不会到现在还守身如玉吧
“Don't tell me you're still saving yourself.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
哥 几年不见 你怎么越发不近人情了
“Chi, it's been years since we last met, and you've only gotten more uptight.”
不会 到现在还 守身如玉 吧
“Don't tell me you're still saving yourself.”
“That's none of your business. I'm just concerned about you, Chi.”
“Are you seriously telling me you still haven't been with anyone after all these years?”
Among close siblings or peers in China, ribbing someone about their lack of romantic progress is a typical way to display intimacy, albeit sometimes invasive.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
Surely it can't be that... / Don't tell me that...
A common rhetorical pattern used to express disbelief, skepticism, or playful teasing.
to preserve one's chastity; to keep oneself pure like jade
Historically used for female virtue, but frequently used in modern colloquial Chinese to tease someone about being celibate or single.
Softens the rhetorical question into a speculative, teasing probe rather than an aggressive interrogation.
