On April 18, 2023, He Chaolian, the daughter of the third wife of gambling king Chen Wanzhen, and actor Dou Xiao held a grand wedding in Bali. Congratulations to He Chaolian for finding true love, and look forward to her having a happy married life.
But at the same time, people can't help but feel sorry for the late gambling king's eldest daughter He Chaoying.
Gambling king Stanley Ho's favorite daughter, He Chaoying, was once the pearl of the family and was regarded as the best ** person by her father. However, her ending was extremely tragic and she became what people called a "crazy woman".
What did she go through, what led her to this path, and who caused her misfortune? ”
Before becoming the gambling king, Stanley Ho was just a teenager with a humble status. With unremitting efforts and hard work, he has won his own place in the drunken Macau.
Stanley Ho's career turned when he married his first wife, Lai Wanhua.
Stanley Ho and Lai Yuen-wah's encounter at CIMB Macau is a true interpretation of the romance of poverty and wealth. Lai Yuenhua has a deep family background, and her father is a well-known barrister and has been prominent for generations.
She is of Portuguese descent and has a beautiful appearance, blending the depth of the West with the softness of the East. Her dark brown hair is like a camphor tree in the night, and her deep eyes are like a pool of spring water, ** delicate as snow, which can be broken by blowing.
As long as she looks back and smiles, she can make countless men fall for her. Looking at her from afar, it seems like Venus has come out of an oil painting.
Countless men fell under her pomegranate skirt, and Stanley Ho was no exception. In order to talk to her, he began to teach himself Spanish, and frequently invited her to share fine drinks and dances.
Lai Wanhua, an innocent and beautiful girl, soon fell into the gentle trap of Stanley Ho and accepted his passionate pursuit. In 1942, 21-year-old Stanley Ho and 18-year-old Lai Wanhua held a grand wedding.
The young couple, who are in love, gaze at each other affectionately and promise that their love for each other will last forever. However, for Stanley Ho, who made a solemn promise to Lai Wanhua, how much love is sincere?
Or does his pursuit somewhat include coveting the power of the Li Wanhua family? The answer to this question is unknown. "
When they were young, Stanley Ho and Lai Wanhua were a pair of beautiful people who envied others. With the strength of Lai's family and his own wisdom, Stanley Ho successfully established his own business, and the journey was smooth and prosperous.
In 1947, He Chaoying was born. Lai Wanhua is still peerless, and Stanley Ho loves her very much. He Chaoying is the crystallization of their love, and Stanley Ho is naturally extremely happy about the birth of his eldest daughter.
He Chaoying inherited her mother's genes, she is beautiful and moving, and she is similar to her mother in many ways. Stanley Ho and Lai Wanhua regard He Chaoying as the pearl of their palms and love her in every way, and He Chaoying grew up in this harmonious family environment, like a little princess.
He Chaoying is deeply loved, versatile since childhood, talks extraordinary, and shows the demeanor and temperament of a celebrity.
When He Chaoying was young, in order to give his daughter a better education, Stanley Ho did not hesitate to pay a lot of money to send her to the United Kingdom and Switzerland to study. He Chaoying lived up to expectations, and after her return, she often attended various important social events with her father, and those who had seen He Chaoying praised her elegant demeanor and smooth conversation.
After years of training and accumulation, He Chaoying's worth has surpassed that of his father Stanley Ho, who just got married, and everyone knows that Stanley Ho intends to cultivate his eldest daughter He Chaoying as his **person.
However, as the daughter of a family, there will always be some things that you can't decide on your own.
Even if she was born noble, He Chaoying also has the unique emotions of a girl of that age in her heart. She has always had deep feelings for her father's worldly friend, Huo Zhenting. Fok Zhenting's father, Fok Yingdong, is also a well-known and wealthy man in Macau, and the two families have a close relationship, and Stanley Ho and Fok Yingdong also have frequent business contacts.
He Chaoying and Huo Zhenting have known each other since childhood, and the age difference is only one year old. Since they grew up together, the relationship between the two has always maintained a special heartbeat.
Childhood sweethearts, two loves, should be a beautiful story.
As the eldest son of Huo Yingdong, Huo Zhenting is deeply valued and nurtured by his father. After graduating from the University of Southern California, he returned to Hong Kong and took him to various business activities through his father, accumulating a wide range of contacts and resources.
He quickly established himself in the business world. He Chaoying and Huo Zhenting were sent to study abroad when they were young and have not seen each other for many years, but they have always been worried about each other in their hearts.
Years later, they met again at a party. Although their love is never explicitly revealed, one can feel their affection in their shy eyes, flushed cheeks, and casual touch.
The romance between He Chaoying and Fok Zhenting was once an open secret, and the marriage of the two families was also seen as a win-win move. At that time, the society generally believed that Stanley Ho would marry He Chaoying to Fok Zhenting, and even He Chaoying himself had this expectation.
However, the changes in life broke He Chaoying's peaceful life and ended her fate with Huo Zhenting.
In 1957, 30-year-old Lai Wanhua unfortunately suffered from colon cancer, and the limitations of medical technology made it possible to remove most of the intestines and stomach, and she lost the ability to eat and move freely, and could only live on liquid food.
However, when Lai Wanhua needed it most, Stanley Ho fulfilled his responsibilities as a husband, visiting the hospital every day and accompanying her through the difficult times with jokes and smiles.
As the condition worsened, Li Wanhua's face became pale, her originally plump body became skinny, her eyes lost their former brilliance, and only the trouble and pain of illness remained.
Once a peerless beauty, now she can only spend the rest of her life in a hospital bed, letting her life pass. Compared with the physical pain, the mental torture made Li Wanhua even more painful.
Stanley Ho's promises have now been betrayed by him, and he has publicly abandoned his wife under a seemingly high-sounding excuse. Lai Wanhua's beauty still failed to save her from the fate of being abandoned, and businessmen valued profit over separation, which was vividly shown in Stanley Ho.
Stanley Ho married the 14-year-old Lan Qiongying as his second wife during Lai's serious illness, although Portugal was monogamous at the time, but Hong Kong did not have too strict requirements for the marriage system, and Stanley Ho successfully married a second wife.
The newlywed Stanley Ho toasted beside Lai Wanhua's sickbed to celebrate, which can't help but remind people of the wedding scene between Baoyu and Baochai in "Dream of Red Mansions". On one side is the dying Daiyu, and on the other side is the newlywed Baoyu and Baochai, such a contrast makes people sigh and make people sigh.
With a young and beautiful newlywed wife by his side, Stanley Ho will naturally forget about Lai Wanhua on the hospital bed. In 1962, the second wife Lan Qiongying gave birth to Pansy Ho, and the birth of a newborn completely diverted Stanley Ho's attention.
His care for his eldest daughter He Chaoying has also decreased, and the former pearl in his palm is rarely mentioned at the moment.
He Chaoying has lived in a harmonious and happy family environment since she was a child, but the sudden change made it difficult for her to accept. The mother lost her health and beauty, the relationship between her parents broke down, and the father didn't even care about his mother, married a second wife younger than himself, and his concern for He Chaoying gradually decreased.
All these blows made He Chaoying feel painful, and she couldn't imagine that her father's ruthlessness was much more than that.
Stanley Ho's selfishness and betrayal broke up the love between He Chaoying and Huo Zhenting with his own hands. In 1962, out of the maintenance of friendship, Fok Yingdong provided great help to Stanley Ho by bidding for gambling cards, and Stanley Ho also promised to donate the profits to charity if he succeeded.
However, when Stanley Ho did win the gambling card, he reneged on his promise, kept the profits for himself, and took revenge, and the top management of the United Company expelled Fok Ying-tung from senior management, and the relationship between the two broke down, and the two never interacted again.
The love between He Chaoying and Huo Zhenting ended without a hitch, and no one mentioned the marriage anymore, and finally it was over. For the sake of his own industry, Stanley Ho even did not hesitate to use He Chaoying as a bargaining chip to force her to have a business marriage.
Stanley Ho plans to invest in a racetrack in Iran and is looking for a key partner. In order to alleviate the difficulty of investment, he decided to win over the funeral king Xiao Ming. For this reason, he plans to obtain Xiao Ming's support through marriage.
However, Stanley Ho's motives are not for the interests of the country and the nation, but only to satisfy his own selfish desires. He Chaoying firmly opposed this, but she could not change her father's decision.
The matter is decided, and He Chaoying feels extremely sad. She began to question whether her father's love for her was only in exchange for profit. In the end, she was ruthlessly abandoned by her father.
In 1975, He Chaoying and Xiao Baicheng's wedding was very lively, but this lively wedding was not to celebrate the love of the two, but to unite the two families.
Due to the lack of an emotional foundation, it is difficult for the couple to respect each other and to be close to each other. Xiao Baicheng is merry by nature, and after getting married, he still spends all day drinking outside, hugging left and right.
In 1981, He Chaoying couldn't bear this kind of life and resolutely filed for divorce from Xiao Baicheng, ending this marriage based on interests. Sadly, her mother, Li Wanhua, also passed away a few months later because she couldn't bear the blow of He Youguang's death.
Within a year, He Chaoying lost two of her closest relatives and was devastated.
He Chaoying's world is full of endless pain and despair, she is deeply trapped in the ruthlessness of her indifferent father, her flowery husband and her beloved Huo Zhenting, and she is full of deep disgust for this world.
The last glimmer of hope in her heart was also shattered, and she had a nervous breakdown and fell into a state of madness. At this time, He Chaoying has long lost the demeanor of the daughter of a wealthy family in the past, her hair is messy, her speech is confused, her behavior is abnormal, she wears clothes that do not match her age, and she wanders the streets all day long.
Her eyes were full of pain and confusion, as if she was looking for a glimmer of warmth and hope.
He Chaoying's life is full of legend and drama. Although when she was alive, many people called her a "crazy woman", but she was a strong woman worth tens of billions, and her former lover Huo Zhenting also came to her funeral to pay tribute to her after her death.
Although Ho Chaoying's funeral was extremely simple, her younger siblings, Stanley Ho and several other wives and their children did not attend her funeral. Stanley Ho found a high-sounding reason for himself, "white-haired people don't send black-haired people", but this can't erase people's nostalgia and regret for He Chaoying.
Counting He Chaoying's life, from the high-profile "** person" to the "crazy woman" in people's mouths, we, as bystanders, can we do anything for her in addition to deep regret?