Hong Kong entertainment tycoon Run Run Shaw, a legendary figure, his evening scene is so bleak that no one dies. At the time of his death, his four children refused to inherit his $23.8 billion inheritance, choosing to donate it all to the Run Run Shaw Charitable Foundation.
This decision has aroused widespread attention and heated discussion, and has also revealed the attitude of children towards their fathers, and their actions have been interpreted as acts to uphold the dignity of their mothers.
Run Run Shaw's life was full of twists and turns. At first, he attracted investment cooperation intentions from Yu Dongxuan, a wealthy Singaporean businessman, but Run Run Shaw made a private lifelong agreement with Yu Dongxuan's concubine Wong Meizhen. This decision shocked Yu Dongxuan, but she chose to leave silently and generously gave them 500,000 yuan to marry.
Wong Meizhen was born into a wealthy and Western-educated and had two sons and two daughters with Run Run Shaw in Singapore, becoming Shaw's benefactor. However, with the passage of time, Huang Meizhen gradually faded from her former charm.
In 1952, 45-year-old Run Run Shaw met Hong Kong pop singer Fong Yihua, who was 27 years younger than him, pure and beautiful, and Run Run Shaw fell for her.
In order to be with Fang Yihua, Run Run Shaw left his wife and children behind and moved the company to Hong Kong for development. Wong Mei Chin quietly took the child in Singapore, while Run Run Shaw reveled in love in Hong Kong and attended various occasions with Fong Yihua. They co-founded Hong Kong TVB, the cradle that has incubated countless world superstars.
Run Run Shaw once let his eldest son Shao Weiming enter TVB as a management and prepare to train him to become a successor.
However, Shao Weiming witnesses his father's loving companionship with Fong Yihua every day, thinking that his mother is alone in Singapore, and no one knows who the real Mrs. Shao is, and he cannot control his resentment towards his father.
In 1987, Wong Mei Zhen died in Singapore, and Shao Weiming was devastated.
Seeing his father's cold expression, he didn't care about his mother at all, and since then he has withdrawn from TVB, and has made up his mind not to recognize this father again, not to give him the end, and not to inherit a penny of his property.
Run Run Shaw's four children were angry and disappointed by their father's actions.
They believed that the way the father treated his mother hurt the integrity and dignity of the family, so they refused to inherit his inheritance and donated it to the Shaw Charitable Foundation. This gesture is not only a dissatisfaction and protest against the father, but also a respect and remembrance for the mother.
Run Run Shaw's death has triggered reflections and retrospectives on his life. He is a giant in Hong Kong's entertainment industry,
His contribution is indelible. However, his personal life was full of controversy and pain. His children chose to face reality in their own way, and their decisions are thought-provoking. In this materially affluent but also complex family, the balance of love and dignity becomes a difficult problem.
Run Run Shaw's death marked the end of an era. His story will forever be remembered in the history of Hong Kong's entertainment industry, and his children continue to move forward in their own way, finding their own dignity for their lives