WangYibosLily
Finland
This review may contain spoilers
Realistic romance drama!
Oath of love is a very realistic romance drama. It's soft, romantic and sad at the same time. It actually has a lot of romance in it. There were so many kisses in this drama, and I was so happy about it! I suggest this drama to those who like to watch romance and family dramas, since the drama revolves heavily around family and its importance.
I have to warn, Oath of love touches a sensitive topic, cancer. If you or someone important in your life are going through or have gone through cancer, this drama might be something you want to skip if the subject is too hard for you.
Oath of love doesn't have any love rivals going nuts, it has slight rivalry in a couple episodes, but the main leads take care of the rivals very quickly. All hardships are also taken care of very quickly. It's a heartwarming and realistic story that leaves the plot in my opinion a little lacking. I think this drama is very worth to watch for Xiao Zhan. The best part of the drama for me was watching Xiao Zhan act like he was in love.
THE STORY:
Lin Zhixiao is a 21-22 year old cellist in her 3rd year in Huaqing University's music department. Her father had been having stomach problems that were thought to be stomach ulcer, but turned out to be cancer. Thanks to Gu Wei, "Dr.Gu" a 31-year-old chief surgeon, he was diagnosed early. Due to Gu Wei's past surgery where his teacher died, he now suffers from a small trauma, his hands start to tremble. Lin Zhixiao had misunderstandings about Gu Wei, but thanks to him diagnosing her father's cancer, now she and her family want Gu Wei to perform the surgery on him. After finding out about his condition, she helps him get through it. They slowly fall in love. They go through hardships as Gu Wei is busy as a doctor, their 10-year-old age gap and differences in personality. Lin Zhixiao is a little childish and clumsy, meanwhile Gu Wei is stoic and mature. But opposites attract and they learn how to communicate.
SPOILER PART OF THE STORY, MY OPINION:
The plot is very family oriented and maybe a little too realistic to me. There wasn't really anything interesting to me about the plot, apart from watching Xiao Zhan (Gu Wei) act like he was in love. The topic was a little too heavy for me, and at times I was a little bored.
Lin Zhixiao is portrayed to be this 21-22year old that is childish, yet mature. As a 22-year-old myself, I think 22-year-olds are a little bit like that. She was a little too childish for my liking but when was the time to act mature, she was.
22-year-olds and 31-year-olds for sure have differences when it comes to relationships and personality. Lin Zhixiao often misunderstood what Gu Wei meant, but it had a lot to do just with the way his personality was, not his age. Their relationship felt very natural as Gu Wei started to act more cute and childish too and thanks to Gu Wei, Lin Zhixiao started to act more mature.
I didn't like her father treating her too strictly and like she was a child. You want your kid to grow up but won't stop controlling her, let her make her own mistakes and learn from them and won't stop calling her "too young" and "a small child" As a 22-year-old, living in Finland, it's a cultural shock to learn that Lin Zhixiao wasn't allowed to stay overnight in her boyfriend's apartment.
The plot romance wise was nice, but there wasn't really much going on aside from that. I'm giving this drama only an 8, due to the ridiculous "breakup" in ep 24. You can't say that it's a real breakup, since the breakup was basically taken care of in one episode. Gu Wei performs an emergency surgery on a car accident patient without the patient's guardian's permission, since they couldn't be reached. Gu Wei saved the patient's life but due to the patient still not out of critical state, the patient's parents make trouble for Gu Wei by posting a Weibo post about Gu Wei being a bad doctor. Because of this, he can't go to Germany with Lin Zhixiao as planned and almost loses his license. Gu Wei meets Lin Zhixiao's parents for the first time as Lin Zhixiao's boyfriend and tells her father that he can't promise to take care of her. He doesn't tell Lin Zhixiao what is going on and doesn't answer his phone and disappears. After finding out about the situation from his colleagues, she finds him and tells him how much he hurt her by not telling her. He wants to hold on to her, but she says to come to her after he is done escaping the situation where he wasn't in the wrong and to fix things.
The situation is solved in the blink of an eye, and she doesn't take him back at first, but it didn't take more than 1–2 episodes before they were all good.
Gu Wei proposes to her soon after, and just when everything seems too good to be true, it usually means that things are too good to be true. Her father's cancer has gotten worse, and he has less than a year to live. (this happens in ep 28 and if you are watching it from viki or youtube, the drama has 29 episodes.)
I disliked that a lot, and the fact that their whole wedding planning and wedding was filled with sadness instead of hope and love. I mean, it's realistic, but for me, it took away the happiness from the ending. The ending felt rushed and sad, since they have a 3-year-old in the end after a 7-year-old time skip and her father has passed away without ever seeing his grandson.
THE THINGS I LIKED:
- Gu Wei and Lin Zhixiao's love, it was cute and believable.
- The love rivals, giving up quickly and maturely.
- Lin Zhixiao and her mother's relationship
- Gu Wei standing up to his parents
- Sansan and Yinxi, Lin Zhixiao's two besties standing up for her and being there for her.
THE THINGS I DISLIKED:
- Lin Zhixiao's father. He had his moments, but overall he was too strict on her. He was sharp tongued and only when nearing death he realized that there were many things they haven't done together.
- Sansan's and Yinxi's advice in relationships-
- GU XIAO, Gu Wei's relative who is a rich playboy, who falls for Sansan. He opens a café for her, messes up and leaves without explaining to Sansan and comes back later on and all of a sudden they were all good.
- GU XIAO BEING RUDE TO LIN ZHIXIAO ALL THE TIME. If I was Lin Zhixiao, he would not be getting away with his rudeness.
- The sudden cancer bomb in the end.
ACTING:
Yang Zi as Lin Zhixiao, Personally Yangzi isn't one of my favorite actresses. She can be a little tiring to me, but she did act well in her crying scenes. The crying was realistic and I could feel her sadness. When with Xiao Zhan, it didn't quite feel like she was really in love with him. It felt a little awkward to me from her side. Overall, she was a good pick for this drama.
Xiao Zhan as Gu Wei, NOW THIS- This is the reason to watch Oath Of Love. Xiao Zhan is eye candy himself but Xiao Zhan acting like he is in love???!! WORTH EVERY MINUTE. He truly made me think that he was in love and that Lin Zhixiao was his whole world. I'm now on a quest to find a man who looks at me the same way he looks at her.
Overall 8!
I have to warn, Oath of love touches a sensitive topic, cancer. If you or someone important in your life are going through or have gone through cancer, this drama might be something you want to skip if the subject is too hard for you.
Oath of love doesn't have any love rivals going nuts, it has slight rivalry in a couple episodes, but the main leads take care of the rivals very quickly. All hardships are also taken care of very quickly. It's a heartwarming and realistic story that leaves the plot in my opinion a little lacking. I think this drama is very worth to watch for Xiao Zhan. The best part of the drama for me was watching Xiao Zhan act like he was in love.
THE STORY:
Lin Zhixiao is a 21-22 year old cellist in her 3rd year in Huaqing University's music department. Her father had been having stomach problems that were thought to be stomach ulcer, but turned out to be cancer. Thanks to Gu Wei, "Dr.Gu" a 31-year-old chief surgeon, he was diagnosed early. Due to Gu Wei's past surgery where his teacher died, he now suffers from a small trauma, his hands start to tremble. Lin Zhixiao had misunderstandings about Gu Wei, but thanks to him diagnosing her father's cancer, now she and her family want Gu Wei to perform the surgery on him. After finding out about his condition, she helps him get through it. They slowly fall in love. They go through hardships as Gu Wei is busy as a doctor, their 10-year-old age gap and differences in personality. Lin Zhixiao is a little childish and clumsy, meanwhile Gu Wei is stoic and mature. But opposites attract and they learn how to communicate.
SPOILER PART OF THE STORY, MY OPINION:
The plot is very family oriented and maybe a little too realistic to me. There wasn't really anything interesting to me about the plot, apart from watching Xiao Zhan (Gu Wei) act like he was in love. The topic was a little too heavy for me, and at times I was a little bored.
Lin Zhixiao is portrayed to be this 21-22year old that is childish, yet mature. As a 22-year-old myself, I think 22-year-olds are a little bit like that. She was a little too childish for my liking but when was the time to act mature, she was.
22-year-olds and 31-year-olds for sure have differences when it comes to relationships and personality. Lin Zhixiao often misunderstood what Gu Wei meant, but it had a lot to do just with the way his personality was, not his age. Their relationship felt very natural as Gu Wei started to act more cute and childish too and thanks to Gu Wei, Lin Zhixiao started to act more mature.
I didn't like her father treating her too strictly and like she was a child. You want your kid to grow up but won't stop controlling her, let her make her own mistakes and learn from them and won't stop calling her "too young" and "a small child" As a 22-year-old, living in Finland, it's a cultural shock to learn that Lin Zhixiao wasn't allowed to stay overnight in her boyfriend's apartment.
The plot romance wise was nice, but there wasn't really much going on aside from that. I'm giving this drama only an 8, due to the ridiculous "breakup" in ep 24. You can't say that it's a real breakup, since the breakup was basically taken care of in one episode. Gu Wei performs an emergency surgery on a car accident patient without the patient's guardian's permission, since they couldn't be reached. Gu Wei saved the patient's life but due to the patient still not out of critical state, the patient's parents make trouble for Gu Wei by posting a Weibo post about Gu Wei being a bad doctor. Because of this, he can't go to Germany with Lin Zhixiao as planned and almost loses his license. Gu Wei meets Lin Zhixiao's parents for the first time as Lin Zhixiao's boyfriend and tells her father that he can't promise to take care of her. He doesn't tell Lin Zhixiao what is going on and doesn't answer his phone and disappears. After finding out about the situation from his colleagues, she finds him and tells him how much he hurt her by not telling her. He wants to hold on to her, but she says to come to her after he is done escaping the situation where he wasn't in the wrong and to fix things.
The situation is solved in the blink of an eye, and she doesn't take him back at first, but it didn't take more than 1–2 episodes before they were all good.
Gu Wei proposes to her soon after, and just when everything seems too good to be true, it usually means that things are too good to be true. Her father's cancer has gotten worse, and he has less than a year to live. (this happens in ep 28 and if you are watching it from viki or youtube, the drama has 29 episodes.)
I disliked that a lot, and the fact that their whole wedding planning and wedding was filled with sadness instead of hope and love. I mean, it's realistic, but for me, it took away the happiness from the ending. The ending felt rushed and sad, since they have a 3-year-old in the end after a 7-year-old time skip and her father has passed away without ever seeing his grandson.
THE THINGS I LIKED:
- Gu Wei and Lin Zhixiao's love, it was cute and believable.
- The love rivals, giving up quickly and maturely.
- Lin Zhixiao and her mother's relationship
- Gu Wei standing up to his parents
- Sansan and Yinxi, Lin Zhixiao's two besties standing up for her and being there for her.
THE THINGS I DISLIKED:
- Lin Zhixiao's father. He had his moments, but overall he was too strict on her. He was sharp tongued and only when nearing death he realized that there were many things they haven't done together.
- Sansan's and Yinxi's advice in relationships-
- GU XIAO, Gu Wei's relative who is a rich playboy, who falls for Sansan. He opens a café for her, messes up and leaves without explaining to Sansan and comes back later on and all of a sudden they were all good.
- GU XIAO BEING RUDE TO LIN ZHIXIAO ALL THE TIME. If I was Lin Zhixiao, he would not be getting away with his rudeness.
- The sudden cancer bomb in the end.
ACTING:
Yang Zi as Lin Zhixiao, Personally Yangzi isn't one of my favorite actresses. She can be a little tiring to me, but she did act well in her crying scenes. The crying was realistic and I could feel her sadness. When with Xiao Zhan, it didn't quite feel like she was really in love with him. It felt a little awkward to me from her side. Overall, she was a good pick for this drama.
Xiao Zhan as Gu Wei, NOW THIS- This is the reason to watch Oath Of Love. Xiao Zhan is eye candy himself but Xiao Zhan acting like he is in love???!! WORTH EVERY MINUTE. He truly made me think that he was in love and that Lin Zhixiao was his whole world. I'm now on a quest to find a man who looks at me the same way he looks at her.
Overall 8!
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