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The Confessions of Chu Mei-feng

Chu Mei-Feng published her memoirs The Confessions of Chu Mei-Feng in early February, less than two months after the famous sex scandal broke. (Read our full coverage page on the Chu Mei-Feng sex VCD scandal.) These two article appeared in the Straits Times, which removes stories from its website after one week.

Chu Mei-feng still looking for her ideal lover

Cover of former Taipei councillor Chu Mei-feng's tell-all book, The Confessions of Chu Mei-feng, shows her cutting off her hair, an act that is synonymous with getting rid of all her troubles. The Confessions Of Chu Mei-feng was officially launched on Feb 5 and describes in rich detail the trauma she faced after VCDs depicting a sexual encounter between the writer and her married lover Tseng Chung-ming were given away by a local tabloid last December.

(Feb 7, 2002) Disgraced former politician Chu Mei-feng has said in a newly published tell-all book that she is still looking for the ideal lover despite a string of failed relationships with 14 men.

Completed in January, the author said she wanted to give her side of the story to those who only came to know of her after the scandal broke.

'For those of you who had read my diary or seen my body, I want you to read what my heart has to say,' she wrote. A VCD featuring an exclusive interview with the author is given away free together with the book.

The Confessions details her relationships with six boyfriends -- Mr Tseng, former classmate Chou Chih-wei, former Hsinchu City mayor Tsai Jen-chien, news reporter Shao Li-chung, as well as two businessmen, Wang Cheng-ping and Tsai Chao-lun.

The former Taipei city councillor also mentioned eight other prominent Taiwanese men with whom she has had encounters in the past, but no other details were given.

'I still cherish hopes for true love,' the 36-year-old former director of Hsinchu's Cultural Affairs Bureau maintained.

'I hope that after all the dust has settled, I can still fall in love again,' she wrote. 'I want to build a stable relationship and family, one where my heart can belong.'

THE TELL-ALL BOOK: Confessions of Chu Mei-feng

(February 10, 2002) Chu, the Taiwan politician who shot to notoriety after she was secretly filmed having sex with a married man, gave a glimpse into her love life and her choice of male companions in her recently published autobiography.

They may differ in temperament, looks and age, but they all matched, at least for a while, her notion of Mr Right: tall, talented and blessed with that special X-factor.

CHOU CHIH-WEI -- The man in the "lights-out" version of Miss Chu Mei-feng's notorious VCDs. Her primary school classmate and a straight-A scholar. Gentle and passionate, but not a skilful lover. TSAI JEN-CHIEN -- Former Hsinchu mayor charged for alleged involvement in her X-rated VCD scandal. A violent and possessive lover who hit her and forced her into having two abortions. WANG CHENG-PING -- Dated him while she was a Taipei city councillor in 1994. Called her feelings for him mundane and bland. Ditched him after two years because she felt used by him. TSENG CHUNG-MING -- Infamous for being her VCD lover. Called "young and exuberant, like a sunshine boy". Also known for being sensitive and caring, and skilful in bed.

'In the past, my ideal man should stand 178 cm and above, be gentlemanly, outstanding, and possess some special appeal,' she says in her book. The Confessions of Chu Mei-feng, published just two months after a magazine released the secretly filmed VCD, raising a storm in Taiwan and beyond.

While media reports have floated the figure of 15 lovers, Chu acknowledged having just six in her book.

These included Shao Li-chung, her first love at the age of 23, former Hsinchu mayor Tsai Jen-chien and Tseng Chung-ming, the infamous paramour in the VCD.

Tsai, who was charged last Thursday with having a hand in the secret VCD plot, was a violent and possessive lover who hit her and forced her into having an abortion - not once, but twice, says the book.

'There are many possible reasons for my break-up with Tsai Jen-chien,' Chu wrote. 'But the clincher was his violent temper.'

'He would spout vulgarities, hurl things and beat me when he flew into a rage,' she says.

Even simple incidents such as disappointment over a gift from him were enough to push him over the edge.

Recalling her first pregnancy at the age of 34 in 1999, Chu says she had hoped to marry Tsai and keep the baby. But Tsai shattered her dreams with callous indifference.

''Oh, is that so?' was his reply when I broke the news to him over the phone,' says the 36-year-old Chu.

Three days later, Tsai told her to abort the baby at his brother-in-law's clinic.

The high-profile but turbulent four-year relationship between the two politicians ended in March last year at her insistence.

Tseng, in contrast, was 'young and exuberant, like a sunshine boy'.

Immediately after they became acquainted over work in April last year, Tseng wooed her with daily phone calls, e-mail and caring words, she says.

Comparing him with the stern-looking and stingy Tsai, she was full of praise for the 32-year-old Tseng.

'Being in love with Tseng Chung-ming was such a sweet and happy feeling. He knew how to enjoy life, and was very sensitive, very caring.'

In her book, Chu also complimented unabashedly Tseng's love-making skills.

'He was someone who could really steal hearts with his sensitivity, gentleness and patience. He was really skilful.'

ACKNOWLEDGED LOVERS Tseng Chung-ming: The man with her in the VCD and boss of an Internet company. Chou Chih-wei: Her primary school classmate and youth representative for the Kuomintang's overseas branch. Tsai Jen-chien: A former Hsinchu mayor. Shao Li-chung: First serious boyfriend and former fiance. Wang Cheng-ping: Her boyfriend when she was a Taipei city councillor. Tsai Chao-lun: GM of a textile firm. RUMOURED LOVERS Lin Hsin-chih: Her colleague at the 2020 Culture and Education Fund, to which Mr Tsai appointed her. Tsai Hao: Independent legislator. Lan Tsai-wang: Her landlord when she stayed in Taipei. Wang Yu-tseng: Businessman. Luo Wen-chia: Democratic Progressive Party legislator who belongs to President Chen Shui-bian's faction. Chang Chung-tien: Sports programme producer, a close friend. Lin Feng-yu: Senior police officer, another close friend. Chin Po-chuan: New Party volunteer worker in Los Angeles who stalked her and claimed to be her boyfriend after the scandal broke. Paul Yang: Lecturer who was interested in her and also claimed to be her boyfriend after the scandal broke. Source: Confessions of Chu Mei-feng

Another lover, with whom she carried on a relationship around the same time she romanced Tseng, bedded her less skilfully.

This lover was Chou Chih-wei, the man who was supposed to have had sex with her in another VCD dubbed the 'lights-out version'. As the setting was so dark - all the room lights were off - no one could be sure the man's silhouette was Chou's.

'He wasn't really skilful in that department,' she says of Chou, her primary school classmate who went on to become a straight-A scholar she admired.

'But he was gentle and passionate, I felt really comfortable and secure with him.'

Her three other earlier relationships were less fraught with tension.

She had a brief liaison in 1997 with textile tycoon Tsai Chao-lun, a kindly gentleman who showered her with expensive fur coats and treated her with respect.

'However, when Tsai Jen-chien appeared in my life, I had eyes for no one else but him,' Chu wrote, apologising to the tycoon.

As for businessman Wang Cheng-ping, whom she dated while she was Taipei city councillor in 1994, there was little fizz in their relationship.

She ditched him after two years because she felt used by him.

'From the beginning to the end, I felt he was hoping to grab business opportunities through my contacts.'

In 1989, when Chu was fresh out of university and working as a rookie reporter she met Shao Li-chung - her first boyfriend and the only one to go so far as to become her fiance.

'My love for him was the purest among all my relationships,' she wrote.

Still, she broke off the engagement after he went to Canada for further studies because 'I felt really miserable missing him all the time'.

After the roller-coaster rides in her love life and the sex video scandal, Chu appears resigned to a life without a dream man.

'After this incident, I think my chances of having a boyfriend in future have diminished,' she says.