"After all, in-justice has a beginning and all debts have creditors. The senseless opposition between provinces is just unnecessary. What we need is for the government, at an early date, to give us back the innocence of the dead and to apologize and compensate the victims." Yeh Yun-yu says that this is the only way to really be rid of the 228 complex.
張家的支柱在一夜之間全部離散，但是倖存的遺族並未遷怒所有的外省人，「畢竟冤有頭、債有主，無謂的省籍對立並無必要，我們需要的是政府早日還給死難者清白，向所有受難者公開道歉、賠償」，葉蘊玉說如此才能真正解開「二二八心結」。