Having exhausted all possibility and finding themselves in a hopeless predicament, they had considered adoption, finding a mistress, or going to mainland China to hire a woman to bear them a child. They had even begun to entertain thoughts of divorce.
在無計可施、萬念俱灰的情況下，他們曾有過認領、娶妾、去大陸借腹生子，甚至離婚的想法。