Tientsin Mystic

Tientsin Mystic (Chinese: 河神) is a 2017 Chinese television series based on the novel He Shen (河神1·鬼水怪谈) by Tianxia Bachang. It is produced by iQiyi, and stars actors Li Xian, Zhang Ming'en, Wang Zixuan and Chen Yumi. The first season aired on iQiyi on July 19, 2017, and Netflix in 2018. The series won a Silver Medal for Best Visual Effects & a Bronze Medal for Best Direction at the 2018 New York Festivals World's Best TV & Films Competition.

In September 2018, iQiyi and Kongfu Pictures announced that a second season is currently under pre-production. The second season began filming on November 20, 2018, with Jin Shijia replacing Li Xian as the lead actor. Season 2 is streaming now with multi-languages subtitles on iQIYI.



Plot
Set in the 1920s Republican era, flooding ravages the land of Tianjin and conjures up numerous strange tales about the river. Guo Deyou is a part of the river salvage team, who retrieves bodies from the water. His master is nicknamed 'Old River God'; as the 'Little River God', Deyou has inherited his ability to use tobacco to uncover the truth, however, his body cannot handle smoke in large amounts. He ends up being suspected for the murder of a distinguished chairman, whose son Ding Mao, a trained forensic investigator, joins forces with him to uncover the truth. With their female partners - Gu Ying, the daughter of a sorceress and Deyou's childhood friend, and Xiao Lan-lan, a journalist, whose father is a rich local businessman - they begin an investigation that leads them to an incident twenty years ago, and a cult whose presence is still affecting the city in increasingly sinister ways.

(Season 2, Episode 11)
After an exciting fight, Ding Mao and Guo Deyou won the bet. They were prompted with the words "Zero Dock", but it was clearly stated that Ding Mao could only go alone. On the way to the pier, Guo Deyou told Ding Mao that he was out of the old thousand. He prepared Shen Xin's data in advance and could take as many points as he needed. . But at the same time, he found that the other part was also out of the old thousand, and prepared two organ dice. Ding Mao's strength took a deep breath and said that Guo Deyou should not participate in the next thing, otherwise his previous achievements will be lost. On the pier, Ding Mao was twisted and carried away by several masked people who got in and out of another car.

Chen Siru's unexplained death at Qizhi Girls' School caused a lot of panic. Captain Fu brought the police to investigate and found a letter from Dalia, saying that he had been bullied by Chen Siru for a long time and finally couldn't take it. Just then she sprayed the poison on the fan from the stage performance, causing her to die from the poison. At this point, Dalia was nowhere to be found. Captain Fu felt that the case was very clear, so he was ready to bring the evidence to close the team, while Xiao Lanlan believed that it was too rash to draw such a conclusion based on these things on the surface. Then, Captain Fu talked to Xiao Lanlan about his experience in handling the case again. The students who can come to Qizhi Girls' School are all from prominent families. Today, we can only do this first and then come back and conduct a detailed investigation, but Xiao Lanlan still wants to speak with Principal Zhou.

In order to maintain the school's reputation, Principal Zhou hoped that Xiao Lanlan would not inform the outside world about what happened at the school. It turns out that Director Zhou already knew Xiao Lanlan's identity, and he also knew about Gu Ying's portrayal of Qiao Qian. , and sent someone to take down Gu Ying. Shadow left. Xiao Lanlan simply showed Director Zhou that in the past five years, more than 420 tracking notices have been published in Tianjin's major newspapers. Among them, 9 students are of school age and meet Qizhi School enrollment standards, but parents do not admit that their daughter is a student at Qizhi Girls' School. And this time it happened when director Zhou started to take over as director. Hearing this, Principal Zhou suddenly let out a strange laugh and said that the Qizhi Girls School has many unknown secrets, but it's a pity that Xiao Lanlan doesn't have a chance to know more. As they were talking, two thugs appeared next to Xiao Lanlan. Seeing that she was in danger, Gu Ying hurriedly freed herself, pulled Xiao Lanlan and fled.

In the panic, Gu Ying and Xiao Lanlan fled, Gu Ying met Mr. Bai and Dalia, Dalia had been controlled by Mr. Bai, Mr. Bai told Gu Ying that Director Zhou arranged for him to kill Gu Ying, and then However, Mr. Bai always thought Gu Ying was his sister Wu Xiangmei, but in fact his name was Wu Shuosheng, and Bai Sihu was just his pseudonym. He also said that Chen Siru was Gu Ying's scapegoat, and Dalia knew the inside story, so she shouldn't stay alive. Not knowing what was happening, Gu Ying fell into a trance. When she woke up, she saw that Mr. Bai had smeared some red powder on her back, but she was powerless to fight.

Guo Deyou returned to the Dragon King Temple. Fan Junyao was waiting for him here. He told Guo Deyou that Xiao Lanlan and Gu Ying went to the Qizhi School to investigate the secret case, but there was no information until now. Guo Deyou hurriedly came to Qizhi School with him and met Xiao Lanlan took out. Guo Deyou and the others followed Director Zhou and the thugs who were looking for Gu Ying everywhere. They saw that Director Zhou had found Dalia's body and pursued Gu Ying and Bai Sihu. Director Zhou wanted to take Gu Ying away, but Bai Sihu would not let him, saying that it was his sister Wu Xiangmei, but he could not resist the bandits, and was taken to the prison in the basement. Bai Sihu used poison to stun the guards and ran away.

Ding Mao was taken to a mysterious place where there were coquettish brainwashed beauties everywhere, and Mayor Bai and Commander Wu were also here. They came to toast Ding Mao, saying that General Secretary Ding was welcome to the Crystal Palace, and Ding Mao had a glass of wine. Afterwards, the hallucinations appeared and then everyone behaved strangely. Turns out it was Bai Sihu who was on the trail. He came looking for Gu Ying, but after getting sober, he finally found out that Gu Ying was not his sister Wu Xiangmei, so he only wanted to kill Gu Ying and everyone else, but he was seriously injured by Guo Deyou, who arrived in time, and rescued Gu Ying.