Zhang Fan couldn't allow himself to be defeated by the endocrinology department. He successfully conquered an English medical textbook that no ordinary rotation doctor would have been able to handle. You would only receive respect and acceptance for having actual skills and working incredibly hard.
Workplaces where skills were the most important would be relatively simple. Although some people at such a workplace would have a bad temper, very few would try to intentionally target someone who was known to be highly skilled. However, if a highly skilled person was instead at a Chinese workplace that was more focused on ideology, bullies would instantly come out from everywhere to teach you not to stand out and attract too much attention to yourself!
