Yet life is hard to predict. In 1973, Wang Ah-tu suddenly died of a coronary thrombosis. His eldest son Wang Hsi-kun did not pass the entrance exam for university and had just started on his military service. Meanwhile, his two younger brothers were still in school.
然而世事難料，1973 年，王阿塗心肌梗塞突然過世，當時身為長子的王錫坤因未考取大學剛入伍當兵，兩個弟弟仍在就學階段