Aileen returned to Shanghai, because of the economic relationship, she used the only survival tool-writing to tide over the difficulties. The First Stove of Incense and the Second Stove of Incense became her famous works, which announced the arrival of a dazzling new star in Shanghai literature for Zhang Ailing. These two articles by Zhang Ailing were published in Violet, which was presided over by Mr. Zhou Shoujuan. Red Rose and White Rose, Love in a Beautiful City, The Golden Lock and other works have established her important position in China's modern literature. Just when she was recognized as the leading female writer in Shanghai and her career was in full swing, she fell in love. It happened that the Ministry of Culture of Wang Ching-wei, the great traitor, served Hu Lancheng and swept her off her feet.

Zhang Ailing worked hard for this relationship. She doesn't mind Hu Lancheng getting married, regardless of his traitor status. After the war, people's anti-Japanese sentiment was as high as ever, and they tried their best to catch traitors. Hu Lancheng fled to Wenzhou and met her new lover, Fan Xiumei. When Zhang Ailing learned of Hu Lancheng's hiding place and found him all the way, his love for her had already burned out. Zhang Ailing is powerless to change anything. She told Hu Lancheng that she was going to die. However, it is not only Zhang Ailing's heart that withered, but also her shocking writing talent. Even after a long time, she never wrote such a beautiful article as The Golden Lock. In the History of Cultural Traitors published by 1945, Zhang Ailing is on the list, which is more or less thanks to Hu Lancheng. Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng met on 1944 and broke up on 1947. Only three years, but it is a bright spot in Zhang Ailing's life. Later, Zhang Ailing had another marriage in America. She met her second husband Yala on 1956. The other is a left-wing writer who got married in the same year. Until Yala died in 1967.