In May 2020, The 500 billion-dollar Macau "gambling king" Ho Hung-sun died in Hong Kong, with a total of 4 wives and 17 children, of which the second-room eldest daughter He Chaoqiong was known as the "queen of gambling".
In her career, she is called "Haojiang Talented Woman", and her life story is full of legends.
In 1962, Ho Chao Qiong was born in Macau, the eldest daughter of Macau gambling king Ho Hung Sun and the second room Lan Juan, the year she was born, it was the time when the gambling king's business was at its peak, so she regarded this daughter as her lucky star, pampered her, and personally taught her.
He Chaoqiong's mother, Lan Juanyi, was a general, her grandfather was a Kuomintang major general, and her father was involved in the War of Resistance Against Japan. Lan Juan is also very strict in the education of her children. Therefore, although He Chaoqiong was born into a rich family, she is not delicate at all, and she is a strong woman of Iron Zhengzheng.
She has a calm temperament and a low profile, and is one of the 50 most influential women in the world. In 2011, she was named the richest woman in Hong Kong by Forbes.
Standing at the top as soon as she was born, she was born with wealth and power, so why is her fate not up to her to choose?
The literary princess became the queen of commerce
After graduating from high school, He Chaoqiong, who loved literature and art, applied for a major in English literature at Wasser College to pursue her artistic dreams, but her father said:
What is a dream? You are a very logical girl and should apply to business school.
So she listened to her father's words, chose the United States Saint Clay University to study marketing and business administration, and later completed the major required by her father, and insisted on studying interior design for two more years.
She returned to Hong Kong after graduation and was introduced by her father to join the French Bank of Orient as an intern. Because of her father's relationship, she received too much care, and she herself found it difficult to improve, so she chose to resign. Working full-time into the fundraising work of the charity, she also organized a team to plan the event, and later took this team to start a business and set up a Tianji PUBLIC RELATIONS company.
Ho Chao-chung's career success was affirmed by her father, so Ho Hongshen decided to let her start taking over the family business.
She became a director of the most important of the Shun Tak Group. Took over a hot potato: a transport company owned by the Group that began to shrink due to poor management.
After taking office, she carried out drastic reforms of the company, and in just a few years, she developed the transport company that was originally on the verge of crisis into the most successful transport company in the province, Hong Kong and Macao.
She once again proved herself in front of her father, and was subsequently promoted to managing director of Shun Tak Group by the gambling king, and entered the board of directors of Ao Entertainment in January 2002.
The following year, He Chaoqiong introduced MGM, personally held 50% of the shares, and successfully listed.
In 2017, Gambler announced his retirement as Group's Executive Director and Executive Director, with He Chaoqiong taking over. Since then, she has opened her business kingdom and become the richest woman in Hong Kong.
Although he was very successful in his career, he had many twists and turns in his personal feelings.
Love and unavoidable search
Despite her father's strength, she never gave up on her artistic dreams.
Secretly enter the radio station's artist training class to study. Since then, it has formed an indissoluble relationship with the entertainment industry.
Therefore, he also formed a deep friendship with Zhang Guorong, Mei Yanfang and other superstars.
He even once had a gossip with his brother. At that time, the gambling king also frankly said that he liked his brother in an interview, but in the end, it was probably that the falling flowers were deliberately ruthless.
In 1980, when she was filming the TV series "Breakthrough", she met Chen Baiqiang. She has participated in chen Baiqiang's "Deeply in Love with You" MV heroine. That year, He also gave Chen Baiqiang a watch of the same name that had been lost. Chen Baiqiang's 30-year-old private banquet, He Chaoqiong once appeared as a hostess seat.
He Chaoqiong frankly said that both of them are temperamental people, and Chen Baiqiang understands her personality very well. He also said: "Chen Baiqiang is a very important person for me, and he knows all my stories."
Chen Baiqiang's existence is not a husband or a lover, but a soul mate in the spirit, so this has become the "love of the world" in the eyes of the world.
In 1993, Chen Baiqiang died, the only time that she was calm and dignified in the past was at the funeral, and she was married as a woman, ignoring the eyes of everyone and the taboo of folklore, and supported Chen Baiqiang's spirit. Perhaps it was her silent protest against her father.
At her father's funeral, playing photos to recall the past, she chose a photo that seemed to be a photo of her and her father, but Chen Baiqiang sat next to the gambling king with half of her face on the side of the photo. "Half-edge boy" is the small meaning of son-in-law. This may also be a little bit of her selfishness towards Chen Baiqiang.
She once wanted to enter the entertainment industry, but the year she entered the entertainment industry, her brother died in a car accident, and the gambling king at this time saw He Chaoqiong's ability and placed high hopes on her. She had to let go of the ego to become the big me.
Someone once asked He Chaoqiong whether he had fiercely rebelled against his father.
She just euphemistically said: "Maybe it's a family-educated relationship, we never behave very rudely to our elders, let alone my father." But if you say there is a disagreement? Of course there is. ”
Probably so, so she silently chose family marriage.
There is no choice between love and family
In 1991, under the tough attitude of his father, He Chaoqiong chose family marriage, put on a Christian Dior wedding dress worth 600,000 yuan, and married Xu Jinheng, the grandson of Xu Aizhou, the king of the ship, accompanied by his bridesmaid Mei Yanfang. It was a real fairytale wedding of the century, a three-day feast at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, costing $20 million.
Later, when Xu Jinheng remarried Li Jiaxin, the reporter interviewed the gambling king and learned that He Chaoqiong had married into the Xu family with a dowry of one billion.
No matter how grand the wedding, it can't hide that this is a transaction between the giants, and Xu Gongzi is still spending his heart.
He Chaoqiong concentrated on his career, the two slept in the same bed and dreamed, married for 9 years without children, and the marriage eventually ended in divorce.
In 2000, He Chaoqiong once again rumored that he had a love affair with Yang Qilong, the son of Yang Shoucheng, chairman of the Emperor Group, and the gambling king hated Yang Qilong's "texture" and beat the Mandarin duck again. In the end, He Chaoqiong once again chose to compromise and broke up with Yang Qilong.
Later, it was even rumored that he had changed his sexual orientation and had an affair with Hong Kong's most famous lesbian, Yu Cheng, the talented daughter of Heung Kong.
Several relationships have come to fruition, and I am still single and childless.
She also slowly recognized herself step by step, perhaps also from childhood under the education of the gambling king, everything is given priority to the interests of the family, if you want to take on the family responsibility, personal freedom may be a luxury that is doomed to be impossible. As she once said,
I slowly discovered that I was no longer my protagonist, and that I had responsibilities to my family and my country.
The heavy price behind "big sister"
In 2011, the gambling king staged a big dragon and phoenix for the family property. At that time, He Chaoqiong, who was proficient in means and ability, had already taken charge of the Shun Tak Group, and the outside world speculated a lot. When the gambling king died, He Chaoqiong spoke on behalf of the family. With the successor who is regarded as the king of gambling, he becomes a new generation of "gambling queens".
There is a legendary father, He Chaoqiong's birth, has stood at the end of ordinary people's struggle for a lifetime.
This is God's gift to her, but as the saying goes, if you want to wear a crown, you will bear its weight. From a literary princess step by step to become a business queen, she spent half her life working and sacrificing to create a new era that belonged to her.
In these two aspects of dreams and love, the regrets that cannot be obtained by thinking about it, she has no right to choose. Abandoning literature and engaging in business, but her artistic and cultural intentions remain unchanged, every time she is in the hotel, she must personally decorate and choose as many as 300 works of art to put in her hotel.
The story of her body probably reflects God's fairness, what you want, you have to exchange it for something else, the truth of the world, not the same.
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