Cai Yong disliked playing up to bigwigs and, to avoid frame-ups, he went into exile in the South, wandering about for twelve years in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces.

• 蔡邕因为不愿趋附权贵，怕被人陷害，曾经亡命江南，往来于吴会之间（今江、浙一带）约十二年。