Scene 33 Time / Day Setting / Shanghai Hongqiao Airport Departure Hall
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Travelers
△ In the airport departure hall, Lin Xiuling waves toward Yang Wenhua, who has just come out after clearing customs. Wenhua walks over pulling a suitcase.
Yang Wenhua: Xiuling, how long have you been waiting?
Lin Xiuling: I only arrived not long ago. Senior, if Mingzhu had not said that you were coming, you probably would not have taken the initiative to contact me, right?
Yang Wenhua: The organizers had originally arranged hotel accommodation. I just thought I should not trouble you.
Lin Xiuling: That is different! Since you came to Shanghai, it should be me who receives you. I parked my car at the side entrance. Come to my home first and rest.
Yang Wenhua: Xiuling, you have become even more beautiful.
Lin Xiuling: (happy) Ha! Senior has finally noticed that the ugly duckling has turned into a swan.
△ The two walk toward the side entrance and arrive beside a brand-new sedan. Xiuling unlocks the trunk, and Wenhua places his suitcase inside. The two get into the car.
Lin Xiuling: Senior, I will first take you to a menswear store to choose a few sets of clothes.
Yang Wenhua: No need, right? I brought two sets of clothes.
Lin Xiuling: How could two sets possibly be enough? Since you have come to Shanghai, I make the decisions.
Scene 34 Time / Night Setting / Shopping Street, Menswear Store
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Shop Assistant, Passersby
△ Lin Xiuling walks down the shopping street with her arm linked through Yang Wenhua's. Xiuling is in an excellent mood and chats and laughs with Wenhua.
△ The two enter a menswear store. Xiuling quickly looks through the displayed clothing.
Lin Xiuling: (pointing at the wall) That light-blue suit—take it down so I can have a look.
Shop Assistant: Certainly.
△ The female shop assistant stands on tiptoe, takes down the suit, and hands it to Wenhua.
Lin Xiuling: Wenhua, do you like this one?
Yang Wenhua: I do, but the price is not cheap.
Lin Xiuling: The price is not the issue. If you like it, then buy it!
Lin Xiuling: Miss, does this style come in one size larger?
Shop Assistant: Yes, it does.
Lin Xiuling: Please bring it out and let this gentleman try it on.
Shop Assistant: Certainly, please wait a moment.
Lin Xiuling: I will keep looking around!
△ Xiuling's bright eyes sweep one by one across the suits hanging on the wall and on the racks. The shop assistant immediately brings a suit over to Yang Wenhua.
Lin Xiuling: (urging him) Go try it on. If the size does not fit, it can be altered immediately.
Yang Wenhua: O-okay...
Scene 35 Time / Night Setting / Villa in the Shanghai Suburbs
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Housekeeper Zhou Hong
△ Yang Wenhua changes into the newly bought shirt and dress pants. Carrying a paper box in his hand, he leaves the bedroom and walks into the living room.
△ Lin Xiuling puts down her teacup, stands up, and walks toward Wenhua.
Lin Xiuling: (praising him) This is exactly the feeling—handsome and dignified.
Yang Wenhua: Xiuling, my sisters Wenqing and Wenying also have gifts for you!
Lin Xiuling: (happy) Really? I miss them so much!
△ Yang Wenhua first takes a tin of tea leaves out of the paper box, then takes out a bundle of clothing.
Yang Wenhua: The tea was prepared by my elder sister Wenqing. This set of traditional clothing was handmade by my younger sister Wenying.
Lin Xiuling: (happy) Sister Wenqing knows that I like to drink tea.
Yang Wenhua: Try on the clothes. If they do not fit, I will take them back for my sister to alter.
△ Lin Xiuling takes out the set of Tsou traditional clothing and holds it against her chest to compare the size.
Lin Xiuling: It should fit, right? Wenying and I have about the same figure. Wenying's craftsmanship is really skillful.
Yang Wenhua: (smiling) Wenying also said that it should fit.
Lin Xiuling: I am going to try it on.
△ Lin Xiuling carries the clothes into the bedroom. After changing into them, she turns around once in front of the dressing mirror.
△ Lin Xiuling walks out and strides toward Wenhua like she is walking a runway. At this moment, Zhou Hong, wearing an apron, comes out.
Zhou Hong: Boss, dinner can be served... (her eyes light up) This outfit is so beautiful!
Lin Xiuling: (delighted) Yes! It was specially made for me by my senior's younger sister Wenying. Look, all of you, it fits perfectly!
Zhou Hong: (smiling) The material and the style of this outfit are both very beautiful.
Lin Xiuling: We have been so busy talking. It is time to eat. I will go change out of the clothes.
△ Lin Xiuling happily walks back into the room.
Zhou Hong: (smiling) Mr. Yang, it is rare for our boss to be in such a good mood. It is all thanks to you!
Scene 36 Time / Day Setting / International Conference Hall, Fudan Hospital, Shanghai
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Zhao Xiaodong, Guo Hansheng, Guo Xinmei, Guests, Conference Attendees
△ The international conference hall is completely full. The attendees all wear identification badges on their chests. Every one of them is important—department chiefs from major hospitals and professors from medical schools from all over.
△ With the projection screen, Director Guo Hansheng introduces one by one the special guests who are going to present papers. In the front row, each person being introduced stands up, walks onto the stage, bows, and waves to the guests present.
Guo Hansheng: Yang Wenhua, a rising star in clinical surgery, from the Taitung Branch of Guanghua Hospital in Taiwan Province, specializing in minimally invasive and microsurgery. He will present the paper "The Application of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Aesthetic Medicine"...
△ Yang Wenhua stands up and walks onto the stage, bowing toward the guests. At this moment, Lin Xiuling, standing at the side of the stage, walks onto the stage carrying a bouquet of lilies and presents it to him. Xiuling is wearing Tsou traditional clothing, instantly becoming the focus of everyone's attention.
Guo Hansheng: ...The one presenting the flowers is Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua's junior from the National Taiwan University medical department, who currently practices in this city.
△ Zhao Xiaodong, seated in the audience, watches this scene and feels very bitter inside.
Zhao Xiaodong: (wearing a sour expression, voice-over) What is this supposed to mean? Xiuling, do you only treat me as a backup option?
△ Meanwhile, Guo Xinmei, seated on the other side, becomes curious about this youngest doctor, Yang Wenhua.
Guo Xinmei: (voice-over) This Yang Wenhua is so young, yet he is already able to come here to present a paper. He definitely is not an ordinary person! I must make friends with him. As for that junior Lin Xiuling, she seems to have a very close relationship with him...
Scene 37 Time / Day Setting / International Conference Hall and Corridor, Fudan Hospital, Shanghai
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Zhao Xiaodong, Guo Hansheng, Guo Xinmei
△ During the break, Yang Wenhua and Lin Xiuling leave the conference hall and come to the corridor.
Lin Xiuling: Wenhua, I will return to the clinic first. I will come pick you up for dinner this evening.
Yang Wenhua: Mm, go ahead and get busy.
△ Lin Xiuling leans forward and quickly kisses Wenhua on the cheek, then turns and leaves like a little sparrow.
△ Guo Hansheng and Guo Xinmei, father and daughter, have just come out of the hall and see this scene. Zhao Xiaodong, who is following behind them, misses it. Hansheng takes the initiative to step forward and warmly shake hands with Yang Wenhua.
Guo Hansheng: Brother Yang, I am very pleased that we were able to invite you. I have read your research papers several times in medical journals. A hero appears in his youth, a hero appears in his youth indeed!
Guo Hansheng: This is my daughter Xinmei. She is still studying in the medical department and has just begun her internship this year. You young people should get to know each other more, get to know each other more!
△ Guo Xinmei steps forward and shakes hands with Wenhua.
Guo Xinmei: Senior, please guide me.
△ Faced with the polite greetings of this enthusiastic father-and-daughter pair, Yang Wenhua can only nod and smile for the moment.
△ Zhao Xiaodong walks over beside Yang Wenhua. Guo Hansheng remembers that he should introduce him as well.
Guo Hansheng: This is Zhao Xiaodong, the chief attending physician of our surgery department. He is extremely outstanding. The two of you should get to know each other more, get to know each other more!
△ Zhao Xiaodong steps forward to shake hands with Wenhua, but deliberately exerts force secretly. A trace of surprise flashes across Wenhua's face, and he stares at Zhao Xiaodong's face for a moment.
Zhao Xiaodong: Doctor Yang, pleased to meet you.
△ Guo Xinmei, who is observant, notices this scene.
Guo Xinmei: (voice-over) Zhao Xiaodong, what are you doing? That is very rude of you!
Scene 38 Time / Night Setting / Lin Xiuling's Villa in the Shanghai Suburbs
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua
△ In the villa dining room, Lin Xiuling and Yang Wenhua sit across from each other at the dining table. Xiuling serves Wenhua a bowl of sweet potato porridge.
Lin Xiuling: I specially cooked this sweet potato porridge for you, along with stir-fried sweet potato leaves, fermented tofu with rice wine, and steamed dried small fish.
Yang Wenhua: (smiling) Is your food here always this Taiwanese in flavor?
Lin Xiuling: Yes! Ever since I was little, I followed my father and got used to light Taiwanese flavors. I stir-fried the sweet potato leaves myself, using only garlic and salt. Even now, I still miss the Tsou-style dishes cooked by your sisters in Alishan!
Yang Wenhua: If you like them, I will make a few dishes for you. It is just that I do not know whether the markets here can buy the ingredients that are needed.
Lin Xiuling: Isn't that simple? Early tomorrow morning, I will take you to the traditional market nearby and let you choose the ingredients yourself.
Yang Wenhua: (smiling) It seems that you will not give up until you get to eat the Tsou dishes I cook?
Lin Xiuling: Of course! You were the one who said that you would cook for me. Naturally, I have to give you a chance to show what you can do!
Yang Wenhua: All right then! I will show off a bit of my cooking skill, so that you will not say I was boasting.
Lin Xiuling: Then I will look forward to it!
△ The two chat while eating. The atmosphere is relaxed and cheerful.
Scene 39 Time / Morning Setting / Traditional Market in Shanghai
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Customers, Vendors
△ Lin Xiuling links arms with Yang Wenhua and walks into the traditional market. Xiuling's eyes follow Wenhua as he looks here and there. Wenhua successively buys a strip of salted pork, a small handful of dried radish, a small bag of dried shrimp, and one jin of river shrimp. For vegetables, he only buys water spinach, sweet potato leaves, and one loofah. He also buys a bunch of spotted bananas and a bundle of shell ginger leaves.
△ The two walk side by side out of the market.
Yang Wenhua: (scratching his head) This market here has everything except what I need. It really is troublesome!
Lin Xiuling: What are the things you wanted but could not find?
Yang Wenhua: For example, prickly ash leaves, mountain pepper, mountain celery, and mountain chrysanthemum greens. None of those are here.
Lin Xiuling: Those must only exist in your mountains, right?
Yang Wenhua: (smiling bitterly) Yes! That means the dishes made this way will not taste authentic.
Lin Xiuling: There is no helping it. We will just make do and cook with what we have. Anyway, I am not a picky eater. This afternoon, I will go to the conference hall to listen to your paper presentation, and then I will pick you up and we can cook dinner together.
Yang Wenhua: Aren't you working this afternoon?
Lin Xiuling: I rescheduled my afternoon consultations. Nothing is more important than your paper presentation.
Scene 40 Time / Day Setting / International Conference Hall, Fudan Hospital, Shanghai
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Zhao Xiaodong, Guo Hansheng, Guo Xinmei, Guests
△ In the international conference hall, Yang Wenhua stands on the stage using a projection screen to explain the content of his paper.
Yang Wenhua: "Minimally invasive surgery and microsurgery in Europe and America were originally developed in order to reduce the wound area of surgical patients, thereby lowering and effectively controlling possible postoperative infections and shortening the patient's recovery time. However, over the past ten years or so, they have been widely applied to cosmetic medicine. This should be described as an unintended development..."
△ Below the stage, both Lin Xiuling and Guo Xinmei listen attentively, while Zhao Xiaodong leans sideways with disdainful sneers appearing on his face from time to time. Guo Xinmei accidentally catches sight of this.
Guo Xinmei: (voice-over) What kind of expression is that? Such a petty and narrow-minded person—he cannot bear to see others doing well.
▲ Camera cuts.
△ During the question-and-answer period, Guo Hansheng, acting as moderator on the stage, calls on those who have raised their hands one by one.
Guo Hansheng: Many of you have raised your hands enthusiastically, but time is limited. Please make sure your questions are specific, and keep them brief.
Male Doctor A: After listening to Doctor Yang's discussion, I believe that minimally invasive surgery will become the mainstream of clinical surgery in the future. But Doctor Yang mentioned a prerequisite, namely that the supporting instruments must be in place. For example, ECMO machines and microsurgical catheters. These advanced medical devices are not something that the surgical departments of ordinary small and medium-sized hospitals can possibly be fully equipped with. Doctor Yang, may I ask whether there is a corresponding solution?
Yang Wenhua: The question you raise is extremely practical. In the surgical departments of small and medium-sized hospitals, high-end 3D ultrasound scanners are now commonly available. Before the operation, the surgeon must use the scanner to assess the range of the procedure. For example, in the surgical removal of a malignant liver tumor, if the number, size, and distribution of the tumors are relatively concentrated, then minimally invasive surgery can be considered. The surgeon only needs to wear magnifying eyepieces. It is not absolutely necessary to use an internal microsurgical catheter. In other words, according to the patient's individual condition, and within the limits of the available supporting equipment, one can decide whether or not to use minimally invasive surgery.
△ Zhao Xiaodong also raises his hand. Guo Hansheng does not call on him, but he stands up and grabs the microphone to speak.
Zhao Xiaodong: I am sorry, but in a little while I must hurry back for duty, so I am asking my question first. Doctor Yang, in your earlier remarks, you described the transfer of minimally invasive surgery and microsurgery into cosmetic medicine as an "unintended development." As a cosmetic surgeon, I feel that in your subconscious, you seem to have a preconceived prejudice against cosmetic surgery. I do not know how much you understand aesthetic medicine, but I strongly disapprove of your attitude of looking down on it. Shouldn't you first publicly apologize here for your inappropriate remarks?
△ Zhao Xiaodong points his finger at Yang Wenhua on the stage. His nearly provocative and arrogant manner attracts the attention of many of the attendees, who all turn their eyes toward him. Zhao Xiaodong's actions also simultaneously anger Lin Xiuling and Guo Xinmei. Guo Xinmei immediately stands up, one hand on her hip and the other pointing as she loudly rebukes him.
Guo Xinmei: Zhao Xiaodong, you have truly caused Fudan Hospital to lose all its face. Do you not understand what sort of occasion this is? When you speak and ask questions, you are deliberately steering things into a personal attack. Which sentence did Doctor Yang say that showed he looked down on cosmetic medicine? I do not know what sort of mentality you used to interpret the phrase "unintended development," but I only feel that you are extremely lacking in grace and have deliberately come here to pick a fight...
△ Zhao Xiaodong is unwilling to be openly rebuked by Guo Xinmei and immediately interrupts to respond.
Zhao Xiaodong: I simply believe that Doctor Yang has a serious problem in his attitude. He seems to look down on cosmetic medicine, or to put it more plainly, deep down he looks down on modern Chinese medicine...
Guo Xinmei: Zhao Xiaodong, I think you are twisting words and forcing your argument, and your manner of speaking is full of provocation...
△ The two immediately clash. They interrupt each other and fight to speak first, each speaking over the other.
Guo Xinmei: Zhao Xiaodong, you clearly came here to make trouble. This is truly embarrassing...
Zhao Xiaodong: I am only speaking my true feelings. Am I not allowed to tell the truth? You, Miss Guo, are simply siding with outsiders instead of your own people...
△ Seeing that the situation is becoming uncontrollable, Guo Hansheng immediately stands up and picks up the microphone.
Guo Hansheng: (sternly scolding) Both of you have improperly disrupted the conference. Please leave the hall immediately of your own accord...
△ Lin Xiuling gives Guo Xinmei a thumbs-up in support, and Xinmei smiles knowingly.
△ Zhao Xiaodong and Guo Xinmei see that the chairman is angry and wisely leave the hall.
△ On the stage, Yang Wenhua wears a bitter smile.
Yang Wenhua: Esteemed seniors in the academic field, an unexpected interruption just occurred. However, I must still clarify that the phrase "unintended development" was not intended as any prejudice against cosmetic medicine. It is simply that I have always believed that technologies such as minimally invasive surgery and microsurgery should be used in life-saving clinical surgery, because only then can they find their own core value. This has also been the original intention behind my study of these advanced techniques.
△ Yang Wenhua's sincere and heartfelt speech wins him even more praise. The guests respond with warm applause.
