然后我明明高中开始就喜欢你
“I liked you since high school.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The girl who pretends to just be a friend.”
然后我 明明 高中 开始 就 喜欢你
“I liked you since high school.”
然后我还假装自己是好朋友
“And I still acted like your friend,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Maintaining a platonic facade while silently harboring deep affection is a frequent trope and realistic social phenomenon among close youth friends in East Asian romance culture.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
clearly; obviously (yet something contrary is true)
A syntactic pattern used to emphasize an undeniable fact, often to highlight a contradiction, grievance, or emotional irony.
ever since high school
A common temporal chunk indicating the starting point of an ongoing feeling or habit.
