As an old Chinese saying has it, Heaven is fatally jealous of great beauty, and such was the fate of Kuo Tsui-feng, who passed away in 1935, leaving Chen alone to cope with two small children crying for their mother. The infant son, entrusted to the care of another family, died soon thereafter.
天妒紅顏，一九三五年，郭翠鳳驟逝。留下陳慧坤面對一雙日夜哭著找媽媽的小兒女，寄養於別人家中的幼兒不久亦夭折。