He began by posting the story-based on his own love-life-in installments on a BBS, as a distraction from the pressure of writing his thesis. "The First Intimate Contact was my first novel," says Tsai.
為了排遣寫作博士論文的巨大壓力，他開始在 BBS 的連線版上連載自己的愛情故事《第一次的親密接觸》。