you have learned your lesson the hard way. Literally, it means "already obedient, beg to be let go".
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已老实，求放过 — yǐ lǎo shi, qiú fàng guò. I have behaved, please let me go. It is phrased like a captive begging for mercy, which is why it fits every spicy-food challenge and dare video. 被辣哭了，已老实，求放过. Lesson learned. Please stop.
Example
被辣哭了，已老实，求放过。
Bèi là kū le, yǐ lǎo shi, qiú fàng guò.
The spice made me cry — I have learned my lesson, please stop.
Where 已老实，求放过 comes from
Phrased like a captive begging for mercy: 已老实 ("I have behaved now"), 求放过 ("please let me off"). The mock-submissive register is why it fits challenge videos, dares and anything that has just gone badly.
Related slang
The waiting is finally over. Usually because the thing you were dreading actually happened — so the relief is the dark-comic kind rather than the good kind.
An internet phrase meaning "I am done / I cannot take it", assembled from Henan dialect. Worth knowing before you use it: Henan speakers generally find the construction stilted rather than authentic, and in real dialect 不中了 can describe someone in very bad physical shape. It is a meme voice, not a phrase to try on a Henan friend.
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