Chi Pang-yuan says that when Columbia University Press first got the book, they responded that they couldn't understand the worldview of the main female character, nor the form of pure love she shared with her male counterpart.
哥倫比亞大學出版社最初審閱《千江有水千江月》時，就曾有所質疑，他們不能理解小說主角貞觀的世界觀，及她和大信之間那種純純的愛。