Lin explains: "I always want to write a Taiwanese drama against the backdrop of great events, and the February 28 Incident was at that time just beginning to get intensive open discussion, so there was a lot of commercial viability as well."
「我一直想寫一部大時代背景的鄉土劇，而二二八議題在當時正被熱烈討論，相當有商業賣點」，林玲玲說。