He then left for Shanghai to study natural sciences at Utopia University.
Back to his hometown, he taught in Jintan County Elementary Secondary School (金壇縣立初級中學) for one year.
During this period of time, he became the patron of the future mathematician Hua Luogeng, who was to bear a lifelong gratitude towards him.
He served as the schoolmaster of Jintan County Elementary Secondary School, and employed Hua Luogeng, who was then poor and sick.
Beside Dante's epic, Wang also translated Kalidasa's play Sakuntala into Chinese (again indirectly from French, but it is said that he spent some time to learn Sanskrit from a Buddhist monk in order to produce a better translation).