Summary
“Before I met you, what was I doing?” You suddenly asked me. I can hardly remember. I must’ve been busy. Everyday passing through the familiar campus. Sitting in the practice room moving the bow back and forth across the cello. Looking forward to an unpredictable future…”
Lin Zhi Xiao
It was another hectic day at HuaQing University First Affiliated Hospital. After Dr. Gu Wei made his rounds in the gastroenterology unit, he sat back down at his desk and takes out an application for transfer. Across the city, an orchestra is deep in performance mode. But two stark, emptied seats caused our cellist, Lin ZhiXiao, to lose focus and miss her cue.
Back at the hospital, Dr. Gu Wei is confronted by Dr. Gao Xi about his application to transfer. It’s revealed that this move means Dr. Gu Wei is giving up his position as a clinician at the hospital. A phone call interrupts the confrontation.
Scene change. We see Zhi Xiao’s happily reuniting with her good friend San San, who just returned to China from studying abroad, at the pub. It is revealed that going to the pub is something Zhi Xiao’s father forbids her to do, but because he and ZhiXiao’s mother didn’t show up at her performance earlier, Zhi Xiao is hell-bent on defying her father’s rules. After all, she is no longer a child and she will proclaim this day as Zhi Xiao’s independence day.
A few tables away, Gu Wei is sitting with his cousin, Gu Xiao, who had called him earlier to help him celebrate his birthday. A hilarious dialogue between the cousins ensues as Gu Xiao tries to cajole Gu Wei to loosen up and have fun.
Meanwhile at the Lin resident, Zhi Xiao’s worried parents stayed up waiting for her. Pacing back and forth, Zhi Xiao’s father suddenly remembered his daughter saying San San has come back to China. A quick scroll on social media revealed that San San had crassly uploaded a selfie taken with Zhi Xiao at the pub. A livid father sets out to the pub.
At the pub, Zhi Xiao already had one too many drinks, and in her drunken stupor, she rants on about her parents not loving nor supporting her dreams, especially her father whom she swore she doesn’t want to see again. But in her drunken haze, she spots her angry father prowling the pub for her. She turns and hides…at Gu Wei’s table.
Mistaking Zhi Xiao for one of Gu Xiao’s girl friends, Gu Wei tells Zhi Xiao that Gu Xiao went out to take a phone call. Desperate to escape her father, Zhi Xiao plays up the misunderstanding and moves closer to Gu Wei hoping he can help camouflage her until her father leaves. But Gu Wei didn’t get the hint and proceeds to do the complete opposite. After struggling and fighting Gu Wei to hide under his coat, Zhi Xiao’s father finds her and Gu Wei in an *ahem* position.
A hilarious lecture happens where all faults ended up landing on Gu Wei’s head, and he watched dumbfounded as Zhi Xiao is dragged away by her father.
Back at the Lin resident, Zhi Xiao and her father gets into a huge argument that ended with Zhi Xiao slamming the door to her room and her father gripping his chest in pain.
A trip to the hospital the next day revealed worrisome news for the Lin family.
What life-changing turn of events have befallen the Lin family? And will Dr. Gu be able to help them?
Watch episode 1 on wetv.vip to find out! You can also watch episode 1 on youtube!
Review: The Best of Both Worlds
It still feels surreal that “The Oath of Love” finally aired! After so many postponements to the point where everyone is unsure if we’ll ever see this drama in our lifetime, it finally aired!
From the get-go I am already fully invested in the drama. I love how vivid the characters’ personalities are portrayed. Dr. Gu comes off as serious, distant, and decisively stubborn (not to mention a bit OCD) while Lin ZhiXiao is a dreamer, strong-willed, but has a soft heart when it comes to those she cares about.
There were some really funny scenes in this episode. I love the checking-out-girls scene at the pub between Gu Wei and Gu Xiao. Work habits are difficult to kick for Gu Wei! Everyone is a walking prognosis. Also the scene between Zhi Xiao and Gu Wei. The precarious position they ended up in that defies gravity! I’m a bit disappointed that gravity did not do what it’s suppose to do and we missed out on an accidental lip-lock. But then again, accidental lip-lock is too cliché.
There is one scene that really made me emotional — the argument between Zhi Xiao and her dad in the living room. It was like watching a flashback. I can totally relate to how Zhi Xiao feels. Seeing her parents miss her performance, never hearing an encouraging word from her parents when it comes to her dream to be a cellist, etc.
“Do you know what my dream is? Do you know what I want? You’ve never cared about me. You’ve never understood me either. From the time I was little, you’ve only been making plans for me and making me live life your way. But I have my own dreams. I dream to be a cellist. Is it shameful? You’re my family, but you don’t even understand me.”
— Lin Zhi Xiao
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