The man's ambitions are set on the world around him, while the wife must give up her own ambitions to take proper care of the family and bring credit to his ancestors. She can only console herself with the saying, "Affections that really last don't depend on a couple seeing each other every day."
但男兒志在四方，做妻子的必須為了成就家庭、光宗耀祖而犧牲個人，只能以「兩情若是久長時，又豈在朝朝暮暮」來安慰自己了。