In Macau, a city where Eastern and Western cultures blend, an extraordinary life has come. Liang Anqi was born in an ordinary family of doctors, but she seems to be favored by God and has a stunning appearance.
Since childhood, Liang Anqi has shown extraordinary beauty. Her face is like a carefully painted painting, and her gestures exude a mesmerizing charm. The people around her were often attracted by her beauty and stopped to watch.
However, beauty is a double-edged sword, which brings praise to Liang Anqi, but also quietly buries hidden worries about the future. Young Angel Leung was not complacent about her beauty. She studied hard and hoped to achieve something on her own.
At the age of 20, Angel Leung worked for a company in Macau. Young and beautiful, she soon became the center of attention, and the reputation of "Macau's No. 1 Beauty" followed. However, this seemingly enviable title is actually an invisible bondage.
Angela Leung found that people seemed to pay more attention to her appearance than to her talent and abilities. At work, she often has to face all kinds of eyes, including appreciation, jealousy, and ill-intention.
Liang Anqi began to think, is beauty a blessing or a curse? She craves recognition not only for her looks, but also for her intelligence and hard work. However, in those days, it was a thorny road for a beautiful woman to be truly respected and recognized.
Just when Liang Anqi was confused about her future, the gears of fate quietly turned. She is about to meet a character who will change her life - Macau gambling king Stanley Ho. This encounter will push her to another peak in her life, and it will also push her into a complicated situation.
Twists of fate often happen inadvertently. For Angel Leung, this turning point was to meet Stanley Ho. Stanley Ho, born in 1921, is one of Macau's most prominent figures, known for his business acumen and deep pockets.
When Stanley Ho met Angel Leung, he seemed to fall in love at first sight. This young and beautiful girl not only has stunning looks, but also has a good intellect. Stanley Ho began a passionate pursuit, showing his admiration for Angel Leung in his way.
In 1942, 18-year-old Angel Leung officially became Stanley Ho's second wife. This marriage is enviable to outsiders. The young and beautiful Angel Leung married the prominent Stanley Ho, and it seemed that she had reached the pinnacle of her life overnight.
However, only Angel Liang knows that the taste of being the daughter-in-law of a wealthy family is not as good as outsiders imagine. After marriage, Liang Anqi is like being in a splendid palace.
She enjoys luxury that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, with luxury cars in and out, and she wears precious jewelry. But under the aura of the wealthy family, there is endless responsibility and pressure. As Stanley Ho's second wife, Angel Leung had to learn to balance the relationships in the family, which was a huge challenge.
Stanley Ho's career is thriving and expanding. As his wife, Liang Anqi also shoulders corresponding social responsibilities. She needs to attend various occasions from time to time to maintain the He family's social network.
In the process, Angel Leung has shown extraordinary wisdom and ability, earning the respect of many. However, there is not only a glamorous side to the life of a wealthy family. Liang gradually discovered that her life was strictly confined to a set framework.
Her every move is closely watched, and even the simplest decision can affect the interests of the entire family. This feeling of losing her freedom makes Liang Anqi feel suffocated at times.
Still, Angel Leung struggled to adapt to her new identity. She began to devote herself to family affairs, hoping to become a solid backing for Stanley Ho. What she doesn't know, however, is that greater challenges await her, and these challenges will test her will and even change her life.
The pain caused by spondylitis is unimaginable. Angel Leung endured severe back pain and was sometimes unable to walk normally. However, as Stanley Ho's wife, she had to endure the pain and continue to fulfill her social duties.
In public, she still maintains an elegant smile, but only she knows that every movement is a great test of willpower. In order to treat spondylitis, Liang Anqi looked for medical advice everywhere.
However, medical conditions at the time were limited, and many treatments did not work well. On the advice of a doctor, Angel Leung even underwent surgery to remove her stomach. The decision was undoubtedly painful, but she had no choice but to be able to stay with her family.
However, health issues are only one of the challenges Leung faces. While she struggles with her illness, family relationships become more and more complicated. Stanley Ho married his third wife, Chan Yuen-chun, during this period.
For Liang Anqi, this is undoubtedly worse. Not only did she have to endure physical pain, but she also had to face a change in her family's status. The addition of Chen Wanzhen has made the already complicated family relationship more delicate.
Angela finds herself in an environment full of competition and suspicion. She must always be vigilant to protect the interests of herself and her children, but not to be overly publicized, so as not to cause dissatisfaction among others.
This mental stress is sometimes even more unbearable than physical pain. Faced with such a situation, Angel Leung has asked herself countless times: Is marrying Stanley Ho the right choice? Does she regret her decision? However, as a mother, she had to be strong.
For the sake of her children, she chose patience and compromise, even if it cost her. During these difficult years, Angel Leung has shown extraordinary tenacity. She struggled to regulate her mindset and learned to find hope in the face of adversity.
She began to pay more attention to the growth of her children, hoping to realize her unfinished dreams through the next generation. However, fate always seems to like to joke with Angel Leung.
Just when she thought the hardest moment was over and life was about to get back on track, an even greater tragedy was looming. Her children, who should have been her greatest comfort and hope, were about to bring her the heaviest blow.
Angel Leung's life is like a drama of ups and downs, and her children are the most heartbreaking characters in the play. The eldest daughter, He Chaoqiong, inherited her mother's beauty and her father's business acumen, and grew into an outstanding woman.
Not only does she have an enviable appearance, but she has also carved out a world in the business world with her intelligence. Pansy Ho's success is Angel Leung's greatest pride. Watching her daughter continue to climb new heights in her career, Liang Anqi feels that all the efforts are worth it.
Pansy Ho's talent has been widely recognized, and she was even selected as one of the "Top 50 Global Tech Women" by Forbes magazine. This honor is not only an affirmation of He Chaoqiong's personal ability, but also a compliment to the entire He family.
However, fate once again showed its cruel side. In 1981, a bad news hit Angel Leung like a bolt from the blue - 33-year-old Pansy Ho died in a car accident.
This news instantly shattered Liang Anqi's world. The pain of losing her beloved daughter is indescribable in words. Liang Anqi fell into deep grief.
She has recalled the bits and pieces of her daughter countless times, from birth to growth, to successful career. Every picture made her heart cut like a knife. She began to question why Heaven was so cruel and why she wanted to take away her beloved daughter.
However, no matter how sad she was, the facts could not be changed. Just when Liang Anqi was immersed in the pain of losing her daughter, even bigger blows followed. Her second daughter, He Chaofeng, began to deteriorate in her mental condition.
The once lively and lovely daughter has now become in a trance and often unable to control her behavior. Seeing He Chaofeng's condition getting worse and worse, Liang Anqi's heart was dripping blood.
She traveled around looking for various treatments in the hope of helping her daughter get back to normal. However, no matter how hard she tried, He Chaofeng's situation did not improve significantly.
Whenever she saw her daughter's blank eyes, Liang Anqi felt a deep sense of powerlessness and despair. The tragedy of her children made Liang Anqi's heart tormented. She began to question her life choice, is it precisely because of marrying into a wealthy family that she has brought so much pressure and harm to her children? Those who are rich and prosperous are so pale in the face of the loss of their children and the suffering of their children.
This once glamorous "Macau's No. 1 Beauty" can now only endure unspeakable pain alone in a no-man's corner. Her beauty seems to have become a kind of irony, because no amount of beauty can hide the wounds in her heart.
Angel Leung began to reflect on her life. She remembered her vision when she married Stanley Ho and everything she had done for her family. However, at this moment, she didn't know if it was all worth it.
The only thing she can do is to continue to live strongly, for the sake of her family who are still around, and for those loved ones who have left. Life goes on, but for Angel Leung, the world seems to have lost its color.
She had to force herself to face the reality and continue to play the role of the wife of the gambling king, although her heart was full of holes. This experience became the darkest chapter of her life, and it also became a wound that she could never heal.
The years are like knives, leaving a deep mark on Liang Anqi's body. Once a peerless beauty, now she is full of vicissitudes. Her health continued to deteriorate, and the pain of spondylitis intensified.
The once glorious "No. 1 beauty in Macau" can now only spend every day in the torment of illness. Angel Leung's life is becoming more and more restrictive. She had to spend a lot of time on treatment and recuperation, and her social activities were reduced.
Despite this, she still tries to maintain an elegant posture, and always dresses carefully when appearing in public, as if to prove to the world that she is still the glamorous gambling wife.
However, life once again dealt Liang Anqi a heavy blow. On February 21, 2004, Stanley Ho passed away at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital at the age of 82. The husband, who spent half of her life with her, finally left her.
Stanley Ho's death marks the end of an era. For Angel Leung, this is not only the loss of her husband, but also the loss of the focus of her life. She recalled the years she spent with Stanley Ho, and those memories of sweetness and bitterness came flooding in.
Today's Liang Anqi is 80 years old and has experienced more than 30 years of spondylitis. Her life became unusually quiet, as if the whole world had moved away from her. In this quiet old age, will she look back on her life and think about the eternal question: Is it right or wrong to marry a gambling king? Looking back, Liang Anqi's life is like a legend of ups and downs.
From "Macau's No. 1 Beauty" to the gambling king's wife, she has experienced unimaginable glory and wealth, but she has also endured unspeakable pain. Her beauty opens the door to opportunities for her, but it also pushes her into the whirlpool of fate.
At the age of 18, he married Stanley Ho and became the second wife of the gambling king. The marriage brought her prominence and wealth, but it also placed her in a complex web of family relationships.
Life has dealt a heavy blow to Liang Anqi. At the age of 33, he suffered from spondylitis and suffered from the disease for a long time. What's even more heartbreaking is that her eldest daughter He Chaoqiong died young, and her second daughter He Chaofeng was plagued by mental problems.
These tragedies plunged her into deep self-blame and anguish for a while. Now, will the aging Liang Anqi regret her original choice? If she hadn't married Stanley Ho, what would her life have been like? These questions may never be answered.
But Liang Anqi's story undoubtedly left us with deep thoughts: between money, status and sincere feelings, what is the most valuable wealth in life? Beauty can bring opportunities, but where is the true meaning of happiness? This is perhaps the most precious inspiration that Liang Anqi's life has given us.