In June this year, the second wife of gambling king Ho Hung-sun, Lan Qiongmiao, died of illness in Hong Kong.
Nine days later, it was discovered that ho Hung-sun's tomb with Lai Wan-wah was as neat and tidy as new, apparently re-cleaned.
Due to the coincidence of time, this incident was interpreted as Li Wanhua's descendants comforting her spirit in heaven.
Some netizens commented, "This is telling her that she can finally rest in peace." ”
Even though the giants have many grudges, why is there no death between Li Wanhua and Lan Qiongyi?
From the rich family in Macau to the "wasted man" who has been bedridden for decades.
What kind of life did Li Wanhua experience?
1. The first beauty of Macau
In 1924, Lai Wan Hua was born in Macau.
The Li family is a well-known local family, whose ancestors served as high-ranking officials in the Portuguese government, and their family lineage is very prominent.
Her father was a well-known lawyer in Macau and the only notary public in the region, with a high social status.
Growing up in such a family, Li Wanhua wanted to be windy and rainy from an early age.
Due to a certain proportion of Portuguese ancestry in the body, Li Wanhua's facial features are both Eastern and Western.
Her face has both the exquisite three-dimensionality of the West and the classical charm of the East.
Coupled with the innate elegance of the rich family, as well as the dignified manners cultivated by the day after tomorrow.
For various reasons, she was praised as "the first beautiful woman in Macau".
Therefore, since Li Wanhua was a teenager, the suitors around her have always been endless.
However, no one could enter the eyes of this big lady.
It was not until the appearance of a brother who won the heart of Li Wanhua.
He is Ho Hung-sun.
Ho's family lineage is also not ordinary, his grandfather and father are wealthy merchants in Hong Kong.
Therefore, after He Hongshen was born, he had no worries about food and clothing for a long time.
But when he was 13 years old, the He family encountered a crisis, the family fell in the middle of the road, and the family's business collapsed.
Ho was able to complete his studies with the help of relatives and friends.
After graduation, he was introduced to CIMB Macau and started as a small worker.
Since then, He Hongshen has silently vowed to restore the He family to its former glory.
During his time at CIMB, Ho became a colleague with Lai Wan-wah's brother-in-law and became acquainted with Lai Wan-wah.
He Hongshen is also a mixed-race child, very handsome when he was young, and can be described as elegant and elegant.
Therefore, when Ho Hung Sun and Lai Wan Hua met for the first time, both of them were attracted to each other.
Ho soon began a fierce pursuit of Lai Wan-hwa.
Since Li Wanhua's mother tongue is Portuguese, Ho Hung Sun went to learn Portuguese.
Lai WanHua was still a student at the time, and Ho Hung-sun went to school every day to wait for her to finish school.
The two then rode their bikes on a date together, sometimes to the park and sometimes to tea.
At the same time, Ho also worked very hard to find a better future.
In this way, the handsome, gentle, and very motivated He Hongshen finally touched Li Wanhua's heart.
The two soon fell in love and entered the marriage hall in 1942.
At that time, Portugal already practiced monogamy, and In order to show his specialty, Ho Hongshen specially changed his nationality to Portugal.
Although Ho hit himself in the face afterwards, at least his love for Lai Wanhua was sincere at that time.
After marriage, Ho earned his first 1 million yuan with the help of his father-in-law.
Later, he used the money to start a shipping company and a kerosene company, and the business became bigger and bigger.
In 1947, Lai Wanhua gave birth to his eldest daughter, He Chaoying, and two years later gave birth to his eldest son, He Youguang.
Husband and wife love, children are complete, husband's career is booming, and Li Wanhua at that time is undoubtedly happy.
But this happiness lasted less than 10 years.
In 1956, Lai WanHua suddenly vomited and had diarrhea, and doctors in Hong Kong could not find the cause of the disease after exhausting all methods.
In just a few months, she had lost weight from 115 pounds to 70 pounds, becoming like a withered mallet, not human-like.
In order to find out the cause of the disease, Ho took Lai Wanhua to the United Kingdom for medical treatment.
Finally, after several rounds of expert consultation, it was determined that this was chronic colitis.
But at that time, there was no specific medicine for this disease, only surgical treatment.
Moreover, after the operation, you also need to go through a long recovery period, and you can only eat liquid food every day.
The long-term pain and suffering caused Li Wanhua to become more and more emaciated from the glory of the past.
Whenever she was with Ho Hongshen, she seemed much older than the other.
In the first few years of Lai Wanhua's illness, Ho Hung Sun was very kind to her and often went to the hospital to see her.
And whenever he has free time, he will play cards with his wife and make her happy.
Whenever Lai Wan Hua celebrates her birthday, Ho will hold a banquet for her to celebrate.
But the good times did not last long, Li Wanhua's illness has never improved, and the whole person has become more and more aging.
He Hongshen looked at his bedridden wife and couldn't help but have some strange thoughts in his heart.
2. Shameless betrayal
In the 1950s, Hong Kong's economy began to recover and its population grew dramatically.
Seeing the potential of the real estate industry, Stanley Ho returned to Hong Kong to start Leon Construction.
Through just a few years of operation, Ho's assets exceeded HK$10 million, making him Hong Kong's premier billionaire.
A breakthrough in his career made Ho begin to re-examine his family.
In his view, his family is big, socializing continuously, and needs a capable woman to share the affairs for herself.
Obviously, Li Wanhua, who has been bedridden for a long time, has been difficult to take on this responsibility.
Therefore, for the first time, he moved the mind of a concubine.
As mentioned earlier, Ho Hongshen became a Portuguese citizen, so according to the law, he cannot marry a second house.
But the clever Ho Hung-sun still thought of a way.
Due to the particularity of Hong Kong and Macao, for a long time they have been in a state of coexistence of Hong Kong law, Macao law and Qing law.
According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese allowed polygamy, that is, concubines.
Although the Qing Dynasty had been dead for decades at that time, He Hongshen still insisted on this "legal principle".
Finally, in 1958, he withstood the pressure of all parties and married the second wife, Lan Qiongyi.
Li Wanhua knew that she was powerless to restrain Ho Hongshen, and could only accept reality helplessly.
In order to show his gratitude to Lai Wan Hua, Ho Hung Sun specially settled the second room in Hong Kong to save her from seeing upset.
Since then, Ho hung up in pairs with Lan Qiongyi and attended various occasions.
On the other hand, Li Wanhua knew that the situation was not good for her, so she began to find ways to save her husband's heart.
During her illness, Lai Wanhua gave birth to his second daughter, Ho Chao Yin, and the younger daughter He Chao Xiong.
But Ho Hung-sun's heart is no longer here with her, so everything is in vain.
Disheartened, Li Wanhua wants to escape from this sad place, but fate has reached out to her for the second time.
In 1973, Li Wanhua, who had just left her hospital bed, was seriously involved in a car accident while going to Portugal to relax.
Due to a severe head injury, she was in a coma for a month and underwent more than a dozen surgeries.
When she woke up, she lost most of her memory, couldn't even eat and move, and had to be cared for 24 hours a day.
The poor woman was once again in bed.
At this time, He Hongshen had already entered the gambling industry, and had the momentum of a gambling king, and naturally had no time to take care of his bedridden original wife.
After the experience of the last concubine, Ho Hung-sun married the third-house Chen Wanzhen in 1985.
Since Chen Wanzhen was one of Lai Wanhua's personal caretakers, it was rumored that she was arranged by Lai Wanhua to ascend to the throne.
Placed on the reason, it is natural to retaliate against the second wife, Lan Qiongmiao.
At that time, He Hongshen was full of spirits, and he didn't care at all about the jealousy of his wife and concubines, and only wanted to play the human world.
In 1989, Ho met dance teacher Liang Anqi and was shocked.
Soon after, he was incorporated into the harem and crowned as the fourth wife.
There are many wives and concubines, and naturally there is no shortage of open and secret struggles, and He Hongshen's solution to this is to isolate as much as possible.
So that they can't see each other, they won't have a chance to fight.
Even so, the three aunts still often fight in the air.
The second wife, Lan Qiongyi, said that the fourth wife, Liang Anqi, was illegal and was a "six-eared macaque".
The reason is that by the time of the fourth wife's marriage, the Great Qing Law had been abolished.
But the fourth wife, Liang Anqi, did not eat this set, directly attacking her age, "menopause, taking the wrong medicine." ”
The third wife, Chen Wanzhen, is not good at tongue-in-cheek and cares more about clothing accessories.
So often secretly compare whose clothes are good and whose gems are bigger, so as to prove who gets more pampering.
But none of this has anything to do with Li Wanhua, who watches the crowd's performance like a bystander.
That's because, in 1981, her heart was dead.
3. Children have been unhappy one after another
Although Li Wanhua's fate was ill, she was first seriously ill and bedridden for many years, and then suffered from accidents and torture.
But she always had a strong spiritual pillar in her heart, that is, her eldest son, He Youguang.
As the eldest son of He Hongshen, He Youguang is the unquestioned heir of the family.
He is handsome, capable, friendly, and has long been able to stand alone under his father's years of cultivation.
It was such an excellent figure, but in 1981, in Portugal, he was killed in a car accident and died on the spot.
Cruelly left behind two young daughters, as well as bedridden old mothers.
Li Wanhua was deeply shocked after learning the news and has been closed since.
This incident also led to Li Wanhua's big house and became more and more marginalized in the He family.
The core of the family's business has since entered the hands of the second house.
As the party who benefited the most from the whole thing, some people suspected that this matter was the ghost of the second room behind it.
Because according to the post-mortem investigation, it was found that the place where He Youguang had an accident was very close to the place where Li Wanhua suffered a car accident that year.
Mother and son, in the same place, encountered accidents in succession, if it is a coincidence, I am afraid it does not make sense.
More critically, the family of the second room Lan Qiongyi is very powerful, and it is all black and white.
All in all, she is both motivated and capable.
But all this is speculation, there is no complete evidence, and the He family is also silent about it.
However, the misfortune of dafang Yimai is not over, and he Youguang's death has also directly affected his sister He Chaoying.
In her youth, Ho Chao Ying was beautiful and versatile, and was a famous Miss Qianjin in Macau.
But the daughter of the rich is most likely to escape the fate of family marriage.
At that time, Ho's career was in full swing and he urgently needed to expand his family's power.
Therefore, he married 23-year-old He Chaoying to Xiao Baicheng, the son of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman Xiao Ming.
However, the couple has always been emotionally discordant, but they have barely maintained themselves due to family pressure.
After He Youguang's accident, the Xiao family saw that the vein of the big house had lost its power, and they no longer covered it up.
It didn't take long to sweep He Chaoying out of the house.
The double blow of the death of his brother and the failure of his marriage caused He Chaoying's spirit to be severely damaged, and he became crazy and insane from then on.
In 2007, 60-year-old He Chaoying was once again on the news page because he was charged with assault.
The cause of the incident was that she was knocked down by a 3-year-old boy and deliberately stepped on the other person's foot.
The judge only sentenced her to 2 years for compliance due to her abnormal mental state.
In the photos exposed by the media, He Chaoying's face was like a withered mallet, his cape was distributed, and his behavior was strange.
No one could have imagined that she had once been a high-profile tycoon.
As for the second daughter He Chaoxian and the younger daughter He Chaoxiong, fate was kinder to them.
Since they were born, Ho Hung Sun had already married a second wife.
The two of them have not experienced the environment of family happiness, and the psychological gap is not so large.
When He Chaoxian grew up, he knew that the trend was gone, so he stayed away from family strife and settled abroad to open a gallery for a living.
Although He Chaoxiong lives in Hong Kong, he is bent on eating the Buddha and does not care about the family business.
Why Hongsheng's career paid the most, but when he became famous, he was completely forgotten.
This fact, after Li Wanhua's death, became even more prominent.
4. Die in pain
In 2004, Lai wanhua died in Hong Kong.
This woman who has struggled with illness, pain, marriage, and fate for decades has gone to that world with regret.
The 82-year-old Ho hung up on his sad face at the funeral and was supported by his daughter the whole time.
I don't know if he will remember the days when the two of them spent the moon before looking at Li Wanhua in the coffin.
In the funeral obituary, Ho hung sun called Lai Wan Hua "loving wife".
At the same time, in the family ranking, the names of several aunts and wives were specially deleted to show respect for Li Wanhua.
But this so-called respect is too hypocritical.
After Li Wanhua's death, the He family completely became a world of two, three and four bedrooms.
Their children either hold key positions in the family business or start their own businesses with the support of the family.
In contrast, Li Wanhua's descendants are somewhat miserable.
The eldest daughter, He Chaoying, died of illness in 2014, ending the bumpy second half of her life.
Ho returned to Hong Kong to settle down, focusing on the trust fund left by his mother.
He Chaoxiong opened a massage shop called Wan Hua Xuan in his mother's name, and also ran some property businesses.
Compared with Ho's other children, Ho Chao-hsiung is relatively special.
She is more neutral in appearance and too fat, so she is called "the ugliest daughter of the gambling king".
Although she is ordinary on the outside, she is very kind at heart.
After the death of his brother He Youguang, He Chaoxiong took his two nieces to his side and raised them carefully.
Now the two sisters, He Jiawen and He Jiahua, have grown up and have their own lives.
When the sisters got married, Grandpa Ho Hung-sun remembered his family affection and gave them a mansion as a wedding gift.
In 2020, He Hongshen died, and then the He family staged a battle for 100 billion family property.
Although this battle has been going on for many years, it has been played offstage before, but this time it has directly hit the stage.
Although the big house has lost power for many years, it can't help but want to mix a foot.
He Chaoxian expressed dissatisfaction with the 1.7 billion yuan he received, claiming that the amount allocated to him in his father's will was 11 billion yuan.
Therefore, she sued He Chaoqiong, the actual helmsman of the family, the eldest daughter of the second house, to court and asked for the remaining inheritance.
But this is all He Chaoxian's one-sided words, and there is no evidence to prove it.
After a two-year trial, the request was rejected by the court in April.
He Chaoxian not only did not get a penny, but also had to bear the legal costs.
On the other hand, He Chaoqiong said that he did not want the people of the He family to continue to fight over money.
This sentence directly pushes the responsibility to the other party, as if the women of the big house are insatiable and deliberately looking for trouble.
He did not mention the Shun Tak Group under his name, as well as tens of billions of shares and assets.
It can be seen that the struggle of the giants, like other struggles, is based on the success or failure of heroes, otherwise it is useless to make sense.
Even if He Chaoxian couldn't swallow this breath, there was no way, she was no longer able to continue the fight in her 60s.
For the descendants of the big house, accepting the inheritance and staying away from the struggle of the giants is the wisest choice.
epilogue
Li Wanhua was 80 years old when she died, but her life was over at the age of 33.
Before the age of 33, she had a happy marriage and lovely children.
After the age of 33, she was seriously ill, her husband was widowed, and her children died of madness...
It's like falling from the light into the darkness in an instant.
Some say it's because she was too happy for the first half of her life.
So the jealousy of heaven sent down anger to shatter everything about this poor woman.
But perhaps, all this was already doomed when she and He Hongshen came together.
Now that the Si people have passed away, all these regrets can only turn into dust with time.