While there are instances of attractive people being taken advantage of from classical times to the present, Chen Ping is an example of a man who combined both good "fate looks" and "skin-deep looks." To Zhang, a wise, broadminded man of discriminating taste, "the longer he looked at Chen, the better Chen looked."
漂亮的人佔便宜，古今皆同，但陳平顯然是命理美、色相美集於一身，見多識廣、眼光不俗的老人家才對他「越看越有趣」。