The failure of the Huizhou Uprising and the Qing court's assassinations were a blow to the revolutionaries. That said, they recovered as fast as it can be, and this time it was Tse Tsan-tai who undertook to plot the 1903 Guangzhou Uprising.

Tse enlisted the support of Hong Tianfu, a relative of Hong Xiuquan (the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom), and Li Ki-tong, a rich merchant in Hong Kong. He was also aided by many Christians in the Guangdong province and triads here and around.

With Li Ki-tong's help, Tse opened the "He Ji Zhan" fruit stall at 20 D'Aguilar Street, using the third floor as his base. This uprising, moreover, was bolstered up by a group of Hong Kong merchants and westerners, including Ho Kai, Ho Tung, Woo Lai-woon, Au Fung-chi and Lau Chu-pak. The plan was to make Yung Wing the provisional president after the Qing government was overthrown.

The scheme, however, was leaked to the Hong Kong police, who promptly ransacked the stall for relevant documents. In Guangdong, too, they were stabbed in the back. It was yet another stillborn revolution. After that, Hong Tianfu fled from Guangzhou to Singapore via Hong Kong. Tse Tsan-tai withdrew from the front-line and rerouted his plan: he founded the South China Morning Post, an English newspaper, to promote new thinking. Since then the Revive China Society withered, and its members could do nothing but hope for a change.