Wu Chien-hsiung's father was an intellectual who opposed the warlords and the powers-that-were. Yuan Chia-liu's grandfather Yuan Shih-kai, on the other hand, was a warlord who once proclaimed himself emperor. But because Yuan's father Yuan Ke-wen had steadfastly opposed his father's imperial ambitions, the romance between them would not be doomed to be "a conflict of ideals."
吳健雄的父親是位反軍閥、反威權的文人，袁家騮卻有位曾經稱帝的軍閥祖父袁世凱，但由於袁家騮之父袁克文自始至終反對父親稱帝，這門親事最後並未產生「理念上的衝突」。