After I left SM in 2012, Yifan finally debuted in EXO. During this period of time I would receive many calls from Yifan telling me of what he was suffering, mostly due to the company’s unfair treatment towards him. One of the more serious times was with a certain older female staff in the company’s training department. Because of her own personal animosity with Yifan, she ordered the other members in the group to ostracise him, not allowing them to talk to him, not arranging him to participate in activities, and reducing the number opportunities for public appearances he had. If I had not stayed in SM for nearly 8 years, I would probably have difficulty believing that such things would happen. Ultimately due to this issue, Yifan’s activities were stopped by the company for a period of time.
As time went by, Yifan frequently told me in his calls that the activities were very tiring, when things started I was happy for him, because he could finally accomplish his dream, right till on one occasion he told me that due to the company’s nonstop activities, it led to severe sleep deprivation, (at times for many days back-to-back there was only 3-4 hours of sleep), in addition there was much mental stress, and he would often feel breathless, suspecting that he had myocarditis.”