通融 To make an exception for someone. To make things easier for another person. The Handian dictionary’s example: “He will make an exception for you.”
网开一面 To leave one side of the net open. To treat someone leniently. In the Records of the Grand Historian, Tang sees a hunter who has set nets on all four sides and prays that everything in the world will enter them. “Ah, that would take them all,” Tang says, and removes three of the nets. The lords hear of it and say: “The virtue of Tang is complete. It reaches even the birds and beasts.”