Yang puts it this way in the storybook for Taipei 21: "The collapse of the family, a lackluster, turbulent economy, and the complexity of interpersonal relationships are steadily pushing love to extinction."
正如楊順清在《台北二一》的電影小說中所陳述：現代人的「愛情因著家庭的崩解、景氣的衰退和紛擾的人際糾葛慢慢蒸發。」