In 1994, Brigitte Lin married the wealthy Xing Liyuan in San Francisco, USA. At that time, the two had only been dating for half a year. As soon as this incident came out, it immediately caused an uproar in the media across the country. On the one hand, everyone was surprised by

In 1994, Brigitte Lin and wealthy Xing Liyuan got married in San Francisco, USA. At that time, the two had only been dating for half a year.

As soon as this incident came out, it immediately caused an uproar in the media across the country.

On one hand, everyone was surprised by Brigitte Lin's resoluteness and decisiveness. On the other hand, they were surprised that the identity of the groom was not the Qin and Han Dynasty who had gone through ups and downs with her.

It is precisely because of this reason that many people are not optimistic about the relationship between the two and think that they will break up soon after the flash marriage.

However, Brigitte Lin has persisted with Xing Liyuan for 28 years. Until now, there is still no personal communication between the two of them. Acknowledging the rumors of a broken relationship.

However, not getting divorced does not mean that they will be happy and contented. In the nearly 30 years of their love life, are they still in love, or are they seemingly inseparable?

一

Before meeting Xing Liyuan, Brigitte Lin’s lover was Qin Han who had been with her for more than 20 years.

The two broke up several times and got back together several times. They endured all the hardships that ordinary people can't imagine, but in the end they never got the desired result.

In 1992, Brigitte Lin accidentally injured her eye while filming "New Dragon Inn" and had to return to Hong Kong for treatment.

Being hospitalized alone, she felt lonely and isolated, so she called Qin Han, hoping that the latter could come and stay with her.

Unexpectedly, Qin Han only said one sentence coldly:

"Who will pay for the air tickets?"

In just five words, the fate between the two people came to an end.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, falling out of love is nothing at all. At worst, you can change your partner and live a lifetime.

But for Brigitte Lin, it is not so simple.

’s 20-year long run with the Qin and Han Dynasties has made her no longer young. Although there has always been a lack of suitors around her, the quantity and quality have shown a cliff-like decline.

Brigitte Lin has always been a person who pays attention to the quality of her partners. Finding a partner carelessly is obviously not her character.

But at this time, she has reached the age where she longs for a destination. As a result, these two mentalities eventually formed a contradiction, which made Brigitte Lin live very anxiously for a long time.

Fortunately, Brigitte Lin didn't dig too far this time. After several emotional difficulties, she got the idea.

Since you can't find a mutually agreeable partner, then the next best thing is to find someone with good conditions, which is not bad.

To a certain extent, this can be regarded as the truth she realized after falling in love with Qin Han for 20 years.

Instead of paying so much and not getting good results, it is better to liberate yourself, be more materialistic and love yourself more in future relationships.

二

In 1993, Tsui Hark, the director of "New Dragon Inn", convened the crew to hold a celebration banquet.

In addition, he also relied on his appeal to invite many celebrities, including an unattractive man named Xing Liyuan.

Many media like to portray the encounter between Xing Liyuan and Brigitte Lin as the man being amazed by the woman’s beauty and falling in love with her at first sight.

This statement is very romantic, but it is not true.

After all, Xing Liyuan is a capital tycoon with a net worth of tens of billions. His vision and experience are not superficial. It is impossible to fall in love with someone based on appearance alone.

At the beginning, he only valued Brigitte Lin's talent and ability.

In many people's perception, Brigitte Lin is an actress, but in fact, Brigitte Lin has many identities.

She can not only act, but also write books and create, and is especially good at writing articles that criticize fashion.

Whenever she has free time, Brigitte Lin likes to write and submit articles to some magazines.

One of the articles about fashion was even published in an American magazine.

At that time, Xing Liyuan was serving as the head of Asia for the clothing brand Esprit. When the United States was recruiting troops, he happened to see this article by Brigitte Lin.

After reading it carefully, he was deeply impressed by Brigitte Lin's unique insights. At the same time, he was also surprised that an actor could write such professional content.

Therefore, Xing Liyuan secretly made up his mind to meet Brigitte Lin.

Unfortunately, during that period, he was always busy with business and could not spare the time to return to Hong Kong. The meeting with Brigitte Lin could only be postponed again and again.

It wasn’t until Tsui Hark’s invitation to a banquet in 1993 that he finally made some room.

From this point on, the life trajectories of Xing Liyuan and Brigitte Lin began to intersect.

At the banquet, Xing Liyuan and Brigitte Lin had a good chat. After the meeting, Xing Liyuan personally sent Brigitte Lin home and by the way, left her contact information.

After that, the relationship between the two gradually became warm, and after a year of acquaintance and half a year of dating, they entered the palace of marriage.

This incident caused a huge sensation at the time. Countless media were surprised by Brigitte Lin's vigorous and unpredicted behavior. They were even more surprised that the identity of the groom was not the Qin Han who had been in love with her for 20 years.

Someone went to Qin Han's house to ask, but the latter was even more surprised than him.

It turned out that when Brigitte Lin and Xing Liyuan were together, she did not break up with Qin Han. He was kept in the dark until the moment before they got married.

These words of Qin Han once brought Brigitte Lin's reputation to the bottom.

Many people labeled her as a "mistress", first to Qin Han's original wife, and then to Qin Han.

Of course, these negative comments did not affect the ending of the story. Brigitte Lin and Qin Han were indeed over.

She chose Xing Liyuan, who has stronger financial resources and vision. This is also her practice of her new love outlook:

She must love herself more than others.

三

In 1994, Brigitte Lin and Xing Liyuan held a wedding in San Francisco, USA. Xing Liyuan's strength was fully demonstrated in this wedding.

He customized Chanel dress for Brigitte Lin. It is the only one in the world.

The diamond ring was also made by a famous teacher and is worth 5 million Hong Kong dollars.

In addition, Xing Liyuan also arranged countless champagne-colored roses at the scene, with a total amount of up to 7 million.

Plus other expenses, the total cost of this wedding was more than 50 million, which can be said to be inhumane.

The guests present at the time were all infected by the atmosphere and believed that Brigitte Lin had finally met the right person and could be happy for the rest of her life.

However, the reality is often not satisfactory.

Xing Liyuan is a businessman after all. When he first met Brigitte Lin, his purpose was just to cooperate with her in business and develop his own clothing brand in the Asian market.

Although the two eventually developed into a couple, this relationship still smelled of copper.

As expected, while Xing Liyuan was organizing the wedding, he also took the opportunity to aggressively market his Esprit clothing brand.

First, the wedding photos of him and Brigitte Lin are displayed in all stores. Secondly, whenever you visit the store, you will receive Brigitte Lin's intimate signature.

's strong exposure and excellent marketing methods have caused the customer flow of Esprit stores to surge overnight. In just one month, the turnover is almost as high as the previous half year.

This gave Xing Liyuan a taste of the sweetness.

Therefore, after marriage, he continued to maintain the "bundling" relationship between the Esprit brand and Brigitte Lin.

not only allowed Brigitte Lin to participate in clothing design and launch superstar co-branded models, but also instructed her to travel in Esprit clothes and serve as a walking billboard.

At that time, Brigitte Lin's acting career was at its peak and she had countless fans. Once she wore Esprit's clothes, their value suddenly expanded to an extremely exaggerated level.

Even if the price quadruples, it will still be sold out in three or four days.

In addition, the quality of Esprit was indeed up to standard. Therefore, it only took a few years for it to become the most popular clothing brand in Hong Kong at that time.

Even though its competitors included PRADA and clothing industry giants such as I.T. We can only avoid its edge and succumb to it.

The continued success of his career gave Xing Liyuan more confidence. His ambitions were no longer satisfied, but expanded further.

He plans to expand Esprit from Hong Kong to the mainland market and get a bigger share of the pie.

四

Of course, it is not easy to successfully break into the mainland market, because Esprit is not comparable to international famous brands, and mainlanders have never even heard of it, let alone have any purchasing power.

If you act rashly, you will only end up in disastrous failure.

Xing Liyuan has been doing business for many years and obviously knows this truth well, so he did not rush for success, but formulated Zhou Xiang's plan.

The most important part of this plan is to make good use of Brigitte Lin's superstar status.

In that era, Brigitte Lin was not only famous in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but also in mainland China.

Although the movies she starred in were rarely released in mainland China, the public could still catch a glimpse of her charm from pirated CDs. Over time, she formed a trend. Huge fan base.

These fans are the first group of purchasing power that Xing Liyuan expected.

In addition, he also asked Brigitte Lin to mobilize her connections. When opening a store in the mainland, he invited his close friend Leslie Cheung to cut the ribbon, Ren Xianqi to shop.

This kind of marketing method to stimulate consumption is really clever.

Because Leslie Cheung and Jen Xianqi were both hot celebrities in the 1990s, their reputations spread across the Taiwan Strait and three places. In terms of the number of fans, they were on par with Brigitte Lin.

At this point, the three fans merged into a huge purchasing power that cannot be ignored.

After that, this purchasing power was further spread, driving more people to come to buy, and in the end, it set off a huge shopping wave.

According to statistics, Esprit achieved a 58% performance growth in the first year after entering the mainland. At its peak, it had franchise stores in nearly 100 cities in the mainland, and all of them made money.

Esprit has therefore occupied an irreplaceable position in the minds of mainland consumers, and has been awarded the title of fashion pioneer, a clothing brand that white-collar workers must buy.

At this point, Xing Liyuan's ambition to enter the mainland market has been roughly achieved, and he can finally move forward with his head high towards his next goal.

In 1997, Xing Liyuan spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire Esprit's business in Europe.

Europe is the last link in Esprit's global territory. Taking this link is equivalent to the complete transfer of control of Esprit to Xing Liyuan. After

, Xing Liyuan reorganized Esprit non-stop and changed its name to Esprit Global Holdings Co., Ltd. , which was listed in Hong Kong.

In 2007, the share price of Esprit Global soared to 133 Hong Kong dollars per share, and the market value reached 170 billion yuan. Xing Liyuan's net worth also increased and he became famous at home and abroad.

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That period was Xing Liyuan’s most proud period, and it was also Brigitte Lin’s first highlight outside of her acting career.

The media rushed to report on the couple's amazing achievements, and especially praised Brigitte Lin, saying that Brigitte Lin was indispensable for Xing Liyuan to reach this point.

However, Brigitte Lin behaved very calmly in response to these praises from the outside world.

As Xing Liyuan's pillow partner, others didn't know it, but she deeply understood how much interest and investment went into the marriage between Xing Liyuan and her.

From the placement of advertisements at the wedding to when Esprit expanded its territory, she devoted her fame and connections to help her husband build a business empire bit by bit.

It can be said that every step Xing Liyuan takes is inseparable from her shadow.

If it were the former Brigitte Lin who was picky about love, of course she would not see too many impurities in pure love.

But now, she is no longer the ignorant little girl she was back then, but an adult who has learned how to treat herself better.

As early as the moment she married Xing Liyuan, Brigitte Lin knew that she would choose love or bread in this life.

Therefore, she never refused Xing Liyuan's request. This was very different from her temperament when she got along with Qin Han.

The latter asked her not to dress gorgeously when attending various banquets, so as not to steal the limelight from the guests, which she did.

The latter funded charity and asked Brigitte Lin to go to the platform to support the event, which she did.

includes the recent variety show " Idol is Coming ". It was also because the show producer cooperated with Xing Liyuan's charity project that Brigitte Lin, who had been away from acting for many years, made an exception to participate.

She treats marriage as a business and benefits from it together with her husband. As for relationships, they are not that important.

And it was precisely because of maintaining this mentality that Brigitte Lin was able to behave so calmly and calmly when her husband was deeply involved in the affair.

六

In 2018, some Taiwanese media broke the news that Brigitte Lin and Xing Liyuan had divorced, and Brigitte Lin personally received 2 billion Hong Kong dollars in alimony.

As for the reason for divorce, it is nothing more than the issue of heirs.

Lin Qingxia and Xing Liyuan have been married for more than ten years and only gave birth to two daughters. However, Xing Liyuan wanted a son. After many efforts to no avail, he found a mistress and had an illegitimate child.

Brigitte Lin did not respond clearly to this matter, but judging from some clues, this matter is not groundless.

Of course, for Brigitte Lin herself, she already knew how to withdraw from the whirlpool of emotions, so she was not affected much.

was occasionally photographed wandering out on the street, and she was in good condition.

Maybe in the future, Brigitte Lin will choose to end her marriage with Xing Liyuan, or maybe she will ignore this scandal and stay with Xing Liyuan for life,

But no matter what she chooses, Brigitte Lin has grown up, no longer trapped by love, and lives by love. .

This change is a good thing.

In this world, there are many people similar to Brigitte Lin. They can make humble sacrifices for love, but after the love disappears, they will be in so much pain that they cannot extricate themselves. Even if they start a new relationship, they will fall into such a vicious cycle.

But love is not everything after all. The most important thing in life is to live for yourself. Even if there is no love, there are still more things worthy of our pursuit.