Ice Fantasy 幻城

    I am hooked in this 2016 released Chinese fantasy tv series entitled, Ice Fantasy also known as Huancheng in Mandarin. This Chinese fantasy series is based on Guo Jingming's novel, City of Fantasy. The way I understand the story this world is comprised of three realms. (spoilers ahead). Li Luo a mortal, who is a Guardian of the Realm met Prince Ka Suo. They became close when they went to the mortal realm to obtain the snowflakes from the 6 mortal tribes in order to restore the damage made in the ice kingdom when the Prince of the Fire tribe went there because of an ulterior movie, he mysteriously died because of the black fog, whom we continue to see up to the latter part of the series. They met many characters along the way. The leaders of each tribe, namely the Healer, the Dream master, the leader of the Bear Tribe, Eagle, Spirit and Mermaid Tribe.

This series is also showing, and dubbed in my native language in a local channel. I prefer of course the Chinese version with English subtitles.

I also love all the characters here. I was not attracted to the lead character Prince Ka Suo, but I was more enchanted by his younger brother Ying Kong Shi. I also like the character of the sweet and beautiful mermaid princess named Lan Shang, because I can relate to her character wherein she likes someone but that someone doesn't feel the same way. I also like the Grandma of the Prince Ka Suo. On the later part of the series, we are going to meet an immortal named She Mi who is powerful like Shi exiled on the most harshest part of the immortal land. His great mistake is that he fell in love with a mortal. Li Luo traveled there in order to know how to restore the immortal powers of Prince Ka Suo, she was ordered by the Ice King to go there. Ka Suo lost his immortal powers when he took the Deicide sword which was inhabited by fairies. It is the only sword who can take on the Fire Tribe's power. Anyway I won't tell the whole story here. Now, I know why this novel is a best-seller. I also love the twists and turns of the story. An immortal falling in love with a mortal. Will the Fire tribe, conquer the Ice Tribe? I found out that there is a sequel to this series, it is entitled Ice Fantasy - Destiny.

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(update: I just finished the series this week. (spoilers ahead) I'm just saddened that the leaders of the mortal tribes except for Xing Jiu, former Spirit tribe Queen Dieche, Chao Ya, Huang Tuo and Luna were all killed by the King of Fire of the Ice Tribe. Yuan Ji (the black fog from the start of the series), was an evil immortal who was imprisoned by the Ice Tribe together with all the alliances from all of the other tribes, They made a wish to the veiled Lotus. He also liked Ying Kong Shi's mother, Lotus. Lotus was just adopted by the mermaid tribe, and her parents was originally from the Ice tribe. Ying Kong Shi's father was really Yuan Ji. Also there's a twist Ka Suo was able to make a wish to the veiled Lotus, but one's gains, is also one's loss. Li Luo, Lan Shang, and Ying Kong Shi were all resurrected, and Lan Shang was able to wake up again but they lost their memory, and Lan Shang and Li Luo personality were exchanged. (The appearance is Lan Shang but the memories is from Li Luo, and Li Luo's body but the memories is from Lan Shang). Ka Suo here was killed by the Fire King, and Ying Kong Shi was able to kill the Fire King with the help of Yan Da the fire princess who really likes Ying Kong Shi. Ying Kong Shi's memory came back promised to resurrect Ka Suo this time by getting the Blood Lotus from outside of their realm.So that's why there's a sequel. The setting is the year 2020. Over-all I enjoyed watching this series. I am also excited to see the sequel.