Professor Zeng Shiqiang once criticized Qiong Yao:

"Qiong Yao has written novels her whole life, but she has harmed a lot of people, that's all! Her own marriage was unhappy, and she kept writing about bizarre marriages to vent her feelings, and everyone suffered!"
I remember back then when I watched Qiong Yao dramas, elders at home said all her plays were crazy dramas with extremely problematic worldviews. At that time, I thought it was a generation gap, but later when a new moon princess and A Dream of a Curtain appeared, I was truly speechless!
Almost none of her works depict normal, healthy relationships and morals; they are all twisted, absurd, and violate ethics.
For example, in "New Moon Princess," under the guise of true love, the mistress boldly intervenes in others' families, even saying, "I'm not here to break up this home, I'm here to join it," making the destruction of others' marriages seem pitiful and justified;
In "Deep Love in the Rain," there are multiple entanglements, ambiguous tug-of-wars, wavering feelings, selfishness, and pretentiousness, treating unreasonable fussing as deep affection;
"Dream of a Curtain" is even more outrageous—Lü Ping, who lost a leg, deserves to compromise; Zi Ling's willful elopement and abandonment of responsibility are turned into romance, sacrificing the original wife’s life to fulfill so-called free love.
Her own marriage life was a mess, with complex and tangled emotional experiences, and she never had a healthy, stable, and principled marriage in her lifetime.
Because she lived unhappily, filled with grievances and unwillingness, she projected all her obsessions, resentment, and selfishness into her works, relying on writing to numb herself, whitewash herself, and vent her emotions.
She used words to heal her life's regrets and dispel her dissatisfaction with her marriage, but millions of readers, especially young girls, were led astray by these twisted stories.
An entire generation was brainwashed with wrong views of love, unable to distinguish the responsibilities, loyalty, and bottom lines of marriage, mistaking pathological entanglement for longing, and suffering internal conflicts, injuries, and making wrong choices in love.
To put it simply: she wrote books her whole life just to vent and heal herself, but in the process, she harmed a generation’s understanding of marriage and love, causing great damage!