Weng Jingjing once faced harsh public gossip for her life choices, but she never cared about others' comments, and built her own solid life step by step.
At the age of 20, Weng Jingjing married martial arts master Liu Jialang, who was 30 years her senior. At the time, there was widespread public criticism, and the label of “a woman who brings misfortune to her husband” has followed her for a long time; yet throughout her life, she has never paid any heed to outside opinions.
In the years
right after she retired from show business, when people who knew her well brought up her marriage, most couldn’t help but feel a sense of regret—she had given up a promising career in show business to marry a man older than her own father.Later, when Leslie Cheung and Peter Chan—who had worked with her on the early film *Cheers*—passed away one after another, the gossip grew even more intense, with many believing her future prospects were unlikely to improve.
No one knew what her daily life was like behind closed doors: while caring for her ailing husband—preparing herbal remedies and tending to his health—she would squeeze in time to pore over legal textbooks at the library, often staying up until the wee hours of the morning, all while juggling her job as an insurance broker. This routine continued for more than a decade, yet she never once complained to anyone about how hard it was.
Even
after earning her Juris Doctor degree and rising to a position among the top ten insurance brokers in the world, she never made a big deal of it; she simply lived her life quietly and thoughtfully.
When Liu Jialang passed away, someone even stole his ashes to blackmail her. Clutching the police report receipt, she stood outside the police station without shedding a single tear from start to finish.
Everyone assumed she would spend the rest of her life alone, but unexpectedly, at the age of fifty-five, she remarried—to a descendant of the Ho Tung family, a century-old Hong Kong dynasty.The public waited to see if she would rely on the wealthy family to get by, but after her marriage, she rarely participated in the Ho family’s social engagements. She continued to write at her desk and attend court proceedings related to her cases, showing not the slightest intention of depending on others.
Now in her sixties, she stands on stage sharing insights on legal matters. Occasionally, someone still brings up the old gossip from years ago—that she was a “husband-killer”—but she merely smiles faintly and says that her life is none of anyone else’s business.She has long since trampled underfoot, one by one, the derogatory labels that were once pinned on her.
In life, it’s inevitable that others will label us with all sorts of irrelevant tags. Don’t worry about what others say; living your life with integrity and doing your best is more meaningful than anything else.
