冯琳为什么那么怕你啊
“Why is Feng Lin so afraid of you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
冯琳 为什么那么怕 你 啊
“Why is Feng Lin so afraid of you?”
你就别问了
“Don't ask.”
“What did you do to her to make her act so terrified around you?”
Observing how people defer to or avoid each other is a major way Chinese people gauge implicit social power and past conflicts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why so...; why that much
Useful for asking about exaggerated or unexpected degrees of an action or state.
afraid of you; intimidated by you
Standard conversational way to describe fearing or dreading someone.
Softens the direct inquiry to sound natural, inquisitive, and conversational rather than like an interrogation.