In November 1931, the Japanese found Puyi and asked him to go to the Northeast to become the emperor of the puppet Manchukuo, claiming that he could exercise all the power of the emperor there. Puyi believed it and went from Tianjin to Northeast China alone. Two months later, Wanrong, Puyi's two younger sisters and younger brother Pujie were invited to the Northeast together to continue to maintain royal life.

However, life in Northeast China is not what Wanrong originally imagined. At this time, Puyi had completely become a puppet of the Japanese and lost his basic freedom. After Wanrong arrived in the Northeast, although she was a queen in name, she was criticized and ridiculed everywhere, and even Pu Yi dismissed her. Here, even a little Japanese maid can give her a look. Not to mention the glory, wealth and pampering, even the basic diet cannot be satisfied.

At a more important time, the Japanese guarded Wanrong like a prisoner, and she couldn't even walk out of the door.

Faced with such a life, Wanrong was almost driven crazy by torture. She tried to run away from this hell on earth. At this time, Gu Weijun, the Foreign Minister of the Communist Party of China, went to the Northeast for business. Wanrong seized this opportunity and sent someone to ask Gu Weijun for help. At that time, Gu Weijun was only on business in the Northeast as a Chinese consultant and was not able to provide help, so he could only refuse.

However, this did not make Wanrong give up the idea of ????escape. She has been trying to leave. In the summer of 1933, she asked the wife of the puppet Manchukuo Legislator Zhao Xinbo to help her and Puyi escape to Japan, but she ultimately failed. After two attempts to escape proved fruitless, Wanrong finally collapsed. She gave up, she stopped struggling, she planned to break the jar and let it go on like this.

Regarding Wanrong during this period, her personal eunuch Sun Yaoting once recalled: At first, the queen had a good temper. The emperor often came to her room, but rarely spent the night in her room, just chatting for a while. If so, just play and leave. Later, the emperor came less often, and her temper became less good. Sometimes she would stop embroidering flowers in the room, sit facing the wall, and say nothing for a long time; whenever this happened, we had to be extra careful. serve.

Later, Wanrong began to smoke opium crazily and lived in a state of psychedelic and hazy life. There was a smoking room specifically for her in the pseudo-imperial palace, and she spent most of her time in it. Not long after, Wanrong, who was originally full of curiosity about the world and had high expectations for the future, began to look haggard. She is getting thinner and thinner, and she is becoming less and less particular about food and clothing. She hides in the smoking room like a crazy woman. I don't know whether she felt angry or happy at that time.