I was opposed to entering politics in the past! Shen Boyang remembers his late mother and has onions hidden in his mobile phone’s “viewing history”

The day before Taipei Mayoral Candidate Shen Boyang of the Democratic Progressive Party took leave to fully devote himself to the election campaign (11th), he went to JET Comprehensive Channel's "News Digging Wow" to record. This episode is titled "Be Your Warmth!". Shen Boyang rarely puts down his offensive and defensive campaign, and talks with host Zheng Hongyi about his mother who passed away last year, his father who did not agree with the adoption at the beginning, and the daughter he was most reluctant to let go of during this campaign. He also shared the process of adopting his daughter. The program will be broadcast at 8pm today (12th).

Shen Boyang appeared in the video of "News Didig Wow". (Provided by JET)

Shen Boyang's parents divorced when he was six or seven years old. In his eyes, his mother was an independent woman who worked as a cleaner in a hotel and sold drinks at a mountain trail. Despite hard work and low income, she still insisted on living on her own. After Shen Boyang started teaching in a cram school to make money, he would give more than 10,000 yuan to his mother every month.

The mother is very concerned about politics, but she never wants her son to enter politics. Shen Boyang revealed that his mother thought he would be hurt by this, and he could only tell her again and again: "But I think this is something I can do." It was not until after his mother passed away that he opened her mobile phone to check the viewing history, and found that it was almost all clips of himself in political commentaries. He was surprised and moved. It turned out that his mother was opposed to it, but she had been silently paying attention to him in private.

Shen Boyang revealed that the idea of ​​adoption came from his experience in tutoring teenagers in college. He found that many children went on a deviant path because they lacked people to rely on when they were growing up. "It would be very different if they were picked up at the age of three, four, or five years old."

However, when he mentioned the adoption plan to his parents, neither of them could accept it at first. His father even said to him, "Why don't you open a kindergarten?" Shen Boyang did not give up his idea, and still hoped to start by himself and adopt a child first. He believes: "If everyone helps one more person, this society will definitely change a lot." He also admitted that he has been getting along well with his father, mother and stepmother since he was a child, so for him, blood is not a threshold that cannot be crossed.

My daughter was already one year old when she came to the home. It was the time of the epidemic, and the process of transitioning from a foster home to a new home was not easy. The couple specially shot 10 videos and asked the nanny to play them for their daughter, hoping to help her gradually get to know her future parents.

Shen Boyang recalled that on the first day his daughter arrived home, she clung to his wife for seven hours. He could only be responsible for bathing, feeding, and changing diapers, and her daughter was only willing to let him hold her for a few seconds. Until one day, the couple played the pre-recorded video again. The daughter looked at the screen, then turned to look at the two people in front of her. She fell asleep with a smile for the first time that night, which moved her to tears beside the bed, and she cried for a long time.

Now, not only can my daughter hear her father’s footsteps coming home late, but she has also become his “smile coach.” Shen Boyang said with a smile that her daughter always felt that her father didn't like to smile enough, so she often taught him how to laugh at home. She also laughed at herself that her eyes were not big in the first place, and they narrowed into a straight line when she smiled.