A Chinese teenager appears to have taken his own life after the story of him being sold as an infant by his birth parents and recently reunited with them went viral.
“The sun is shining on the sea. I belong to the sky and sea,” Liu Xuezhou wrote before he was found dead early Monday on a beach in Hainan province.Sha Xiaofeng / VCG via Getty Images
His story quickly went viral and two weeks later he found his birth father, Ding Shuangquan, with the help of police and DNA evidence. The couple had separated and both had new families of their own, according to The Beijing News newspaper.of both meetings on Douyin, which TikTok is known as in China. He described both meetings as"happy."Screenshots posted on Liu’s Douyin account last Monday showed Zhang had blocked him on WeChat, a popular messaging app inIn a separate post, he said, Ding had refused to allow him into his home because he was worried his wife would divorce him.