The love story of Liu Shikun and Sun Ying is a legend that spans age, identity and public opinion. From the acquaintance of teachers and students to the love and stay together, they have experienced many ups and downs and challenges to come to today's happiness. Let's look back at their relationship journey and explore the source of their true love.
Liu Shikun, born in Tianjin in 1939, is a well-known Chinese pianist, composer and music educator. He showed amazing musical talent from an early age, was admitted to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of ten, and won the second prize at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition at the age of sixteen, becoming an internationally renowned piano master.
He was received and praised by national leaders such as Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev, and was persecuted and imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. His life was full of legends, but also of ups and downs and tribulations. Sun Ying, born in Nanjing in 1976, is also a descendant of a musical family.
Her parents are both musicians, and they have developed a professional music training plan for her since she was a child. She not only studied piano but also pipa, becoming a versatile musician. At the age of 17, she successfully gave a solo concert in Hong Kong, which attracted attention and praise from both inside and outside the industry. She has deep feelings and persistent pursuit of the piano, and also has great admiration and admiration for Liu Shikun.
The two of them met in a piano competition in 1994. At that time, Sun Ying participated in the competition with Liu Shikun as the judge and won the championship with excellent results. Liu Shikun admires Sun Ying's performance very much and feels that she has a unique temperament and potential. He took the initiative to congratulate Sun Ying and gave her a gift.
Sun Ying was also full of respect and gratitude to Liu Shikun, and expressed to him her desire to learn from him. Liu Shikun happily agreed and invited her to come to her piano class to study. From then on, they began to interact with teachers and students. Liu Shikun is very concerned and cared for Sun Ying, not only giving her guidance and encouragement in piano, but also often inviting her to his home as a guest in life.
Sun Ying also has great respect and trust for Liu Shikun, and regards him as her best teacher and friend. There are no thoughts and behaviors between them that go beyond the teacher-student relationship, but simply use music as a link to communicate and influence each other. However, in such a pure teacher-student friendship, a subtle but strong feeling quietly sprouted.
This kind of feeling did not arise overnight, but gradually surfaced after years of accumulation and brewing. They may not realize that their concern and concern for each other has gone beyond the scope of teachers and students, but is an indescribable love. The relationship between Liu Shikun and Sun Ying gradually developed in Liu Shikun's second marriage.
Liu Shikun's second wife is Gai Yan, a TV host who met Liu Shikun during a piano performance. She was attracted by Liu Shikun's talent and demeanor, and Liu Shikun was also fascinated by her liveliness and generosity. They quickly fell in love and became husband and wife. In order to accompany Liu Shikun, Gai Yan gave up her career and wholeheartedly supported his music career.
She also welcomed and blessed Liu Shikun's apprentice Sun Ying, treated her as a member of her family, and gave her meticulous care. Gai Yan didn't notice the change in the relationship between Liu Shikun and Sun Ying, she felt that they were just teachers and students, and there was nothing wrong with them. She even wanted to introduce Sun Ying to someone, hoping that she could find her happiness as soon as possible.
However, this caused Liu Shikun's dissatisfaction and disgust, and he reprimanded Gai Yan in public for being nosy, which made Gai Yan very surprised and aggrieved. This may be a sign of a rift in their marriage. As time went by, the relationship between Liu Shikun and Sun Ying became deeper and deeper, and they often traveled, performed, and communicated together, and they were inseparable.
Gai Yan found that her husband was becoming more cold and distant, and he was returning home later and later. She began to wonder if Liu Shikun had an affair, but she didn't expect that the affair was Sun Ying. It wasn't until one day that intimate photos and scandal reports of Liu Shikun and Sun Ying broke out on the Internet, and Gai Yan completely collapsed.
She couldn't accept that her husband had betrayed her, and that she was still with a girl who was more than forty years younger than herself. She decided to divorce Liu Shikun and revealed their unbearable facts to the public. This incident caused an uproar, and netizens accused and abused Liu Shikun and Sun Ying, believing that they were morally corrupt, disregarded for shame, greedy for pleasure, disrespectful of their ex-wives, irresponsible, disrespectful of music, etc.
They are known as "old cows eat tender grass", "embarrassed and traitorous", "disgusting combination" and other vicious names. They have also become the focus of media chase and exposure, and their lives have been greatly disturbed and troubled. In the face of such huge pressure and predicament, Liu Shikun and Sun Ying did not choose to break up or escape, but chose to persist and face. They openly admit their relationship and state that they are genuinely in love and not for money or other purposes.
They also said that they were sorry and apologetic for their ex-wife Gai Yan, but they couldn't control their feelings and didn't want to hurt anyone. They hope that everyone will understand and respect their choice, and they also hope that everyone can give them some space and quiet to continue to pursue their musical dreams.
Liu Shikun and Sun Ying's honesty and bravery also made some netizens have different opinions about them. They feel that although they are very different in age, they share the same musical ideals and passions, as well as sincere love and loyalty. They believe that they are not ruining anyone's marriage or harming anyone's interests, but are simply pursuing their own happiness. They feel that they deserve to be respected and blessed, rather than ridiculed and denigrated.