Perhaps the best footnote to it are these lines: "What is love, that people are willing to promise each other their lives for it?" And read this passage from Huayi Qianshen, which was written about the relationship between Hu Lancheng and Zhang Ailing: "Chinese focus their concentration on what is active and readily apparent right there in front of their eyes.
朱天文寫過胡蘭成與張愛玲情緣的〈花憶前身〉曾有一段：「中國人集中注意力於眼前熱鬧明白，紅燈映照裡的人生。