Did you believe in eternity when you were young? Just like the person you love, the oath you say, Zheng Zheng is in your ear, and you think you will never be depressed. However, times have changed and the past is gone.
Say good forever, sometimes only exists at the moment of saying it.
I still remember a time when the gambling king Stanley Ho's family frequently boarded hot searches, He Chaolian and Shawn Dou announced their love affair, He Youjun proposed to Ming Xi, and the feud between the gambling king Stanley Ho's fourth wife and 17 children's group. Some netizens said that if the life of the gambling king is made into a TV series, I think it will be wonderful from at least 200 episodes, even without any modification.
I think, as a melon eater, after reading it, in addition to feeling that there are many grudges between the giants, the most embarrassing thing is the love story between the gambling king Stanley Ho and the original Li Wanhua.
All-powerful Mr. Stanley Ho lived all his life, while Li Wanhua only made a good start for his old age, and then gradually declined in the rest of his life. Although the beginning of this story is equally beautiful, it is also enviable.
Let's start with 194 1, because this year was also a turning point in Mr. Ho's life. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Hong Kong fell and Stanley Ho fled to Macau. In his own words, he was as poor as HK$ 10.
After all, before this, Mr. Stanley Ho was born in the famous He Qidong family in Hong Kong, with Jewish, Dutch, British, China and other ethnic origins. His father He is a famous businessman in Hong Kong.
Therefore, his family background is undoubtedly very good, and he has been living a carefree young master life. Later, when his family came down, Stanley Ho began to study hard and was admitted to the University of Hong Kong.
After arriving in Macau, he worked in a company called Lianchang in Macau to make a living. Because I speak English well, I am very capable as a secretary in the company. He soon became a capable employee of the company.
It was also at this time that, coincidentally, Mr. Ho met his first wife, Li Wanhua.
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At that time, Li Wanhua was an absolute beauty. She has a very prominent family background. Her ancestors were all high-ranking Portuguese officials, and her father was the only notary in Macao. She is more beautiful and has such a title: the first beauty in Macau Street.
There are naturally many such suitors, and Stanley Ho is one of them.
When Mr. Ho first met Li Wanhua, he was impressed by her charm and then launched a fierce pursuit. At that time, in order to catch up with this favorite beauty, he also spent a lot of thought.
Their daughter He Chaoxian once described it like this: "In order to pursue her mother, my father specially studied Portuguese. Every day, when my mother was out of school, she rode her bike to the landscape garden where her mother lived, and then asked her to have tea after work."
It sounds like everything was fine when we met at the beginning of that year.
Such a fierce love offensive, coupled with Mr. Stanley Ho's good looks, is handsome and talented. So, Li Wanhua is with him.
/kloc-At the age of 0/8, Li Wanhua married Stanley Ho. After marriage, through his own efforts, plus Li Wanhua and her family, Mr. He has accumulated a wide range of contacts and learned a lot of business knowledge. Within a year, he earned the first bucket of gold in his life-654.38+00,000 Australian dollars.
Mr. Stanley Ho did not slack off and pursued him. In the following ten years, his personal wealth doubled and he finally became a famous "gambling king".
It can be said that Mr. He's success is due to his own ability, but it is also inseparable from Li Wanhua's support and help. She is the woman who stood behind her husband and witnessed Mr. He's rapid growth.
Mr. Stanley Ho's good days began with his marriage with Li Wanhua, while Li Wanhua's tragic fate was doomed from the moment he married Mr. Stanley Ho.
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1957, that is, at the age of 32, Li Wanhua suddenly fell ill and was badly hurt. Later, he could only eat liquid food for a long time, and he lost a lot of weight.
At first, Mr. Stanley Ho took good care of him, but later he gradually lost patience. Later, in the name of looking for private care, he and Lan Qiongying came together. Later, he married three rooms and four rooms one after another, and had 17 children in his life.
1973, Li Wanhua suffered a car accident in Portugal, and his brain was seriously damaged. After being in a coma for a whole month, he lost most of his memory, making it more difficult to move.
Not only Li Wanhua, but also the four children she gave birth to for Mr. Ho are equally ill-fated and have no luck at all. The man who didn't take good care of her later didn't take good care of her and his children.
When his son He Youguang died in a car accident at 198 1, Li Wanhua never recovered after learning the news. After her husband's unfaithfulness, the separation of her children and a series of blows, the future of Li Wanhua is bleak.
In 2004, Li Wanhua died in Hongkong. In her life, both the scenery in the first half and the withering in the second half have turned to dust.
He, the eldest daughter who was deeply loved by her father, was selected as one of Fortune magazine's "Top 50 Business Women in the World". Later, stimulated by marriage change and brother's car accident, he refused to socialize. She took her 2-year-old daughter wandering 14 to more than 20 countries and died in 20 14.
Corresponding to his miserable life, it is Stanley Ho's increasingly brilliant life and his three-room concubine. Although Li Wanhua is a wife, he is the last person the gambling king in the fourth room cares about. Not only did he separate early, but he didn't get any property later.
In ancient times, there was a word called spoil my concubine and kill my wife. The ultimate meaning of this word is to cherish our initial match.
But here in Li Wanhua, except for her miserable original match, all other concubines can be said to have a prosperous life, especially the second wife, who is more beautiful. Can this be said to be a modern version of the favorite concubine killing his wife?
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I'm also thinking about what the so-called wife means.
When we were young, we experienced storms together, no matter whether we were poor or rich, whether we were healthy or sick, we would quarrel over trifles, and we would worry about becoming dull, unbearable or even paying the price. Because these are the prices of love, if I have to choose someone to bear it, then I'd rather be you.
what is love ? The Bible describes that love is patient and kind, and never stops.
True love is not to keep freshness forever, but to look at each other after the freshness disappears.
Two people who really love each other, after all their passions have faded, can still think about the future together, still have the will to stay together for a long time, and can commit themselves to each other for life, just as the oath at the wedding ceremony said: Love each other regardless of poverty or wealth, regardless of health or illness!
Have you ever loved someone far away, who never let you despair, and is your courage and strength to continue living? He will always be young, beautiful and radiant, and he will always be there, just like faith.
Perhaps at the beginning, the two of them existed in this way, and because of this, they decided to be together. Only after that, a person who longed for the loyalty of love and never died, went further and further and forgot the original days, so the last person with the initial heart kept waiting, kept chilling and died with hatred.
This was the case with Mr. Ho and his first wife, Li Wanhua. The moment he turned around, it was her depressed life.