Chiang Fu-tsung, former director of the National Palace Museum (and Xu's cousin), wrote the essay Anecdotes about Xu Zhimo, which describes the couple as being "very close." Tsai Teng-shan takes this to mean that Zhimo and Youyi were not without strong feelings for each other.
「前故宮博物院院長蔣復璁（徐志摩表親）所寫的〈徐志摩先生軼事〉一文，有徐張『伉儷情深』的字句亦可證明志摩對幼儀並非沒有感情」，蔡登山說。