However, as I said before, this military commander simply wasn't interested in the affairs of the jianghu, and his official rank wasn't high enough to hear such legends in the court. Thus, the situation arose where even his superiors were aware of the rumor, yet he remained ignorant.
Of course, stepping back, even if he had heard the rumor, it might not have been possible for him to avoid this calamity.
Because by the time the rumor reached the department head, it had already morphed into a version involving a "young man surnamed Huang," and the specific name of the person involved had been lost; there were too many people with the surname Huang. Even if the military commander had heard this version and fully believed its content, he probably would never have guessed that Huang Donglai was the protagonist of the story and that it would be just his luck to encounter him.
