Among the 17 children of the gambling king Ho Hongshen , the eldest princess He Chaoying should be the one with the most ups and downs.
She was once the "most beautiful daughter", gambler 's favorite daughter, and a rising star in the business world. However, after repeated blows, he eventually became insane, and after his death, he did not even have a tombstone.
The misfortune of He Chaoying laid the groundwork for her mother Li Wanhua .
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In 1941, Hong Kong fell. Stanley Ho, who was so poor that there were only 10 Hong Kong dollars left, came to Macau to join his grandfather, He Dong .
Stanley Ho was born in a famous family, and his ancestors were Hong Kong tycoons. It is a pity that in my father's generation, because of the failure of investing in stocks, his family situation has completely declined. Two uncles committed suicide by swallowing guns, and their father escaped to Vietnam from debts. From this, 13-year-old Ho Hongshen and his mother depended on each other for life, and enjoyed the warmth and coldness of the world.
With the help of He Dong, Ho Hongshen successfully entered the CIMB company, relying on the desperate smuggling of ships, and gradually accumulated a little wealth. That year, and Huo Yingdong also did the same thing. The first time the two confronted, Huo Yingdong was particularly upset. I will elaborate on this later.
If you did not meet the "goddess" Li Wanhua, Stanley Ho's life may be relatively rich and noble, but there will never be a "gambler" who will be rich in the future.
Li Wanhua is a Portuguese, Chinese-Portuguese mixed blood, known as "Macao's No. 1 Beauty". What is more amazing than beauty is her prominent family. His grandfather is a wealthy Portuguese, and his father is a well-known lawyer. He is also the only local notary in Macau. The power of the family is huge and the connections are extremely wide.
Stanley Ho uses learning Portugal as an excuse,Desperately launched a pursuit to Li Wanhua. Pick her up from school every day and take her around for tea and dates. Ho Hongshen was tall and handsome, and soon won the favor of beauties.
In 1942, the two married successfully. Less than a year after the marriage, Ho Hongshen was promoted to partner of CIMB, with a dividend of 1 million at the end of the year. At that time, Stanley Ho was just 22 years old.
Soon after, Stanley Ho founded the only kerosene plant in Macau. Kerosene was a scarce resource at the time, which made countless people jealous. Why did it happen to the fledgling Ho Hongshen? The answer is self-evident. His nephew Sun Jinghong bluntly said, "The gambling king depends on Li Wanhua ".
In short, with monopolistic business, Stanley Ho quickly accumulated a lot of wealth.
After having money, of course, it is to make a baby quickly.
With the birth of a few children, Stanley Ho was very happy and once had high hopes. Unfortunately, because of an accident, it eventually became the beginning of a tragedy.
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Since 1947, Li Wanhua has given birth to 1 son and 3 daughters. Especially He Chaoying, the eldest daughter, is the favorite of He Hongshen.
As the first child of the He family, He Chaoying has been a princess since she was a child.
However, all this stopped abruptly when she was 15 years old.
In 1957, Li Wanhua suddenly contracted colitis . At that time, medical conditions were underdeveloped, and the search for famous doctors could not be cured, and other complications were caused. In the end, the stomach had to be relieved. He lived on liquid food and medicine for a long time, and his weight dropped from 52 kg to 31 kg.
Rebirth from the original disease is better than death, but Stanley Ho ignited the idea of marrying a concubine.Based on the excuse that "the family has a big business and a woman needs to take care of the housework", according to the Qing law, he soon married his second wife 蓝琼缨 .
This move made the Li family particularly dissatisfied. In order to contend with Erfang, He Chaoying was pushed to the front.
She was first arranged to study law in the UK, and then returned to China to participate in the family business.
Because he is particularly sensitive to fashion design, He Chaoying succeeded in taking over the family's fashion business and was once on the "Fortune" magazine "Global 50 Business Women" list. He Hongshen also valued her very much, taking her by her all day, as a successor.
At that time, He Chaoying was still immersed in happiness. As everyone knows, tragedy has quietly come.
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As the daughter of a wealthy family, the most uncontrollable thing is her own marriage.
He Chaoying, who grew up, has inherited the hybrid genes of his parents perfectly. He has a slim figure and a dignified and beautiful appearance. He is known as the "most beautiful daughter" of the gambling king and has attracted countless noble sons.
He Chaoying
Among them, the recognized perfect match is the son of Fok Yingdong Fok Zhenting . The two have known each other since childhood, and have been in contact for many years, knowing each other thoroughly. Huo Zhenting admired her very much, and when they met, it was the feeling of a fan with little stars in his eyes.
What a pity the two young people do not know is that they can never be together, because of their father .
Huo Yingdong has never caught a cold with Stanley Ho.
The first time the two collaborated was when Stanley Ho was a partner of CIMB.
At that time, Stanley Ho was buying seamangrass in Hong Kong, and Fok Yingdong had not yet made his mark. He dragged a group of poor brothers out of the sea to gather grass.As a result, he hit the waves and almost died at sea. After finally getting the goods, He Hongshen asked to wash the seaman grass clean and not to leave any sea sand. Let Huo Yingdong work hard for half a year, but the pellets were not harvested.
This is actually a violation of the unspoken rules. At that time, the risk factor of going to sea was high. Many purchasers would allow a little sea sand to give everyone a little bit of survival.
So Huo Yingdong's first impression of him is very bad, is too shrewd in business and has no empathy .
Later, Stanley Ho started an entertainment company in Macau, hoping to use Fok's financial resources. Huo Yingdong resolutely refused, because the casino is too damaging. Unexpectedly, Stanley Ho had a lot of tricks, which made him have to get on the boat.
Stanley Ho first invited Fok Yingdong to watch football in Macau, but he released the news that he wanted to invest, which made Fok Yingdong unable to get up and down. Then he fooled him and said that all the casino revenue will be donated to Macau for development. Those who come to gamble are all rich, which is equivalent to "robbing the rich and helping the poor." After hearing these words, Huo Yingdong made up his mind to invest in shares.
As a result, Stanley Ho's accounts were opaque, and his income in Macau was full. Fok Yingdong was very angry, and he planned to quit. But Stanley Ho worries that Fok Yingdong, who has a "red background", withdraws from stocks, which will make the outside world think that Beijing does not support it. As a result, it has not been allowed.
In 2002, Fok Yingdong, who could not bear it, announced that he would donate all the stocks of the Australian Entertainment Company, , to the Macau Fok Yingdong Foundation, and donated another 20 million. At the press conference, Fok Yingdong said: "Without me, everything in Macau is fake, including Stanley Ho."
Fok Yingdong and Stanley Ho are not dealing with each other, how could they let their son marry He Chaoying.
Stanley Ho also knew it well, so he arranged for his daughter Xiao Baicheng , the son of a funeral tycoon.
This marriage is like the future He Chaoqiong marrying Xu Jinheng ,It's all tragedy through and through. The only difference is that He Chaoqiong is much stronger, or she has not been hit enough.
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In 1970, He Chaoying and Xiao Baicheng held a grand wedding with more than 200 tables. And Huo Zhenting eight years later, married a Hong Kong sister Chu Lingling who resembled He Chaoying.
At that time, Stanley Ho was partnering with Xiao Baicheng to open a casino in Iran.
Perhaps in Ho Hongshen's view, this is a wonderful move. Not only found a business partner for herself, but also found a wishful man for her daughter.
Unfortunately, Xiao Baicheng is not a beloved. He has a romantic nature, and soon after he got married, he began to get in touch with flowers and grass everywhere, and he often didn't come home at night, which made He Chaoying miserable.
For the sake of his father's reputation, He Chaoying has been forbearing in every possible way. Until one day, she found that all her patience became a joke.
In 1973, her mother, Li Wanhua, was hit by a car accident. Her brain was severely damaged and her memory was greatly reduced. She could only spend the whole day on a sick bed.
He Chaoying wants to take care of her mother, but Stanley Ho always refuses to disturb her. But as for himself, he hooked up with Li Wanhua's caregiver, and in the end he was admitted to the house and became the third wife.
The misfortune of her own marriage, coupled with her father's ignorance, made her completely desperate for her family.
She suddenly understood that she was just a ridiculous pawn, she decided to resist .
In 1981, He Chaoying and Xiao Baicheng divorced. I thought I could start a new life, but my fate suddenly gave her a heavy hammer.
That year, his brother He Youguang suddenly had a car accident in Portugal.Huangquan was killed at the same time as his wife.
The sudden bad news made her suffer and panic. She suspected that it was her own "resistance" that caused her younger brother to bear the unwarranted disaster.
Desperate and helpless, she began the road of self-exile.
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In the following ten years, He Chaoying took his daughters and Xiao Wenzheng to wander around the world and traveled to more than 20 countries.
People also completely lost news of her. It was not until 2004 that her mother Li Wanhua passed away and she was rediscovered.
Shockingly, she is crazy.
The "most beautiful daughter" who was once overwhelmed by the country has become a paper man who describes the withered. He was skinny and haggard, and his face was haggard, and he had long lost the style of the past.
Not only that, she is also keen on sweets, extremely fond of wearing children's clothing, and loves to live at Disney Hotel . She often mutters and talks to herself.
She is like a child, sealing herself in a fairy tale world.
In 2007, He Chaoying was accidentally trampled on the foot by a 3-year-old child in a hotel, and even though the other family members apologized, she shot back. As a result, he was sued by the other party, and was later confirmed to have "schizophrenia" after a hospital examination.
After that, the news of He Chaoying's madness spread quickly to the outside world. He Hongshen did not give her decent care, but only gave a sum of money, letting her fend for herself.
He Chaoying had been crazy for many years until he died of a burst of blood vessels in his brain in 2014 at the age of 68.
The chilling thing is,Apart from the long room at the funeral, few relatives came to the funeral. Even Ho Hongshen did not show up on the grounds that "white-haired people give black-haired people, it is unlucky". On the contrary, was a childhood sweetheart Huo Zhenting, who came to see her for the last time.
He Chaoying was buried in the Zhaoyuan Cemetery of the family cemetery after his death. It was not until the death of his parents a few years later that people discovered that He Chaoying didn't even have a tombstone.
A generation of sons and daughters who have come to such a point is really deeply moved.
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All tragedies of He Chaoying are actually caused by He Hongshen.
When He Chaoying married Xiao Baicheng, she did not reject it. Although she did not choose her own choice, she knew well that the wealthy daughter's destination was the marriage of chaebols. Even if you are not happy, just forbearance, at least there are family members.
But Stanley Ho followed and gave her the first fatal blow.
The most admired father even took advantage of his mother's two serious illnesses and married his wife in two rooms one after another in front of the sick bed. He Chaoying's beliefs collapsed, and his view of marriage was ruined.
After that, she put her spirit on her family. However, as the gambling king married his wife one after another and gave birth to several other housewives, the attention to her dropped rapidly. She couldn't find her presence, so she could only pin her feelings on her mother and her closest brother.
Unexpectedly, the younger brother died in a car accident, his mother was still half-dead, and his father was unkind, so that she could not find the slightest light in the gloomy world.
In the end, she subconsciously transformed herself into a child and returned to the place where she was doted by her parents in every possible way when she was a child.
He Chaoying's life actually reveals a truth: rich may not necessarily be happy, love is true.
The happiest life may not need to be rich. The key is family harmony and caring for each other.
is like a classic line in a Hong Kong drama: as long as a family is happy and tidy, is good.
References in this article:
1. "He Hongshen Biography", Zhu Chunting-"Span 2span 1p
3. "Politics and Economics" column of Phoenix.com: "Fifty Years' Complaint between Huo Yingdong and Stanley Ho"
4. "Jiang Hu" magazine: "Huo Yingdong"
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