Chen Lien-hsing's family stayed on in Kinmen, so Chen went back to the island after graduating from high school to attend teacher's college. He eventually took a job as an elementary school teacher and learned to live with mainland China's regular shelling of Kinmen on every other day.
陳連興因為家人沒有撤退台灣，中學後返回金門唸師資班，在小學任教，此後都生活在「單打雙不打」的砲彈恐懼中。