It was a little cloudy that day, so that morning was cooler than the day before. A few water tankers were spraying out water at the same time. The director yelled 'action'. Yan Qingsi and Song Qingyan took their place at both sides of the tram track and recited their lines accordingly.
In The Scent of Her, this was the scene where the male and female leads were most desperate and hopeless. Yan Qingsi had to slap Song Qingyan.
Unexpectedly, when the camera rolled, Song Qingyan let Yan Qingsi slap him with all her might in order to make the scene more realistic. If a clip from either camera was blurry, they would have to do it again.
Yan Qingsi was staggered — it was the first time she truly knew the actor whom she had worked with for so many days.
She had always thought of him as a snobbish actor who only cared about his career; she thought that he viewed everyone with contempt.