YM's Initial Bad Impression of FSF

Top Photo: "We should add a kiss in this scene." - FSF

Bottom Photo: "Immediately at that moment, any positive good feelings I have of him perished." - YM

Despite their sizzling onscreen chemistry in Gong, FSF and YM admitted they didn't click at all during the early days of Gong shooting. YM said FSF left a bad impression on her after their telemovie collaboration in 2004. They only worked together for about 10 days and FSF already suggested they add a kiss to their farewell scene to leave a "deepen impression" for viewers. YM, being only 17 at the time, felt the kiss was unnecessary and was repulsed by FSF's suggestion.

In showbiz, YM is also famously known as "Yu Jie" (御姐）literally meaning "the imperial big sister" because she often acts very cold/reserved toward people she doesn't know well, and gets highly self-defensive. Once you're close to her, she pours out her heart and soul to you.  So, YM completely gave FSF the cold shoulder when they first started to shoot Gong together. To make matters worse, they both had a very different interpretation of the Gong characters. FSF felt he totally have no chemistry with YM. She felt the same but didn't feel comfortable enough with FSF to talk about their disagreement. Let's just say that YM acted so cold to FSF that even his assistant couldn't take it anymore and refused to bring the snacks that FSF wanted to give to YM.  The situation aggravated to the point where FSF couldn't sleep well at night because he just couldn't immerse into the 8th Prince character and generate the necessary onscreen chemistry with YM.  One night after shooting, FSF went to YM's hotel room to have a talk with her and resolve their differences. FSF said they talked for 2 hours and YM openly bashed his melodramatic acting...LOL.

After their long talk, they felt both more comfortable communicating with each other about any problems/issues. FSF got a better good grasp of the 8th Prince character. FengMi gained rapport, and finally the much needed onscreen chemistry we saw between 8th Prince and QingChuan in Gong. Yu Zheng also said that after FSF and YM's long talk, FSF asked if they could re-shoot all his scenes, which they did. Later on, FengMi clicked so well that many adorable scenes in Gong were actually ad libs (i.e. that imperial garden scene where 8th Prince was released from prison and he went to see QingChuan and grabbed her hands to put on his cheeks was an impromptu gesture that FSF did on the spot and not written in the script. YM reacted to this ad lib by pinching his cheeks. The second kiss in the imperial kitchen was also an ad lib by FSF...LOL...YM was caught off guard by his 2nd kiss.)

Imperial Kitchen Scene where FSF added an impromptu second kiss

Toward the end of October 2010 when YM's management company, Mei Ah Media Group, planned on producing a new historical drama about the Warring States, YM recommended FSF for the male leading role. YM felt she has a lot of rapport with FSF after Gong and thought he would be a good choice to play Lord Xin Ling in Legend of the Military Seal. As for FSF, he was very grateful of YM's recommendation and the  opportunity to work with a very renown drama director in China.

Mango_cake's comments:

And lmao at whoever put together those pics with the captions..."我瞬间对这个人的印象好感全无"... Seriously that line is never going to get old. But if that is indeed the scene (seems like it), what was FSF thinking?! How did he expect to add a kiss scene through those huge prison bars, rofl. At least it happened right at the end of filming so he didn't have to suffer through YM's cold shoulder treatment until 7 years later.