When the war finally ended in 1945, Liu turned down a government offer of a higher-paying assignment in the northeast in favor of a job on the temperate southern island of Taiwan. Although the infamous February 28 Incident still loomed ahead, it was nevertheless at the moment he set foot on Taiwan that he began to come into his own.
一九四五年，戰爭終於結束。在經濟部資源委員會的調派下，他放棄薪水較高的東北地區，選擇溫暖的南方小島台灣，經歷了同胞相殘的二二八事件，然而也在四季如春的台灣綻放他生命的大片繽紛色彩。