There is a sentence in the novel " Besieged City ": When an older person falls in love, it is like an old house catching fire, hopeless.
is really true by Qian Zhongshu . Weng Jingjing, who once repeatedly emphasized that she planned to live alone, married He Youbiao, the cousin of the gambling king, in the sixth year of being a widow. At this time, Weng Jingjing was 55 years old and He Youbiao was 54 years old.
The marriage of the two was in an uproar again, and behind He Youbiao was also involved in many bloody past events of the gambling king family . As long as He Youbiao is mentioned, he cannot avoid his biological father He Hongzhang , and he cannot avoid his biological father's underground lover He Wanqi .
Although He Wanqi is the woman behind the gambling king, looking at her life, she is not only an iron-fisted lady, but more of a tragic little woman.
Love but not
He Wanqi is the gambling king's own sister, ranked tenth, and is known as "Ten Girls". When she was a girl, she was the heroine of Mary Sue's novel. She was born in a wealthy family and ate delicacies, wore gorgeous clothes, and lived in a villa.
Until the family fell into decline in 1934, 12-year-old He Wanqi had to leave her hometown for a while and followed her father to take refuge in Vietnam.
Although the days of famous ladies no longer exist, He Wanqi's temperament of famous ladies is still there. In the Ming Dynasty of Vietnam, she gradually became a graceful beauty with bright facial features. Her beauty is even moved by the last emperor of Vietnam Nguyen Phuc .
King Xiang has a dream, but the goddess has no intention. In 1941, the 19-year-old girl returned to her hometown. The first public appearance of the returned girl was amazed by everyone, and the guests were amazed at her beauty, including her 16-year-old cousin He Hongzhang.
Later, He Hongzhang recalled: "In my grandparents' wedding anniversary party, there were hundreds of people present, but I fell in love with her at first sight. She is quite a beauty. When I fell in love with her, I was only sixteen years old."
How could my cousin fall in love with her? These two are cousins who have not yet had their five-dresses. They are nakedly incest, and even if they fall in love, they will not be able to get the support of their family.
If the relationship stops, He Wanqi will not encounter future tragedies. However, in He Hongzhang's view, the two people are "love" rather than "incest". It is hard to extricate two people fall in love at the same time. Since then, He Wanqi and He Hongzhang have fought for several years, but they are still broken up. One is sent to the United States to study, and the other stays in Hong Kong to marry.
23 years old, He Wanqi married Mai Zhiwei from the Mai family. On the day of the wedding, He Wanqi and Mai Zhiwei haven't known each other for long.
Speaking of which, the circle of wealthy families is really small. Mai Zhiwei is the nephew of He Hongzhang's grandmother Mai Xiuying. Unexpectedly, small circles can also encounter "marriage fraud". Mai Zhiwei's father failed in business, and the Mai family was left with only one empty shell. Mai Zhiwei has mediocre qualifications and is only an office worker with a monthly salary of 900 yuan.
The former lady of a noble family fell to the point of renting a small house and living in a small house after marriage. To He Wanqi, Mai Zhiwei may just be a puppet husband, who has been married for many years and has not given birth to a child.
1953, 30-year-old He Wanqi is still beautiful and charming, and He Hongzhang has returned from studying. A meeting made the two people rekindle their love.
is like this, He Wanqi is in front of He Hongzhang's underground lover. Two years later, under the arrangement of the family, He Hongzhang married British woman She Annie as his wife, while continuing to have a love relationship with He Wanqi.
The year when He Hongzhang got married, He Wanqi gave birth to an illegitimate child for him - Mai Shunming. Not long after, he gave birth to another illegitimate daughter Mai Huiyu . I wonder if Mai Zhiwei is suspicious. Why did he suddenly become a father after nine years of marriage without children?
He Wanqi has experienced the sadness of love but not getting it young. Little do you know that you will continue to cry for love in your later years.
When He Hongzhang was at his most downfall, He Wanqi sold her favorite pearl necklace and gave him 60,000 yuan. Later, when He Wanqi followed the gambling king to start a business, He Hongzhang borrowed her 2 million yuan.
This money changed He Wanqi's life trajectory and became the foreshadowing of her later betrayal of her relatives.
Everyone betrayed their relatives and left their relatives
Although Mai Huiyu is also the biological daughter of He Wanqi and He Hongzhang, she favors boys over girls to the extreme, and it seems that there is only Mai Shunming, the biological son.
During the Chinese New Year, He Wanqi made a fuss about Mai Huiyu's old skirt with lace on the grounds that the tailor was not free. Mai Huiyu said: "My mother loves her brother the most (Mai Shunming). He eats fresh food every day, and I don't have a portion. Divide pencils, my brother has ten pieces... I don't have a single piece."
However, He Wanqi doesn't care about Mai Huiyu's thoughts, and rarely even tells the public that he has Mai Huiyu's daughter.
Mai Huiyu once said that she had never felt any maternal love: "I have never been very exciting in my life. My mother never cared for me, she only favored her brother. My mother told me, 'Even if you don't like me, it doesn't matter'."
The servants in the family seemed to be "infected" by my mother, and she didn't like Mai Huiyu. Once, Mai Huiyu, who was a child, fell to her head and bleeded. The servant actually covered the wound with raw pork to stop the bleeding and laughed at her as "human head and pig brain". Why are the differences between
and illegitimate children so big? Some people say that Mai Shunming seems to be a lover who cannot stay with him, so he is favored alone, while Mai Huiyu's existence reminds He Wanqi from time to time the sins she committed: incest, cheating...
Although this explanation is quite far-fetched, He Wanqi really spoiled Mai Shunming to the point of hopelessness. It can be said that 's first half of her life was in the hands of He Hongzhang and the second half of her life was in the hands of Mai Shunming.
In the history of the gambling king's fortune, her sister He Wanqi's full help is indispensable. She is born with the brain of doing big business and her ability is not inferior to that of the gambling king. While helping the gambling king, He Wanqi is also rich and is called "After the 10 billion gambling". The gambling king once trusted this sister very much and told his subordinates: "If you have anything to do in the future, find the ten girls."
seems to be behind each other's help, but there is a transaction that is indistinguishable from the truth or falsehood.
When the gambling king siblings got up, He Wanqi cried and told that she had been controlled by Hongshen Ho over the years. Because Stanley Ho knew the secret of her and Ho Hongzhang giving birth to her illegitimate son Mai Shunming, he threatened that if he did not help him build a gambling empire in Macau, he would announce the scandal.
The brother and sister are so embarrassed that it has something to do with the "prodigal son" Mai Shunming.
Mai Shunming became addicted to gambling, and he lost all his money and was in debt. He Wanqi helped his son Mai Shunming pay off his gambling debts many times, and even borrowed 150 million from the gambling king.
When the fourth wife Liang Anqi coveted He Wanqi's shares, He Wanqi asked Ho to transfer her own shares in the Australian Entertainment Company to his son Mai Shunming and let him join the board of directors. Of course, Stanley Ho disagreed. After a while, he went to court. The gambling king scolded Mai Shunming for fucking his sister He Wanqi.
In order to maximize profits, He Wanqi announced the fact that Mai Shunming's illegitimate child was born to the public. Such a humiliating incident made the gambling king very angry, and then kicked the Ten Girls out of the board of directors.
When the quarrel was the worst, He Wanqi sued the gambling king and recorded the various scandals of the gambling king to the media. Unexpectedly, after several lawsuits, He Wanqi ended in defeat. In 2004, He Wanqi chose to settle out of court with the gambling king.
2007, she mentioned in her autobiography "The Memoirs of Ten Girls: Confronting the Devil": "However, mother, you can't imagine how the ninth brother (Stanley Ho) who swore to take care of me that day would oppress his sisters in the future. Not only did she not practice her promise to her mother to care for her, but she also did not care about her brotherhood at all."
June 2018, 95-year-old Ho Wanqi died of illness, but the news was not made public until the end of August. Her children did not know that their mother had passed away through the media. In other words, before He Wanqi passed away, she was not alone in her own daughter, which was so desolate.
And her grudge with Stanley Ho was not untied until she passed away. After her death, Ho Wanqi had a lasting wish to personally call on her brother Stanley Ho and ask him to repay 20 billion yuan.
Hong Kong media once commented on the grudges of the gambling king family: "This story makes people cry, and its excitement is more exciting than any movie. It contains all the factors that stimulate people's nerves: sex, conspiracy, power struggles and uncountable money."
Conclusion
Wei Yingluo, who once cheated all the way, will inevitably become Ruyi who was tied up in a cocoon in the palace fight. The iron-fisted lady who made the illegitimate son betrayed her relatives and relatives could not escape such an ending.
There is a song called "Someone", and there is a lyric: Some people wander around the world, some study hard, some are careful in calculations, and some are careless. Many years later, looking at the journey we came, some people are rarely confused, and some people regret it.
The storm finally scattered, shaking the mess. If time goes back, I wonder if He Wanqi will regret it.
