For instance, in King of Chess, Ah Cheng originally intended the old man who appears at the end of the novel as a negative figure, and when his friends read it they too were very clear that he was a negative character. But unexpectedly, some critics and readers kept saying that the old man was a positive character, which was a complete surprise for Ah Cheng.
像是《棋王》裡，最後出現的那位老者，阿城的本意是個反面人物，朋友一看，也很熟悉是個反面人物，沒想到後來一些評論者、讀者卻老說是個正面人物，這是阿城始料未及的。