Sung's protagonist was so vividly drawn that Yen Yuan-shu, who ran the quarterly in those days, suspected that it was a translation of a German or French work and demanded that Sung produce his original draft before agreeing to publish it.
由於主角塑造得太生動，讓《中外文學》主事者顏元叔以為是德、法心理小說的譯稿，一度要求他必須「交出原文」才能刊登。