Unable to convince her husband, Mrs. Chen eventually applied for and received a single-entry permit--the Hong Kong equivalent of a residency visa--in 2003, and traveled across the Pearl River delta to Hong Kong with their two children, then aged 12 and 16.
拗不過好面子的丈夫，2003 年，申請多時的「單程證」（港澳定居證）批准後，她帶著年紀分別為 16 和 12 歲的兩個孩子跨過珠江來港。