我…我根本就不认识什么徐萌父女
“I… I don't even know Xu Meng and her father.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Can a pair of heels prove I'm a murderer?”
我…我 根本就不认识 什么 徐萌父女
“I… I don't even know Xu Meng and her father.”
“I had nothing to do with them.”
“You have the wrong person; I have zero connection to these people so leave me alone!”
In Chinese defensive rhetoric, inserting '什么' before a specific person's name or title serves to minimize familiarity and aggressively establish distance from the subject.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not at all / simply not
A strong emphatic negative structure used to completely reject an assumption or claim.
some so-called father and daughter
Using '什么' before names dismissively signals that the person is totally unfamiliar, irrelevant, or unknown to the speaker.