"Although we cannot say such May-September alliances are purely mercenary, when the young wife comes to Taiwan and finds out how things really stand, her feeling of having been 'tricked' is particularly acute," says an official at the Mainland Affairs Council who feels deeply about such tragicomic cases.
這樣的老夫少妻，「雖然不能說是買賣婚姻，但當太太來到台灣發現真相後，被『欺騙』的感覺會特別強烈」，對這類悲喜故事感觸很多的陸委會一位官員指出。