832. Celebrity

Li Zairong was born in 1968, 16 years older than Zhou Fangyuan, and now he is almost forty years old, and his sons are five years old. As mentioned earlier, all the people who can come here today are the daughters and young masters of big conglomerates and big groups, and it can be said that they are all elites. One of the benefits of chatting with this kind of person is that you can learn something from them. Since ancient times, there has been a saying in Huaxia that "those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black", and Zhou Fangyuan's hometown also has a saying of "following good people to produce good people, and following Wang Ba to dry wells", chatting with the elite, not to mention anything else, these people pay attention to things that are more complex than ordinary people, and more comprehensive, their growth environment is very different from ordinary people, not to mention that they are educated, much stronger than ordinary people.

Of course, you have to ask if there are any of these people who are full of fat brains and rich second-generation gentlemen?

Zhou Fangyuan can only say that of course there are such people, and in an elite family, it is impossible to ensure that all their descendants are elites, and there are always rice buckets and waste, and the chances are not small. The only difference is that the elite family can better control these useless clansmen, give them certain arrangements, or use some means to let these people fend for themselves, at the very least, don't bring harm to their own families. In this regard, the big families of Nanxian can't say that they are doing well, but they can't be said to be doing badly, at least the ones who can control the power of the family are the descendants of the elite after all, and those descendants who have proven to be useless basically have no access to the authority of the family.

Following Lee Jae-yong is his "ex-wife" Lin Shiling.

Why is it said to be an "ex-wife", because in the near future, about four years later, the two will divorce.

Lin Shiling is not a simple character, born in Seoul in 1977, nine years younger than Lee Zairong, seven years older than Zhou Fangyuan, this person is the eldest daughter of Lin Changyu, honorary president of Nanxian Elephant Group, and one of the most well-known wealthy daughters in Nanxian.

In Nanxian, there is a well-known joke: Nanxian people have three things in their lives, death, paying taxes and three stars. Although it is an exaggeration, it also indirectly shows the great influence of Samsung Group in Nanxian. As the owners of Samsung Group, the Li family has always been the most interesting but unreachable object of Nanxian Media. On the one hand, this is because the family members are low-key and rarely show their faces except in public, and on the other hand, because Samsung has too much influence on the media, the slightest negative news will be deleted immediately. A similar situation exists in other countries. But any family that has grown to a certain size, or mastered part of the public opinion position, or had a good relationship with public opinion, anyway, the really powerful characters, unless they are voluntary, ordinary people can rarely see each other's content on the news.

However, a woman has made Samsung appear frequently in the news, and divorce and rebellion have become the keywords of these news. The woman who made Samsung have to come out twice in three days to "delete the news" is Lin Shiling. Now, she is the wife of Lee Jae-yong, the only son of Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung Group, and in the future, she is a female entrepreneur in her own right, spanning the business, entertainment and fashion circles. dared to divorce the "most male" family in a country where male power reigned, and could still live a prosperous life after a lawsuit, Lin Shiling's ability is by no means ordinary.

Of course, not many people know that she is actually the daughter of a chaebol, her father is Lim Chang-wook, the honorary president of Namxian Elephant Group and one of the top 10 richest people in Namxian, and her mother is Park Hyun-joo, the daughter of Park In-cheon, the founder of Kumho Asiana Group.

Elephant Group is the No. 1 food company in Nanxian, as the eldest daughter of such a family business, Lin Shiling has been contrary to the style of the daughter of the upper class, and has always appeared in front of her classmates and friends as an ordinary person. Her middle school classmate, Nanxian host Cui Yunying, once told her story on the show: "Among the classmates, no one knows that Lin Shiling is the daughter of a chaebol, although there is a driver to drive her, but when she is far away from the school, she gets out of the car and walks, wearing only school uniforms every day, until a parent-teacher meeting, Park Hyun-joo comes to participate, and everyone knows her true identity." ”

In 1996, Lin Shiling was admitted to Yonsei University, a prestigious university in Nanxian, with excellent results. When she was studying, she was a "daughter-in-law candidate" for major chaebol families because of her reputation as a "virtuous lady". At that time, Samsung Group was about to get involved in the food additives industry, and the Elephant Group in the same field felt pressure for a while. As a result, a "blind date of the century" began - Lin Shiling's mother Park Hyun-joo and the three-star "prince" Lee Jae-yong's mother Hong Luoxi were friends in the Buddhist community, so they jointly arranged for Lin Shiling to meet Lee Jae-yong, who had just finished his MBA in Japan and was planning to study in the United States. Nanxian media broke the news that when the two met for the first time, they had each other's mothers, secretaries, bodyguards and a large number of people around them, and the scene was quite spectacular.

In June 1998, the two young people fell in love at first sight and held a grand wedding at the Yonginhoam Museum of Art in Gyeonggi-do, officiated by former Namxian Prime Minister Kang Young-hoon, and attended by former Namxian Prime Minister Lee Su-sung and Lee Hyun-jae, former president of Seoul National University, Kwon Yeon-hyuk, etc., and Namxian political and economic celebrities and fashion stars gathered together. This wedding of the century is still talked about by Nanxian people to this day.

Although it was a marriage in the financial world, some people even think that the seeds of tragedy were planted at that time, but at least the beginning between the two is as good as the love in Korean dramas.

After becoming the "crown princess" of Samsung, Lin Shiling had to give up her college studies and go to the United States with her husband to take care of his life during his doctoral studies at Harvard. At the same time, Samsung Group also announced a partnership with Elephant Group in the food additives industry. In 1999, Lee Kun-hee went to the United States for surgery for lung cancer, and his daughter-in-law Lin Shiling accompanied him throughout the whole process, which made the always picky Lee Kun-hee deeply satisfied, and Lee Jae-yong was very proud of this, and proudly showed his wife's photos to his classmates. In the next two years, Lin Shiling gave birth to a pair of children for Li Zairong, and at the request of her in-laws, she returned to Nanxian to be a "full-time Kuotai".

However, Lin Shiling's seemingly peaceful life in a wealthy family is actually surging, and the seeds of self and independence in her heart have gradually sprouted.

Lin Shiling once again became the focus of the world, because she wanted to take off her "crown princess" crown with her own hands.

In the near future, in the news that Zhou Fangyuan had seen in his previous life, in February 2009, Lin Shiling filed a divorce lawsuit with the court, claiming three things: one is to demand that the custody of the two children belong to herself, the second is to apply for 1 billion won in child support, and the third is to propose the division of property, involving hundreds of billions of won.

Nanxian media once broke the news that Lin Shiling, who seems to be well-behaved and obedient on the outside, has always been a very assertive person in her bones, and often challenges the absolute male power of the Li family: she ignored Li Kunxi's taboo against competitors, used a Sony Walkman for many years, and was severely reprimanded after being seen by her mother-in-law by chance; she also boldly suggested to her husband to move out of her parents' residence but was rejected; she was also angry about giving up her studies and career, and her mother-in-law Hong Luoxi had to appease her, saying that when the child was older, she would let her take over as the director of the Huyan Art Museum......

In the Li family, in addition to the male dictatorship that made Lin Shiling breathless, the indifference between relatives was also disappointing.

In 2005, that is, this year, Lin Shiling's sister-in-law and Lee Kun-hee's youngest daughter, Li Yinxin, hanged herself in her New York apartment. Li Yinxin was originally the daughter of Nanxian with the most "fans", and in 2003, she also set up a personal website to share interesting stories about life, and was called "the most unburdened princess", but the website was eventually shut down. It is said that Lee Yin Xin once planned to marry her boyfriend from an ordinary family, but was strongly opposed by Lee Kun-hee and was sent to the United States to study, so she suffered from depression. After her death, Samsung Group immediately organized public relations, claiming that Li Yinxin was killed in a car accident, and later apologized and explained when the truth was revealed by the media.

At that time, the Nam Xian government was working to curb the chaebol, and Lee Kun-hee was investigated and faced imprisonment on suspicion of providing illegal donations to Nam Xian's political party in 1997, tax evasion, and illegal transfer of funds to his children. So, in order to avoid the media, the Li family did not even attend Li Yinxin's funeral.

It is said that the emperor's family has no family affection, but in fact, the chaebol family is similar. When the family is bigger, there is more money, there are more ideas, and when there are more ideas, there is naturally not enough idle thinking to hand over to family affection, which is normal.

Lin Shiling was disheartened by the Li family, and at the same time, her maiden Elephant Group was in trouble, first being investigated in 2006 for being involved in Samsung's illegal misappropriation of funds, and then at the end of 2008, due to the financial crisis, she fell into a trough and sold a large number of shares. In these two incidents, Samsung Group turned a blind eye, which brought the relationship between Li and Lin to an impasse, and Lin Shiling naturally became more and more dissatisfied. Finally filed a divorce lawsuit and challenged Samsung directly.

Regarding the reason for divorce that the outside world is most concerned about, Lin Shiling and Lee Jae-yong are secretive, but Lin Shiling's mother Park Hyun-joo said in an interview: "As a last resort, how can a woman who has given birth to a child and has been married for more than ten years decide to divorce." The spearhead of the problem turned to the Li family. In Nanxian, the woman's initiative to divorce will be discriminated against, not to mention that Li Zairong is the only child in the family and may soon become the president of Samsung, and Lin Shiling will be the wife of the president of Samsung and one of the most powerful women in the country. However, Lin Shiling did not hesitate to take off the title of Samsung "Crown Princess" and became the first divorced person in Lee Kun-hee's next generation.

After her, in 2014, Lee Kun-hee's eldest daughter Lee Bo-jin divorced her phoenix husband, Im Woo-jae. With Lin Shiling as an example, Ren Youzai did not give an inch to child custody and property division in the coordination.

Lin Shiling, the "crown princess" who ran away willfully, lived a wonderful new life as if escaping from the shackles.

After the divorce, Lin Shiling returned to her parents' home and started her own path as a female entrepreneur. She holds a 20.41% stake in the Elephant Group and is the second largest shareholder after her sister Lim Sang-min. In 2009, Lin Shiling served as the representative director of YZ&P, a subsidiary of Elephant Group on the verge of bankruptcy, and comprehensively revised the previous brand expansion strategy, effectively responded to the fiercely competitive market environment, and played an important role in "stop loss". In 2012, she joined Elephant Group as a creative director, responsible for food brand management, planning, marketing, design, etc., and began to control multiple departments such as marketing, design, and brand public relations within Elephant Group.

Compared with the financial version of the news, Lin Shiling's appearance on the entertainment version is more sensational, and the news of her love affair with the well-known actor Li Zhengzai in Nanxian is more eye-catching than the divorce case with the Samsung "crown prince" back then. You must know that in Nanxian, the relationship between the daughter of the financial world and the male star in the entertainment industry is still regarded as a matter of detrimental status. Lee Jung-jae, who was 43 years old at the time, is an actor at the level of Nam Xian actor, and has repeatedly broken box office records with movies such as "Untouchable Lovers", "League of Thieves" and "Assassination". He was handsome, calm and unsmiling, and was known as the "silent samurai". Because of this, in the Nanxian entertainment circle, Lee Jung-jae has always been insulated from scandals. When the media broke the scandal between him and Lin Shiling, the whole country was in an uproar.

Lee Jung-jae and Lim Se-ling met in September 2009, when Lim Se-ling had just divorced and returned to the Elephant Group, and Lee Jung-jae was the designated advertising spokesperson of the Elephant Group. Soon, there was an affair between the two. However, in order to protect his girlfriend, Lee Jung-jae has always denied the relationship, and it was not until New Year's Day 2015 that Namxian media took photos of the two dating, and he had to admit that "it has recently developed into a lover relationship." ”

Regarding this marriage, some domestic netizens ridiculed: "This is basically the rhythm of Ma Yun's daughter divorcing Wang Sicong and falling in love with Nicholas Tse." ”

Because of her frequent interactions with the entertainment industry, Lin Shiling gradually has a lot of "fans", and her personal dress is also regarded as a model by many professional women. She was photographed by the paparazzi wearing a Valentino coat, and the next day this dress was on the hot search of Nanxian website. Many Nanxian women believe that the beautiful and tall Lin Shiling is not only a fashion benchmark, but also a role model who dares to express herself and rebel against male power. Perhaps marriages due to money and politics are always difficult to get a good ending, and the life of a wealthy family is not as colorful as ordinary people think. In many cases, people from wealthy families are even more unable to choose their lives, whether it is marriage or career, if they want to be true to themselves, they even have to pay a greater price than ordinary people.

And Lin Shiling, who compromised and resisted, bravely gave up and faced doubts, and finally embarked on her own path and became the undisputed first lady in Nanxian.

However, standing in front of Zhou Fangyuan at this moment is a woman with a perfect smile and an elegant temperament, just looking at her current performance, she can't see that the other party will have such an earth-shattering move in a few years. In the final analysis, all she got in the Li family was relative indifference, she herself was from a wealthy family, and it was impossible for the Li family to abuse her. As mentioned above, her mother-in-law has comforted her more than once, which will be different from the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship in the general sense of the mother-in-law war.

In the final analysis, it is the subconscious of women's self-improvement and self-reliance in the new era that makes her unwilling to become a traditional woman who relies on her husband's family, plus she is powerful herself, so she is even more unbearable.

In China, this kind of thing is nothing anymore. But in Nanxian, where the traditional atmosphere is stronger than in China, she can do such a thing, and it is so eye-catching...... It's remarkable.

As a man, Zhou Fangyuan couldn't help but want to give her a thumbs up.