When Bai Chun arrived at the hospital, she waited for Director Liu to arrive in Director Liu's office, anxious to tell Director Liu that Chen Hui was suspected of plagiarizing Professor Ding Mingzhang's paper. Director Liu was surprised to see Bai Chun and even jokingly asked Bai Chun about her divorce. Bai Chun had no intention of joking with Director Liu and seriously reflected on Chen Hui's thesis. Director Liu did not realize the seriousness of the matter and felt that the paper was written by Chen Hui when he was a student, so it was normal for the similarities to occur. Bai Chun reminded Director Liu that this matter was very important. The news had spread in the Department of Orthopedics and the entire hospital would soon know about it. Director Liu realized the seriousness of the matter and asked Bai Chun for his opinion on how to deal with it. Bai Chun didn't know what to do. Director Liu sighed and just let the meeting go first. As soon as everyone arrived in the conference room, someone came to find Chen Hui and took Chen Hui away. Everyone was confused. Bai Chun just said to hold the meeting first. Director Liu thought for a while and asked everyone to hold the meeting first and go to the dean to report Chen Hui's thesis. The dean said that he learned that the important data in the two papers were the same, but he had not read the papers in detail. Director Liu said that Professor Ding Mingzhang would go to Puyun Hospital to help perform an operation in a while. Chen Hui's incident happened at an unfortunate time, and the dean was very worried. Director Liu proposed verification. If it is evidence, then follow the rules. The dean felt very sad and didn't know what Chen Hui would do at that time. Director Liu felt very distressed when he saw the dean like this, and told the dean to retreat when it was time to do so, and stop carrying the burden for others.
Chen Hui was taken away to investigate the paper, but Chen Hui was unwilling to write the whole story or speak. Zhang Ming kept persuading Chen Hui to explain the whole story and said that he believed Chen Hui. Chen Hui just said that he did not plagiarize. The dean and deputy dean also came. The deputy dean asked Chen Hui many questions, but Chen Hui just insisted that he wrote the paper himself. The deputy dean had no choice but to take out a paper published by Professor Ding Mingzhang three months earlier than Chen Hui. This paper was almost identical to Chen Hui's paper. Chen Hui said that he had no explanation. Upon seeing this, Zhang Ming directly asked Chen Hui if the paper was written when he was an intern in Professor Ding Mingzhang's laboratory, and Chen Hui admitted it. Zhang Ming heard Chen Hui's answer and concluded that Chen Hui's paper was completed under the guidance of Professor Ding Mingzhang. However, Chen Hui's paper did not mention Professor Ding Mingzhang and his team, so Zhang Ming concluded that Chen Hui plagiarized. Chen Hui was very angry but refused to speak. The dean said that he should not rush to conclusions and let Chen Hui explain. The vice president mentioned that Professor Ding Mingzhang would come to Puyun to assist in surgery a few days later. Chen Hui heard that he did not know how to do surgery. Upon seeing this, the dean asked Chen Hui to go out first. The dean asked Zhang Ming to formally launch an investigation, but did not suspend Chen Hui. He only temporarily withdrew his prescription rights. After the dean came out, he asked Chen Hui alone if he had plagiarized. Chen Hui firmly stated that he had not plagiarized. After the dean heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, patted Chen Hui on the shoulder and asked Chen Hui to go to work.
The news about Chen Hui's thesis spread throughout the hospital. When Yuan Ye and He Tong learned about this incident, they both felt that Chen Hui had been wronged, and they also speculated that Chen Hui was unwilling to attack Professor Ding Mingzhang because of this incident.
After Bai Chun read Chen Hui's surgical plan for Yu Yang, Chen Hui happened to return to the surgery department. Bai Chun thought it was very creative and asked Chen Hui to discuss the details with the directors of each department. Seeing that Chen Hui was silent, Bai Chun asked if he could help send the surgery plan to the director of the orthopedics department. Chen Hui said he didn't want to go and handed the surgery plan to Bai Chun. Bai Chun took it and thought about it before telling Chen Hui to learn to face it. As a doctor, it would be best for Chen Hui to discuss the details of the surgery with the director of the orthopedics department. After hearing this, Chen Hui went to the orthopedics department with the surgical plan. The director of the Department of Orthopedics did not accept the surgical plan given by Chen Hui. He also said that Chen Hui needed to avoid the surgery and that the specific treatment plan would have to wait until Professor Ding Mingzhang came to Puyun. Chen Hui still put the surgical plan on the desk of the director of orthopedics, said that he wrote it himself, and left.
The hospital held a meeting to discuss the decision to handle the plagiarism incident of Chen Hui's paper. The hospital contacted Professor Ding Mingzhang. Professor Ding Mingzhang said that he would not comment on Chen Hui and Chen Hui's paper, nor would it affect cooperation with the hospital, but asked Chen Hui to avoid surgery. Zhang Ming said that Chen Hui should be fired according to relevant regulations, but Director Cao believed that lack of relevant evidence meant that Chen Hui did not necessarily plagiarize. But Zhang Ming said that students who work on projects with their tutors belong to the tutor, and at least the tutor must be given a corresponding author. Everyone raised their hands to vote whether Chen Hui should stay or go. Fifteen people agreed to expel Chen Hui. Before Director Liu raised his hand, the vice president asked Director Liu for his opinion. Director Liu said that he did not like Chen Hui, but did not think that Chen Hui would plagiarize. Even if the plagiarism was true, the punishment given to Chen Hui was too severe. Director Liu hoped to give Chen Hui a chance to change his ways. In the end, only Director Liu gave an objection. Although the dean had a veto power, he did not use it and abstained. Therefore, the hospital passed the decision to fire Chen Hui.
Yuan Ye and He Tong learned of the hospital's decision to formally expel Chen Hui and hurried to find Chen Hui. The two persuaded Chen Hui to tell everyone the truth, but Chen Hui insisted not to tell. Chen Hui also said that even if he cannot be a doctor in Puyun, he can still be a doctor in other hospitals. Chen Hui hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter yet, and He Tong was very anxious. But Chen Hui just expressed his gratitude to Yuan Ye and He Tong for caring about him and left.