Valno, a man who had often spoken to Wanrong would always mention that she was weak and feeble whenever he wrote about her. In Wanrong's journal entry of April 30th, 1931, she said that she had got seriously ill three times during her seven years in Tainjin. According to her journals, she still suffered from several chronic diseases such as "panasthenia" (neurasthenia) and irregular menstruation. At Puyi's insistence as noted in the above diary entry, she continued to smoke opium, and later became seriously addicted.