For a long time, he has been worth tens of billions of dollars, and he is a low-key rich man, a charity pioneer, and a perfect husband in the eyes of people.
His wife, An Yixuan, has become one of the most enviable women in the world. However, no one expected that he was engaged in illegal activities and was formally arrested at the end of January this year.
His name is Chen Ronglian, and he is one of the three new gambling kings of Macau's young generation. After more than half a year of investigation, the news of the trial came a few days ago.
Chen Ronglian is charged with 83 counts of criminal syndicate, earning at least about HK$1.5 billion (about 1.3 billion yuan) of improper benefits, and a long prison sentence awaits him.
The casino itself is profiteering, and he is already calling for wind and rain in Macao, why should he take risks?
Everything is related to the word "greed". In 1980, "Little Princess" An Yixuan was born in Taipei. Her family is quite wealthy, her grandfather is a high-ranking official, and her grandmother is a big landowner. Dad opened a security company, always followed by a bunch of horse boys, rumored to have an underworld background, quite prestigious in Taiwan.
In comparison, Chen Ronglian, who is 8 years older than An Yixuan, is much worse. He was born in Fujian Province, across the sea from Taiwan, and lives in Maoting Village, Yonghe Town, Jinjiang City.
As a rural child, he was very sensible from an early age, helping his family to plow the land and herd cattle. This hard life tempered his resolute character.
After graduating from primary school, he lived with his brother with his uncle in Macau. Unwilling to be poor, he studied Cantonese hard to integrate into the local area, and gradually got rid of the image of an outsider in Hokkien Tsai. This migration also completely changed his life.
Living in Oriental Casino, he has developed a strong interest in the gaming industry. After graduating from Macau school, he entered a casino as a "stacker" and began to contact this bizarre industry.
The so-called stacker is the intermediary of the casino. Not only to attract new customers, stimulate guests to have fun, but also introduce loan business when customers lose money, this dragon service down, can extract a lot of commission.
It was undoubtedly a job that lacked morality, but it played an important role in the operation of the casino. Chen Ronglian, who has a clean and beautiful face and is smart and witty, soon mixed like a fish in water, and initially accumulated funds and contacts.
More fortunately, he caught up with the big times of the storm. After Macau's handover, the increasingly exhausting system of gaming franchises ended.
Prior to this, Stanley Ho and others won the gaming franchise in 1961, founded the Macau Tourism and Entertainment Company, and concentrated on building a number of world-class high-end venues. As a result of Macau's world-renowned casino, he is also recognized as the gambling king.
However, with the progress of the times, this monopoly operation is increasingly detrimental to the development of the industry, and casinos in South Korea, the Philippines and other countries have threatened the status of Macau.
In 2002, the Macao SAR government boldly introduced a competition mechanism, which reversed the unfavorable situation in one fell swoop. A year later, the "Macao Free Travel" policy has welcomed a large number of tourists to Macao, and the gaming industry has also developed rapidly.
Just a few years later, in 2006, Macau surpassed Las Vegas in the United States and became the world's No. 1 casino. A group of young people are itching to watch, and the time that belongs to them has suddenly arrived.
In 2007, at the age of 35, Chen Ronglian decisively started a business and established the gaming junket Dejin Group. In addition to their own efforts, the identity of Fujianese also plays a big role.
Fujian is one of the richest provinces in China, giving birth to many huge riches. Through the Fujian Hometown Association, Chen Ronglian has attracted many wealthy people, and Dejin Group has grown day by day.
In just three years, he built his own gambling junket empire. Since then, he has set up many gambling halls in the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries, and opened up commercial areas such as finance, real estate and tourism.
Therefore, he and the other two "stacking boys" Zhou Zhuohua and Ji Xiaobo are equally famous, and they are all complimented as the new gambling king. Full of warmth and lust, not to mention rich and noble?
Zhou Zhuohua fought hot with a mixed-race model, and Ji Xiaobo had scandals with many female stars, both of whom were frequent visitors to the media. Chen Ronglian is very low-key, usually doing charity, and ordinary people have not even heard of his name.
On the other side, the sassy and heroic An Yixuan went from Taiwan to the mainland and became a popular actress. She has a very significant feature, every few dramas will be scandalous.
Until the end of 2014, 34-year-old An Yixuan finally met 42-year-old Chen Ronglian.
At first, An Yixuan was very repulsive to the rich, but Chen Ronglian not only had the "ability to banknote", but also was extremely considerate and careful, and finally captured the hearts of the beauty.
Seeing An Yixuan's weak body, Chen Ronglian brought cordyceps and other Chinese medicines to supplement her body when she visited the class. And he never flaunts and does not cause trouble for the goddess.
With full marks for his ability to observe his face, he could even sense whether An Yixuan would be in pain when wearing high heels. Wear a mask for several days in case of severe cold, just to prevent the virus from spreading.
Not to mention all kinds of "banknote capabilities", in 2016, the media found that An Yixuan became a rich woman. Buy a mansion, drive a limited number of famous cars, and buy 800,000 mattresses casually.
After more than a year of hard pursuit and more than two years of getting along, the relationship between the two is extremely hot. On March 15, 2017, An Yixuan announced the happy news of marriage on Weibo.
3 months later, the two held a grand wedding in Hawaii, almost half of the Taiwanese entertainment industry. Chen Ronglian, who was once extremely low-key, has also completely entered the public eye. At the wedding scene, the two made emotional confessions and envied the guests.
Chen Ronglian said: "I will not speak loudly to you, because I feel sorry for you and love you, and I will accompany you for the rest of my life." ”
An Yixuan had tears in the corners of his eyes: "Thank you for your tolerance of me, everyone said that you raised tigers into cats." Count yours all the way in this life. ”
It is said that the rich family is as deep as the sea, but after An Yixuan got married, the sea was as wide as a fish. Her husband still spoiled her, and she bid farewell to the entertainment industry and became a wealthy wife wholeheartedly.
It's just that she never expected that this fantastic life would only have less than 5 years left.
In 2021, China began to crack down on cross-border online gambling, arresting Zhou Zhuohua, who was illegally gambling for nearly 700 billion yuan, at the end of the year. He operates as a group of shareholder-level agents and gambling agents, and has attracted more than 80,000 gambling members in China.
Immediately afterwards, the Macau police found out that Chen Ronglian was linked to the case, and on January 28 this year, he carried out an arrest operation. The three new gambling kings of Macau fell two in an instant.
The former tycoon Kuo Tai'an Yixuan also suddenly fell into the cold reality, and the sound of broken dreams was everywhere. In the past, all kinds of sweet microblogs have become a blank page.
According to the survey, since at least 2014, Chen Ronglian has played "gambling bottom" in various entertainment venues. The so-called gambling bottom is to increase the amount of gambling under the table, gambling 100,000 on the surface, and possibly gambling 1 million under the table, this method can avoid paying high gambling taxes.
In this way alone, he earned HK$1.5 billion. In addition, he was charged with fraud, money laundering, and attracting mainland gamblers through online gambling.
Through web pages and apps, he broadcasts gambling activities to users, allowing him to place quick bets on his mobile phone. This method of keeping pace with the times has harmed a large number of friends in the hinterland.
Sure enough, the most profitable business is written in the law.
But when you're staring into the abyss, the abyss is staring at you.
Desire is like the Supreme Lord of the Rings, calling its master attentively. But when the master is obsessed, he becomes its slave.
Everything must be measured, and outside the law is very exciting, but there are knives and axes on display. When the knife and axe fall, all prosperity will be cut off, and only tears of regret will remain.
By then, only tears knew, the loneliness of the bars.