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Actress's Dying Wish: Makeup Artist Recalls Fulfilling Final Request, Netizens Suspect Hsu Wei-lun

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

Translated from Chinese, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • A makeup artist shared a deeply moving experience of fulfilling a deceased actress's final wish to be made up after her death.
  • The actress had repeatedly asked the makeup artist to do her makeup if she died, a request initially dismissed as a joke.
  • Many netizens speculate the actress was Hsu Wei-lun, who died in a car accident 19 years ago, based on details shared by the makeup artist and her former agent.

A Taiwanese makeup artist, known as Miaomiao, has recounted a profoundly touching and sorrowful experience from her career: applying makeup to the body of a young actress she worked with. The most poignant aspect of this memory is a conversation she had with the actress just weeks before her untimely death.

Sister Miaomiao, if I die, you must do my makeup.

— ActressThe actress's repeated request to the makeup artist before her death.

The actress, who was at the peak of her career, had repeatedly told Miaomiao, "Sister Miaomiao, if I die, you must do my makeup." Miaomiao initially brushed off the requests as a morbid joke, even responding that she was afraid of ghosts. The actress, however, playfully insisted, warning that she would haunt Miaomiao if her wish wasn't granted. This exchange, which seemed like a jest at the time, tragically came true.

I don't want to, I'm afraid of ghosts.

— MiaomiaoThe makeup artist's initial reaction to the actress's request.

Following the actress's fatal accident in Miaoli, Miaomiao rushed to her side at the hospital in Taichung. Overwhelmed with grief, she struggled to even call the actress's name. The actress's mother and agent later approached Miaomiao, asking if she would fulfill the star's final request. Despite her immense sadness, Miaomiao honored the wish, carefully applying makeup while fighting back tears, mindful of not letting them fall on the deceased.

If you don't do my makeup, I'll find you even as a ghost.

— ActressThe actress's playful but prophetic response to Miaomiao's refusal.

Netizens widely speculate that the actress in Miaomiao's story is Hsu Wei-lun, a popular Taiwanese actress who died at the age of 28 in a car accident 19 years ago. Supporting this theory, Hsu's former agent, Sun Fu-hua, left a comment on Miaomiao's social media post, recalling Hsu's praise for Miaomiao's makeup skills. While Miaomiao has not explicitly named the actress, the shared details and the agent's comment have led many to believe the story refers to Hsu.

My tears kept flowing, I could barely call her name. Even recalling it now makes me very emotional.

— MiaomiaoThe makeup artist describing her emotional state upon seeing the actress in the hospital.
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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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