From his incarceration to his return to the prose stage at age 41, Yeh spent 14 years in the literary wilderness. During this time he married and had children, and his attention was fully occupied with the tribulations of daily life, given the economic difficulties that his family faced after losing their landed wealth.
從被捕，到四十一歲復出文壇，葉石濤的筆荒廢了十四年，這段時間他娶妻生子，輾轉於家道中落後的經濟拮据困頓中。