In eight short years, Chiang Ching-kuo's widow Faina Vakhreva Chiang suffered the loss of husband and sons, a tragedy that left five widows behind. To see her grown sons pass on one after the next and to bury them while she was still living was especially unbearable. The Chiang family became more withdrawn as they quietly raised the fourth generation.
短短 8 年，蔣經國遺孀蔣方良經歷喪夫、喪子之痛，尤其白髮人送黑髮人，目睹蔣家男丁一一過世、一門五寡，最為不忍；方良女士帶著 3 名媳婦蔣徐乃錦、蔡惠媚、蔣方智怡等女眷勇敢面對，蔣家從顯赫到沒落，蔣家人也越來越低調，默默撫育蔣家第四代。