Now, on that day, a great fire suddenly broke out in the city.
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却说 is a classical Chinese narrative device used to transition between storylines in traditional novels like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. Not used in modern speech.
grammar
却说 always appears at the start of a sentence or chapter section, introducing a shift in narrative focus — similar to English 'meanwhile' or 'now let us turn to'.
