The title of "Four Young People in Beijing" was originally derived from the four princes of the Republic of China at that time, and later netizens used "Four Young Men in Beijing" to describe the four rich young people who were more famous in Beijing at that time, and they all had scandals or marriages with female stars in the entertainment industry.
They are: Wang Xiaofei (the only son of Zhang Lan, the owner of the Pretty Jiangnan Group), Wang Ke (the husband of the famous actor Liu Tao), Wang Shuo (the son of Wang Zhicai, a wealthy Australian-Chinese businessman), and Wang Yu (the president of the Association of Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and the son of Wang Daohan, the former mayor of Shanghai).
But in just over a decade, this list has undergone a major change of blood, in 2016, netizens selected the "new Beijing Four Young", namely: Wanda Group Chairman Wang Jianlin's only son - Wang Sicong, SOHU China Chairman Pan Shiyi's son - Pan Rui, commercial giant Wang Zhicai's son - Wang Shuo, R&F Real Estate Director Zhang Li's son - Tensor.
The glory of the past is no longer there, and as for the reasons, such as the poor management of property, it has been more or less affected, and ordinary people are very curious about their experiences. Then this article will take stock of the scenery and decline of the four young people in the old capital to investigate its current situation. Perhaps from their stories, we can get some inspiration for how to make choices in life.
1. Wang Xiaofei, director of Pretty Jiangnan
In 2021, now Wang Xiaofei's more widely known identity is the former husband of Taiwanese artist Big S Xu Xiyuan, the two have participated in many mainland variety shows together, but some time ago they just divorced, the reasons are diverse, such as long-term separation between the two places, differences in lifestyle, etc., and even been exposed to "marital infidelity", many times to debunk rumors no one believes.
Wang Sicong, a front-line melon eater, sent a microblog to ridicule him for being "a dead duck with a hard mouth", which caused a lot of controversy, but the real situation is unknown.
Before marrying Big S, his most well-known girlfriend was Zhang Yuqi. The two met in the "Huayi Night" in 2009, talking very happily, Wang Xiaofei also used his personal connections many times to help Zhang Yuqi match the role, and also funded her millions to help her pay the termination fee, and the two also showed their love in public many times.
Unfortunately, the good times are not long, the two hot people often quarrel, it is rumored that Wang Xiaofei's mother Zhang Lan does not like Zhang Yuqi, and it was revealed that she wanted to take 5 million yuan to let Zhang Yuqi leave Wang Xiaofei. Of course, Zhang Yuqi couldn't bear it, neither took the money nor wanted to be angry anymore, so she broke up.
Another woman worth mentioning is An Yixuan, as a rich woman, she was Wang Xiaofei's gossip girlfriend, but at An Yixuan's birthday party in 2010, Wang Xiaofei fell in love with Big S at first sight, after knowing each other for more than 20 days, only met four times and got married, but the wedding did not invite An Yixuan, to know that An Yixuan and Big S were good girlfriends.
In this regard, An Yixuan also publicly expressed his dissatisfaction in an interview, directly shouting big S: Am I a red lady, or am I regarded by you as a love enemy?
Interestingly, the wedding of Wang Xiaofei and Big S was laughed at by netizens as a comedy, and the whole process may be regarded as the wedding with the most "accidents" in the entertainment industry.
For example, big S has been praying for no wind on the wedding day, but he did not expect that the wind in Sanya was so strong that the skirts of the bride and bridesmaids were blown with the wind, and people needed help to sort out the veils and skirts the whole time, and the romantic flower pavilion used for oath was also shaken by the wind, and finally only a few security guards could be found to hold the pillar.
Then there was Zhang Huimei and Na Ying Dou Ge, as well as Gao Xiaosong and his unobtrusive wedding speech, which became the publicity of his debut film "Dawusheng" with only 5.2 points on Douban.
Liu Qian, who was ready to do magic, was actually pushed into the pool by Chen Jiahua (Ella, one of the SHE members), who had drunk too much wine, and the water surface was full of playing cards, which was extremely funny.
Sohu boss Zhang Chaoyang made the biggest joke of the wedding, and even provoked a lawsuit. Before the wedding, Big S Wang Xiaofei said first, prohibiting the media and guests from taking photos of the wedding scene.
However, Zhang Chaoyang privately invited reporters to secretly photograph the details and process of the wedding and publish it exclusively on the website. This behavior made Wang Xu and his wife extremely dissatisfied, and the Bay Media also collectively shouted why mainland reporters could shoot on the spot.
So Wang Xiaofei also tore his face with Zhang Chaoyang and filed a lawsuit with an official letter, demanding that Zhang Chaoyang delete all photos and videos and publicly apologize. But Zhang Chaoyang responded on Weibo that he did not think that his behavior was at fault, did not violate specific laws, and did not treat friends morally. The relationship between the two completely broke, and in a Weibo interaction many years later, it seemed to be frozen in the previous suspicion.
After marriage, Wang Xiaofei and Big S have a son and a daughter, and social networking sites often post dynamics, which still looks very happy. But from the variety show "Happiness Trio" in which the two participated, in fact, it can be vaguely seen that the marriage of the two gradually exposed many problems.
For example, big S, who has always been independent, changed her habit of eating vegetarian for many years in order to get pregnant, listened to her mother-in-law Zhang Lan,But before that, she was very insistent on her own health.
The most famous segment in the show is her "shrimp peeling" theory. At that time, the Internet was complaining about big S's princess disease, and many netizens were still distressed about Wang Xiaofei, thinking that it was not easy for a man to become a qualified husband in big S's heart.
Wang Xiaofei also sent a Weibo, directly domineering wife angry netizens: "Her husband I am willing to peel shrimp for her, what's wrong?"
But the run-in of personality and lifestyle is the most important thing in marriage.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, Wang Xiaofei often ran at both ends, isolated back and forth many times, and the long-distance coexistence and unilateral rush seemed to gradually escalate the contradiction between Big S and Wang Xiaofei.
Before the marriage change, Wang Xiaofei often posted some unspoken Microblogs after drinking, and even made hot searches, so many times that even big S began to be unacceptable.
Later, rumors of divorce between the two broke out on the Internet, until November 22 this year, Big S finally issued a lawyer statement, which said that she and Wang Xiaofei had peacefully dissolved their marriage. A pair of children is raised by the two of them. In the future, the two will get along as the child's parents and friends. At this point, the ten-year marriage came to an end.
Prior to this, as the only son of Zhang Lan, the founder of Pretty Jiangnan, Wang Xiaofei could be called one of the "Four Young People in Beijing" and had a non-negligible relationship with her mother, Zhang Lan.
Wang Xiaofei was born in 1981, his parents divorced in 1989, and he was sentenced to be raised by his mother. Zhang Lan took the young Wang Xiaofei to Canada to work as a black worker to brush dishes, and saved more than 20,000 US dollars in two years.
At the end of 1991, they returned from Canada, and in early 1992 they immediately opened the first restaurant called "Alan Restaurant", and then opened a roast duck hotel and a seafood restaurant.
In 2000, she sold the three restaurants, saved about 60 million yuan of entrepreneurial funds, and established Pretty Jiangnan. At this time, she began to work on improving the brand, focusing on creating an elegant dining environment, and the plan was to become the LV of the catering industry.
Wang Xiaofei went to France to study at the age of 15, graduated from the French Higher School of Economics and Business with a major in design six years later, and then went to the University of Guelph in Canada to study for an MBA, and returned to Beijing at the end of 2004.
Zhang Lan gave her only son, Wang Xiaofei, his first job as an executive director of Pretty Jiangnan Restaurant Group. Wang Xiaofei was responsible for overall design, fashion creativity and overseas promotion.
In order to thank her mother and prove her ability, Wang Xiaofei built the star club "Lan Club" named after her mother, as well as the concept brand "Subu" restaurant. On June 13, 2011, Wang Xiaofei officially took over the position of CEO of Pretty Jiangnan Restaurant Group.
The mother and son duo made a lot of efforts for the beautiful Jiangnan, when the development of the beautiful Jiangnan can be described as "like a bamboo", and also spent hundreds of millions of yuan of funds to invite famous designers to design for it, thus truly establishing its high-end positioning.
But the ambitions of the rich are always not easy to satisfy, and they choose to continuously expand the number of stores, which brings huge financial pressure, so that Zhang Lan decided to gamble.
In 2008, she signed a VAM agreement with CDH Investment, one of which was that If she failed to do so, Zhang Lan would need to buy back the corresponding shares from CDH Investment at a high price.
Confident Zhang Lan saw the rapid development speed of the beautiful Jiangnan in front of him, thinking that the problem of listing by strength was not big, but the reality was cruel, in the next few years, they tried a variety of ways, Zhang Lan even changed his nationality, and still failed to go public as scheduled.
The deadline has arrived, and when Pretty Jiangnan enters the bottleneck period of development, she can't come up with so much money, so CDH Investment decided to introduce the investment institution CVC into Pretty Jiangnan, and the equity sold by Zhang Lan also reached 69%, and then experienced a series of changes, Zhang Lan was also kicked out of the board.
Perhaps all this is caused by ambition. But if the bet is successful, Wang Xiaofei today may still be able to be listed on the list of the four young people in Beijing.
Later, Wang Xiaofei once engaged in lan clubs, founded tea drinks, etc., repeatedly lost battles, and then turned to the restaurant brand Ma Liuji, in addition, he also spent a huge amount of money to invest in S Hotel in Taipei, but during the epidemic period, he was repeatedly exposed by the media to face business difficulties, and it seems that he has not been able to create the glory of his mother.
Second, Wang Ke, the husband of the famous actor Liu Tao
Wang Ke was born in Yantai, Shandong Province in 1980, and he is better known for reasons similar to Wang Xiaofei, that is, his wife is a well-known figure in the entertainment industry.
Before that, although he had legendary rich assets as an entrepreneur and had made many girlfriends, since Wang Ke met Liu Tao in the elevator at the end of 2007, he fell in love at first sight and launched a strong offensive to pursue her, and 20 days later, the two were lightning married, which continues to this day, and also has a pair of lovely children.
The wedding was held on January 6, 2008 at the Peninsula Wangfu Hotel in Beijing, very luxurious, costing about 4 million, the scene is more like a world famous car exhibition, and even many entertainment stars participated, such as Yang Kun, Hu Jun, Lin Xinru, Li Xinjie, Shao Bing, etc., Qin Hailu is also one of the bridesmaids.
The two people at the wedding were sweet, the happy smile did not stop, Wang Ke almost watched his new wife almost the whole time, the scene also screened Liu Tao's self-made MV, telling the story of the two people meeting and falling in love, when exchanging gifts, Liu Tao was even more excited to choke and cry, and the people on the scene were all moved.
Liu Tao also announced at the scene that she was pregnant, she said that she had always felt that it was necessary to have courage to get married and have children, but for this man, this smart, humorous, and wise man, she was willing to open up.
Later stories also illustrate this strong feeling between them, although in fact, there is not much information about Wang Ke before, and the authenticity needs to be examined, but to make such a beautiful and intelligent woman so admired, in addition to objective economic conditions, Wang Ke's own personality charm must also be very powerful.
Before Wang Ke married Liu Tao, he did business in Guangzhou, was a supervisor of Beijing Fucheng Viking Investment Co., Ltd., and was keen on stock investment.
At that time, there were rumors that Wang Ke's company had a market value of up to 20 billion yuan, and even had its own exclusive custom-made private Boeing 737 aircraft, worth up to 500 million.
Later, Mr. Feng, Wang Ke's cousin, came forward to clarify these statements with The Conspirator, saying that he was born in an ordinary family and had nothing to do with Wang Shi, the chairman of Vanke Group, and denied his 20 billion net worth.
Mr. Feng also said that Wang Ke likes racing, and there are rumors that dozens of world famous cars on the wedding day are Wang Ke's, but in fact, it is not, only one Ferrari is Wang Ke's, worth more than 6 million.
Because he is a member of the World Famous Car Association, the luxury cars at the wedding are friends who come to help hold the scene. Liu Tao also mentioned this in her blog, thanking those friends who drove early in the morning to celebrate the scene and feeling embarrassed.
Wang Ke does have an investment company, which is well run, and is considered a rich man, but it is not as many as the rumors of tens of billions. Her father was also in business for many years, and her sister settled in Ireland, which is also a wealthy family in general.
However, just a year after marrying Liu Tao, due to the 2008 global financial crisis, the business was damaged and led to bankruptcy, and then it was also involved in a lawsuit due to "one room, two sales" and credit card overdraft.
During this period, he faced a series of ugly aspects of human nature such as the anti-eye of his friends and the backstabbing of his cronies, and underwent great mental pressure, emotional out of control, throwing things randomly, over-taking drugs, etc., several times close to collapse, and even when Liu Tao gave birth, he suddenly fainted on the ground, convulsed, and the doctor used an electric shock device on him and pushed into the intensive care unit, and he came back to life. And Liu Tao has always been with him and never abandoned.
People know these things, in February 2013, Liu Tao published a long Weibo post, the first time to publicly admit that Wang Ke has gone bankrupt, and detailed the years after the bankruptcy.
Speaking of Liu Tao, this beautiful woman from Nanchang, Jiangxi, two years older than Wang Ke, there are many well-known masterpieces, the earliest because of the sitcom "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" into the show business circle, and then starred in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 3", in 2016 starred in the "Ode to Joy", she played the role of high-IQ returnee Andy, the image, temperament, acting skills are good, loved by many people.
But the story that people like to talk about the most is not how they flashed marriage or Liu Tao's acting skills, nor is it Wang Ke's business experience, but Liu Tao has made great efforts to help Wang Ke get out of the shadow of bankruptcy and rebuild his hope and confidence in life, and is a representative of the virtuous wife in the entertainment industry.
Liu Tao is a typical Cancer woman, and her family is the first in her values. And at the wedding, Liu Tao had announced his withdrawal from the entertainment circle and taught her husband to teach her son, but in order to help her husband pay off her debts, she not only made a comeback, but also desperately filmed, received endorsements and advertisements like a labor model, and it is said that she paid back as much as four hundred million in four years.
In 2021, in a very popular program "Brother with Thorns" that just ended some time ago, non-professional Liu Tao took on the responsibility of hosting, holding multiple performance scenes, getting along well with more than thirty handsome men, her state looks very good, and she can't see that she is 43 years old this year.
When Wang Ke's mental state was the worst, Liu Tao found that he overtook drugs to stabilize his mood every day, and even took more than ten sleeping pills one day.
So secretly changed into vitamins, not only to give him physical care, supplement nutrition, Liu Tao also inspired him spiritually, talking about the truth, goodness and beauty of the world, interesting things in society, troubles when he was a child, etc., constantly telling him "We will always love you", and also dragged him to the snowy mountains for hiking, outdoor travel, temple worship, etc., Wang Ke slowly improved.
In recent years, they have also participated in many variety shows together, in "Dear Inn", the two still look like glue, and shout "I love you" to each other, and the audience watching the show directly called "dog food is eaten".
Although Wang Ke has experienced the tragic experience of bankruptcy, the reputation is the best among the four people, and he has always been accompanied by a woman who is so excellent and loves him, which is also a blessing cultivated in the previous life.
3. Wang Shuo, son of wang zhicai, a wealthy Australian-Chinese businessman
The aura on Wang Shuo's body was once greater than the previous two. His father, Wang Zhicai, was a well-known wealthy Australian-Chinese businessman.
Born in 1982, Wang Shuo's father has been busy with business, and when he was 12 years old, he sent him abroad to study, and he cared for him very little, which led to Wang Shuo's later self-style and style of dealing with people, and even committed some absurd acts that violated the law.
Wang Zhicai was originally an ordinary watch factory worker, and later went to Hong Kong to get married, and then to Beijing to engage in real estate, dug up gold, became a successful real estate developer, he not only has real estate in Australia, the most often talked about is the Wang family located at the foot of the Forbidden City mansion "Wangfu Century", the luxury is amazing, the market value of over 100 million, the famous Wangfujing "Golden Leopard" cafeteria is also one of his family properties. Going out every day is a Rolls-Royce, with abundant financial resources.
Another reason why Wang Shuo can be called one of the four youngsters is twofold, one is that his stepmother is Wang Yan, a "Qinggege" who is similar to his age, and the other is that he has also interacted with many celebrity girlfriends in the circle, such as Zhou Xun, who dares to love and hate, and is eccentric.
At that time, Wang Yan was introduced by people, and his father Wang Zhicai was successfully matched, met for two years and married in Sydney, Australia, and after returning to China, he became a rich lady in the mansion, and every day when he opened the window, he could see the rose-colored Forbidden City not far away, and the house was built with a hanging garden, a fountain, a swimming pool and so on. With the help of his stepmother's relationship, Wang Shuo has met many stars, and Fang Zuming was also his good friend, often in and out of his mansion.
About his love affair with Zhou Xun, it did not become a good story.
Born with a golden key, he is rich and powerful, but he is also very arrogant, he has pursued Zhou Xun in a high profile, he once spent three million yuan to buy a model of the rosewood palace and gave it to a beautiful person, Zhou Xun wang Shuo was 5 years old, but the personality difference between the two was too big, Wang Shuo was debauched, the style was high-profile, Zhou Xun preferred the sense of stability of being taken care of and accompanied, resulting in unhappiness and dispersion.
Later, he also had a scandal with Niu Mengmeng and Li Xiaolu.
In December 2010, Wang Shuo and Wang Ke had a verbal altercation on the street, not only driving a car deliberately crashing into Wang Ke's car, causing the Audi driven by Wang Ke to catch fire, but even holding a "gun" from the window to point at Wang Ke, and then quickly fled the scene.
Wang Ke immediately called the police, and after the search, illegal items were indeed found, and Wang Shuo hid in his home, and even found a large-scale photo of his ex-girlfriend Zhou Xun, and the news was a sensation.
Violating the law must be punished by the law, and in 2011 Wang Shuo was prosecuted by the procuratorate and sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for four years.
In recent years, there has been very little news about him, and perhaps this matter has indeed played a certain deterrent effect on him, making him restrain a little. However, in any case, he is still on the list of the four young people in the new capital, which shows that the background and financial resources are indeed strong.
Fourth, the president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) is Wang Yu, the son of Wang Daohan, the former mayor of Shanghai
Wang Yu was actually the one who was really rich and powerful among these four people, and he was once a very powerful figure. He is the son of Wang Daohan, the former mayor of Shanghai, who was born at the age of 60, and the whole family is very fond of him. When the family prospered, some brothers engaged in politics, some opened real estate companies, and the family background was deep.
Wang Yu has studied in the United States, and he himself is very interested in music, movies, etc., and has a talent in art. After graduating and returning to Shanghai, his family had helped him arrange a career in the financial circle, but he opened another door and ran an art company. For him, art is for dreams, and making money is just a matter of convenience.
At that time, Wang Yu was constantly plagued by scandals, and once had a number of entertainment industry star girlfriends, the popular Hong Kong star Zhang Min could not stay in the Hong Kong circle after breaking up with Xiang Huasheng, turned to the mainland, met 27-year-old Wang Yu in Shanghai, and began to communicate.
When Xiang Huasheng heard about it, he planned to go to Shanghai to find Zhang Min, but he was directly warned by Xiang Huaqiang, saying that the Shanghainese next to Zhang Min could not move, and Xiang Huasheng had to give up.
But this young man's heart could not stay on a person for too long, and soon he was with Zhao Wei, and he also attended the celebration feast together, intimately wrapping his arms around Zhao Wei's waist. The story of Hua Xin continues to occur, and while the two are still in love, Wang Yu has a scandal with another "little swallow" Huang Yi.
The woman who really made Wang Yu feel relieved was named Li Yu, a beautiful "Joan" girl who had unfortunately suffered from lymphoma and died in 2009. She once played the role of the intellectual and elegant Fang Yu in "Love Deep rain and rain".
Although she had already been diagnosed when Wang Yu pursued her, Li Yu also told him honestly. But Wang Yu actually changed his past style and stayed with her for two years until his death.
At her funeral, Wang Yu attended as a boyfriend, with a very sad and solemn expression, holding a white rose in her hand, and it was not at all obvious that she had been a playboy. And later on Li Yu's death day, Wang Yu also brought a white rose to mourn, which shows the depth of feelings.
This girl who danced from elementary school has a special temperament that brings tranquility and peace of mind, wearing a cheongsam in the TV series, but also quite classical beauty, perhaps Wang Yu's inner pursuit of art has been comforted in Li Yu, the two people feel sorry for each other, one person left first, which must have brought him a very big blow.
People who like art are generally affectionate and emotional, and when they encounter grief, it is often more difficult to get out. After Wang Yu's father died in 2005, the mountain collapsed, the scenery was no longer there, and he was photographed by the media as if he was drunk late at night, and he was haggard. Perhaps having experienced the departure of his relatives and loved ones, he really can't bear it.
Similar to Wang Shuo, he has been out of the public eye for a long time now, and now he may have lived a dull life, and we don't need to bother more. But what may be felt from their experience is that money is not actually the most important thing, and it is usually growth and companionship that are passed on as good stories. Cherish the people around you, cherish what you have now, and everyone can become a "rich" person.