Prince of Hongnong
However, it appeared that Yang Lian did accept the posting to Kanghua eventually, for he was referred to as the military governor of Kanghua in 940. (Corroborating this was the fact that in the biography of his wife Princess Yongxing, she was mentioned to have accompanied Yang Lian to Kanghua's capital Chi Prefecture (). In spring 940, Yang Lian went to pay respects to his father's tomb, Pingling (). As he was returning from Pingling, one night, when he was very drunk, he died in the boat. (The circumstances caused suspicions that the Southern Tang emperor ordered his death.) Emperor Liezu posthumously created him the Prince of Hongnong and gave him the posthumous name of "Jing" (靖, "comforting"). Princess Yongxing returned to the Southern Tang palace at Jinling, wore mourning clothes, and refused to remarry for the rest of her life, which did not last long.