七仙羽 is not from a wealthy family. Nor is she the protagonist portrayed in her memoir.
A former classmate of Qi Xianyu, who knew her in the 1990s, revealed some details about her real background. Formerly known as Chiu Ling, she was said to be of Mainland Chinese descent and to have moved to Hong Kong for he journalism studies at Chu Hai College, rather than coming from a wealthy family in Malaysia and falling in love with Hong Kong while vacationing in the city–like she has always told the Hong Kong media in recent years.
An interview published in the now-defunct Next Magazine, whose owner Jimmy Lai is presently in jail, allowed the reader to take a peep at her private life and mental state back in 2004. Working as a modestly-paid journalist more than 20 years ago, this woman spent her Fridays and weekends partying and actively networking, with the hope of finding a wealthy partner that would provide her with a good life and tremendous business opportunities. When her plan did not materialize by the time she reached 30, she published a “memoir,” in which she claims to be from Taiwan and describes her traumatic experience of being raped by her foster father. Containing many erotic scenes and rife with sexually explicit depictions, it was said to have sold over 10,000 copies. It was this book, a dramatic departure from the romance novels sold at Hong Kong’s annual book fairs, that earned her the interview with one of the best-selling weekly magazines back then.
Yet her persona at the interview, though also claiming to be from Taiwan, was remarkably different from that of the victim she initially purported to be.
I wonder if Gerald Ferdinand Alserda – Qi’s current “husband” – knows about her many faces.
七仙羽並不是有錢家庭，亦非她出版的自傳中那個可憐的主角。
一位自1990年代已認識七仙羽的舊同學透露她的真實背景。她本名趙玲，來自中國大陸，90年代才落香港，到珠海書院就讀新聞系，並非她近年經常對傳媒所講，來自馬來西亞的有錢家庭，因為有次到香港旅行喜歡上這個城市。
近年已經停刊、並由現時正在牢中服刑的黎智英創辦的壹周刊，其2004年一個訪問，讓大家窺探此女人廿年前的私生活和心理狀態。當年她於香港一本以健康為題的刊物擔任記者，薪水不高。她於星期五黃昏與周末以性感打扮積極參與各個派對，冀望從中找到有錢伴侶以改善生活和取得商機。經過數年後仍沒有著落，便把心一橫，出版一本所謂”自傳“並題為”侵犯回憶“的著作。她在書中堅稱自己在台灣出生，並於年少時被養父強姦，有極多露骨的性愛場面。此書據聞售出超過一萬本。就是這本跟香港書展那些主流愛情小說大相徑庭的”自傳“，讓她贏得了壹周刊訪問的機會。
然而，她在訪問建立那個人設，雖也堅稱來自台灣，卻跟書中那個受害者角色有天淵之別。
我猜想，她現在那位所謂”老公“可知道她這幾個截然不同的面貌？