Text | Yi Jie (Zhou Guiyi) ShanJie
Chinese New Year's Eve ago, the entertainment industry exposed the last big melon.
The husband of Taiwanese actress An Yixuan, 49-year-old Chen Ronglian, was arrested by the Macau police for repeatedly refusing to cooperate with the police.
It is said that Chen Ronglian is suspected of illegal gambling, money laundering and other crimes.
The police also found a large amount of evidence and more than FOUR million Hong Kong dollars at his office, and Chen Ronglian's imprisonment is a matter of certainty, and he may face 20 years in prison.
(Another media broke the news that Chen Ronglian was an important participant in the Washing Mihua case, and in the indictment of the Sun City case, there were a number of cases involving the Dejin Group, involving hundreds of millions of dollars.) At present, the official website of Dejin Group and the homepage of the official social network account can no longer be logged in)
Although An Yixuan did not make any response, a friend mentioned the latest situation to the media.
After Chen Ronglian was arrested, An Yixuan, who was already suffering from a serious heart attack, washed his face with tears every day and was extremely sad and did not eat or drink. Coupled with the fact that An Yixuan left his hometown and lived with her husband in Macau, the state is very worrying.
Why was Chen Ronglian arrested?
Before this, many people's understanding of Chen Ronglian was "a business elite who started from scratch on real estate and gambling, sitting on tens of billions of assets" and "a little ding-dong husband who spoiled An Yixuan to heaven".
A wikipedia described him as: Originally from Maoting Village, Yonghe Town, Jinjiang, Fujian Province, a poor family, after graduating from primary school, Chen Ronglian followed his brother to Macau, lived in his uncle's house, and after graduating from the Macau school, he entered the casino to work.
At present, he is the chairman of the Macau Fujian Sports Association, the president of the Dejin Charity Association, the chairman of the Dejin VIP Club, the chairman of Theok Jin Finance Co., Ltd., the chairman of Lihu Group, the chairman of Zhuhai Dexian Investment Management Co., Ltd., the chairman of Ruyi International Group, and the chairman of Shanghai Baijiale Cinema Investment Co., Ltd.
Although few people know exactly what he does.
But such a description, no matter how you look at it, is like an inspirational drama of a poor boy at the bottom, working hard, trying to break into the world, and transforming from the grassroots to the rich.
But inspiration is inspirational, wealth comes too quickly, and sometimes itself hides huge problems and cannot withstand the test.
In the version that most people don't know much about, Chen Ronglian, who first entered the casino, is the same as the "stacked code boy" in the upper position.
Stacked code boys are "middlemen" between casinos and gamblers, who work in the VIP hall where guests spend a lot of money, while helping the casino to pull guests and earn commissions from them, while encouraging guests to place more bets, lend to gamblers, and earn interest differences.
Stacked code boys are all human spirits, flexible minds, wide networks, can make money on both sides, coupled with the mid-1980s, the number of Macau gambling halls surged, stacked code boys quickly accumulated wealth, emerged a number of counterattack male protagonists.
Among them, the most well-known character is Washing Mihua, followed by Chen Ronglian and Wu Peici's boyfriend Ji Xiaobo.
Here I would like to briefly popularize the gaming industry in Macau.
In 1999, before the return of Macau, the gaming industry in Macau was dominated by a consortium headed by the Ho family, and Ho Hung-sin's title of "Gambling King" was also derived.
However, after the return of Macao, the government required gambling cards to be re-competitive, and the gambling rights moved from monopoly operation to moderate opening, and the gambling cards were "divided into three" and "three divided into six", which quickly broke the situation that the He family was the only one.
Moreover, after the return of Macao to the motherland, mainland tourists with Hong Kong and Macao permits flocked to Macao in large numbers, and in only four years after the handover, The gaming industry in Macao increased its income by 347.9 billion patacas (MOP). In its seventh year, Macau's gaming industry surpassed Las Vegas in the United States and became the world's largest casino.
In 2014, Chen Ronglian, who has been working in the gaming industry for many years, saw the opportunity and established his own Dejin Group to make a lot of money.
Although Chen Ronglian's strength and popularity are not as good as that of Wash Mi Hua, in the media reports, Wash Mi Hua is still the "person with the most VIP lounges" in Macau, but in 2020, the news that Dejin acquired a 20.75% stake in Legendale Macau in one fell swoop shocked the industry.
(Founded in 2006, Legendale Macau operates entertainment venues such as Fisherman's Wharf, Reed Palace Hotel, and Babylon Casino in Macau.) Founders Chow Kam Fai and Lee Chi Keung Ho Hung Sun used to be in the old department, and Ho Hung Sun's third wife Chen Wanzhen also participated in it. On 11 September 2020, Chan Wing-yan purchased 1.28 billion shares of Legendale Macau from over-the-counter at HK$1.05 per share, jumping to the company's largest shareholder and cementing Chan's position as a casino tycoon)
After that, Chen Ronglian's VIP room surpassed sun city in terms of number of codes, and Chen Ronglian became the number one gambling intermediary in Macau after washing rice.
At the same time, Dejin Group also operates a number of casinos in Southeast Asia such as the Philippines and Vietnam.
Although he is a casino tycoon, it is difficult for ordinary netizens to classify people like Chen Ronglian and Wash Mihua into the same circle.
(From this photo, it can be guessed that the two people are friends privately and have cooperated)
The most fundamental reason is that Chen Ronglian has a city government, and he knows that the source of wealth is unknown, so for many years, he has been making a lot of money in a muffled voice, being low-key and pragmatic, no lace news, not showing off wealth, not accepting interviews, and being exposed in front of the media is very limited.
(Small S evaluates Chen Ronglian as "rational")
(Washing rice, not only sun city has stepped on the red line many times, but his private life has also contributed countless strange news to the public because of the "strongest three on the surface" Mandy and his wife Chen Huiling in the newspaper continuous rice storm, which has continued to occupy the headlines of the entertainment page for many years)
Even because the casino business often deals with the powerful and celebrity class, and has contacts with celebrities, it is rare to see Chen Ronglian have photos flowing out.
(When Dejin was at its most brilliant, Aaron Kwok, Zheng Xiuwen, Hu Yanbin, and Zhou Baihao all came to their party)
Even donations and donations are never preached.
The most high-profile thing to do in this life is to marry An Yixuan in 2017.
Following the successful experience of the gambling king Ho Hung-sun in patriotism, love for Hong Kong and love for Macao, Chen Ronglian, who has accumulated a lot of capital in the gaming industry, also tried to wash his white in time.
He not only regularly served in the Macao Jinjiang Hometown Association and the Macao Fujian Sports Association, but also went to the mainland to invest and began to get involved in the real estate industry, warehousing industry, film and television, catering and so on.
In addition, he also used various public welfare activities such as donating money for poor mountainous areas, donating money for primary schools, and investing in his hometown to prove that he was "closely linked to the development of the motherland.".
(Dejin Group entrusted the Liaison Office to donate HK$20 million to support the fight against the epidemic)
(Chen Ronglian donated a total of 2.05 million yuan to 29 schools in Yonghe, which helped Yonghe Town achieve full coverage of primary and secondary school libraries in the town)
(On Bazaar Charity Night, Mr. and Mrs. Chen Ronglian took 3.5 million paintings and donated 10 ambulances)
(Henan rainstorm, Chen Ronglian donated 2 million yuan in the name of husband and wife to help Henan)
(If it were not for the news of the arrest, many netizens would still think that he is a respected, down-to-earth entity entrepreneur, the kind of first-generation rich man that all girls want to marry)
An Yixuan was born in a wealthy family, his grandmother was a large landowner in Taipei's East District, an old landlord of many well-known restaurants, and his aunt's generation was called the first sister of Tea Street in the fourth section of Zhongxiao East Road.
An Yixuan, who has heard about it since childhood, knows how to manage money and has an investment mind, as early as 2016, there were media reports on living in hundreds of millions of mansions and buying millions of beds.
In his career, although he was not from the acting department, but with his outstanding appearance and good luck, An Yixuan debuted for four years and became a first-line actress in Taiwan with a "Fighting Fish".
After that, he came to the mainland because of "The Legend of the Paladin Sword" and began to go north.
Although the acting skills are average, An Yixuan knows how to make contacts, and the media has reported that "every time Wang Zhonglei or Huang Xiaoming goes to Taiwan, An Yixuan will definitely do the east."
An Yixuan quickly signed a contract with Huayi, and at the signing ceremony, Huang Xiaoming put on a diamond necklace for her (in ancient archaeology, Huang Xiaoming and An Yixuan had a relationship).
As a result, An Yixuan became a big sister-level figure for Taiwanese actresses to break into the mainland.
More because the resources are too good, he has been filming in Hengdian for a long time and is known as the "Little Princess of Hengdian".
Regarding her and Wang Xiaofei and Lee Seung-hyun's well-known emotional lives, I will not repeat them here, after all, when they were young, they did not divide their hands several times and lost several loves.
Probably because of the lessons of the previous two times, After breaking up with Lee Seung-hyun, An Yixuan once again exposed his feelings 5 years later.
In March 2017, An Yixuan suddenly called herself Mrs. Chen and announced the news of her marriage on Weibo: "1230 days ago, you used any door to suddenly flash into my world, and I seriously spent 810 days to know you..."
Ordinary netizens may not know Chen Ronglian, but the actresses in the circle are shocked and even red-eyed.
In one program, the eldest sister, Zhang Xiaoyan, called her a "young grandmother", told her to maintain her body, have more children, and said" You are the first to marry to Macau.
In An Yixuan's description:
Chen Ronglian would push away important commercial dinners, drive for several hours to deliver medicines to her, and stew her body with cordyceps and Chinese herbal medicines;
On a business trip in the United States on her birthday, Chen Ronglian will suddenly appear; seeing that her shopping foot hurts, she will immediately run to the street to buy a pair of sneakers;
After An Yixuan became pregnant, Chen Ronglian not only accompanied her to go to the obstetric examination, but even applied skin care oil to prevent stretch marks and cut nails.
Of course, in their love life, what makes us care more than these concerns is the arrogant story of "overlord and wife".
When An Yixuan got married, the couple invited many friends including Chen Qiaoen, Hu Yanbin, Huang Xiangyi, Chen Xiaochun, Dong Xuan, Lü Yi and other 200 people.
The 4-day, 3-night Hawaiian wedding is extremely luxurious, described by the media as a "wedding marathon", the process is long, the scale is huge, the number of participants is large, and the style is gorgeous, which is very human.
An Yixuan Daxiu 13 million yuan necklace, more than 20 million yuan diamond ring and 6 million diamond ring at the Guining banquet.
(Wedding diamond ring 10.57 carat diamonds made into a bow shape, meaning "perfect my wife", the price is about 20 million yuan)
(The diamond ring worn by An Yixuan at the Guining Banquet in Taiwan, worth 6 million)
There is also a pair of iron coil diamond wedding rings, designed by a well-known Taiwanese jewelry designer, and An Yixuan put the ring on his son's toes when he gave birth to a child.
After returning to Taiwan, he feasted on Ren Xianqi, Tao Zhe, He Junxiang, Ariel Lin, Big and Small S, Chen Yanxi, Ming Dao, Xin, Fang Zuming, Makiyo, Hong Tianming, Cao Ge, Natto, Dai Ailing and other friends.
After marriage, drying food, flowers, and Hermès bags are all pediatric grades.
(The same meal of crab, An Yixuan wants to post enough 15 photos)
On the third anniversary of their marriage, he dried a 770,000-karat Cartier 18K white gold jaguar diamond chain.
And, 665,000 yuan of diamond brooch, 565,000 yuan of 18K gold necklace, 108 years of history, made of emeralds, natural crystals, diamonds and gold platinum made of Cartier antique series of cufflinks, worth about 240,000 yuan.
An Yixuan also likes to post famous watches.
On the first anniversary of their marriage, An Yixuan received a Cartier limited edition watch worth 870,000 yuan.
In the girlfriend photo, An Yixuan's new Rolex Oyster Perpetual 36 watch grabbed the mirror, worth 185,000 yuan.
In the selfie, the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 18K platinum full diamond paired with the Sapphire watch, worth about 3 million yuan.
In a parent-child group photo, the reindeer decoration at home is 5.21 million yuan.
The paintings in the stairwell are suspected to have come from the hands of the Chinese artist Zao Wou-Ki, about 400 million yuan.
Of course, Chen Ronglian's most arrogant gift is the mansion villa, when he gave birth to a child, he sent 4 mansion villas worth 600 million yuan in one go.
Moreover, An Yixuan super likes to do parties, children's birthdays, their own birthdays, wedding anniversaries... It's all going to be held in a grand manner.
How grand is it? An Yixuan's good friend Liu Pinyan once complained.
The wedding that was envied by everyone, in fact, because the wedding was too long and complicated, everyone was physically and mentally exhausted, she was so tired that she cried, and said that if she married in the future, everything would be from Jane...
An Yixuan not only wants to invite friends in the circle, but also the decorations, food, and guests' costume styles and color matching at the party will be carefully arranged to fit the theme of the party, which is very exquisite, not comparable to Wu Peici sprinkling a truffle.
Even in September last year, when Chen Ronglian had already smelled the wind, An Yixuan posted a 41-year-old birthday photo on Weibo.
Although there were no ornate decorations and guests, An Yixuan also released three family photos.
She explained to the media —
"In June, I received a wedding anniversary gift from my husband, a Cartier jaguar diamond ring worth more than 400,000 yuan, considering that the birthday and the anniversary are only more than 3 months apart, so I sympathize with my husband and do not need to give special gifts."
Therefore, in the long run, An Yixuan has almost become one of the happiest female stars in the entertainment industry in his self-proof, and we have also written articles for this, and the girl who was abandoned by Wang Xiaofei and Lee Seung-hyun has now become a "winner in life"?
But if you put these gifts and photos of the party in today's context, you will find that An Yixuan's high profile is completely contrary to Chen Ronglian's need for a low-key underground industry.
Some netizens even began to comb the timeline of Chen Ronglian's arrest.
For example, in 2017, Chen Ronglian and An Yixuan got married in a high-profile manner, and it was in this year that Chen Ronglian began to be noticed by the police.
He and Ann gave birth to their first child in 2019, and the police officially began their investigation in 2019...
Therefore, every time An Yixuan showed affection and showed off his wealth, it seemed that he pushed her husband Chen Ronglian to the end of the road.
So is it a critique of show of love and showing off wealth? Nor is it, everyone has the right to choose their own way of life.
But we have to acknowledge that there are values behind the way of life.
Our over-presentation of life, a certain meaning, is a fantasy that we strive to prove ourselves.
Further, An Yixuan's problem is simply, does it need proof of wealth? No, the more essential reason is the need to establish the ultimate victory in the female female game again and again by secular standards.
- Deeply loved by men with great wealth, unconditional to irrational giving from the other party, life is smooth and sweet as if there is only a little emptiness left for Versailles.
Korean drama "The World of Husbands and Wives", the wife of the big middle class, the vice president of a high-end private hospital, a career master; the small third of the rich class, the palm pearl of the president, they superficially compete for a man, but the essence is competing for a fantasy life -
"Everything that has to do with me surrounds me perfectly."
And in "The Moon and Sixpence", Strickland, who abandoned his wife and son in pursuit of personal ideals, had a shocking speech, and one of the sentences impressed me very much-
"Women's concern for other people's evaluations can almost sacrifice their lives."
He asked a question -
"The satisfaction of food and clothing, the pride of wealth, the pleasure of being admired, the triumph of the consummation of the family, the urgency, repetition, and tirelessness of women to show these things, is it out of love or out of vanity?"
I have absolutely no intention of denouncing An Yixuan, first, I am qualified, second, she is already miserable enough, I am more sorry for her, my heart is not very stable sometimes, I wish her to quickly escape from this period of disaster and protect herself.
Still that sentence, see counting on the moon, how many other people's stories are written, and ultimately just to tell the truth that you think clearly.
The last pair of star couples who have attracted much attention for their divorce this year are Huang Xiaoming and Yang Ying, after all, the century wedding is too high-profile, and the traces of those shows of love are too colorful.
When you give up space to invite everyone to fulfill your vanity, you bear the greater cost of impermanence.
Let's end the story with a passage from The Moon and Sixpence.
"The world is cold and cruel, no one knows where we come from and where we are going, and we must be humble.
We must see the beauty of tranquility, and we must live with stoicism so that the god of destiny does not notice us.
Let us seek the love of the simple, the kind, let us remain silent, content with a small angle, and be as calm and docile as they are.
This is the wisdom of life. ”