Ma Yashu and Taiwan actress Leanne Liu (L) attend a promotional activity on Sunday, June 1,2008 in Kunming for their new television series, "Shun Niang," which will soon air on Yunnan Satellite TV. [Photo: clzg.cn]

Taiwan actress Leanne Liu says she and her husband plan to adopt a boy and a girl who lost their parents during the devastating magnitude 8 earthquake that hit Southwest China last month.

Liu, 49, made the announcement while promoting her new television series, "Shun Niang: A Woman Changes Her Destiny," Sunday afternoon in Kunming, Dushi Shibao newspaper reports.

After years of marriage, Liu and her husband are still unable to have children. The couple believes children are gifts from nature and can't be born through test tubes, as their friends have suggested.

In "Shun Niang", Leanne Liu also plays a motherly role, a slight shift from her usual characters as an obedient wife and daughter-in-law in Qiong Yao's romantic dramas.

The television drama will begin airing on Yunnan Satellite TV on June 16.