The story is very cliché, but it is a reality, the chaebol son married the president's daughter, used her value to appreciate himself, gave birth to a child, and then he told the world that in fact, he already had a home outside, and the mistress was his true love, a pure little white flower who did not love money but loved to do charity...
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In 1960, the future heir of South Korea's SK Group, Choi Tae-won, was born, which is the hero in today's story and the luckiest person in this story.
Why do you say that?
The founder of SK Group is Choi Tae-won's eldest uncle Choi Jong-kin, according to the Korean dramas and chaebol inheritance gossip watched in those years, the heir will generally be his uncle's child, and he will at most become a "simple" rich second generation through the light of his uncle, rich but far from the point of becoming the leader of the chaebol family.
Uncle Choi Tae-won and father
But he was lucky to be here, his uncle had just developed a small textile factory into a textile giant, and he died of illness before he could enjoy the blessings of a few days.
So, Choi Tae-won and his father took over his uncle's company as a matter of course, and he became the real heir, and not long after, his father also died of illness, and then he took over the company.
Choi Tae-won in his youth
Although he was lucky, Cui Taiyuan knew very well in his heart that if he wanted to carry forward the family business left by his uncle and father, he would definitely not be able to rely on himself alone, if there was a wife with a super buff, then things would be completely different, and the group would directly struggle for more than ten years!
At that time, Cui Taiyuan looked at his chaebol friends who were married to the chaebols, probably thinking, if you want to dream, you have to dream big, and if you want to find the old man, you have to find the most powerful one.
Lu Suying and his father Lu Taiyu
However, this dream may not dare others dare to do, but Cui Taeyuan not only dares to do it, but also the thief is lucky to get a good opportunity to make his dream come true.
Because when he was studying at the University of Chicago, the daughter of the future president, Ms. Lo So-young, was also studying there, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could Choi Tae-won miss it?
Lu Suying when he was young
Therefore, whether it was completely out of consideration of interests or mixed with some personal feelings, for Cui Taiyuan at that time, marrying Lu Suying became a goal he had to achieve.
02
Just a year after Cui Taiyuan, in 1961, Lu Suying was born.
At that time, her father, Roh Tae-woo, had already achieved a class leap after years of struggle, from a peasant family to a garrison commander, and later rose all the way to become the sixth (thirteenth) president of South Korea in 1988.
Lu Taiyu in his youth
Although she has killed a large number of people in seconds as soon as she was born, Lu Suying does not want to be a young lady who does not learn and has no skills, only knows that she is greedy for pleasure, plus her father has also worked hard all the way, and she knows very well that many people are rich and powerful but too pampered children, causing a lot of trouble, and will not allow their children to appear in the social news because of scandals like those people and lose the face of the whole family, so Lu Suying is actually a good girl who studies well.
When she was young, Lu Suying had a lot of personality
From Yonsei University in South Korea to Stanford University to the University of Chicago, Lu Suying at that time was not called anyone's wife as she was later, she had her own pursuit and direction of efforts.
Beautiful, tall, excellent grades, and a father with a smooth career, there was no shortage of suitors around Lu Suying at the University of Chicago, and Choi Tae-won was one of them.
At that time, Cui Taeyuan did not call her a very controlling woman or reluctantly mentioned her when announcing his illegitimate daughter, and at that time he pursued Lu Suying very hard, shushing and warm, considerate, and cooking for her.
Soon the two came together, the two naturally have interests together, as for the relationship, there should have been at that time, but it was too shallow and short-lived.
Roh So-young and Choi Tae-won
Regardless of everything just look at the identity of the two is very matched, such a door-to-door marriage, whether the parties or the family of the two people naturally only agree, so the two soon married, it was 1988.
Whether it was Lu Suying or Choi Tae-won at that time, 1988 was destined to be one of the most iconic years in their lives.
In 1987, Choi Tae-won formally proposed to Lu Suying, and at the end of the same year, Roh Suying's father Lu Tae-woo was elected president.
In February 1988, Lu Taiyu took office, and has been "promoted" to the son-in-law of the president's daughter, Lu Suying and Cui Taiyuan decided to hold a wedding in this year, and the happy Lu Taiyu decided to let his daughter marry in a beautiful way, and the Cui family, who consciously found a good in-laws, naturally could not drop the chain.
Wedding scene
So the wedding was held in the Blue House, the prime minister was the witness, celebrities from all walks of life rushed to congratulate each other, and the wedding of the president's daughter and the son of a chaebol became the hottest topic of discussion on the peninsula during that time.
03
For a period of time after marriage, at least in front of people, the two have always appeared as a loving couple.
After marriage, Lu Suying gave birth to three children, and she was at ease to be a good wife and mother at home, and the NABI Art Museum under Cui Taiyuan Company was managed by her, just like a good wife with good years.
Lu Suying
And Choi Tae-won, with the foundation laid by his uncle and father, coupled with the strong support of his husband, he himself does have the ability, and it didn't take a few years for SK Group to become the "third largest chaebol" in South Korea, involving telecommunications, chemicals, entertainment and other industries.
Originally, if the two of them lived like this, it would be a good story, but Cui Taiyuan, who had been smooth for so many years, was "unlucky" several times after this, which was in his career and emotionally, he also did not let Lu Suying worry.
First, in 1993, his father-in-law left office, and two years later, Kim Yong-sam found a reason to arrest Roh Tae-woo, and in 1997 he was directly sentenced to 17 years in prison and fined 262.8 billion won, but he was pardoned at the end of the year.
Although he was amnestied, Choi Tae-won, who had a reputation with the president's son-in-law, did not escape the punishment of fate, and he was imprisoned for illegal business practices in 2003.
Emotionally, he had scandals with various female stars, and also met another woman in the story at this time, Kim Hee-young.
04
Kim Hee-young was born in 1975, 15 years younger than Choi Tae-won, Korean-American, participated in the Miss Korea audition, when she was married and had a son, Choi Tae-won met her after psychological counseling after going to prison, so she decisively divorced her son and became an underground lover for Choi Tae-won.
In fact, her lover is divided into two stages, one is unsightly, and the other is "upright", this will be told.
Although he later said that Kim Hee-young was his true love, Choi Tae-won's mouth also said so about Lu Suying, so this sentence really didn't have much credibility.
At that time, Lu Suying probably did not take Kim Hee-young seriously, after all, Cui Taeyuan also has more than one woman outside, for her is just a lover of her husband, she also has to be busy taking care of her three children, especially the young son with diabetes is inseparable from her, and she is busy fishing her husband from prison.
Yes, Lu Suying found various connections to fish out Cui Taeyuan, but the person fished it out, but his heart ran away with Kim Hee-young.
05
After that, until 2015, the three barely "got along well".
But the plot still has to develop.
In 2010, Kim Hee-young gave birth to a daughter for Choi Tae-won, first a high-end apartment and then a mansion in Hannam-dong, although it has not been made public, but Choi Tae-won does not know the slightest low-key, and soon Kim Hee-young has the name of "Mrs. Hannam-dong", and his wife Lu So-young is "Director Roo".
According to Korean media, in 2008, Choi Tae-won bought a house for his lover for embezzled public funds, and was sentenced to 3 years in prison, suspended for 5 years, but this time he was pardoned.
But this is not over, in 2014 he was sentenced to 4 years for allegedly misappropriating 46.5 billion won from subsidiaries overseas for option investment, at this time Roh Suying and SK Group are naturally in a hurry to find people, may already have experience, just as South Korea intends to celebrate Liberation Day, in order to "help the country reconcile and revive the economy", he was once again amnestied.
At this time, he has been living with Kim Hee-young for a long time, and this Mrs. Hannam-dong at most puts a few photos from time to time to show her affection, but this time after spending a few months in prison, Choi Tae-won felt that he had to be with Kim Hee-young in an upright manner, so he did not mention his wife at all after he was released from prison, but sent an open letter to introduce his lover and daughter.
In his words:
I have a bad personality with "Director Lu Suying", my marriage has not been smooth for more than ten years, I have been separated for a long time, and I have long been out of together, but I want to support her as a friend.
When we were discussing divorce, I fell in love with a woman who could comfort my heart, we both had children, so I had to divorce, but because the interests have been dragging on, Lu Suying knows about my lover and daughter, I am very painful, so you have to fulfill us.
Here comes the most ridiculous:
Choi Tae-won said that he had been married for many years and had been busy making money, but his heart was empty, until he met Kim Hee-young who didn't care about money at all, only about people...
Ah this? Empty heart, you have been married for almost 20 years to know?
After that, the two fell into a divorce tug-of-war, and Kim Hee-young was busy shaping his public image, after all, Choi Tae-won said everything, and he didn't love money, and he could give him spiritual comfort, and as a qualified lover, he naturally had to continue to play his role.
06
At the beginning, Lu Suying did not agree to divorce, and even publicly said that it was not her husband's fault that the cheating was not her husband's fault, he was a victim, and she was even willing to raise him and Kim Hee-young's illegitimate daughter for her husband.
Lu Suying compares her husband to a victim, but Choi Tae-won enjoys it, posting photos of his life from time to time to show that he is indeed living younger and younger after finding true love.
And Kim Hee-young's side, finally survived, no need to secretly take photos like before, plus Choi Tae-won said in the statement that he planned to marry her, and did not care about the impact after disclosure, then of course she did not care about the eyes of others.
While basking in his quiet years, accompanying his daughter to paint and travel, visiting art exhibitions, drinking afternoon tea, and personally going to some poor areas of Africa to do charity.
To say that this Jin Xiying is actually tall and tall like Lu Suying, but Lu Suying looks slightly more heroic, and Jin Xiying is more gentle, and Lu Suying is busy taking care of children all day, "wiping her husband's ass", plus divorce, the whole person looks a lot haggard.
Kim Hee-young is more than ten years younger than her, plus there is nothing to worry about if she is rich, and she doesn't have to worry about anything, although she is almost 50 years old, but Kim Hee-young is very well maintained both in figure and face.
Therefore, people should have less useless hearts, and others do not appreciate and embarrass themselves, why bother?
Seeing that his lover is so enthusiastic about charity, Cui Taewon, who feels that he does not love the wrong person, is busy fighting a divorce war with Lu Suying, and does not forget to take out tens of millions to set up a charity consortium for Kim Hee-young, named T&C.
The name also has a deep meaning, T is taken from the Korean pronunciation of Choi Tae-won's "Tae", and C is because of Kim Hee-young's English name Chloe.
After deciding to divorce Lu Suying and writing an open letter announcing the existence of his mistress and illegitimate daughter, Cui Taeyuan did not plan to continue to pretend, so the public photos of the two also changed from "secretly taking photos" to photos of actively showing affection.
Not only that, Choi Tae-won also personally sent Kim Hee-young to meetings, often publicly shouting that Lu So-young asked her to quickly agree to divorce, as if she couldn't wait to marry Kim Hee-young into the house.
However, Lu Suying, who has been with his father since he was a child, is not a "bitter drama original match" who can only endure.
07
In 2017, Lu Suying refused to divorce, and even begged her husband to go home in a low voice, which was actually a choice within her ability to maximize her interests.
Today is different, Choi Tae-won is no longer the heir who needs an old man to stand firm, he has become one of the three major chaebols in South Korea, and Lu Suying has not had the opportunity to contact the internal affairs of the group over the years, and he is not clear about Choi Taeyuan's property, plus her children are basically in school, and his father has long been unable to help, at this time of divorce, Choi Tae-won can send her away casually.
And Choi Tae-won's shrewdness is really all used to deal with his wife, and Xiao San has been secretly with him for more than ten years, until South Korea abolished the adultery law, originally he would have been in prison for two years, but after this there was no punishment, find a few ace lawyers, anyway, Lu Suying does not know how much property, he hardly needs to pay any price.
So, patience is her only option.
Fortunately, patience doesn't take long.
The eldest daughter, Choi Yunjung, joined the group's bioengineering department after graduating from the University of Chicago; The youngest daughter Cui Minzhen once entered the navy, also came to Peking University to study, and also entered the group after being discharged from the army; The youngest son, like his two older sisters, entered the group after studying at a prestigious school.
The children grew up and joined the group, and at the same time, Roh So-young also figured out the various properties under Choi Tae-won's name, so in 2019 she publicly stated that she agreed to divorce, demanding 300 million won and a 42.29% stake in the group.
Of course, things will not go so smoothly, Cui Taiyuan began to transfer property, fortunately, Lu Suying was completely disappointed in him, and he was prepared, and finally the court ruled that he could not operate any of his shares before the divorce property was divided.
But Lu Suying didn't get all she wanted.
Choi Tae-won stated that the shares came from the father's gift and inheritance, and although Lu Suying believed that the woman's contribution to the family should also be the reason for dividing the property, in the end, he was unable to divide half of the property as Lu Suying wished.
She received 66.6 billion won, about 350 million yuan, and about 310,000 shares of SK Group, becoming SK's fourth largest shareholder.
Of course, this is astronomical for ordinary people, but compared with Choi Tae-won's property, it is still not much, after all, he and Kim Hee-young also have a daughter, if they get married or Kim Hee-young wants to seek something for their son, then Lu Suying's children will get less in the future, compared to Kim Hee-young conquering Choi Tae-won by spiritual beauty, Lu Suying and his father have really helped the development of the group for many years.
Write at the end
In fact, at the beginning they were different, and after 20 years of changes, they finally had one thing in common: money.
Lu Suying finally woke up and realized that she had to rely on herself, to fight for what she wanted and what she deserved, but unfortunately it was a little late, if it was earlier, in fact, she should get much more than this.
She should realize early on that whether this marriage is all out of profit or some feelings, when Cui Taiyuan will only blindly use and take, she should also use this marriage to maximize her own interests.
As for Cui Taiyuan, he is the luckiest person in the story, inheriting the family business laid down by his uncle, relying on his husband to achieve a big leap when he was young, and later Lu Suying took care of his children and home and looked for someone to help him everywhere, and then later met the woman he wanted to be together, and he didn't wronged himself at all.
Besides, Kim Hee-young, although in the eyes of Choi Tae-won she is a pure little white flower character who does not love money, but she can decisively divorce and take her son to be an underground lover for a married woman for more than ten years, and before she is in power, she will all kinds of secret pokes to show affection and create a kind image, such a person who says that she is a little white flower actually underestimates her.