Liu Zhen passed away unexpectedly during heart surgery in 2020. Her husband Hsin Lung has kept her belongings well, raised their daughter carefully, and lived a solid life.
Liu Zhen, 44, passed away suddenly on the operating table during heart surgery in March 2020. From the time she was admitted to the hospital until her death, only 45 days had passed, and she was not even able to say a final goodbye to her young daughter, Ni Na, who was only 4 years old at the time.
In her early years, she gained significant fame across mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong thanks to her professional ballroom dancing skills. She was a regular guest on the show *Kangxi Is Coming*, and her lively, outspoken, and cheerful personality left a deep impression on viewers.Her husband, Xin Long, has always cherished her deeply. In their home’s storage room, more than 500 pairs of high heels she had collected over the years were neatly stacked—vivid mementos of the past that were shattered completely the moment she passed away so suddenly. On the day Liu Zhen passed away, Xin Long’s temples were suddenly streaked with gray hair overnight.
No one could have predicted the choice he made afterward; most people probably wouldn’t have been able to do the same. In the years that followed, he never remarried, and every item in his home remained exactly as it had been when Liu Zhen was alive—not a single pair of her more than 500 pairs of high heels was discarded.In the first few years after his wife’s death, he almost completely withdrew from the public eye. The longing he never voiced was quietly turned into demos stored on his hard drive, and when speaking to his daughter, he simply told her gently that her mother had gone to live on another planet.
Everyone around him thought he might be trapped in this grief for the rest of his life, but in the end, he wasn’t brought down by those bleak days. On his own, he raised his young daughter—who was only 4 at the time—steadily until she turned 10. She grew up cheerful and well-rounded, never lacking even a shred of her father’s love.It wasn’t until November 2025 that he finally returned to the microphone in the recording studio.
These past six years—neither long nor short—might have been too much for anyone else to bear, and their family might have fallen apart long ago. Yet he managed to weave his unspoken longing and the sense of responsibility that comes with being a husband and a father into their ordinary, everyday life, day by day.
People often say that when a person dies, it’s like a lamp being extinguished. But looking at Xin Long—carefully cherishing the little memories connected to his late friend and steadily moving forward with his life—it’s probably a kind of reunion after a long separation in its own way.
Who among us living in this world doesn’t have a few people or events we can’t let go of? There’s no need to remain trapped in sorrow and refuse to move forward. Taking good care of those around you and living a stable, grounded life is the best way to honor those who have passed away.
