Chengbang, while also using artifice, deliberately smashes this consensus. Instead the author tries to convince readers of the authenticity of his setting by means of textual citations and historical accuracy, cleverly stringing together a collection of extracts from supposedly genuine texts.
《城邦暴力團》顯然有取於其「假」，但卻蓄意破壞此一共識，他要讀者深深陷入透過學術考證、史學知識營構出來的「假」中，信以為真。因為這個「假」的建構，非常弔詭的，居然是一連串「真實」的散片所組織起來的。