Yueh Heng-chun, who used to teach in NTU's Chinese literature department, wrote an article entitled "Romantic Love and Classical Love," in which she states: "Although this kind of story is exciting and powerful, there is also an air of destruction." This kind of love makes one melancholy because at the end the lovers 'total destruction is inevitable.
「雖然依舊是奔放昂揚，卻帶有『肅殺』之氣」，前台大中文系教授樂蘅軍於「浪漫之愛與古典之情」一文中，感嘆著，這樣的愛情，終難免一個毀滅。