She was a Catholic from Guangzhou and it was claimed that she married Nguyễn Ái Quốc (a pseudonym used by Vietnamese communist leader Hồ Chí Minh) in October 1926.

[5] He posed as a Chinese citizen named Li Shui (Ly Thuy) and worked as a translator for Comintern agent and Soviet arms dealer Mikhail Borodin.

[1] When Ho's comrades objected to the match, he told them, "I will get married despite your disapproval because I need a woman to teach me the language and keep house.

[7] The legal witnesses were Cai Chang and Deng Yingchao, wife of future Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.

[1] However, Zeng obtained an abortion on the advice of her mother, who feared that Hồ might be forced to leave China.

[1] On 12 April 1927, KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek staged an anti-communist coup in Shanghai and other cities.

[7] Although she was uninterested in politics, Zeng is recorded as a member of the (Chinese) Communist Youth League from July 1927 to June 1929.

[13] By this time, a cult of personality had arisen around Hồ and the North Vietnamese government had an investment in the myth of his celibacy,[14] said to symbolize his total devotion to the revolution.

Zeng retired as a midwife in 1977 and in 1979, the Guangdong Provincial Communist Party Committee provided her with a living allowance and assistance for her.

[18] In May 1991, the editor-in-chief of Tuoi Tre Vũ Kim Hạnh was summarily dismissed from her post after the newspaper published a story about Ho's marriage.

[19][20] William Duiker's Ho Chi Minh: A Life (2000) presents additional CAOM documentation for the relationship.

He characterized it as a rumor heard on the Internet and concluded that "this is a hypothesis that is more fiction than not" and said "the facts have proven that it is not true.