Professor Ko Ching-ming criticizes the message of such stories. "If we analyze these love tragedies, their deaths are caused not only by society, but also by their own personalities."
然而，「如果我們仔細分析這些愛情悲劇，殉情者的死，除了社會制度，恐怕更是角色的性格問題」，柯慶明指出。