At the age of fifteen he left school and joined the Nationalist government's Youth Expeditionary Force, and thereafter participated in military campaigns in various parts of China.
讀小說時常不自覺地走入書中的世界，情緒隨著劇中人物的悲歡離合起伏不已，也總把自己幻想成書中年齡、背景相若的角色。