If he accepted the government post, all he had achieved up to that point might be jeopardized. "How could I possibly give up something I love for something I hate?" The famed army general Zhang Liang helped found the Han dynasty, but turned right around and cast off his prestigious posts like a pair of old shoes, choosing instead to wander off with an immortal.
要是當了官，恐前功盡棄，「安能舍其所樂而從其所懼哉」。