In the mainland series I'm watching on YouTube, the older brother discovers that his younger sister is in a relationship with next door neighbour's boy with whom she'd grown up.
The boy doesn't have a good track record, mostly being naughty, getting into scrapes, and not doing particularly well at school – just to name a small handful. The younger sister, on the other hand, is a model student and well behaved at home.
The older brother asks, "爸妈林叔叔宋阿姨都不知道这事吧?" (Short translation: "Our parents and his parents don't know about this, I suppose?")
In English, the pair of young lovers would be saying, "No." (No, they don't know.)
In the film, however, they both nod, i.e., agreeing with the question: "Yes, you're right, they don't know."
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