In 1970, Hong Kong gambling king Ho Hung-sun's thousand-dollar Ho Chao Ying and the son of a funeral tycoon, Siu Pak Shing, were successfully married.
200 tables were set up for two consecutive days and two nights.
The marriage of these two rich families has caused a sensation throughout Macau.
In the eyes of outsiders, the two are right at home, and the talent is beautiful, which is undoubtedly a match made in heaven.
But the bride He Chaoying understood better than anyone that the two had no emotional basis, and this was just a commercial marriage.
The purpose is that the He family and the Xiao family are ready to join forces to invest in the construction of a racecourse in Iran, and this marriage has become a link to consolidate interests.
She couldn't resist her father's decision.
Huo Zhenting, the object of the young plum bamboo horse, can only become a lifelong regret with this marriage.
She never expected that this marriage would become the beginning of the tragedy of her life.
After giving birth to a daughter, He Chaoying could not bear her husband to look for flowers and ask for willow all day long, and the marriage that lasted for 11 years finally ended in divorce.
The disaster was not alone, his mother Li Wanhua and his brother who was 2 years younger died one after another, which caused He Chaoying to suffer a fatal blow and has since had a mental breakdown. What a magnificent man who was once so beautiful, but in his later years he ended up in a crazy end.
At the time of her death, her father, Ho Hung-sun, did not attend her funeral on the grounds that it was unlucky for a white-haired man to send a brunette.
He Chaoying's funeral
Only the former Qingmei Bamboo Ma Huo Zhenting came to send He Chaoying on his last journey, and choked on her portrait: How beautiful she was when she was young.
He Chaoying was once the favorite daughter of the gambling king He Hongshen, what kind of entanglements and grudges did he have? Did he not even want to attend his daughter's funeral?
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He Chaoying most wanted to be like his mother Li Wanhua.
Because in her view, her father Ho Hung Sun and her mother are a pair of perfect beauties, and the two have talent, status, and sincere love.
The marriage between them is like the male and female protagonists of the novel, satisfying all the beautiful imaginations of the world for marriage.
Only later did she learn that the seemingly pearl-like marriage was premeditated.
Ho was born into a prominent family and his ancestors were all big business families. Before the age of 13, he had been living the life of a young master in fine clothes and food, and attended the best school in Hong Kong, Queen's College.
Until his father went bankrupt and went bankrupt and owed a huge debt.
Overnight, it went from being an enemy of the rich to a home of extreme poverty. In order to escape debt, Ho followed his mother to a poor shantytown in Hong Kong.
He was angry and tried to study strongly, and was admitted to the University of Hong Kong.
But it wasn't long before the War of Resistance broke out. Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese. The University of Hong Kong was forced to suspend classes, and university students had to volunteer on the streets.
Ho was placed as a correspondent in an air raid shelter of a mansion. After going there, he actually found that this family was the home of his cousin who had been lost for many years.
The rich cousin pitied Ho Hung-sin's plight and used his relationship to introduce Ho to work at CIMB Macau, which also became an opportunity for Ho to change his fate.
The job is well paid, but it comes with high risks. At that time, the territorial division of the major sea areas was chaotic, and it was easy to encounter rioters on the way out to sea, and if they were not careful, they would lose their lives.
But He Hongshen still took risks and relied on his outstanding talents to gain a firm foothold in the company.
Careers are booming, and love is quietly coming.
After being introduced, he met Lai WanHua, the "first beautiful woman in Macao".
Lai Wan Hua
On the one hand, Ho Hongshen launched a fierce pursuit of Li Wanhua. Every day after work, Lei went to school to pick up Li Wanhua from school, and the two drank tea and chatted together.
With his handsome appearance and humorous talent, Ho soon captured the hearts of beauties.
In 1942, the two men, who had only been briefly dating for 3 months, quickly married.
At that time, Ho was 21 years old and Lai Wanhua was only 18 years old.
This match of heaven was once rumored to be a good story.
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At first, Li Wanhua thought that her father would not agree to this family affair, but she did not expect that her father not only did not oppose it, but tried his best to promote the marriage between the two.
You should know that Lai Wan Hua is a Portuguese native of Macau. His family is prominent, and his ancestors were high-ranking Portuguese officials. His father was a well-known lawyer and the only notary public in Macau.
Lai Wan Hua
Moreover, she herself has an outstanding temperament, and there is no lack of pursuit of rich children around her.
Such a combination is not an exaggeration to say that a "famous woman" marries a "phoenix man".
In the families of high-ranking officials and nobles in that era, it was not reasonable to accept a poor boy and son-in-law so gladly.
The speed at which the two went from acquaintance to marriage was staggering.
In December 1941, Ho arrived in Macau, and the two were married in early 1942.
Li Wanhua is Portuguese and only speaks Portuguese. The two did not speak the same language at that time, and under such circumstances, in just three months, progress was so rapid.
Even if it was love at first sight, it was too quick.
On the surface, the combination of the two is that the phoenix man climbs the rich woman, but in fact, He Hongshen is not as depressed as everyone thinks.
The Ho family is the head of the four major families in Hong Kong, Ho's grandfather is one of the richest businessmen in Hong Kong, and his brother is the first richest man in Hong Kong that year.
Although He Hongshen's family fell in the middle of the road, the He family still has a big family, a large number of rich relatives, and it is only a temporary decline, and the strength behind it is still very strong.
Ho's sister once said that when his family was at its poorest, he also had 17 servants. The skinny camel was bigger than the horse, and you can imagine how thick the He family's family base was.
Moreover, Ho Hongshen's ability is in everyone's eyes, and it is only a matter of time before he turns over.
Let's talk about Lai Wan Hua.
Her father was very powerful, but had 4 aunts and 23 children. Li Wanhua was born to the fourth aunt and was the fifteenth in the family. Therefore, neither she nor her mother had a high status in the family.
Therefore, in father Li's view, it is just to take an unappreciated daughter in exchange for more benefits, and this family affair is "stable and profitable".
For this marriage, Li Wanhua could not resist, and neither could He Hongshen.
After Ho Hung-sun married Lai Wan-wah, he relied on the connections of the Lai Wan-wah family and was born with excellent business acumen. Breakthroughs were soon made in his career.
In the first year after marriage, Ho earned the first pot of gold in his life of 1 million Hong Kong dollars. In one fell swoop, he became the youngest millionaire in Hong Kong and Macau.
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In 1947, Li Wanhua gave birth to her first child, He Chaoying.
He Chaoying, who was born with a golden key, was loved by the entire big family.
Father Ho Hung-sun often held this daughter and gently stroked her little face, full of pity.
He Chaoying
When He Chaoying was 2 years old, her mother gave birth to a younger brother for her. From the moment his younger brother was born, he was trained by Ho Hongshen as a successor.
From birth, the two brothers and sisters enjoy the most superior material environment and can also receive the top education. He was often taken by his father to participate in various social events where celebrities gathered, and he showed his heroic demeanor at a young age.
He Chaoying and his younger brother He Youguang
At this time, He Chaoying felt that he was the happiest person in the world, his father was one of the biggest people in the business world, and his mother was a noble and beautiful rich wife, his parents loved him, and his family was harmonious.
The feelings of her parents are enviable, and it is also through the marriage of her parents that she naively thinks that the marriage of the rich may not be just a combination of interests as rumored to the world, and it will also have a stable and happy life.
Ho
However, at the age of 10, her father, Ho Hung Sun, personally "shattered" her fairy tale filter of her love for her parents.
In 1957, her mother, Li Wanhua, suddenly fell ill.
Looking for famous doctors, it is impossible to diagnose the cause of the disease.
After a few months, complications appeared. In order to save his life, he had to remove his stomach and could only eat liquid food from then on.
He Chaoying watched her mother Li Wanhua being tortured by illness and being emaciated, weighing from 115 kilograms to 70 kilograms, and her heart was like a knife.
What disappointed her even more was her father's attitude.
At first, my father often took time to visit my mother in the hospital, and in order to amuse her, he deliberately lost to her when playing cards.
But slowly, my father pushed away from work every time, and he could no longer be seen in the hospital.
But what He Chaoying did not expect was that his father married the second wife with great fanfare when his mother was seriously ill.
In order to make this marriage justified, it even moved out the provision that "concubines" could be "concubines" in the "Great Qing Laws" that had not yet expired at that time.
He also said publicly, "I can't be a monk for the rest of my life." Moreover, I have a big family, work is very busy, all kinds of socializing, need a woman to run the housework, and often accompany myself. ”
This made He Chaoying feel devastated. When the father and mother were married, they followed the mother to become Portuguese and practice monogamy, but why should they follow the laws of the Qing Dynasty at this time?
Besides, Mrs. Erfang is only 14 years old, how can a minor child handle the housework?
It was just an excuse for the father to abandon his wife and like the new and dislike the old.
Watching the second aunt enter the door, after the He family gave birth to several children in succession, the status of the naked eye rose. He Chaoying could clearly feel that his mother, Li Wanhua, was becoming less and less important in his father's heart.
Fortunately, her father still loved her daughter and sent her to England to study in Switzerland.
After returning from studying abroad, he also entered his father's company to help take care of business.
Because of inheriting his father's outstanding genes, coupled with the environment of being born in a business family, He Chaoying soon showed outstanding business talent, achieved impressive results in the company, and was also selected by Fortune magazine as the "Global Fifty Business Strong women list".
Not only that, she is also very talented in painting, has held exhibitions, and is an artistic celebrity in the Macao industry.
Although his daughter He Chaoying was not short of money to spend at that time, the gambling king He Hongshen, fearing that he had wronged his daughter, gave her 700,000 yuan of pocket money every month.
But what He Chaoying can't understand is that her father has always loved her so much, why not read the father-daughter relationship, push her to the "grave" of marriage, and let her eventually become a "pawn" in the marriage of interests.
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The He family and the Huo family belong to the family, and in the early years, Ho Hung-sun and Fok Ying-tung were classmates.
It is also inseparable in business cooperation, and even the children of the two families are very familiar.
Ho Chao Ying and Fok Ying Tung's eldest son Huo Zhenting was a young plum bamboo horse since childhood, as early as when they were in primary school at Queen's College in Hong Kong, the two were classmates, and later went to the United Kingdom to study together.
The school is not far away, and in his free time, he often makes small talk about parties.
Huo Zhenting's feelings for He Chaoying are well known, as long as they appear on the same occasion, his eyes have always followed her, and his eyes are hot and full of love.
Although no one broke through this layer of window paper, they both understood each other's intentions.
The friendship of the world, the matching status of the rich, the affection of the green plum bamboo horse, how to see this marriage are all matched. Both the parents of the two families and the two young people tacitly acquiesced to this matter."
In He Chaoying's view, they are just waiting for a suitable opportunity, and sooner or later they will enter the palace of marriage together.
But what she did not expect was that her fate with Huo Zhenting was personally ended by her father, He Hongshen, who pushed her to another person, Xiao Baicheng, the son of the Funeral King.
Xiao Baicheng
It was also at this time that He Chaoying understood that the most ruthless imperial family was the most ruthless.
Her father's pampering of her revolves around interests. If it does not affect the interests of the father, then he can unconditionally pamper and tolerate her.
When a daughter has a conflict of interest, the father will sacrifice her mercilessly.
Ho Hung-sun and Fok Ying-tung, because of the uneven distribution of interests in Macau's gaming industry, turned against each other and stopped interacting, which also buried the happiness of Ho Chao-ying and Fok Chun-ting.
In 1970, Ho invested in a racecourse in Iran and became acquainted with the funeral king. In order to promote the cooperation between the two families, the He family and the Xiao family chose to let their children marry.
After He Chaoying's resistance was fruitless, he had no choice but to obey his father's arrangement and choose to marry Xiao Baicheng, the son of the funeral king.
Since then, He Chaoying's fate has begun to move towards tragedy.
Xiao Baicheng is young and golden, and before he got married, he was an uncompromising brother of the prince. After marriage, even if He Chaoying gave birth to a daughter for him, he still could not change his male nature and spent a lot of time outside.
Xiao Baicheng
As soon as he got home, he quarreled with He Chaoying endlessly.
The two knew that they were united for the sake of family interests, and there was no emotion at all, so even if they were married, the two had always been inseparable.
For the sake of children and family face, He Chaoying has been forcibly enduring this marriage.
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But her forbearance did not exchange for the favor of fate, but let bad luck come after her.
In 1973, her mother, Lai Wan-wah, was suddenly involved in a car accident in Portugal.
Li Wanhua, who had originally experienced a serious illness, was physically weak. The car accident left her severely damaged in the brain and she was in a coma for a month. By the time I woke up, I had lost most of my memory, and many people and things were already unclear.
He Chaoying wanted to take care of his seriously ill mother, but was refused by his father, Ho Hung-sun, who refused to disturb him.
On the one hand, the betrayal and infidelity of the husband, on the other hand, there is the worry about the mother's illness.
During that time, He Chaoying was anxious and insomnia all day.
He Chaoying in his later years
What was even more unacceptable to her was that her father actually began to tangle with the nurse who took care of her mother, and also married her home as a third aunt.
The original wife was still seriously ill, and as a husband, she not only did not take much care of her, but married someone else.
The hearty husband, the unbearable tycoon, the ruthless and unrighteous father, all of this made He Chaoying feel angry and disgusted.
This overwhelmed 10-year marriage seemed like a joke to her at the moment, and she couldn't put up with it any longer.
In 1981, she filed for divorce from Xiao Baicheng.
At this time, the former Qingmei Bamboo Maho Zhenting, 3 years ago, obeyed the orders of his parents and married Zhu Lingling, the champion of Hong Kong sisters.
Huo Zhenting and Zhu Lingling
Before that, he had waited for He Chaoying for 8 years.
Nowadays, things have long been human.
Once some fates are missed, only regrets are left in this life.
After the divorce, He Chaoying was unwilling to pursue the past, packed up his mood, and planned to start a new life.
But what happened next made He Chaoying completely collapse mentally, and because he could not withstand the blow, he became a delirious "crazy woman".
Six months later, his brother and wife, 2 years younger, were killed in a car accident in Portugal.
His mother, Lai Wan-wah, and her brother had both been in a car accident in Portugal, and He Chaoying firmly believed that this was not an ordinary accident. She was determined to investigate the truth thoroughly, but her father stopped her from pursuing it.
She was resentful, helpless, but there was nothing she could do.
Frustrated with all her thoughts, she suffered heavy blows, and her spirit began to become trance, taking her daughter away from Macao and wandering abroad, traveling to more than 20 countries in fourteen years.
When his mother Li Wanhua died in 2004, people were shocked to find that He Chaoying's former youthful beauty had long ceased to exist and had become a woman with a dry body and strange behavior.
In 2007, He Chaoying was charged with assault for maliciously stepping on a young boy at a hotel and sentenced to three years in prison suspended.
After the doctor's identification, He Chaoying suffered from schizophrenia and had gone completely crazy.
A series of misfortunes that happened to her loved ones completely overwhelmed her.
In the 7th year of He Chaoying's madness, He Chaoying died of illness at the age of 67, ending her tragic life.
At the funeral, his father, Ho Hung-sun, and other aunts did not attend.
Huo Zhenting, who grew up with her as a child, came to the scene and wept bitterly at the funeral.
If it had not been for the creation of people, the two may have been married and have children long ago, and they would have been happily together for a lifetime, and now it would not be such an ending.
And He Chaoying, as the daughter of a rich man, died for three years without a tombstone.
Just surround it with four "ice cream cones" to warn others not to trample on it.
The so-called giants are not necessarily paradises.
What can be seen is the inexhaustible food and clothing, glory and wealth. What is invisible is the open struggle and the sacrifice of interests.
Looking back on He Chaoying's life, the first half of his life enjoyed full honor and wealth, but the second half of his life was thrown into the abyss, which is really regrettable.