The two unemployed young people now used their savings to get married and buy a place to live. After they started to feel the pinch they got in touch with a publisher to discuss doing a book, while Chu Te-yung proceeded to became the earliest home office worker in Taipei.
離職後，就著以往的積蓄，兩個沒工作的年輕人結婚買屋，感受到生活的壓力了，便跟出版社洽談出書事宜，而朱德庸也開始了台北最早的 SOHO 族生涯。