Hu Die returned to Shanghai after the surrender of Japan in 1945.
Dai Li was killed in a plane crash in March 1946.
In the midst of the Chinese Civil War, Hu Die again moved with her husband to Hong Kong in 1946.
Pan Yousheng started a company making thermoses with the brand Butterfly, and she actively promoted her namesake product in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
They lived a few happy years together, until Pan died soon after being diagnosed with liver cancer in 1958.

After her husband's death, Hu Die returned to the film industry in 1959, now taking roles as older women, which took her some time to adjust to.
She made several films for Shaw Brothers Studio, a successor company of Tianyi, and her performance in Li Han-hsiang's Rear Door (Houmen) won her the Best Actress Award at the Seventh Asian Film Festival held in Tokyo in 1960.
It also won the Best Film Award.

Hu Die retired in 1966, after a career spanning more than four decades.
It was said that in 1967 she married an admirer named Zhu Fangkun (or Song Kunfang), who had given her financial support in the difficult period following Pan Yousheng's death.
She emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1975 to join her son.
She lived a low-key life and avoided attention by using the name Pan Baojuan.
She dictated her memoir in 1986, which first appeared in Taiwan's United Daily News in serials, and was published in mainland China in 1987.
She died on 23 April 1989, after suffering a stroke.
Hu Die returned to Shanghai after the surrender of Japan in 1945. Dai Li was killed in a plane crash in March 1946. In the midst of the Chinese Civil War, Hu Die again moved with her husband to Hong Kong in 1946. Pan Yousheng started a company making thermoses with the brand Butterfly, and she actively promoted her namesake product in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. They lived a few happy years together, until Pan died soon after being diagnosed with liver cancer in 1958.
After her husband's death, Hu Die returned to the film industry in 1959, now taking roles as older women, which took her some time to adjust to. She made several films for Shaw Brothers Studio, a successor company of Tianyi, and her performance in Li Han-hsiang's Rear Door (Houmen) won her the Best Actress Award at the Seventh Asian Film Festival held in Tokyo in 1960. It also won the Best Film Award.
Hu Die retired in 1966, after a career spanning more than four decades. It was said that in 1967 she married an admirer named Zhu Fangkun (or Song Kunfang), who had given her financial support in the difficult period following Pan Yousheng's death. She emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1975 to join her son. She lived a low-key life and avoided attention by using the name Pan Baojuan. She dictated her memoir in 1986, which first appeared in Taiwan's United Daily News in serials, and was published in mainland China in 1987. She died on 23 April 1989, after suffering a stroke.
Hu Die