On May 13, 2007, Chen Xiaoxu died of breast cancer in Shenzhen.
Relatives and friends, including her parents and sister Chen Xiaoyang, have repeatedly advised her to see a doctor quickly, but she always ignored it. In October 2016, Chen Xiaoxu's aunt noticed that her niece was often "uncomfortable" and quickly dragged her to a hospital in Beijing. An examination found that Chen Xiaoxu had breast cancer, and her condition was very serious.
Family background:
There are different opinions on Lin Daiyu’s family background. The first person to raise the issue of Daiyu's family property was Tu Ying of the Qing Dynasty. He proposed that Lin Daiyu's original wealth was based on the sentence Jia Lian said in the 72nd chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions": "It will be nice to make another three to two million yuan in a while." There should be millions of inheritance from his father Lin Ruhai, but it was embezzled by the Jia family.
Contemporary scholar Liu Xinwu also believes that the Salt Patrol Censor was a fat man, and Lin Ruhai should have a huge inheritance. However, Daiyu did not get her father's huge inheritance because Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng embezzled it. Based on the description of the source of Lin Daiyu's monthly money in the book, Chen Dakang speculated that the family property left by Lin Ruhai flowed into the Jia Mansion. In addition to being used to allocate Daiyu's daily necessities, it may also be used for the construction of the Grand View Garden.