Episode 14 recap: Ma Jia offended the entire medical team.
Shi Zhu Zi specially invited the medical team for a meal, not only because it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also because it was Jiang Da Qiao's birthday. Shi Zhu Zi first wished everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Ma Jia immediately received a call from Liang Sen Lin, informing him that someone had reported his and Peng Wei's drinking incident to the Health Commission. The Health Commission is now investigating the matter, and Ma Jia has a strong intuition that Jiang Da Qiao is behind it. So he returned to his seat and started drinking one glass after another to drown his sorrows.
Shi Zhu Zi prepared a birthday cake specifically for Jiang Da Qiao. Everyone gathered around to wish Jiang Da Qiao a happy birthday. Ma Jia, in a drunken state, disrupted the celebration by pretending to wish Jiang Da Qiao good luck but actually mocking him as a petty person, and he even threw his glass into the cake.
Seeing Ma Jia causing such a scene, Shi Zhu Zi quickly tried to stop him. Unexpectedly, Ma Jia turned his anger towards Shi Zhu Zi, taunting that Jiang Da Qiao's arrival to support the non-local medical team was just an excuse to revisit an old flame. Wu Mei, witnessing Ma Jia's increasingly inappropriate behavior, also tried to intervene and stop him. In response, Ma Jia revealed that Chang Lai was also present at the drinking incident that day, implying that Wu Mei knew about it but deliberately covered up the truth. To prove his words, Ma Jia insisted that Peng Wei show the video taken that night.
Peng Wei felt that Ma Jia's behavior was unacceptable and refused to cooperate. Ma Jia then mocked Peng Wei, claiming that he was not genuinely here to support the non-local team but was randomly selected through an office lottery. This angered Peng Wei, and his expression changed. Shi Zhu Zi, witnessing Ma Jia's escalating unruly behavior, tried to restrain him, but Ma Jia was combative and bit back at anyone who tried to stop him. As a result, Shi Zhu Zi splashed a glass of water on Ma Jia, hoping to sober him up. Eventually, Zhao Yi Cong stepped in and escorted Ma Jia away.
Jiang Da Qiao's birthday celebration had been ruined, and he was in a bad mood. After cutting the cake, he left alone. Shi Zhu Zi quickly caught up with him to console him. Jiang Da Qiao couldn't understand why Ma Jia was always against him, despite his efforts to accommodate him on many occasions. Ma Jia still felt targeted by him, which greatly frustrated Jiang Da Qiao. All he wanted was for everyone in the medical team to live up to the national flag they wore on their uniforms.
Shi Zhu Zi advised Jiang Da Qiao to be more open-minded and leave the remaining issues to time. However, Jiang Da Qiao couldn't help but worry about how to get through the next two years, considering that Ma Jia had already caused so much trouble in just a few months. Zhao Yi Cong took Ma Jia back to the dormitory and overheard him muttering that Suleiman was a big fraud. Zhao Yi Cong made a mental note of the name Suleiman.
The next day, Ma Jia woke up with no recollection of what he had said the previous night. As usual, he went to the cafeteria for a meal and realized that Chang An was ignoring him, which made him realize that he had offended the entire medical team the night before. When Ma Jia arrived at the hospital, he went to find Wu Mei, but Wu Mei was angry with him for disrupting Jiang Da Qiao's birthday party and for accusing them of being informants. Wu Mei couldn't accept it and didn't give Ma Jia a good face. When Ma Jia tried to say something, Wu Mei immediately stopped him, showing the fiery temper of a Chinese woman to Marion.
Ma Jia took the opportunity when there was no one in the pediatric department to find Peng Wei. However, Peng Wei, who had always treated him as a buddy, was also angry this time and didn't want to talk to him at all. He asked Ma Jia to leave directly. Suleiman returned to Sanah, and Ma Jia was delighted to see Suleiman when the entire team despised him. He gladly accepted Suleiman's invitation to a banquet and was liked by Suleiman's sisters. He even received a wedding invitation from Suleiman's elder sister and promised to attend the wedding. He took a group photo with Suleiman's family and had a pleasant day.
Zhao Yi Cong coincidentally ran into Suleiman and Ma Jia on the street and invited them to have a drink together. Suleiman was curious how Ma Jia had offended everyone, but after seeing the video in Zhao Yi Cong's hands, he realized that Ma Jia actually thought Sanah was a ghost place and that the people here were all worthless. He felt hurt by Ma Jia's view of his homeland and countrymen and left in anger, ignoring Ma Jia.
Ma Jia had a splitting headache. He didn't know how to apologize to everyone. Jiang Da Qiao was also troubled. He was considering sending Ma Jia back to China, but Liang Sen Lin believed that Ma Jia was at fault and Jiang Da Qiao also had some responsibility. If Jiang Da Qiao had reported Ma Jia's behavior earlier, things wouldn't have become so difficult.
The reason Ma Jia's situation became known to the Health Commission was because Yang Can Zan mentioned it to Director Zhu when he returned to China. Director Zhu, as the direct supervisor of the medical team, conducted an investigation, which led to Ma Jia misunderstanding Jiang Da Qiao. Jiang Da Qiao had decided to send Ma Jia back to China, and in order to avoid any blemishes on the records, he planned to use the excuse of Ma Jia needing to return to China for medical treatment and recuperation to send him back.
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