According to Huang's "grandma" of the last dozen or so years, Lee Hsing-chuen, when the theater group went down to Hualien to perform the year after Kuo-chun's death, Huang distracted himself by taking a few members of the troupe with him to Carp Lake. There they noticed a difference in his mood, and had the sense that he was searching for something.
跟著黃春明十多年的「婆婆」李幸娟記得，國峻走後一年，劇團到花蓮演出，黃春明帶著幾位團員到鯉魚潭邊散心，可以感覺黃春明當天的情緒很不一樣，似乎在尋找什麼。