In a 15-part interview with Apple Daily, Tan painfully recounted her daughter dying in vitro due to a nuchal cord (when the cord strangles the baby in the womb) in 1991. The couple has since remained childless since Chow did not want his wife to suffer any further complications.

Tan has gone on record saying that in all the years they’ve been together, Chow never forgot a birthday or anniversary, and he would prepare gifts for occasions in advance and hide them to add to the surprise. She has found jewellery under pillow cases and roses under the sheets before going to bed.

The couple is dedicated to philanthropy and have vowed to donate 99 per cent of their wealth to charity when they pass away.

 Carina Lau and Tony Leung

Asked about the incident, Lau has reflected that she is not as strong as she thinks and that without Leung, she wouldn’t be the woman she is today.

Andy Lau and Carol Chu

Finally, in 2008, after 24 years together, the couple tied the knot. Staying together in absolute anonymity had to have required a huge amount of sacrifice. Chu’s sister was once quoted as saying she recalled her sister refusing to go to events on account of waiting for Lau’s long-distance phone call at home.

In 2012, the couple welcomed their daughter Hanna into the world and Lau showed his dedication to his family by turning down the chance to join the Marvel Universe with a role in Iron Man 3. Chinese media later confirmed this was to spend time with his newborn daughter. Take that, Hollywood!

Liza Wang and Law Kar-ying

Who says true love cannot be found later in life? Cantonese opera performer Law Kar-ying and entertainment icon Liza Wang are an example of just that. The two started a relationship in the late 1980s and when Law was asked how the relationship started he innocently answered “because we were both lonely.”

There have certainly been ups and downs in their relationship. Wang was diagnosed with cancer in 2002 and Law was by her side the whole time. Then, in a twist of fate, Law was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2004, only to find during remission that the cancer had spread, needing another round of therapy which he fortunately survived. Wang supported him and in 2007, after the loss of his elderly mother, he proposed to Wang only to be rejected.

Law did not give up and not long after, Wang was the one who suggested they get married and in 2009, after 20 years together they tied the knot in Las Vegas.

Vivian Chow and Joe Nieh

This is one of those rocky relationships that somehow endure and prove naysayers wrong time and again. Chow is famous for her doll-like beauty and when she appeared on the third season of China’s Mask Singer in 2018, at the age of 50, her complexion and figure were widely praised.

Her relationship with writer and then radio host and magazine publisher Joe Nieh started in 1989, only for them to split in 1992, then reconcile in 1997.

During the hiatus, it was rumoured that singer Canti Lau made advances towards Chow and Nieh famously cancelled him, using his extremely popular radio show and Yes! magazine to criticise the singer.

After their reconciliation there were then rumours about Nieh, most notably when he was being photographed by paparazzi in 2008 kissing a college girl at a club. The two called it quits, but in a surprising about-turn, they announced they were getting married a week later and Nieh officially put a ring on it on January 5, 2009.

After more than three decades together, the couple celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary this year. Nieh was photographed by Sing Tao Daily shopping with an unidentified woman in Hong Kong in April 2020, setting the rumour mill alight again.

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