Celebrity power couple Faye Wong, Li Yapeng divorce after eight years of marriage

Singer Faye Wong announced yesterday that she has divorced her second husband, Li Yapeng.

The disclosure on her Weibo page was reposted more than 70,000 times and attracted almost 30,000 comments from her shocked fans within half an hour.

"Our affinity and connection as a husband and wife in this life has come to an end," she wrote on the mainland's Twitter-like social media platform at around 7.30pm. "I'm well. Please take care of yourself as well."

The 44-year-old Canto-pop and Mando-pop diva, who is based in Beijing, married mainlander and former actor Li in 2005.

In a posting on his Weibo page later, Li, who is two years Wong's junior, admitted that they had broken up.

"What I want is a family, but you are destined to be a legend," he said in the post, implying that the two divorced because of a difference of values.

He said their daughter would be taken into his custody and that there would not be any disputes over money because the pair had remained independent in their financial affairs.