As we all know, South Korea is a country controlled by chaebols, the famous Samsung, Hyundai, Lotte, LG and other ten groups, control 70% of South Korea's economy, semiconductors, automobiles, department stores, chemicals, electronics and other lifelines of the national economy, basically in the hands of these groups.
Since the power of capital far exceeds the authority of the government, politicians who want to enter the Blue House even have to win the final victory by co-opting these chaebols, and this monstrous power allows these chaebols to escape the punishment of the law even if they regard life as ants.
On September 1, 2016, a woman jumped off the HanGang Bridge in Seoul.
After receiving the alarm from the crowd and recovering the body, the police were shocked by the identity of the woman , One of the South Korean chaebols and the second wife of the Chosun Ilbo newspaper, Lee Mi-ran.
What is even more shocking is the dense, alternating bruises of old and new on her body, making people dare not imagine what kind of purgatory she lived in before she died.
A family of medicine
Lee Mei-lan, born in 1960 in Seoul, South Korea, in South Korea, in addition to the generations of chaebol rich, the most respected and the best profession for ordinary people to cross the class, is the doctor.
Lee Mei-ran's family is a well-known medical family in South Korea, and her father is a special doctor in the Blue House, who is responsible for treating the President of South Korea.
Li Meilan, who grew up in a Kochi family, naturally received an excellent education, whether in learning or in various social occasions, she showed the elegant temperament of everyone's boudoir.
With picturesque eyebrows and beautiful eyes, there is no shortage of boys who pursue Li Meilan. But those who are smarter than her often have a better family than her, and those who are better than her are mostly stupid children.
In 1983, at the age of 23, Lee Mei-ran graduated from Korea University, one of South Korea's top universities, and planned to study abroad further.
However, at a graduation party, Li Meilan met the man who changed her life, Fang Rongxun, and originally thought that this love affair would be a happy story between the princess and the prince, but she did not expect that what awaited her was a nightmare hell.
Fang Yongxun is the second son of Chosun Ilbo, the most influential newspaper in South Korea.
His father was the former president of Chosun Ilbo, and after his father's death, he was succeeded by his elder brother Fang Sang-hoon, who was one of the four largest shareholders.
Fangjia made his career as a news media, and then dabbled in television, hotels, high-end tourism and other industries, and is one of the top chaebols in South Korea that should not be underestimated.
Obviously, compared with the strength of the Fang family's chaebols, Li Meilan's family lineage is not enough to see, but for Fang Rongxun, such a wife is undoubtedly his best candidate.
First, the fang family's status is superior and will not be suppressed by the woman; second, Li Meilan's father served in the Blue House, and it is a special medical industry, and its good political attributes and necessity for the people are all unattainable.
After the two met at the party, there was no romantic "love at first sight", but soon, Fang Rongxun launched a fierce pursuit of her.
Countless roses, limousines that change every day, trips to seaside villas, and marriage proposals that dominate the headlines of chosun Ilbo... Although Li Meilan's material conditions were not bad since childhood, such a high-profile chaebol Shizi style did indeed attack her.
Unable to withstand Fang Rongxun's sweet words, Li Meilan gave up her plan to study abroad, and under the grand attention of both parents and South Korea's top media, the two entered the palace of marriage.
Lang Cai's female appearance, a match made in heaven, and the scale of her wedding is still a luxury, at this time, Li Meilan, single-mindedly immersed in the glory of the rich wife, does not know that what awaits her is endless pain.
The nightmare begins
Among the three countries of China, Japan and South Korea, the lowest status of women and the most tense sexual relations between men and women are none other than South Korea.
For ordinary Women in South Korea, once they become wives, they are basically reduced to the labor machine of the family, obeying their husbands and in-laws, and the mother's family generally does not interfere in the family affairs of the daughters who marry out, so they can only digest themselves when they are wronged.
In the case of Li Meilan, the daughter-in-law of the rich, these situations are more serious and distorted.
Before the two got married, Fang Rongxun promised Li Meilan to let her choose her career freely, but soon after marriage, Li Meilan became pregnant.
The mother-in-law took this opportunity to let her raise a baby with peace of mind, and the beautiful name was "the wife of the Fang family only needs to dress up and have children", Li Meilan, who graduated from a prestigious university, had to listen to her mother-in-law's "teachings" and became a full-time wife.
When Li Meilan was not out of the cabinet, she still had the support of her parents, but after marrying into the Fang family, Li Meilan, who had no job, simply lost her financial resources, so she could only open her mouth to her husband Fang Rongxun.
The boyfriend who was extremely generous when he was in love, but after marriage, he was extremely stingy, and gave Li Meilan five million won of living expenses every month, which was converted into yuan, which was only twenty-five thousand yuan.
Although the family did not treat her badly in terms of eating and wearing, the psychological status of the husband and wife was obviously no longer equal at this time: Fang Yongxun was still the glamorous second son of chosun Ilbo, calling for wind and rain in the workplace and in the political arena; while Li Meilan was an ordinary housewife who climbed the high branch, and her only function was to open branches and leaves for Fang Rongxun.
In the following years, Li Meilan gave birth to two boys and two girls, and the best youth basically stayed in the high-end confinement center.
And Fang Rongxun during his wife's pregnancy, the little girlfriend outside changed one after another, but at this time, Li Meilan, who was immersed in maternal love, has been kept in the dark and does not know.
In 2004, when four children with less than satisfactory grades were planning to go abroad to study, Fang Rongxun gave Lee Mei-lan 5 billion won (26 million yuan) to arrange for the children to study abroad.
At that time, Li Meilan's sister settled in Canada, and Li Meilan arranged for her four children to live in her sister's house, which was also considered to be a care, and the 5 billion won was also used on the children.
What people did not expect was that these 5 billion won became the best excuse for Fang Rongxun to abuse Li Meilan, and the four children raised by Li Meilan himself lost their humanity and ethics under the temptation of the chaebol father's capital, and became the best accomplices to crush Li Meilan.
It is better to live than to die
Originally thought to find Ruyi Langjun, but after being bound by pregnancy and becoming a housewife with no self-reliance, Li Meilan had long lost the right to interact with Fang Rongxun on an equal footing.
In the more than ten years of single-mindedly raising several children to grow up, Li Meilan has long been immune to the fact that her husband spends his days outside drinking.
For chaebol families, this phenomenon is commonplace. Occasionally, at the gathering of a few rich wives, everyone would even talk about the young objects that her husband had recently changed, as if they had nothing to do with themselves.
However, the unspoken rules of these chaebol circles were completely exposed to the entire Korean society after the suicide of South Korean actress Zhang Ziyan in 2009.
From 2005 to 2009, Zhang Ziyan was required by the brokerage company to provide more than 100 sexual services to more than 30 men, including senior executives of large enterprises, senior personnel of financial institutions, and heads of performing arts planning companies.
Her suicide note left a long list of sex traffickers, including the names of Fang Rongxun, who was over fifty years old, and his nephew Fang Zhengwu.
Ms. Zhang hoped to kill herself in exchange for the punishment of the men, but the result was simply a fine of 24 million won (120,000 yuan) for her boss, and the others had "insufficient evidence" and hastily took matters into trouble.
Fang Rongxun was not affected in this "farce", but for Li Meilan, she finally could not stand her husband's bad behavior, and she formally filed for divorce with Fang Rongxun.
It is difficult to marry into the giants, but it is not easy to get out of the giants.
Even though Li Meilan promised to go out of the house and not want Fang Rongxun's half-assets, in her more than twenty years as the daughter-in-law of the Fang family, she knew about the weaknesses and scandals of the Chosun Ilbo group, and any one of them could make Fang Rongxun carry a big heel.
Therefore, after learning that Li Meilan "yearns for freedom", the husband and wife who could still get along harmoniously have a more and more tense relationship day by day.
Fang Rongxun, who was originally suppressed by his brother Fang Xiangxun and whose status in the group was inferior to that of his eldest brother, completely exploded, transforming his twisted side into violence against his wife, who had always been a non-committalist, and Li Meilan's hell also began from this moment.
In order to interrupt Li Meilan's idea of divorce, Fang Rongxun insisted that the 5 billion won was privately swallowed by Li Meilan to her mother's family on the condition that the four children gave her when they studied abroad.
When Li Meilan turned to the four children who had returned to China and wanted them to prove their innocence, she did not want them to have been brainwashed by Fang Rongxun and agreed that her mother wanted to embezzle her father's property.
Li Meilan, who could not come up with 5 billion won and could not defend herself, had to swallow her anger, but she did not expect that Fang Rongxun had become more and more intense, from the beginning of smashing dishes and chopsticks, throwing tables and chairs, until it evolved into punching and kicking Li Meilan.
In Fang Rongxun's eyes, Li Meilan is just a tool to open up leaves for him, and the genes of the medical family flowing through her body can at least ensure that the IQ of future generations will not be too low.
And this "tool" suddenly has its own consciousness and wants to rebel against itself one day, which is an intolerable rebellion for Fang Rongxun.
Until 2016, Li Meilan had been living in hell.
Fang Rongxun never punched her in the face, but on her arms, waist, and thighs, there were new wounds covering old wounds everywhere, and what made Li Meilan despair the most was the three knife marks on her back, which were the scars on her mother's body that she personally scratched when she was pregnant with her eldest son born in October.
Tragic suicide
Since May 2016, Fang Rongxun has locked Li Meilan in a cold and dark basement, punching and kicking is a daily necessity for Fang Rongxun, but whether to provide food depends on the mood.
When she is in a good mood, Fang Rongxun will let the nanny send her two sweet potatoes and two eggs, and when she is in a bad mood, she will admire Li Meilan's appearance that she is hungry enough to ask for forgiveness, which is worse than the beast.
Later, the nanny of the Fang family recalled: "Madame always had nothing to eat for several days, and her whole body emitted a foul smell. ”
Li Meilan's four children often watched the "pomp" of their father beating his mother, and their mouths were still nagging for Li Meilan to spit out the money that they had embezzled.
On August 20, 2016, Li Meilan was tied up from the basement by four or five strong men and stuffed into an ambulance bound for a psychiatric nursing home.
After the ambulance drove out of the Fang family's gate, Li Meilan knew that this was her only chance, and once she was locked up in a mental hospital, she would never be able to escape.
Halfway along the way, Li Meilan pretended to be crazy and pretended to defecate in the car, and several young nurses could not resist, so they stopped and prepared to take her to a nearby public toilet to solve it.
As soon as the car door opened, Li Meilan spread her legs and ran forward desperately, and finally hid in the garbage can in the alley to escape the disaster.
Li Meilan, who was scaly and penniless, took advantage of the night to walk all the way back to her mother's house, but in the next ten days, wave after wave of strong men dressed in underworld outside the Li family's door smashed the walls of the Li family and the flower beds and glass windows in the courtyard.
During the years she endured Fang Rongxun's abuse, Li Meilan did not sit back and wait, but whether she found an expensive lawyer or a private lawyer known for her integrity, she would return her power of attorney letter within three days.
Even if she did not ask for punishment for Fang Rongxun's abusive behavior, but simply applied for divorce arbitration, Fang Rongxun, who had the status of a chaebol, was in the middle, and no one dared to come forward at all.
Therefore, even if Li Meilan fled back to her mother's house, the physical torture was alleviated to a certain extent, but the shadowy intimidation and the power that could not be resisted at all made Li Meilan completely lose the courage to live.
In the early morning of September 1, 2016, 56-year-old Li Meilan jumped off the Han River Bridge, and her 33-year marriage with Fang Rongxun finally came to an end.
After Li Meilan committed suicide, the Li family took Fang Rongxun and his four children to court for intentional injury.
According to the forensic doctor's wound appraisal and the nanny's confession, Fang Yongxun's guilt was clearly revealed, but in the end, the Seoul prosecutor changed the "intentional injury crime" to "coercion", the former with a maximum penalty of 15 years and the latter a maximum sentence of 5 years.
And the matter did not end here, Fang Rongxun did not suffer from prison at all, but replaced his crime with two sons, the sentence was 8 months, and the execution was suspended for two years.
Two months after Li Meilan's death, Fang Rongxun and his eldest son smashed the newly installed glass door of the Li family in the middle of the night with a long-handled iron axe, and the camera recorded the hysterical appearance of the father and son.
When the Li family reported to the police with the surveillance video that was obviously malicious revenge, the answer was: the eldest son intended to commit the crime, but Fang Rongxun had been dissuading.
The ability of the Korean chaebol to cover the sky with one hand and reverse black and white was vividly displayed in Fang Rongxun, and the most pitiful thing was Li Meilan, who ended her tragic life in the cold Han River.
When the eldest son scratched his back, the reason why Li Meilan refused to go to the regular hospital for medical treatment was that he was afraid that the doctor would call the police after seeing the wound, which would affect the child's future.
Perhaps when she chose to study abroad, Li Meilan will now have a role in the Korean medical community, but life is a one-way street, and there is no room for those who cannot control their own destiny.
In south Korea's dark environment, Fang Rongxun, who wants to be lawless, can only pray for fate "heavenly justice".