Wen|Li Ailing Little Tea The woman with a scented soul
This Chinese New Year, Stanley Ho, the King of Gamblers, was exposed to the ICU, the three wives and the four wives of the house took turns to visit.
Subsequently, the fourth Mrs. Angela Leung with her youngest daughter Ho Chiu-hin and Hsieh Hsien **** into the afternoon tea, seems to have further confirmed that the King of Gamblers, "the body is not a big problem," the meaning of.
Many people sit and wait to eat melon: "heroes in their twilight years, but also can not, the property struggle and open up."
But Angela Leung faced the camera before and after each visit, calm and relaxed, without a trace of disillusionment and haste.
From a dance teacher to the fourth wife of the King of Gamblers, Angela Leung's half-life is more exciting than a palace drama.
When it comes to hardware, she doesn't have a clear advantage:
▲ Among other things, there are conflicting accounts of Ho's death - one says it was premature, the other says there was no such person
But she's the most windy, and shrewd enough.
Before she met Stanley Ho, she lived a beautiful and grueling life:
In 1986, at the age of 25, Angela Leung attended a private ball for 65-year-old Stanley Ho, after being introduced by a dance student.
The third wife did not know how to dance, and the second wife, who excelled at dancing, was far away in Canada, so Angela Leung, as a substitute, firmly seized the opportunity.
One dance to fame and almost one dance to love.
Since then, she is Stanley Ho's best dance partner, but also in the casino as a clerk.
While working as an employee, while working as a boss, while working as a teacher, while accompanying the King of Gamblers in and out of the upper class social venues, lasted for three years.
In 1989, Stanley Ho formally proposed and Angela Leung officially considered it for two days. She said that what she thought about most was not the "explanation", but whether and how it could be long term.
For marrying into the family, there are several versions circulating:
The truth is difficult to make conjecture, but a few houses of Mrs. She has: openly married, mansions, and even state that "you're my last love".
Married to a rich family, if you rely only on beauty, can not survive the first two episodes.
Many people thought that Angela Leung was relying on her youth and beauty to get to the top, but from every step she took, we can see that she is a woman with a shrewd mind and a lot of guts.
As early as 2010, in the battle for wealth, Angela Leung joined forces with the children of the main house to take the second and third houses, which were dominant at the time, to court, asking for an equal share of the family fortune.
Last year, when Stanley Ho retired, the family's most important business, SJM Holdings, was handed over to the second daughter of the second house, Chiu-Fung Ho, the second house became the largest shareholder, and also joined forces with the Fok family to obtain the dominant position in the "SJM".
And Angela Leung is co-chair of SJM Holdings, holding 8% of the shares, although far less powerful than the second house, but also in the "2018 Forbes Hong Kong 50 richest people list", with a net worth of $ 3.7 billion ranked 22nd, but also decent.
It's a road she's traveled more arduously than anyone else.
Competition for property wars, Angela Leung's children are the youngest, can not assist, can not fight with the other three houses, in the family business does not occupy an advantage, all rely on her alone to fight alone.
But she knows how to take advantage of the advantages of a unique way:
In the internal and external, Angela Leung are competitive and strong, she cares about current affairs, love of business, strong sense of enterprise, the mantra is "to do the best".
It is said that Stanley Ho praised her, "You are a small woman, how can you be so strong?"
We have to admit that if she hadn't married Stanley Ho, she wouldn't have been the Angela Leung she is today. But to be the Angela Leung of today, her strength, should not be underestimated.
And the King of Gamblers life of suave different, is the richest Chinese Li Ka-shing.
A few days ago, we wrote about Li Ka-shing's son in law and granddaughter.
After the death of his wife, Zhuang Yueming, he has never gossip, so far known, only a confidante - Zhou Kaixuan.
When you search for "Zhou Kaixuan" on the Internet, the first thing that comes up is this:
Just by looking at the name, it's already unusually loud and capable.
And the Internet rumors that she said a paragraph, but also highlights a different kind of temperament and wisdom:
Zhou Kaixuan was born in 1961, is a Hong Kong girl. She attended Diocesan Girls' School, one of the most prestigious schools in Hong Kong, and after graduating from secondary school, she studied in Australia and the United Kingdom.
In 1986, Zhou Kaixuan went to Xi'an with his British boss to negotiate an exhibition of terracotta warriors and horses in London, and it took only about two weeks to reach a deal.
Even more significant than the success of the exhibition and the lucrative remuneration she received was the friendship she made with a friend from the upper class - Zhang Peiwei, cousin of Tung Chee-hwa and chairman of the Orient Overseas Company, a subsidiary of the Tung Group.
The two of them hit it off immediately and set up the Harbour Company, specializing in mainland trade, which was highly appreciated by TUNG Chee-hwa.
In the early 90s, the real estate industry in the Mainland was booming. In 1992, Zhou Kaixuan and Zhang Peiwei came to Beijing, and decided to invest in a 6-storey building of a children's movie theater as a commercial store.
However, the Children's Cinema can not be developed separately, the entire East Chang'an Street and Wangfujing area belongs to the unified planning, it must be 10,000 square meters around the area of the whole piece of development.
She did not hesitate to decide to do the whole piece of land together, but also boldly to the surrounding pieces of land and bought, covering an area of 10,000 square meters gradually expanded to 100,000 square meters, named "Oriental Plaza".
The huge project was a sensation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and Tung Chee-hwa personally came out to pull investment, inviting a number of real estate developers to cooperate, including Li Ka-shing.
The acquaintance of the two men has nothing to do with the wind and snow, but is completely black and white, not to mention the win-win cooperation.
What he cares about is what she does to get the demolition done; what she cares about is that she has to earn a commission of 2.5% of the total investment.
So there is a "5 minutes to talk about Li Ka-shing" event.
The details, outsiders have no way of knowing, but more than six months later, a resounding success on the stage -
In January 1996, Zhou Kaixuan will be complete formalities of the Oriental Plaza project to Li Ka-shing hands.
She received a commission of about HK$400 million as expected, half of which she continued to invest in Oriental Plaza as a long-term shareholder.
After her success, she declined Tung Chee-hwa's offer to make her a director of the group, and instead became involved in philanthropy, setting up the "Zhou Kaixuan Foundation" to build schools, subsidize underprivileged students, and adopt giant pandas.
For the missed "official position", she seems lighthearted:
She knows what she wants, she earned the money, bring her is the material backbone, the courage to fight and the security of the spirit:
Real real results, so that Li Ka-shing more than 30 years younger than him, the woman! impressed.
He repeatedly listened to Zhou Kaixuan's advice, breaking the "not familiar with the principle of not doing", investing in the Internet:
Had pushed Tom online Hong Kong GEM, to 300,000 Hong Kong dollars in the shares of Zhou Kaixuan, his value soared to a maximum of 12.7 billion Hong Kong dollars, has become a billionaire woman.
To the then virtually unprofitable Facebook investment of $ 60 million, the listing brought more than five times the earnings.
Katherine Chow's investment vision and ability to boldly trust Li Ka-shing, she served as a director of the Li Ka-shing Foundation, and their relationship gradually became personal.
She accompanied Li Ka-shing to the United Kingdom to attend the honorary doctorate ceremony as a friend and family member:
The frequency of the same frame is more and more, from the formal meetings to business meals, she is often seen.
She is still recognized by the media as "the woman behind the richest man" and "Li Ka-shing's confidante".
Zhou Kaixuan always passes by, and does not mind:
Li Ka-shing since the death of Zhuang Yueming in 1990, has not remarried, and there is no gossip.
Later, he was photographed wandering the streets with Zhou Kaixuan ten-fingered, and was asked if he was marrying Ms. Zhou, and was noncommittal.
But this does not affect the standards and principles in the mind of Zhou Kaixuan - are you my most trusted friend.
I think, rather than trusting Li Ka-shing, she trusts herself. To be able to fight alone by herself, or to fight side by side with a man.
Career, more plowing less dependent; feelings, more open-minded less entangled.
Women walking in the world, always hard to escape "fame and fortune" "feelings" "man" "marriage". "The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that.
Angela Leung borrowed the east wind of the King of Gamblers to get today's position, but from the moment she decided to marry into the family, she knew what she had to pay.
Zhou Kaixuan does not rely on Li Ka-shing can also ride the shopping mall, but she chose to stand in the side of the richest man, but also still know what they want.
Some people are disdainful of Angela Leung's life as a small bitter struggle. Some lament the fact that Zhou Kaixuan could not be explicitly married.
All these sighs are irrelevant.
What is right and wrong in life? The first thing you need to do is to get the best out of it.
They all gave what they could and got what they wanted.
For their own choices can afford to take responsibility for their own life to buy a single, are winners.