Back To The 80s: President's Doted Wife novel Chapter 1698

Chapter 1698: Chapter 1699: A Notable Character

It’s actually not that hard to dig into Shen Rong’s background. He even published an autobiography, and although there may be some exaggerations, Cheng Yaozu hired a private detective to verify the details, and most of it aligns with the autobiography.

Shen Rong is sixty-eight this year, born a poor boy in a remote fishing village, from a family not worth mentioning—impoverished, the kind of unwanted child that neither grandfather nor grandmother loves, stubborn in nature, once he sets his mind on something, he does it regardless of right or wrong.

Before liberation, life was tough. Unfavored at home, after being beaten so badly that his leg almost broke, he ran away from home, venturing across the country.

According to him, he dug coal and even sneaked onto coal trains, visited the Capital, traveled to Jiangnan, did all kinds of odd jobs and sometimes resorted to petty thefts just to have a meal.

He wouldn’t say much about his childhood incidents, only mentioning a turning point when he worked as an errand boy in an underground casino and learned many skills, later becoming a small-time thug, and eventually, he turned the tables, becoming the owner of a small casino, which initially held only a dozen people or so, and gradually expanded bigger and bigger.

Shen Rong had talent, brains, and enough ruthlessness—his ruthlessness was being able to be ruthless to himself. As long as there was still breath left in him, he could fight with his last breath, putting everything else at stake.

Precisely because of this, his business gradually flourished, though not coming from a legitimate source, yet he managed to launder the money clean, then ventured into various businesses.

After decades of turmoil, Shen Rong is already a well-known overseas tycoon, perhaps not yet as wealthy as he could be, but enough to indulge. Thus, he has two wives, four or five children, living life to the fullest.

As for businesses, besides casinos, there are others like enterprises, department stores, all openly legitimate.

Nowadays, he married the Third Mistress, none other than Chiang Qing, at the advanced age of nearly seventy, while his eldest son is already forty-five.

As for his dealing in both legal and illegal sectors, no matter how legitimate a casino is, in the eyes of the righteous, especially domestically, it falls into the black sector. How could such a black sector not have underworld connections?

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