Huang went to see the teacher to talk over the problem. He explained that Kuo-chun took the writing of lines very seriously, but asked the teacher to consider the importance of sleep and requested that the boy be allowed call it a night at 10 p.m. "I guess I just don't know how to teach the kids of you authors," responded the teacher coldly.
黃春明於是到學校溝通，請求老師，孩子已經很認真的補寫，如果晚上 10 點還寫不完，可不可以不要再寫了，因為「睡眠比書還補」，然而卻換來老師冷冷的回答：「你們作家的孩子，我不會管。」