2026/6/23 · 8:09
June 22 Hongguo Short Drama Top 10: Live action takes #1, AI keeps six slots
The June 22 Hongguo heat chart gives live-action drama a headline win with 《朝思暮时》 at #1, but AI/manhua titles still hold six of the top ten slots. This issue ranks all ten titles, flags the anomalous #3 heat value, and explains what the split says about short-drama demand.
Snapshot: live action takes #1, but AI still owns the board
The June 22 Hongguo heat-chart repost gives live-action short dramas their clearest win of the week: 《朝思暮时》 took the top slot, and 《江先生别太野》 plus 《盛夏来信》 put three live-action titles inside the top five. The catch is that the same list still describes AI/manhua dramas as holding six of the ten slots, so this is less a full live-action comeback than a contested leaderboard. 1
Coverage note: this issue uses the publicly retrievable Sina repost of the Hongguo heat chart, not a directly accessible Hongguo official chart page. Heat figures below are kept in the format shown by the repost; the #3 value appears as 「47029」 in the source text and is treated as a display anomaly rather than converted into a normal unit.
Top 10 table
| Rank | Title / transliteration | Format + genre | Platform / episodes | Heat figure shown | What's driving buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 《朝思暮时》 / Chao Si Mu Shi | Live-action; drama-romance short | Hongguo; 81 eps, about 3 minutes each | 8663 1 | The winner is a very current Hongguo launch: Baidu Baike lists it as a June 21 Hongguo drama starring Shi Jingzi and Wang Haozhen. Its hook is a remorse-and-repair marriage story, giving live-action viewers a clean emotional entry point rather than another spectacle-first AI title. 2 |
| 2 | 《万妖图录传第 7 季》 / Wan Yao Tu Lu Zhuan, Season 7 | AI/manhua; dark fantasy, monster-slaying upgrade story | Hongguo; public episode count not reliably found | 7293 1 | The seventh-season placement is the clearest evidence of serialized AI/manhua retention. A Gudu article on The Paper says 《万妖图录传》 had already reached its seventh season and frames it as a female-centered fantasy upgrade story with no fixed romance line. 3 |
| 3 | 《发配边关罪妻开荒，养出战神》 / Fa Pei Bian Guan, Zui Qi Kai Huang, Yang Chu Zhan Shen | AI/manhua cluster; farming-frontier heroine story | Hongguo; base title listed as 66 eps | 47029, as displayed 1 | This row is the data caveat of the day: the source text shows 「47029」, inconsistent with the surrounding four-digit heat figures, so I am preserving it instead of normalizing it. The title's durable draw is easier to explain: Baidu Baike describes a 66-episode farming short drama about Su He rebuilding a famine-hit frontier, while The Paper frames it as a female-led manhua hit built around career/survival rather than romance. 4 3 |
| 4 | 《江先生别太野》 / Jiang Xiansheng Bie Tai Ye | Live-action; drama-romance short | Multi-platform; 95 eps | 6631 1 | Maoyan lists the title as 《江队，别太野》, a 95-episode multi-platform drama that opened on June 20 and hit a historical Maoyan heat high of 7100.54 on June 21. Its contract-marriage and bickering-romance setup makes it the table's most straightforward live-action sweet-romance competitor. 5 |
| 5 | 《盛夏来信》 / Sheng Xia Lai Xin | Live-action; urban romance short | Hongguo; 82 eps | 6500 1 | This is another live-action foothold in the top five. Baidu Baike lists 《盛夏来信》 as an 82-episode urban romance starring Dong Yueyu and Li Youlin; the premise starts with betrayal, a damaged porcelain jar and an agreement marriage, which fits Hongguo's high-completion emotional-drama lane. 6 |
| 6 | 《发配边关，罪妻开荒，养出战神》 / Fa Pei Bian Guan, Zui Qi Kai Huang, Yang Chu Zhan Shen | AI/manhua; farming-frontier heroine story | Hongguo; base title listed as 66 eps | 6433 1 | The base title appears again, which matters more than the exact rank: this IP is not acting like a one-day spike, but like a repeatable format. The appeal is clear in the story mechanics: famine, frontier hardship, practical rebuilding, and a heroine whose competence is the fantasy. 4 |
| 7 | 《发配边关，罪妻开荒，养出战神 3》 / Fa Pei Bian Guan 3 | AI/manhua; serialized farming-frontier heroine story | Hongguo; season-specific episode count not publicly verified | 6403 1 | Season 3 in the same day's top 10 shows how AI/manhua can stack seasons around a proven premise. For producers, this is the practical threat to live action: once the world, heroine and genre promise work, the production rhythm can occupy multiple chart positions at once. |
| 8 | 《发配边关，罪妻开荒，养出战神 2》 / Fa Pei Bian Guan 2 | AI/manhua; serialized farming-frontier heroine story | Hongguo; season-specific episode count not publicly verified | 6189 1 | Season 2 landing directly under Season 3 turns the ranking into an IP-cluster story. It suggests audiences are not only sampling the first season, but moving across sequels in the same consumption window. |
| 9 | 《分家只给枯井，我挖出灵泉》 / Fen Jia Zhi Gei Ku Jing, Wo Wa Chu Ling Quan | AI/manhua or AI short-drama signal; rural/fantasy-resource premise | Hongguo; public episode count not reliably found | 6142 1 | Public metadata is thin, so this row should be read as a heat signal rather than a full profile. The title itself fits the same resource-fantasy lane as the farming-frontier hits: scarcity, land, hidden value and a protagonist who turns a bad allocation into leverage. |
| 10 | 《逃离他的岛》 / Tao Li Ta De Dao | Live-action; drama-romance short | Multi-platform/Hongguo; 73 eps on Maoyan | 6120 1 | This is the table's lower-edge live-action hold. Maoyan lists 73 episodes, a June 17 multi-platform opening, and a historical heat high of 6989.59 on June 18; Baidu Baike adds the Hongguo platform, Tan Yanyan/Wang Kaimu casting and a revenge-contract premise. 7 8 |
Three reads on the day
1. 《朝思暮时》 is a live-action win, not yet a live-action reset
The headline is real: a live-action drama beat the AI/manhua field for #1. But the table still says six AI slots, and four of those are either 《发配边关》 variants or titles in the same fantasy-resource ecosystem. That means live action won the top of the day while AI/manhua still controlled the breadth of the chart.
For viewers, 《朝思暮时》 is the cleanest single watch if you want to sample the day's winner. The premise is legible in one sentence: a woman realizes she misread her husband and neglected her family, then has to repair the emotional damage. That kind of remorse-and-reconciliation engine is still something live performers can sell better than faceless spectacle.
2. The AI/manhua advantage is no longer just novelty; it is season stacking
The strongest AI signal is not one title reaching the top 10. It is the way 《发配边关，罪妻开荒，养出战神》 appears across multiple sequel/variant rows on the same day. The Paper's discussion of the title emphasizes its female-led farming-survival appeal, and also notes that 《万妖图录传》 has stretched to a seventh season while keeping heat. 3
That matters because short-drama rankings reward repeatable emotional architecture. AI/manhua can scale fantasy worlds, monsters, frontier towns and battle scenes without the same actor-schedule and location burden as live action. Once the audience accepts the look, the format can keep feeding seasons around a tight premise.
3. Live action's defense is recognizability: faces, voice, and emotional grain
The backlash against AI is not hard to find. One June 22 Sina reposted comment argued that AI can copy standard anger and joy, but struggles with the layered silence of despair and the everyday texture of dialect or lived-in performance. 9 Another viewer-facing post said AI model faces often feel too similar, while live-action actors remain easier to recognize. 10
That is why the live-action titles still left on this list all lean into actor chemistry or emotional specificity: 《江队，别太野》 sells a contract-marriage bickering pair, 《盛夏来信》 works through betrayal and agreement-marriage melodrama, and 《逃离他的岛》 has a revenge-contract relationship built around two identifiable performers.
What to watch next
If tomorrow's chart keeps 《朝思暮时》 above the 《发配边关》 cluster, live action will have more than a one-day headline. If the AI/manhua rows keep multiplying around sequel titles, the more important story is production architecture: Hongguo's daily top 10 may increasingly be contested not title by title, but format system by format system.
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