chsdbacks Chapter 573 The Shoe King's News 2
Chapter 573 The Shoe King's News 2
The "shoe king" mentioned here refers to Deng Minqun, chairman of Yaming Shoes.
Deng Minqun made his fortune through colonial foreign trade, which involved acting as an agent for overseas brands and doing secondhand business.
At his peak, he sold 6000 million pairs of shoes a year, which is why he was known as the King of Shoes.
According to reports, his net worth is around HK$2 billion, placing him among the second-tier tycoons in Hong Kong.
Deng Minqun had one legal wife, but he also kept two mistresses outside the marriage. These two women had borne him children, while others had casual affairs with him.
The problem here is with his third wife.
That's not the key point. The key point is that his third wife had an affair and kept a male celebrity as a mistress. He found out about it by hiring a private investigator and then took the initiative to expose it to the newspaper.
In other words, he took the initiative to expose the fact that he had been cuckolded.
This behavior is very puzzling. According to the average person's thinking, when something like this happens, one should definitely hide it and handle it privately. But he went and made it public, as if he was afraid that others would not know that he had been cuckolded.
This is one of the oddities.
The second unusual aspect is his method of dealing with his third wife.
Normally, if you cheat on your partner and have an affair with a younger man, you would definitely ask for forgiveness. But she didn't. She publicly broke up with her sugar daddy, her daughter's father, the shoe tycoon Deng Minqun, and even said that she and her affair partner were true love.
True love my ass!
You're almost forty, and the young man you're keeping is in his early twenties. There's a sixteen-year age gap between you two. Can this really be true love?
What do you love about her?
Do you love the wrinkles around your eyebrows or your out-of-shape figure?
The third unusual aspect is his status as a young, handsome man.
This young and handsome man is Mr. Hong Kong Island.
What is Mr. Hong Kong Island?
Mr. Hong Kong Island is a talent show that corresponds to Miss Hong Kong Island.
The third wife of the shoe king had an affair with, or rather, kept a young man as a mistress, who was the previous Mr. Hong Kong.
Compared to Miss Hong Kong Island, the Mr. Hong Kong Island pageant is a complete farce; I'd call it a gigolo contest.
Putting aside other things, let's just talk about some aspects of the election process.
Like a muscular man emerging from the water, it means emerging from the pool, and the process of emerging must show off masculine charm. In fact, it's about seeing whose abs are the most impressive.
For example, in dumbbell bodybuilding competitions, male contestants must wear deep V-neck leopard print clothing while lifting dumbbells.
Other aspects, such as perfect physiques and male celebrity allure, have essentially brought the activities of a club to the talent show venue.
This is the current situation of Mr. Hong Kong Island, which is why I call it the Duck Selection Contest.
There's another reason I say this: the judging panel is currently only open to Miss Hong Kong Island and women, and the 800 audience members who participated in the voting on-site were also women.
This approach resulted in significantly less attention compared to the Miss Hong Kong pageant, and the winners rarely gained widespread recognition.
But as I said, this is a duck selection competition, so there are a lot of strange things going on, and one negative sex scandal after another.
Almost every Mr. Hong Kong winner has been kept by a wealthy female woman.
There are quite a few women who are kept by men.
Some wealthy women even groom their sugar daddies—no, not sugar daddies, but muscular men—and turn them into celebrities.
Because there are so many wealthy women, there are also many people who want to curry favor. In order to get a share of the pie, Mr. Hong Kong Island has many strange awards, such as the Most Charming Award in the Eyes of Miss Hong Kong Island, the Most Proud Look of Wealth Award, the Most perceptive Award, the Most Calm Mr. Hong Kong Island Award, and so on.
There's no beginning to the strangest thing; the end is the strangest of all.
It's often said that men are willing to spend money to pamper their women, but actually, wealthy women are even more willing to spend money to pamper their men.
I watched this competition twice for fun.
In my opinion, the most interesting part of this competition was the swim trunks campaign segment.
When campaigning for votes, contestants are allowed to wear swimsuits and interact with the judges.
Such as shaking hands, high-fiving, or even kissing the judges' hands to solicit votes.
The funniest thing about this process is that some contestants, despite not being in good shape, insisted on trying to build muscle.
Because this segment has the highest viewership, the tables have been removed in the last two years, allowing contestants and judges to have close contact.
It's worth noting that most of the judges are former Miss Hong Kong winners, or at least wealthy women, which makes things even more interesting.
As far as I know, in order to allow the audience to better view the athletes' muscles, the organizers will provide 3D glasses for the audience next year.
The young, muscular man who was kept by the third wife of the shoe king was the champion of the previous competition.
This news has given the Mr. Hong Kong program a small boost in its popularity.
Actually, this wasn't the biggest controversy surrounding the Mr. Hong Kong pageant. The real uproar about Mr. Hong Kong didn't become widely known until three years later.
Three years later, in 12, Lau Shing-ming, a third-generation rich kid from Hong Kong Island, was sentenced to 17 months in prison for indecent assault and intimidation.
That's not the point. The point is that the police found tens of thousands of photos of men in his home.
Who is Liu Chengming?
His maternal grandfather was the gambling king of Guangzhou, and his maternal grandfather's sister married Fu Rong, the gambling king of Macau.
He was sixty years old when he was arrested.
The photos he has are probably of past Mr. Hong Kong Island winners.
To put it another way, he almost wiped out all the Mr. Hong Kong Islanders; very few escaped unscathed.
His method was actually very simple: he would use auditions as an excuse to invite male stars to his home and have them take photos in specific outfits according to his requirements.
During the photo shoot, he would make service requests, using money, introductions to wealthy women, and job recommendations as bait.
Few can resist the temptation to do this. Once these male stars give in, they can forget about escaping his grasp. If they try to escape, he threatens them with photos, which is why he was arrested.
Of course, none of the victims admitted to this.
In contrast to the silence of these victims, Liu Chengming spoke at length about it, saying that it was very easy to get in touch with these Mr. Hong Kong contestants, that they participated in the competition for fame and fortune, and that every Mr. Hong Kong contestant would coordinate with each other, so he didn't even need to look for them, as someone would naturally send him their phone numbers.
Therefore, there are not many good people among these Mr. Hong Kong; they run for office for fame and fortune.
That's why when I saw the report that the third wife of the shoe king claimed that she and her affair partner Huang Xiangfa were true love, I almost laughed my head off.
I don't know if she's crazy or what, she's this age, how could she make such a mistake?
You've found someone 16 years younger than you, only 23. You're so much older than him, don't you know what he's after?
How dare you say this is true love?
The whole thing is absurd!
Whether it's the shoe king's brainless act of going to the newspaper to expose the scandal, as if he wanted everyone to know he'd been cuckolded, or his third wife's actions of not only refusing to apologize but also publicly claiming it was true love, their behavior is utterly absurd.