Having survived combat during the Sino-Japanese War and after her defeat in the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang regime became much more dictatorial following the will of the Yandere Chairman Chiang Kai-shek to persecute mercilessly his political enemies and unstable elements. Although, like the picture on the page to the right, he had plenty of opportunities to wear elaborate ceremonial military uniforms along with many medals, in his private life he dresses and lives rather frugally. Additionally, the short sword in her hand is the sword that is gifted to all graduate students of the Whampoa Military Academy "the Zhongzheng Dagger (Zhongzheng being his name)", also known as "the Whampoa Dagger".