The story of Hong Kong's wealthy family has always been a popular after-dinner conversation among the people, and it is also synonymous with dog blood.
But there is such a woman, who uses "rich family grievances", "third-party involvement" and "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship" to tell a story full of warmth.
This woman is the Taiwanese actress of the last era - Xie Lingling.
"Love Brain" child star Xie Lingling
Xie Lingling is one of the earliest child stars in Taiwan, in 1964, the film "Cousin Wanjun", adapted from Qiong Yao's novel "Pursuit", was about to start filming, and the crew wanted to audition a little girl to play Wanjun in childhood.
With Qiong Yao's fame, more than 1,700 girls signed up, and Xie Lingling was also taken to the audition site by her parents.
How many girls have carefully prepared for this role, it is inevitable, but in the end, Xie Lingling, who just went to join in the fun, was caught by the director at a glance, because she has a unique temperament, Qiong Yao praised her as a "work of art carved out of crystal".
After the movie was released, "Little Wanjun" Xie Lingling also became an instant hit and officially entered the showbiz, and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Child Star with "My Daughter Ruolan" the next year, which can be said to be a brilliant star.
It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that Xie Lingling was at the peak of her debut, and she also filmed a lot of film and television dramas one after another as an adult, but the response was mediocre, and the roles she played became more and more marginalized.
Everyone felt sorry for her, but she didn't think so, the reason why she entered the showbiz was her parents' intentions, and she herself had no obsession with being an actor.
This may have a lot to do with the education she received since she was a child, Xie Lingling was born in a very traditional family, her father was an army officer, and there were 9 children in the family.
Father Xie doesn't particularly like children, he just wants a son to continue the incense, and he gave birth to 6 daughters in a row, and it wasn't until the 7th that he ushered in a big fat boy.
Perhaps it was under the influence of her parents that Xie Lingling has always regarded marriage as her life goal and her husband and children as the meaning of life, so in 1979, after Xie Lingling met Lin Jianyue, she felt that she was no longer suitable for showing her head and officially quit the entertainment industry.
Whether you choose a career or a family, as long as it is a decision made after serious consideration, it is worthy of respect, but this Lin Jianyue is by no means a good person.
Don't look at Xie Lingling has played so many roles in movies and TV series, but in life she is still a blank slate, this Lin Jianyue is different, playing that is called a flower, that is called a wave.
Lin Jianyue's father, Lin Baixin, is a well-known rich man in Hong Kong, and even Li Ka-shing has to call him "big brother" when he sees him, which shows his status and influence in the rivers and lakes.
With such a father behind him, Lin Jianyue is also very popular, attracting bees and butterflies.
Born in 1957, he is one year younger than Xie Lingling, but he is already a veteran of the love scene, and he has had scandals with many female stars.
So Lin Jianyue and Xie Lingling's love has been unpopular from the beginning, Lin Jianyue's friend thought that he was just playing as before this time, and it was impossible for him to retract his mind, while Xie Lingling's friend advised her to be careful, this man is a big carrot, you can't grasp it.
But the two parties don't think so, Lin Jianyue tried his best to pursue Xie Lingling, Xie Lingling also felt that he had turned back as a prodigal son, and let it pass the past, just one year of hard work, the two of them have finished the whole process from acquaintance to marriage, which can be described as a flash marriage.
Did Lin Jianyue change it?
The emergence of a third party
Lin Jianyue is like a bird without legs, he can only fly constantly, he can't stay for anyone, and soon after marrying Xie Lingling, he began to look for the next "target".
Soon the scandals between Lin Jianyue and other female stars reached Xie Lingling's ears, but she chose to forbear, because she felt that with her husband's status and financial resources, it may not be the woman he took the initiative to hook up with, or it may be that these female stars are dishonest and want to have something to do with him, not to mention these things that have no evidence, there is no need to pay too much attention to them.
Xie Lingling is not interested, but Lin Jianyue is interested in a woman, that is Wang Zuxian.
The life of a rich man is also boring and boring, and the story of Lin Jianyue's pursuit of Wang Zuxian is just another copy of his pursuit of Xie Lingling.
In 1990, Lin Jianyue met Wang Zuxian at a dinner, he is the owner of the film company, and Wang Zuxian is a popular female star.
After meeting this time, Lin Jianyue fell into it, and secretly vowed in his heart that he must chase Wang Zuxian into his hands.
At that time, Wang Zuxian had a boyfriend, that is, Qi Qin, the two had been in love for 4 years, and they were a pair of golden boys and girls in the circle, Lin Jianyue didn't care if he was a married man, and no matter whether Wang Zuxian had a legitimate boyfriend or not, he had to get what he wanted.
So Lin Jianyue launched a fierce courtship offensive against Wang Zuxian, sending cars and jewelry, and taking Wang Zuxian to travel all over the world.
The fierce woman was afraid of pestering men, so after 3 years of bombardment, Lin Jianyue dug through the corners of Qi Qin, as long as he got his own family, he would be able to marry Wang Zuxian home.
It's a pity that the road is one foot tall and the magic is one foot high, and the women in his family are not something that ordinary people can handle, and the difficult thing is not his wife Xie Lingling, but his mother Yu Zhuzhu.
What a damn
Lin Baixin has a total of four wives, and Yu Zhuzhu is the second room, and she is also Lin Jianyue's biological mother and a ruthless person.
The Lin family has been in business for generations, and since Lin Baixin's grandfather's generation, he has been a well-known local wealthy businessman, and Lin Baixin himself has been in business since he was a teenager and started from scratch.
Lin Baixin in the business field is highly respected, but his private life is not very good, not to mention that he has married four wives, and his son is also romantic.
Lin Jianyue's eldest brother Lin Jianming played more exaggerated than him, it is said that he has had as many as 1,000 girlfriends, and he can't even name them, and later he was blackmailed by someone taking private photos, which discredited the Lin family.
This is also one of the reasons why Lin Baixin will put the hope of inheriting his career on his second son Lin Jianyue in the future, and the other reason is Lin Jianyue's mother Yu Zhuzhu.
Yu Jewel is such a person, if she shoots "The Legend of Zhen Huan", then she is Zhen Huan, if she shoots "The Legend of Ruyi", then she is Ruyi, Yu Jewel is very scheming and means, in addition to taking care of her husband's life, she also depends on her in business.
So after Lin Baixin gradually became powerless, the family's business was actually taken care of by Yu Jewel, and she was the person with the most voice in the family.
Her husband is like this, the eldest son in the family is like this, and now her son is like this, with a knife on his head, she has seen too many baskets in this family, stabbed out for women.
So she has always turned a blind eye to her son Lin Jianyue's nonsense outside, and she can't control it, but if she wants to marry into the family, it will never work.
So when Lin Jianyue said that she wanted to marry Xie Lingling, she was very opposed, thinking that it would be strange to marry a female star and go home.
But after Xie Lingling really entered the door, Yu Zhuzhu found that this girl was very different from what she imagined, she thought that female stars were frivolous and vain, but Xie Lingling looked like a good wife and mother.
Yu Zhuzhu, who has always been conceited and has an eye for others, did not immediately recognize this daughter-in-law, but kept observing her to see when she would show her fox tail.
Sincerity is always the best nirvana, Xie Lingling is indeed simple and consistent, mother-in-law Yu Jewelry has been picky for a few years, and she has not found fault with her.
In 7 years, Xie Lingling also gave birth to two boys and three girls for the Lin family.
Yu Zhu understands that Xie Lingling is really a rare good girl, and choosing to marry her may be the most correct decision her son has made in his life, such a daughter-in-law is difficult to find with a lantern.
Since then, Yu Jewel has regarded Xie Lingling as her own, not only taking care of her at home, but also letting her accompany her when she needs to attend some important occasions.
It is a difficult problem for mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in ordinary families to get along, and it is really a good story that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in a wealthy family can get along like this.
The news of Lin Jianyue's love affair with Wang Zuxian was transmitted back to the Lin family, Xie Lingling had not said anything, Yu Zhuzhu had already strongly expressed her opposition, she publicly scolded Wang Zuxian in the newspaper, she did not agree with her son's extramarital affair, saying that he was just a "prostitute".
The mother's attitude made Lin Jianyue and Wang Zuxian very embarrassed, Lin Jianyue knew that he couldn't handle it as a mother, so he made a fuss from his wife Xie Lingling.
Xie Lingling is a typical good wife and mother in China, she knocked out her teeth and swallowed them in her stomach, competing for favor and fighting for men, she would never be able to do it.
After two years of Lin Jianyue's soft grinding and hard fighting, Xie Lingling agreed to divorce.
After Yu Zhuzhu learned the news, he lost his temper with Xie Lingling and was angry.
But she quickly calmed down, and she understood that her daughter-in-law was such a temper, just like her son could never change his ability to attract bees and butterflies.
At this point, Yu Jewel could only settle for the second best thing and fight for alimony for his daughter-in-law, and finally the two parties negotiated, and Xie Lingling received up to 400 million Hong Kong dollars in alimony, which also set a new record for alimony for celebrity divorce.
You must know that the Lin family's business has Yu Jewel's hard work, and she was still the actual helmsman at that time, so she was using her own money to compensate this ex-daughter-in-law.
What about Lin Jianyue's side? He has now got rid of his original partner Xie Lingling as he wished, can he fly with Wang Zuxian now?
Yu Zhuzhu still refused Wang Zuxian to enter the door, in her heart, only Xie Lingling was her daughter-in-law.
During this time, Wang Zuxian had also seen Yu Jewel's thunderous methods, and she understood that even if she really married into the Lin family, she would not be able to live in peace, so she proposed to Lin Jianyue to break up, not wanting to continue to waste her youth in such a relationship.
This incident had a great impact on Wang Zuxian, and it was also during the period when she broke up with Lin Jianyue that she gradually faded out of the entertainment industry, and then chose to go abroad and immigrate to Canada.
Did this incident have any impact on Lin Jianyue? A little, but not much.
Whether it is the original Xie Lingling or his lover Wang Zuxian, it is just an episode in his rich love history, after a short depression after breaking up with Wang Zuxian, Lin Jianyue quickly cheered up and went to find the next target.
It's just that at this time, his mother Yu Zhuzhu gave him a death order, and he no longer interfered in his private life, he was good with whoever he liked, and he was with whoever he loved to be with, but there was only one bottom line, that is, he couldn't bring it home, let alone the idea of getting married, because in Yu Zhuzhu's heart, he still only recognized Xie Lingling, a daughter-in-law.
After this farce, Lin Jianyue also figured out that he was not a suitable person for marriage in the first place, but now with his mother's death order, it is more convenient to hunt for beauty, because if the woman proposes to marry him, he can pull his mother out as a shield, and from then on, he will pass through the thousands of flowers, and not a single leaf will be touched.
Recently, Lin Jianyue talked about a little girlfriend again, 24 years younger than him, two rounds, Lin Jianyue's daughter also accepted her father's girlfriend, and several people got along well, although she could never become her stepmother.
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who are in love with mother and daughter
The relationship between Xie Lingling and Yu Jewel did not end because she divorced Lin Jianyue, on the contrary, because of the divorce, the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law entered the "honeymoon period".
Yu Jewel knows that if a woman wants to live well, she must have her own career, if she just regards Xie Lingling as her daughter-in-law, then her previous focus on the family is blameless, but if she treats Xie Lingling as a daughter, Yu Jewel hopes that she can live more independently and not depend on men for everything.
So, Yu Jewel began to teach Xie Lingling the way of doing business, teaching her how to make money with money, money is a good thing, in front of money, everyone is equal, as long as you have money, whether it is a man or a woman, you will be respected and live decently.
Under the leadership of Yu Jewelry, Xie Lingling began to try to invest, and in Hong Kong and the mainland, there are properties invested by Xie Lingling, many of which have doubled in value after her investment.
Xie Lingling has also completed the transformation from a wealthy wife to a wealthy woman.
In the years since the divorce, Xie Lingling has not remarried, but she lives a comfortable and chic life, in addition to business, she also learned to paint from scratch, and even held art exhibitions.
Parents are the best role models for their children, and with such a positive attitude towards life, the five children are not at all living in the haze of a single-parent family, but are aggressive, and now all of them have graduated from prestigious schools.
2023 is Xie Lingling's 68th birthday, and her mother-in-law Yu Jewelry is already in her 90s, and she still came to celebrate Xie Lingling's birthday in person.
Who said that wealthy families only have grievances and don't believe in tears? The relationship between Xie Lingling and Yu Jewel allows us to see that in such an environment where money is supreme, there is still a true love in the world that transcends interests.