26/6/2026 · 8:12

June 24 Hongguo Short Drama Top 10: live action takes the top two, AI still holds half

A late-verifiable June 24 Hongguo Top 10: 《朝思暮时》 and 《刺骨春夜》 put live-action at #1/#2, while AI/manhua titles still fill about half the table.

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The public June 25 Hongguo Top 10 was not verifiable by the 08:00 China-time publishing window. This issue therefore uses the latest complete public Hongguo repost available in public search and page fetch results: the June 24 chart. The key read: live-action reclaimed the top two slots, but AI/manhua still held half the table.

Top 10 table

Rank	Title	Transliteration	Genre / format	Platform	Episodes	Heat / signal
1	《朝思暮时》	Chaosi Mushi	Live-action romance / short drama	Hongguo	81	8,089 on the June 24 repost; Baidu Baike lists it as an 81-episode Hongguo short drama that premiered June 21. 1 2
2	《刺骨春夜》	Cigu Chunye	Live-action youth romance / family-healing drama	Hongguo	85	6,857 on the June 24 repost; Baike lists an 85-episode June 23 Hongguo premiere. 1 3
3	《发配边关，罪妻开荒养出战神第 4 季》	Fapei Bianguan, Zuiqi Kaihuang Yangchu Zhanshen S4	AI/manhua-adjacent frontier farming saga	Hongguo	Season count not separately verified; base season listed at 66	6,650 on the June 24 repost; the base title is listed as a 66-episode farming short drama, while Sina’s June 25 industry report says the series’ AI/manhua seasons were all above 60m heat. 1 4 5
4	《万妖图录传第 7 季》	Wanyao Tulu Zhuan S7	Manhua / fantasy monster-cultivation drama	Hongguo	Not publicly verified	6,597 on the June 24 repost; Baike identifies it as a Hongguo manhua drama and says its first-day Hongguo heat broke 94.42m on June 20. 1 6
5	《盛夏来信》	Shengxia Laixin	Live-action urban romance	Hongguo	82	Listed at No. 5 on the June 24 repost; the text extract did not expose the heat value, while Baike lists 82 episodes. 1 7
6	《江先生别太野》	Jiang Xiansheng Bie Tai Ye	Live-action contract-marriage romance / police-lead romance	Hongguo	95	6,339 on the June 24 repost; Baike lists Xu Zhenzhen and Yao Guanyu as leads and gives 95 episodes. 1 8
7	《发配边关，罪妻开荒养出战神第 3 季》	Fapei Bianguan, Zuiqi Kaihuang Yangchu Zhanshen S3	AI/manhua-adjacent frontier farming saga	Hongguo	Season count not separately verified; base season listed at 66	6,174 on the June 24 repost; the broader series is repeatedly described as a multi-season AI/manhua hit. 1 4 5
8	《老太片场跑龙套，养活古代一家人》	Laotai Pianchang Pao Longtao, Yanghuo Gudai Yijiaren	Manhua / two-world time-travel family survival story	Hongguo	80, under the close public title 《两界跑龙套，老太我养活了全家》	6,105 on the June 24 repost; Baike lists the related Hongguo manhua title at 80 episodes. 1 9
9	《发配边关，罪妻开荒养出战神》	Fapei Bianguan, Zuiqi Kaihuang Yangchu Zhanshen	Frontier farming / AI-manhua hit series	Hongguo	66	6,051 on the June 24 repost; Baike lists the base title as a 66-episode farming short drama. 1 4
10	《夫人一个过肩摔，瘫子总裁站起来了》	Furen Yige Guojian Shuai, Tanzi Zongcai Zhan Qilai	Novel-derived slapstick CEO romance; drama episode count not verified	Hongguo-facing heat signal	Not publicly verified	6,013 on the June 24 repost; the source novel page describes the “bodyguard versus wheelchair CEO” comedy premise and remained actively updated on June 26. 1 10

Entry notes

1. 《朝思暮时》 — live action still has a ceiling-breaker

《朝思暮时》 stayed at No. 1 even after its launch-day spike cooled from the 86.63m level reported earlier in the week to 80.89m on the June 24 repost. 1 Its strength is not just the Wang Haozhen / Shijingzi pairing; the 81-episode, full-release romance gives viewers a complete “wronged husband / wife makes amends” arc to binge instead of a teaser funnel. 2

The buzz driver is reversal. Short-drama romance usually punishes the male lead after he misreads the heroine; this one makes the heroine carry the error, then uses her repair work as the emotional engine.

2. 《刺骨春夜》 — the cleanest new live-action challenger

《刺骨春夜》 entered the June 24 chart at No. 2 with 68.57m heat, making it the strongest new live-action challenger in this snapshot. 1 Its public metadata points to a compact 85-episode, two-minute format built around two damaged young leads in a blended-family setup. 3

The buzz is partly casting drama, partly tone. The story sells youth-pain romance without leaning on a pure school-sweetness package; that gives it a colder texture than the standard contract-marriage lane.

3. 《发配边关，罪妻开荒养出战神第 4 季》 — series release speed becomes the product

The fourth season’s No. 3 placement shows how fast the Fapei Bianguan franchise is converting series familiarity into repeat chart slots. The broader title’s “frontier farming + war survival” setup gives the AI/manhua lane a simple resource-management hook: food, land, marriage, and war pressure. 4

The important signal is not a single season’s score; it is multi-season shelf occupation. Sina’s June 25 industry piece says the series had multiple seasons above 60m heat and that Hongguo’s June 24 top ten included five AI/manhua titles. 5

4. 《万妖图录传第 7 季》 — fantasy scale is where manhua still outguns live action

《万妖图录传第 7 季》 held No. 4 with 65.97m on the June 24 repost, four days after its reported first-day Hongguo heat broke 94.42m. 1 6

That decay still leaves it inside the top five. Its advantage is obvious: demon bestiaries, supernatural powers, and rolling upgrades are cheaper to escalate in manhua form than in live-action vertical shoots.

5. 《盛夏来信》 — quiet romance survives without the loudest hook

The June 24 repost keeps 《盛夏来信》 at No. 5, although the text extract did not expose its heat value. 1 Metadata sources describe it as an 82-episode urban romance built around a broken engagement, a wheelchair-bound male lead, an antique vase, and a contract marriage. 7

Its lane is softer than the AI/fantasy block around it. The persistence suggests that Hongguo’s romance audience is still rewarding clean emotional setup and completed viewing, not only novelty premises.

6. 《江先生别太野》 — stable because the hook is instantly readable

《江先生别太野》 stayed in the top six at 63.39m. 1 Public metadata gives 95 episodes and a Xu Zhenzhen / Yao Guanyu lead pairing. 8

Its commercial clarity is the selling point. A police-team male lead, a fake marriage, and a woman pushed into domestic pressure can be understood within seconds, which is exactly the kind of premise that survives in a ranked feed.

7. 《发配边关，罪妻开荒养出战神第 3 季》 — the middle season refuses to disappear

Season 3 still ranked No. 7 with 61.74m, only 4.76m below Season 4 in the same repost. 1 That narrow gap matters: viewers are not just sampling the latest installment; they are still cycling through earlier chapters.

This is what makes the series more dangerous than a one-off AI hit. Once the premise becomes familiar, older seasons can act like catch-up inventory while the new season drives fresh recommendation traffic.

8. 《老太片场跑龙套，养活古代一家人》 — the older-woman fantasy breaks the youth-romance mold

At No. 8, this is the oddest title in the table: an elderly woman moving between an ancient survival world and modern film-set “extra” work. The closest public metadata page lists the related manhua title 《两界跑龙套，老太我养活了全家》 at 80 episodes. 9

The buzz driver is premise freshness. It lets viewers watch survival economics, cross-world arbitrage, and family rescue through a non-idol protagonist, which makes it stand out beside romance and cultivation titles.

9. 《发配边关，罪妻开荒养出战神》 — the base season still anchors the franchise

The original Fapei Bianguan title ranked No. 9 with 60.51m. 1 Baike lists the base season at 66 episodes and frames it as a frontier farming drama about a modern logistics survivor entering a famine-and-war setting. 4

This is the franchise’s proof of repeatability. If the first season were only a launch spike, later seasons would cannibalize it; instead, three separate franchise entries appear in the same top ten.

10. 《夫人一个过肩摔，瘫子总裁站起来了》 — comedy arrives at the cut line

The No. 10 slot brings in a slapstick CEO-romance premise at 60.13m. 1 The source novel page is still actively updated and sells the core gag in one line: a private bodyguard heroine disrupts the isolated wheelchair CEO’s life until the relationship becomes mutual chaos. 10

The episode count for a drama adaptation was not publicly verified. Treat this as a heat-signal entry rather than a fully documented title until a Hongguo or Baike drama page is visible.

What the June 24 chart says

1. Live action won the top of the chart, not the whole chart. The No. 1 and No. 2 positions belonged to live-action romances, and the repost’s caption highlighted five live-action titles holding the table together. 1 But AI/manhua still occupied roughly half the top ten, so the cleaner read is “shared control,” not “live action comeback.”

2. Series stacking is now a ranking tactic. Fapei Bianguan placed three related entries in the same top ten. That is not normal title-level competition; it is franchise inventory using one premise to occupy multiple recommendation slots.

3. The romance winners are moving away from simple sweetness. 《朝思暮时》, 《刺骨春夜》, 《盛夏来信》, and 《江先生别太野》 all carry repair, contract, trauma, or family-pressure hooks. The common pattern is not “romance” alone; it is romance with an immediately readable wound.