Chapter 3 His Name Is Liu Shixin (2) (Change)

William and Jenny have been married for almost thirty years and have never had children. William, 55, is an executive at the Royal Bank of Canada, where he is responsible for personal finance investments. With an excellent vision, William has helped many clients to complete high-return investments, so he has accumulated a good commission remuneration over the years. Jenny is a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she teaches Fine Arts. Jenny's obsession with art trumped anything else, and with no children left under her knees, Jenny was always worried that no one would inherit what she had learned. Among the students, Jenny looked for many talented students, but in the end she was not very satisfied, until she met Liu Shixin. William was naturally very clear about his wife's eagerness to find an inheritor, which was why William would agree to adopt Liu Shixin, who in his opinion, was above all else.

Canada has a good autism treatment institution, and William Jenny did not hope that Liu Shixin's disease could be completely eradicated, but only hoped that Liu Shixin could communicate with normal people. This treatment lasted for 5 years. 12-year-old Liu Shixin can't see that he is an autistic person at all, and more people will think that he is a more introverted person, not talkative, and not good at socializing.

Overcoming the troubles caused by autism, Liu Shixin can finally go to school like a normal person. In addition to going to school on weekdays, Liu Shixin often follows his mother Jenny to the Ontario College of Art and Design to audit. Jenny's friends all know that Jenny has adopted an Asian kid with a good talent for drawing.

Liu Shixin did not embarrass Jenny. At the age of 17, Liu Shixin was admitted to his mother's college with the first place in the overall ranking of arts. Liu Shixin's painting "Moonlight" created during the examination was widely circulated in the college and was recognized by many teachers. It is a painting similar to Van Gogh's "The Scream" and "Sunflowers", with the dim moonlight twisting and scattering across the earth. Jenny framed the painting in golden silk wood, and the work was hung in Jenny's office, which was the pride of Jenny's life.

Liu Shixin's talent for painting was fully unleashed under Jenny's teaching. 21-year-old Liu Shixin studied under his mother Jenny, and Liu Shixin, who had spare energy, studied art design in addition to studying art. For the ideals of his mother Jenny, sometimes Liu Shixin does not fully agree, a simple painter has been difficult to adapt to the development of society, Liu Shixin not only wants to put art on painting paper, oilcloth, art can also be worn on the body, on the head, draped on the shoulder.

Liu Shixin has read many biographies of people in this area, and knows about the top ten famous designers in the world, Valentino, Versace, Dior, and Chanel...... When their names come out, they are all a well-known brand. Liu Shixin aspires to be a person like them.

Although Liu Shixin has different opinions from his mother, the relationship between the family has never been estranged, and Liu Shixin is like their biological son. Liu Shixin always wanted to prove himself to his mother Jenny, but Liu Shixin did not wait for this moment. In January 2014, 72-year-old father William died of stomach cancer, and only 3 months later, his depressed mother Jenny also passed away and followed her father, and this year her mother Jenny was 68 years old.

The 24-year-old Liu Shixin lost his parents again, and the great grief made Liu Shixin lock himself in the study.

When the neighbor called the police and the door to the study was broken open by the police, people saw the emaciated Liu Shixin fainting to the ground. Next to him is a huge painting. In the painting, a handsome man leads a beautiful woman strolling along the park path, from the faces of the two people can be faintly seen that it is the young William and Jenny, the red maple leaves are falling in the wind, and in the distance, on the grass, a child is holding a maple leaf to compare the sun. The man and woman looked at the little boy from afar, and the smile on their faces was so bright. In the bottom corner of the painting, there is the name of the painting, "Father, Mother, Son". The school teachers who saw the painting understood the meaning of the painting.

Liu Shixin was just a simple grief and malnutrition, and he recovered quickly after simple treatment. In order to mourn his mother Jenny, and to avoid seeing things and thinking about others, "Father, Mother, Son" was handed over to the academy by Liu Shixin for processing. The Ontario College of Art and Design placed the painting next to Jenny's portrait and kept it in the College Museum.

After dealing with his parents' funeral, Liu Shixin found it difficult to live at home. Fragments of his previous life with his parents kept flashing in his mind, and the bored Liu Shixin could only rely on sleeping pills to sleep.

One day, while sorting out things at home, after a family photo, Liu Shixin found a letter. The white envelope has been yellowed a little, which shows that it is very old. Opening the envelope and unfolding the letter, Liu Shixin's tears flowed out again, and it was undoubtedly the words of his mother Jenny.

“My-Son……”

In the letter, the mother wrote in detail about the adoption of Yanagi. These contents, because of autism at the beginning, Liu Shixin didn't remember a lot of things. The letter revealed his mother's deep love for him, and also expressed his gratitude to the orphanage that adopted him in the first place.

After receiving the letter, Liu Shixin had a new plan and a new goal. Yoo Shi-shin wants to go back to South Korea for a walk, leave the current sad place, visit the former dean and life teacher, and repay the kindness of the orphanage.

In foreign countries, if you want to inherit an estate, you will pay a large amount of inheritance tax. Jenny also didn't want Liu Shixin to spend a lot of money in the future, which delayed her study of art. So before he died, he donated most of his family's money to charity, and probably only left one-third for Liu Shixin to live. His father, William, thought that a man would look ungentlemanly if he had no money to live with. So he secretly transferred some of his investment projects behind his mother's back to Liu Shixin's name through an offshore company.

Liu Shixin knew about this two weeks after his mother's death. Paul, a lawyer who had worked closely with his father William before, came to Liu Shixin's house with a whole box of documents, and when Liu Shixin signed it, Liu Shixin knew what a huge inheritance his father had left him.

William worked at the Royal Bank of Canada from the age of 40 in senior management until his retirement at the age of 60. After retiring, he was also rehired as an investment consultant by the Royal Bank of Canada, and it can be said that William has been dealing with investment and financial management all his life, in addition to helping others invest, William also has a lot of his own investment projects.

Now all this belongs to Liu Shixin himself. The different practices of the parents are all out of love for themselves, and Liu Shixin locked himself at home again.

A month later, with a smile on his face, Yoo Shixin packed his backpack and embarked on a journey back to South Korea......

In the living room of the Canadian home, there is a huge oil painting. The protagonists of this painting are two old men and a young man in the twilight, two old men holding hands and sitting on a park bench, while the young man takes a picture of them...... This painting was named "Time" by Liu Shixin.

After a dozen hours of flying journey, Yoo Shixin once again set foot on Korean soil. After leaving Incheon International Airport, Liu Shixin went straight to the old ninth district in his memory. The current old ninth district and the old ninth district for more than ten years have hardly changed, and what has changed is the scene outside the old ninth district, with high-rise buildings and galloping cars and horses.

The orphanage where Liu Shixin lived in his childhood is still there, and with the changes of the times, the conditions of the orphanage have been greatly improved. After coming to the gate of the orphanage and explaining his intention to the doorman, the doorman made a phone call.

Liu Shixin was waiting outside the door, and from a distance, Liu Shixin found a familiar figure.

"Really...... Is it really Shixin?"

"Mother An?" Liu Shixin tried to scream. The person who came was Liu Shixin's life teacher in the past.

"Hey~ Hey, Wuli Shixin has grown so big, when he walked, I remember that he was so tall~" An's mother compared her waist, 7-year-old Liu Shixin is indeed not tall.

Liu Shixin was very emotional, and when they met again, wrinkles had crawled all over An's mother's face. Liu Shixin will never forget that box of paintbrushes. Liu Shixin was dragged all the way to the office by An's mother, and now An's mother is already the director of the orphanage, and the old director died ten years ago. didn't see the old dean, which became a regret for Liu Shixin.

Liu Shixin, who was sitting in the office, was asked by An's mother.

Liu Shixin told An's mother about his life after leaving. When she learned that Liu Shixin had obtained a master's degree in fine arts, An's mother was almost in tears.

"I, in this life, the most correct thing is Shi Xin's painting talent~"

When he left the orphanage, Liu Shixin left a check, not only to repay the kindness of raising him, but also to help orphans like himself. After several shirks, Liu Shixin still left a check.

After leaving the orphanage, Yoo Shixin seemed to have lost all direction for a while, wandering the streets of bustling Seoul, feeling the bustle and noise brought by the city. Liu Shixin remembered a sentence from his mother Jenny: Art needs to be discovered by eyes.

After applying for an international driver's license, Liu Shixin rented an ordinary modern car from the car dealership. First, I surrounded Seoul, stopped and stopped all the way, and then drove out of Seoul to feel the tranquility behind the bustling city. Late at night, Yoo Si-shin drove back to Seoul from out of town, and when passing an intersection, without warning, the Hyundai lost control. Before falling into a coma, Liu Shixin seemed to see his parents waving to him, and their laughter was still so soft and kind......