Some time ago, Li Jiatong, the "top darling" of the Hong Kong celebrity circle, held a banquet to celebrate the opening of a new store of his fashion brand in Central, inviting a number of rich and famous women from Hong Kong Island to attend, and the pomp was quite lively and generous.
Who is Li Jiatong? It may feel strange to everyone. But as soon as her distinguished guests arrived, everyone was not too strange:
Fok Yingdong's granddaughter Huo Siwei, Lin Qingxia's stepdaughter Xing Jiaqian, and He Chaoyi, the fourth daughter of the gambling king... They are all rich or noble, famous and prestigious families.
And the most eye-catching are undoubtedly the gambling king's "favorite Qianjin" - 60-year-old He Chaoqiong, and his same-sex close friend - 68-year-old Yu Cheng - a woman who is a woman, but her words and actions are completely neutral.
The appearance of the two smiling and intimately relying on each other caused a wave of heated discussions among netizens:
"Miss He really found an emotional home."
"He Chaoqiong should have lost confidence in men."
Born into a wealthy family, He Chaoqiong's every move is the focus of public attention.
After Chen Baiqiang and Leslie Cheung, she has been alone, without a partner and no children.
For 12 years, it has always been Yu Cheng who has been by her side.
And this person once confessed: he is a daughter and a man's heart.
This makes many people can't help but think and speculate about He and Yu. And the Hong Kong media, which has always been "poisonous tongue", has long directly "characterized" the relationship between the two as a "couple", jokingly calling it "Qiong Yu Love".
This lady Yu Cheng, who is it, what is the origin? Why can you become the confidant of the "queen"?
The media "strong woman" laughs proudly
If you see Yu Cheng's photo for the first time, you will inevitably mutter: What? This "gentleman" turned out to be a "lady"?
Refreshing plate size, gentle face, capable figure, a pair of black-framed glasses, a dark suit, dashing, indifferent smile, eyes, with a touch of crisp cool, has its own "celebrity" style.
This is Yu Cheng. Decades of consistent androgynous dress, maverick temperament.
She once presented awards to "brother" Leslie Cheung. She had the insight to excavate the "diva" Lin Yilian. She is an important "pusher" of the "God of Song" Jacky Cheung. She is He Chaoqiong's most cherished "confidant".
She was once a "celebrity DJ" and an excellent creator, and was named a "gold medal emcee", known as "one of the five talented women of Xiangjiang", and was also the CEO of Hong Kong Commercial Television, with a "bigwig-level" status in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
Once upon a time, she was just a small DJ who graduated from secondary five (equivalent to a high school degree in the mainland).
On April 16, 1954, Yu Cheng was born in a middle-class family in Hong Kong. When she was young, she loved to read books, watch movies, and even skipped school in order to see her favorite movies.
Since childhood, she has attended St. Stephen's School for Girls, one of the oldest Christian girls' schools in Hong Kong.
During her time in school, Yu Cheng's grades were average, but her personality was flamboyant and cheerful, and her eloquence was very good, which was very popular with teachers and classmates.
In 1971, after graduating from secondary school in Secondary 5, Yu Cheng became very interested in the DJ industry, so he rushed to Hong Kong Commercial Radio to apply for a job and became a DJ.
At the time, she was only 16 years old. Although she was immature, she was articulate, talented, and studious, so she was arranged to host programs such as "Morning Friends" and "Young People's Time" on Channel 2.
With her cordial, funny talk, professional and serious performance, she quickly won the love of a large number of listeners, became a "celebrity" in the stage, and her position was gradually promoted.
At that time, the "ghost talent" Huang Hao also wrote a theme song for this show, called "Morning and Morning", and the lead singer was Yu Cheng. This song was immediately sung by her, and it was known to everyone.
The owner of the commercial station appreciated Yu Cheng's talent very much, and immediately promoted her to the position of creative director and program director of the second channel of the commercial station.
As soon as Yu Cheng, who is lively and daring, took office, he gathered 12 DJs on the stage to form the "6 Pair and a Half (Six and a Half Beer)" group, recorded the album of the same name, and starred in the TVB program.
At that time, in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, DJs were DJs and singers were singers, and there had never been such a unique "crossover" collocation, which was full of a chic "freshness" for the audience, which could be described as creating a precedent for "DJs to make records".
Therefore, as soon as this group was "launched", it became very popular and skyrocketed.
Among them, the song "Heaven on Each Side" in the album is written by Yu Cheng and accompanied by narration in the song. Her emotional, soulful and sad narration infuses the song with a strong sense of story, which has been sung for decades and is a classic.
Since then, Yu Cheng has continued to show his strength and continue to exert his talents to make the reputation of business and Taiwan to a higher level.
She also tried her best to select and cultivate a group of excellent DJs and singers, and tried her best to tap their potential and promote their better development: such as "Love Song Diva" Lin Yilian, "Jade Lady Head" Zhou Huimin, "Soft and Hard Heavenly Master" Lin Haifeng...
Among them, when Lin Yilian joined the business platform, she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, very young, but Yu Cheng felt that Sister Lin had great potential, and named her "six one one", and the three numbers added up to eight, making her hosting style tend to have a bit of "gossip" flavor. After that, he gave Lin Yilian more support.
Unknowingly, Yu Cheng has been working hard in the radio circle for many years and has become a well-known senior radio person and "strong woman" on Hong Kong Island.
But she gradually realized that she had an extremely strong yearning for the field of film and television.
In 1982, at the age of 28, she decided to listen to the voice in her heart, resolutely gave up her important position in commercial Taiwan, left her old club, and joined the film and television world.
Talented and sassy, she wants to change herself to a new track.
The entertainment industry is at my disposal
At that time, Yu Cheng also joined TVB TVB and began to work part-time as a host, hosting programs such as "Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony" and "Happy Tonight".
Her fame is growing, and she is receiving more and more attention.
Her "unique" dress often arouses many people's doubts and speculations.
Since graduating from junior high school, she has been dressed in a neutral manner, with short hair, glasses, shirts, trousers, plus a grinning temperament, not at all girly delicateness, and she is a "tomboy".
Gossip magazines in Hong Kong have repeatedly ridiculed her as a "man's wife".
Yu Cheng just put it into a smile. In multiple interviews and hosts, she said that she was a "strong woman" character when she was a child, and she liked to "do men's things".
She continues to immerse herself in her work.
Her astute and funny hosting style and high emotional intelligence always make the audience burst into laughter and thunderous applause, making the program's ratings soar.
She single-handedly brought fire to these originally inconspicuous programs.
In the future, she continued to hold the microphone, focus on the film industry, study scripts, and constantly explore talents, creating a dazzling color for the Hong Kong entertainment industry and witnessing the glory of the heyday of the Hong Kong music scene.
It was she who saw the potential of "Honggu" Zhong Chuhong at a glance and served as her agent for three years, making "Honggu" as popular as her name.
It was she, when the Hong Kong Film Awards were in its early stage and had little influence, in the predicament of investors withdrawing their investment and almost "dying", she worked tirelessly to go from east to west, pulling investors, finding actors, choosing venues, planning, and acting as emcee, and forced the venue of the Academy Awards to be supported. Later, the momentum of the Academy Awards became stronger and stronger, and it was famous internationally, and Yu Cheng was indispensable.
It was she, at the "Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony" in 1984, out of deep appreciation in her heart, who was caught off guard and kissed Leslie Cheung, making this scene a "famous scene" in the music world.
It was also she who made Jacky Cheung "seal the god" overnight.
At the "Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony" in 1992, when she presented the award to Jacky Cheung as a guest, she directly "hand-picked" Jacky Cheung as the "successor of the God of Song".
With Yu Cheng's identity and influence at that time, he was a "heavyweight" in the Hong Kong music scene and held a strong right to speak.
As soon as this remark came out, the media used "God of Song" to describe Jacky Cheung. And Jacky Cheung also used his hard work and singing skills to proudly confirm Yu Cheng's vision and insight. Most people "stamp": Jacky Cheung can become a real "god of song", and Yu Cheng is the strongest "pusher".
In 1988, due to the inseparable "radio complex", the 34-year-old Yu Cheng returned to the commercial station as a director and general manager.
After taking office, she reformed the radio: she referred to the operational thinking of the music scene's "Golden Songs List", created the "Song Pop List" in the station, and switched the radio station to focus on local music, announcing that "only Chinese songs will be broadcast after the second commercial station", launched a "Chinese song movement", and planned a number of innovative programs.
At that time, the mainland and Britain were negotiating the Hong Kong issue, and the return of Hong Kong to China was an unstoppable fact.
Therefore, Yu Cheng's Chinese song at this juncture has extremely important significance and influence on the Hong Kong people and Chinese music.
In the meantime, due to the continuous poaching of Xincheng Radio, resulting in a large loss of employees of commercial stations, Yu Cheng concurrently served as president to turn the tide and take care of the company with heart.
Since 2000, Yu Cheng has gradually faded out of the management of the commercial station, and resigned as president in 2003 and remained as a director of the commercial station.
In 2004, there was a "big shock" in the commercial station: several senior "celebrity" DJs proposed to leave their jobs on the grounds of "too much pressure" and "no freedom of speech", which was used by the Hong Kong media to play on the topic, saying that there was "no freedom of the press", which caused a boil in Hong Kong.
Seeing this, Yu Cheng, who has a deep affection for Shangtai, returned to Shangtai to "save the scene". She decisively terminated her contract with these DJs, saying: "In terms of the ethics of the broadcasting industry, leaving without permission is a big taboo. ”
She then made sweeping changes to the station, threatening to make it "rational" and crack down on some programs that she accused of being "politically sensitive." Since then, the style of Shangtai has changed from sharp and free speech to gentle, positive and positive energy, and replaced "Teacup in the Storm" with "Departure on a Sunny Day".
Since then, although the listening rate of commercial stations is not as good as before, this result is very good.
In 2015, Yu announced his resignation at a radio Christmas party, saying that he would "retire" from now on. This year, she turned 61 years old, which is equivalent to retirement.
Before that, in 2008, she had founded Tianbi Gao Creative Partners to pursue a larger cultural and entertainment ideal.
In the entertainment industry for many years, ups and downs, ups and downs, coming and going, Yu Cheng has shown strong work ability, operational courage and management decision-making ability, made a great contribution to the business platform, accumulated deep contacts and resources in the entertainment industry, and often "saw talents", excavated, promoted and even funded many powerful artists, willing to "make wedding clothes for others".
She is dedicated, righteous, gentle, kind, and has an amazing talent, which constitutes an extremely attractive personality charm and enjoys a high reputation in the circle.
She finally "cultivated" to become an authentic "female boss" in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and Lin Yanni, Bai Yunqin, Dina, Shi Nansheng and others were known as the "Five Talented Women of Xiangjiang".
Fearless of worldliness
Such a brilliant "female boss" who has made great achievements in her career makes the public admire it, and can't help but pay attention to this: So, what kind of wonderful experience will she have emotionally?
Surprisingly, in the early 90s, Yu described himself as a "man born into a daughter." For a time, it aroused heated discussions in Hong Kong.
Since then, many scandalous "romances" have surrounded her one after another. Actresses such as Zhong Chuhong, Wu Junru, Yu Li, and Shangshan Shina are all rumored to be her girlfriends because of their close relationship with Yu Cheng.
In this regard, Yu Cheng has never admitted or denied it, which is even more speculative.
Lin Yanni, a female writer known as "writing with perfume", once said of Yu Cheng: "For Yu Cheng, there is no woman who cannot be chased. "The truth is unknown, but according to this, it can be imagined that Yu Cheng is a unique and attractive person.
At the end of January 2012, a news sensation caused a sensation in Xiangjiang: 49-year-old gambling king Qianjin He Chaoqiong was photographed by reporters on her way to the Louvre in Paris, holding hands with her 57-year-old confidant "Yu Cheng", like a couple. This scene is called "the big hand of the century" by the media, "the honey love of two female bosses" and so on. Previously, the two met in 2010.
But the two never responded to the incident. But since then, Hong Kong media have often taken photos of the two "dating".
According to the revelation, Yu spent tens of millions to buy a house and secretly moved to a mansion on Repulse Bay Road, only a 10-minute drive from He Chaoqiong's mansion. Previously, He Chaoqiong also moved for Yu Cheng once: in order to be closer to Yu Cheng, she bought the unit adjacent to Yu Cheng.
Previously, Miss He's several sad marriages that ended without a problem were embarrassing and uneasy. And now, she actually chose to be with Yu Cheng, which naturally caused a huge controversy. According to rumors, the relationship between the two failed to be recognized by the gambling king.
He Chaoqiong once said lightly: It doesn't matter whether you and Yu Cheng are "confidants", the important thing is that on the road of life, there is someone who cares about you and accompanies you, which is enough.
In 2019, after the death of the gambling king, the battle for inheritance inevitably began.
And Yu Cheng, who is wise and brave, has become the "military master" behind He Chaoqiong, advising her along the way, judging the hour and sizing up the situation, and even helping to write press releases, coordinate multi-party relationships, quietly, assisting He Chaoqiong to win the initiative and control, and eventually becoming the new "helmsman" of the He family.
Although rumors are flying, they have never been affected. Some people also say that this is just a sympathy and dependence between two girlfriends.
Many of them photographed in the news are calm, frank and light smiles, which can be seen that this is a very happy and very reassuring relationship.
There are many kinds of feelings in the world, and there are thousands of forms of existence, as long as they are sincerely relative, souls are in harmony, and can freely and happily rely on each other, it is worth it.
And for Yu Cheng, who is already 68 years old, it is good to have such a close confidant, so warm companion and spend the rest of his life together.
Looking back on her life, it can be called "magnificent" and quite legendary. She is extremely focused on her career. To her friends, she is quite righteous. For feelings, she is wholehearted. For herself, she insisted on her true self all her life, lived a hearty and happy life, and in her twilight years, she still smiled like a child, with a clear brilliance in her eyes.
Yu Cheng once said in an interview: "Everything has its laws and limitations, and within the limit, it is fun to be unlimited creative." ”
In her, we can not only see a kind of "Hong Kong people's spirit" of hard work and pragmatism, pioneering and enterprising, and unremitting self-improvement, but also feel her uninhibited, free, casual and transcendent heart.
"The good-looking skin is the same, and the interesting soul is one in a million."
There is a saying in "Leap" that also says: "Interesting people, life is always diverse." ”
Follow your heart, maintain your affection, no matter what the situation, life will not be boring, in order to be the best version of yourself.
This should be the best portrayal of Yu Cheng. Text/nap afternoon tea