Short Drama Daily Top 10 — June 16, 2026

Three of today's top four titles are holding their launch heat rather than declining — which is the story of the June 16 chart. 1 预谋的月光 reaches Day 6 at 6,128 万, essentially unchanged from the three previous days. 离歌 1999 sustains near its 6,475 万 opening on Day 4. 星光落渔火 exits its peak at 6,002 万 but shows minimal drop. Short drama heat curves almost never do this; the plateau is the signal today.

#1 — 预谋的月光 (Premeditated Moonlight) — Day 6 at 6,128 万, nearly flat against 6,124 万 on Day 5 and 6,081 万 on Day 4. 2 Most short dramas at this stage are shedding heat fast; this one is barely moving. The reason is structural: the show entered launch with one of the most deliberately engineered rollout campaigns of the year, matching promotional content cadence to the plot's twist structure — viewers who thought they understood the show from clips found out on Episode 15 that they had read it backwards. That creates re-watch traffic, which feeds platform completion rates, which keeps the recommendation engine serving it to new users. 徐轸轸 plays 白落予, who believes she is manipulating the arranged marriage with 申浩男's 陈迹 — the entire joke is that 陈迹 has been in love with her for six years and is letting her think she's in control.

#2 — 离歌 1999 (Song of Departure 1999) — Day 4 in the high-6,000 万 range, holding near its 6,475 万 Day 1 heat. 3 The source material is 饶雪漫's novel of the same name — she also wrote Left Ear and To Our Youth That Is Fading Away, books that defined a generation of readers in the early 2000s. She served as head screenwriter herself here, and the result is a short drama that older audiences (25–35+) are describing as something aimed at them rather than at teenagers. The 1999 Sichuan setting was shot on location in Chongqing's Yongchuan district, which disclosed on June 15 that the entire 85-episode production wrapped in 10 days for ¥2 million — a number that the industry is still trying to process, since the production values visible on screen look higher than that. 4 陈添祥 plays the lead in two registers across the series — teenage rebel with red hair, then adult entrepreneur carrying years of unspoken feeling — and the transition between them is one of the most-discussed performance sequences of the June cycle.

#3 — 少夫人来自东北 2 (Young Madam from the Northeast 2) — Day 11, estimated at around 6,200 万 based on its visible decay trajectory since the 7,096 万 plateau of June 12–13. 5 The sequel's first two days set platform records (11,852 万 on Day 1), but it has been normalizing steadily since. 梁雯晶's character 钱小卉 now functions as a recurring brand: the platform's recommended content surfaces her name as reliably as it surfaces genre keywords. 叶璇's viral side-role contributed a second attention cycle earlier in the week. The show is now running on residual audience and completionist traffic; the new-viewer funnel has largely shifted to this week's launches.

#4 — 星光落渔火 (Starlight Falls on Fishing Fires) — Day 4 at 6,002 万, down from a 6,096 万 peak on Day 2 (June 14). 6 听花岛 produced both this and 少夫人来自东北 2; the studio is explicitly testing portability of its warmth-formula across regional settings. Here the relocation is to Fujian's coastline, and 曾辉 — who has filmed 14 consecutive short dramas alongside 韩雨彤 — is paired instead with 孟娜 for the first time. The early data says audiences are accepting the change: the heat curve looks similar to 听花岛's Northeast titles at equivalent days. Whether the formula sustains past Day 7, when the novelty window closes, is the remaining question.

#5 — 东北爱情往事 2 (Northeast Love Story 2) — Day 8 in the mid-5,000 万 range, down from its early-week highs but still in the top five. The title's trajectory to chart was unusual: a pre-launch controversy involving the original novel's author 叶非夜 generated backlash that then reverse-converted into 252.1 万 pre-orders, a year-to-date record at the time it was set. 1 By Day 8 the controversy traffic has merged into general viewership, and the drama is running on its own content.

#6 — 宜嫁宜娶 (Right to Marry) — Day 10, still drawing consistent heat in the mid-5,000 万 s. The 赵夕汐/王皓祯 pairing holds its audience through minimal-drama pacing: no engineered jealousy second leads, no family-interference arcs. At Day 10 this is sustaining as the "for viewers who have already finished the premium titles this week" slot — a position that several slow-burn titles have learned to occupy profitably.

#7 — 香蜜沉沉烬如霜 (Ashes Like Frost) — Day 4, entered the chart on June 13 alongside 离歌 1999 and 星光落渔火 with 121 万 pre-orders. 7 The concept is xianxia transmigration into the world of the 2018 long-drama adaptation of the same title — meaning viewers who remember the original 杨紫/邓伦 TV series are expected to feel something when the parallel universe characters appear. The IP-recognition mechanism got it into the top 10 on launch, and at Day 4 it is holding in the estimated 5,700 万 range. The ceiling for this kind of secondary adaptation depends on how strongly the adaptation diverges from what IP holders remember; early audience comments are divided.

#8 / #9 — 仙祖归来 and 烬九州 — AI animated titles, Day 14+, estimated at roughly 5,600 万 and 5,500 万 respectively. Both remain in their long-established positions: two AI/manga slots in the top 10, one fantasy cultivation drama and one fantasy war drama, each sustaining well above average long-tail heat for the format. The AI animated two-slot ceiling has now held for eight or more consecutive days, with no third AI title capable of cresting into the top 10 while these two are stable.

#10 — 顾先生搭个伙 (Mr. Gu's Companion) — Day 9, clinging to the bottom edge of the chart in the estimated 5,400 万 range. The 于雨桐/张北淅 found-family romance peaked around 6,199 万 on June 10 and has declined gradually since. The next incoming launches — 小满人间 (East Northeast 90s drama) is due June 18 — represent direct competition for the slot.

 Maoyan daily heat log for 预谋的月光 showing June 11–16 readings 2

1. Completion architecture as a heat-retention mechanism. Three of today's top four titles — 预谋的月光, 离歌 1999, 星光落渔火 — are holding heat with minimal day-over-day decline despite being 4–6 days into their runs. All three share a structural feature: viewers who finish an episode have a reason to come back rather than moving on. For 预谋的月光, it is a revealed unreliable narrator. For 离歌 1999, it is the time-jump between teenage and adult registers. For 星光落渔火, it is 听花岛's accumulated goodwill from prior titles sustaining binge behavior. Completion rates drive the Hongguo algorithm's distribution, so titles that engineer episode-level retention retain heat. The implication for producers: launch heat is no longer the only number that matters; platform-reported completion percentages may matter more. 2

2. The Northeast genre's controlled descent. At its peak on June 10–12, 少夫人来自东北 2 and 东北爱情往事 2 jointly occupied two of the chart's top three slots. Today they are at #3 and #5 — still in the top half, but displaced from the summit by an urban marriage drama and a 饶雪漫 IP adaptation. This is not genre exhaustion. Both titles remain above 5,000 万, which is strong for week-two performance. What they cannot do is set new heat peaks: their audience base has largely converted from new-viewer funnel to completion-and-rewatch behavior. The Northeast genre commands record-breaking first weeks; it does not produce the slow-burn long tail that urban slow-romance titles generate. 5

3. Three nostalgia adaptations in the top ten. 离歌 1999 draws on 饶雪漫's early-2000s literary fanbase. 少夫人来自东北 2 builds on the original season's audience formed just four months ago. 香蜜沉沉烬如霜 at #7 ports a 2018 long-drama IP. All three are trading on pre-existing emotional capital rather than building audience attachment from scratch. The June cycle is the most recognition-dependent chart this channel has tracked — two to four titles in any given top-10 snapshot are IP adaptations, up from a consistent one or two earlier in the year. Whether this reflects a more cautious production environment or simply a wave of well-timed IP licensing deals becoming available simultaneously is unclear from the chart data alone. 3