知道自己会死还笑得出来啊
“You can still smile knowing you're going to die?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The later plot was too boring, so I skipped several pages.”
知道 自己 会死 还笑得出来 啊
“You can still smile knowing you're going to die?”
那我现在相信
“Now I believe”
“Are you out of your mind? How can you find humor in this situation?”
In contemporary Chinese web-novel tropes, characters who transmigrate or know their doomed plotline often use self-deprecating banter to cope with existential threat.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
able to laugh; manage to smile
A potential complement structure used often in negative or rhetorical questions when someone finds amusement inappropriately or under duress.
Softens the rhetorical question while adding a lively tone of disbelief.