I'll name a few characters but unfortunately, Chinese words can't really be placed here... but I do hope the explanation will make sense anyway.

One example is in the side character Zhaoyue, whose name likely comes from the poem 'Ballad of Mulan', but this isn't something you can tell unless you have access to the historical and literary context.

Another example is how the shou's name is Jiang Li, and in this pinyin rendering, we don't get access to the semantics of the Mandarin characters themselves, so it's almost impossible to see that his name is likely intended to mean "leaving the jianghu" (literally the initial premise of the novel).

In fact, the MTL even gets the pinyin of the gong's name wrong. The gong's given name can be read two ways. If you read it as a phrase (the usual reading), it is supposed to be read as Zhaoxi (meaning 'dawn and dusk'). If you read it as two separate words, it is Chao and Xi respectively (hence, Chaoxi). Because the character's given name is usually placed right after his surname, MTL knows its a name, so MTL seems to automatically detect it as the two words, Chao + xi ('Chaoxi'). However, I am fairly sure the author intends for the phrase 'Zhaoxi' itself to be his name, because these two words, when used adjacent to each other, is almost never read as Chaoxi. (The audio drama is coming out in the hopefully foreseeable future, so I will confirm this after listening to it after it's out! The narrated audio drama has been released, and it's really 'z'!)