The King of Gamblers, a powerful family that is always at the center of gossip.

This year, with the departure of the King of Gamblers, his aftermath, all the behavior of his life, as well as he left behind three wives, more than a dozen sons and daughters and took turns appearing in the hot search list.

The King of Gamblers has four wives, seventeen children, we are more familiar with the red face of the eldest daughter of the eldest house of Ho Chiu Ying, the most valued daughter of the second house of Pansy Ho, as well as in the past two years because of gossip gossip into the field of vision of the fourth house of the son of Ho Yau Kwan, and so on, these children are the media reporter's focus on the object of attention.

One, a low-profile son of a wealthy family

Compared with his high-profile siblings, Ho is a man with a somewhat low presence.

When people think of him, their general impression is that he is the only son of the King of Gamblers and his second wife, Ms. Lan Qiong Ying, and the younger brother of his big sister, Ms. Pansy Ho, but other than that, Lawrence can hardly dig up any gossip.

We all think that being born into a rich family means you are destined to be happy, but for Lawrence Ho, it's not necessarily the case. Lawrence's sister, Pansy Ho, once told the media that she couldn't even call Stanley Ho her father when she was a child because of her mother's embarrassing status, so it's not easy to see how it's not easy to be a member of a wealthy family.

As a child, Ho was a bit of a loner. His father was busy with business, and his mother had to be a good woman behind the King of Gamblers as well as keeping a close eye on the one after another redheads who appeared beside Stanley Ho.

Even during family reunions, it's the smart and eye-catching sisters who get more attention.

He attended elementary school in Canada, where he and his classmates spoke different colors and languages, making it difficult for them to communicate with each other. This made Ho increasingly introverted, and he spent his entire childhood and adolescence somewhat alone.

However, Ho's grades were very good, and at the age of 23, he received his university degree in Canada and returned to Hong Kong, where he was born.

At this time, Ho's sisters were all practicing in the King's company, and as the only son of the second wife, Ho was offered an internship in the King's company, but Ho chose to decline.

Two: Start your own life

The King's aura is dazzling, but it can also be a shackle for those with big ambitions.

So it was that Lawrence Ho's first job was an internship at a bank. Like all his colleagues, he worked as an ordinary clerk with a meager internship salary, and later, he jumped to a securities firm.

Working in banks and securities firms gave Ho a lot of experience, and a year later, at the age of 24, he decided to start his own business.

He was involved in the investment and management of a holding company, which he helped to take public, and then went on to acquire several other technology companies.

Around 2001, when Ho saw that the Internet economy was falling, he reorganized the company into a financial services firm, which not only didn't lose money, but also made a killing.

The operations impressed the King of Gamblers, who threw a hot potato at Ho to test his son's abilities.

This hot potato was none other than Melco International, a company under the king, which at the time was losing money so badly that its properties were closing down, with only a few food and beverage outlets still making a profit.

Aaron Ho took over the company and immediately made drastic reforms, converting its restaurants into luxury hotels that combined food, leisure, entertainment and lodging, and merging its gaming and financial industries into Melco.

Over the years, under Ho's careful management, Melco International has become one of the biggest companies in Macau, with one gambling license each from MGM, the king's direct subsidiary.

Three: A man with a heart of gold

The media is naturally interested in the love life of such a rising star in the business world, knowing that his father, Stanley Ho, has had many affairs throughout his life, and as the son of the king of gamblers, Lawrence has had a lot of confidantes.

But his love life has been boring to the media.

Over the years, Ho has had one and only one relationship, with his current wife, Law Sau Yan, who is the granddaughter of Vitasoy's founder and also comes from a wealthy family.

While the relationship was a strong one, it was not a family marriage, but a free love affair. Ho and Law, who are seven years apart, met when Law was in high school and later studied together in Canada. The two young men fell in love and married as soon as they graduated.

At the time, the media was in the mood to watch. After all, the four wives of the King of Gamblers gossip is still on, the media feel that Luo Xiuyin ultimately can not escape a "original match fight junior" play.

But over the years, even the most pervasive Hong Kong paparazzi could not dig up any gossip about Lawrence Ho, who was photographed either shopping with his wife or taking his daughter to school.

Everyone says that a son is like his father, but for Lawrence, his father is a man who deserves respect, but he can't identify with his father's emotional state. Whether it was being called an "illegitimate child" as a child or watching his father come and go, it left an indelible shadow in his heart. Compared to his father's flirtatious behavior, Ho aspires to be with someone he wants to be with, and not to be separated from.

With the passage of time, Lawrence has come to accept being called "the son of the King of Gamblers," and perhaps he is not destined to take off his father's halo, but to carry on his father's ambition! As the years go by, Lawrence has slowly become less obsessed with a name.

What have our parents left us? Wealth? Looks? Temperament? Lawrence Ho's story tells us that our parents have left us traces that are hard to erase, but we can also choose our own life. Our parents are not always right and strong, and by seizing the opportunity and moving forward, we can become as strong as our parents.

Likewise, maybe there is a bad side of the parents, but for the shortcomings of the parents, we have the opportunity to get rid of, everyone has the instinct to know right from wrong, the children of the King of Gamblers no longer appear to have three wives and four concubines, they have been free from their parents generation, the shackles of that obsolete extended family.

The family of origin thesis has become increasingly popular over the years, and the family of origin has left a deep imprint on us, but we should always remember that we can be whoever we want to be.