Riveting real-life Hong Kong serial

PICTURE: REUTERS

IT HAS all the right ingredients for a drama series - love, money and dirty family secrets.

Like a soap opera, "plot developments" surface almost every day.

However, this isn't your average drama - all the characters involved are popular Hong Kong stars and it's all real (that is, if Hong Kong media reports are to be believed).

The protagonists? Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung, whose troubled marriage is at the centre of a regional media storm for the last two weeks.

The New Paper's Kwok Kar Peng charts the latest developments in this saga.

The couple have two children, Lucas and Quintus Tse
PICTURE COURTESY OF NICHOLAS TSE