What is this supposed to mean? Who is tripping me up behind the scenes? Zhou Ding? He isn't in a position to approach the emperor and influence his thinking, is he? Besides, we didn't even know each other before, so it clearly couldn't be him. Then was it Jiang Ang? Huang Xiao looked perfectly calm, but inwardly, he was anything but.
He did not care about the Retainer position, but surely his youth alone was no reason to dismiss everything about him? If Tuoba Xing and the others had all been rejected, Huang Xiao would naturally have had nothing to say. But Tuoba Xing had passed while he had been rejected. There was clearly something very wrong with that.
Someone was definitely pulling strings behind the scenes!
Huang Xiao did not believe Zhao Guangyi would deliberately hold him back. Someone had clearly been whispering in his ear, and anyone capable of influencing the emperor had to possess considerable status.
Thus, Huang Xiao naturally thought of Jiang Ang. Jiang Ang was one of Huang Qitao's men, while he himself came from the Yellow Gate and naturally belonged to the Commandery Princess's side. That made Jiang Ang the most likely person to have meddled behind the scenes. At least, Huang Xiao could think of no more likely possibility at present.
Yet Huang Xiao would never have imagined that all of this really had been Zhao Guangyi's own idea. This was what he had meant when he told Xiao Yu earlier, "If you won't do anything about it, I will."
Since Huang Xiao was a constable of the Six Gates, Zhao Guangyi could naturally grant him the position of Retainer-or withhold it. Just as he had now stripped Huang Xiao of his Retainer position and even abolished his rank as a First-Class Constable,