Liu married the son of a factory owner at the age of 24, but, unable to bear her overbearing widowed mother-in-law or her drunken, philandering husband, she divorced him only a year later.
24 歲時，劉秀美嫁給工廠小開，因為無法忍受「強勢寡母與花天酒地子女的組合」，婚姻僅維持 1 年。