Holding Her Principles
Jessica is well-known in the entertainment circle to be someone who sticks to her principles. And, she had she had caused quite a few controversies by operating under the notion that “with reasons in my hands, I shall speak up when there is unfairness”. As she was forced to give in to the rules of the society and entertainment circle, she persistently held on to her last principle, “I will not do what I don’t want to do for money.”

In her words, “in the past, my world had only black and white, right and wrong. This is a strength and a weakness. Now, I have a grey zone. As society and situation evolves and when everyone move towards majority rule, I could not force the earth to just spin for me. Certain matters need to be given in, but my unmovable principle would be “I will not do what I don’t want to do for money.””

She could help but laughed at herself as she recalled her “lessons” in the entertainment circle. There were many news on people could get along with each other. However, due to her nature for not taking things lying down, she was made use of to blow up the matters. As she learnt the rules of the games, she realised that it was useless to be confrontational, instead she would think of ways to strike a balance. As she matured, she understand that people have their shortcomings and character differences, and she also realised there are many types of friends.

Century Squabble with Maggie Cheung
In 1997, Jessica and Maggie acted in the series “Old Time Buddies” and caused “Century Squabble Between Two TVB Top Actresses”. Jessica publicly pointed out that Maggie was late for filming, and the latter said that Jessica had caused NG because of her laughing. They continued to scold each other until TVB mediator instructed them to keep quiet. Both of them refused to cooperated with each other to the point of having childish behaviour during the promotional events. Jessica said, “This matter was nothing serious. It just gave the media more things to report. Not many people will remember it now. But I felt wronged because I did nothing wrong and yet I was being accused. Hence, I was frustrated. If I had handled this matter ten years later, I will not make noise and respond to the media; I will ask the other party directly if he/ she has criticised me.”

Don’t Mind Working Again
Jessica described the squabble as the turning point for her growing up. “I was pulled from a very happy world to a realistic world and I made my first step learning to be alert and careful. I was a carefree person and thought that I could remain as so till I’m forty years old until this matter happened. I really didn’t know how to handle the matter then and was vexed. No one could avoid growing up.”

She had gained much experience in the last 10 years and Maggie had recovered from a serious illness. TVB had wanted to filmed a series called “Loggerheads meet again” before, who would be a better cast other than them? “The company had asked if I mind working with Maggie again and I had longed expressed I had no problem with it. I like the series “Loggerheads meet again” and I wanted to play one of the characters who was chatty (I hope I got this term right.)” Jessica was so happy thinking of the acting that she couldn’t help but laughed.

Playing Father-Daughter with Damien Lau
Jessica said that one of her reasons for accepting the filming of the popularly received “The Drive of Life” series was due to the opportunity to work with Damien Lau. “I had watched his acting since young and I can appreciate his charm even more now. He gave me the fatherly feeling. We spoke about acting and about life, especially my character/ personality and my ways of handling matters. He said that he saw his younger self in me because we both have strong character, valued principles and will fight for fairness. Nonetheless, he gave me many advice as because he doesn’t want me to make too many mistakes and waste too much effort.”

Looking back at her fifteen years records, since she joined TVB in 1992, she realised that her disputes with other actresses and her conflicts, complaints and even lawsuits with other people were all due to the fact that she held on to her principles.

No Regret Giving Up Song
It was difficult to have both career and love. Jessica is one who bravely admitted her loves. Her publicly admitted boyfriends are Dicky Cheung, Song and Dentist Chan. Her rumoured boyfriends were Gallen Lo, Louis Koo and Joe Ma. “Louis and Joe were what the media forced onto me. Some of these rumours are very funny.” Out of the 3 publicly admitted relationships, her six-years relationship with Song was the longest. During which was the time she worked hardest for her career and she admitted it was fair to Song then.

Hope to Have Marriage and Family
“I could have agree to go on holiday with him, but I will choose work over him whenever the company called. Career was the most important thing to me then. The second would be family and friends. I can’t remember where I placed my boyfriend then. However, I don’t regret my choice because I wanted to be a wife of a rich man I would have done it long ago. I need to grab the opportunities in the entertainment circle.” Jessica is no longer expecting another career peak. She likes acting but she will strike a balance. “I have to have marriage and family now.”

No Easy Being A Top Actress
It not easy being a TVB top actress. Over the years, Jessica had acted in about 30 TVB series. The highest record is having 4 series, in which she played the main actress, being broadcast in the same year. In 2000, Jessica was filming “A Step in the Past” in mainland China and fell ill due to overwork. She was hospitalised for 8 days and placed on 24 packs of drip. “I don’t know how to said stop to work in the past until I was lying weakly on the hospital bed, throwing up and having diarrhoeas. I told God that I was willing to give up fame, house, car and money to have my health back. From then on, I know I need to slow down my work, and beside work, my family and friends also need me very much.” Jessica has reduced her workload in recent years and changed her contract with TVB to “per series basis”, one series per year.