Talks of a rift between the two were highly exaggerated, sayeth Ming: “I’m upset,” he said, “(that) this news is fake. That (story) surprised me, really surprised me. That’s the first time in my career I heard that. I heard other stories, but not about me. Now is the first time it happened to us. Whatever they say outside, I feel we need to keep inside that room, in close, and we fight like a team.”