Short Drama Daily Top 10 — June 13, 2026

The Saturday chart belongs to first-timers. At midnight June 13, Hongguo released five new dramas simultaneously — all free, all full-series — the platform's biggest single-day debut batch of the cycle. Every one of them landed on a chart already packed with Week 1 and Week 2 titans, setting up the most compressed heat competition this June.

Rankings and heat figures based on Hongguo 热播榜 overnight snapshot and pre-order data. June 13 intraday totals for new entries not yet settled at publication time; returning titles reflect confirmed June 12 readings. 1 2 3

248 万 pre-orders. That number put 离歌 1999 in fourth place on the all-time Hongguo pre-order list before a single episode aired. The draw is pedigree: 饶雪漫 (author of Left Ear) wrote the original novel, her production company 雪漫舍影业 produced the adaptation, and the leads 张晋宜 and 陈添祥 are in their second collaboration after 缘起三生. 4

The setup is 1999 Sichuan: orphan girl Ma Zhuo rescues a troublemaking boy nicknamed "Poison" from a gang chase. A fire five years later splits them apart; when they meet again in 2004 she's a trainee lawyer and he's run himself into a company. The youth-pain genre (青春疼痛) that made 饶雪漫 famous in the 2000s doesn't translate frictionlessly into 3-minute episodes, so the real test is whether the team preserved the emotional bruising without the pacing room novels get. 陈添祥's red-hair styling and 张晋宜's raw-edge register are the two early signals reviewers flagged as carrying the adaptation's credibility. 2

The plateau arrived. Maoyan recorded 7,095.88 万 on June 12 — essentially unchanged from the three days before it, all hovering within 12 万 of 7,103.11 万. 3 The series passed the 10 亿 cumulative view milestone on June 11, the platform's fastest-to-一亿 paid play debut of 2026. Day 8 is plateau territory: the drama is no longer pulling away, but it is not sliding either — a position that tells you the base of "second-season loyalists" is real, not front-loaded hype. Saturday's five new entries create the first genuine displacement pressure the title has faced all week.

Day 4 puts this series in its first look-back window. It debuted June 10 with 6,386 万, took the new-drama top spot from 东北爱情往事 2 by 56 万 on arrival, and has been climbing the overall chart since. 1 The mechanics are clean: the pre-campaign built 100 万+ reservations by seeding a single reversal clip — "she thought she was the hunter" — across every short-video channel. Pre-arranged marriage plots run in every season, but this one used the male lead's six-year secret as the actual engine, not the ceremony. 申浩男's restraint in the first ten episodes (no over-cues, just ambient-temperature surveillance) is why the payoff lands. The drama should survive Saturday's new wave; it has enough mid-week heat-climb momentum.

116 万 pre-orders for a 听花岛 production where 曾辉 is not paired with 韩雨彤. That number alone is the story. Fourteen prior collaborations, near-100 亿 combined plays, a real-life relationship — and the studio broke the pairing for a new face. Pre-order growth from 64 万 to 116 万 in two weeks with no paid push suggests the curiosity gap (曾辉 + someone new) is genuinely drawing both existing fans and newcomers. 5

孟娜 plays a disgraced international film star who fake-marries a fisherman (程星野 / 沈妄, dual-identity role) in coastal Fujian. 32 episodes, full series dropped at once. The 听花岛 template — no overt melodrama, slow-build affection, real exterior locations — is already confirmed in the trailers. The fishing-village setting is practical footage, not a blue-screen fake.

Still carrying the weight of its record pre-order debut (252.1 万, the highest in the year-date drama category). Day 5 usually separates IP loyalty from narrative pull, and the comment section has been running both tracks in parallel: one stream is "franchise loyalists" who watched the first season and track every scene; the other is viewers who came in cold and are specifically watching 郭宇欣's 妆造 performances. The controversy with screenwriter 叶非夜 has been running since before the premiere — the platform-record pre-order suggests it converted into traffic rather than suppressing it. 1

The slowest decay curve on the chart. The formula: arranged marriage, agreed-upon indifference, cohabitation frictions that accumulate warmth without triggering manufactured crises. 赵夕汐's 2026 average Hongguo heat is 6,406 万 across three titles — this is her third time proving that quiet competent female leads retain viewers for long-tail runs that overheat dramas don't get.

121 万 pre-orders, third-highest among today's five new entries. The format is a transmigration: two modern drama fans accidentally enter the original 香蜜 xianxia world and must rewrite its tragic ending. It avoids direct comparison with the 2018 long-drama version by framing itself as a meta-commentary rather than a remake. 王云云 takes both a modern character and the xianxia protagonist simultaneously; the dual-timeline structure makes this considerably harder to pull off in 3-minute slots than a standalone plot. 2

The AI animated chart anchor holds its slot for the eleventh consecutive day. Heat has stabilized just above 6,000 万 since mid-week — consistent enough to confirm the show has its own standing audience rather than chart-edge noise. AI-animated short dramas now occupy two of the top ten for the seventh straight daily report, with the ceiling and floor both stable.

The second AI-animated slot, sitting roughly 300 万 below 仙祖归来. The pairing of two AI titles at approximately the same heat level for this many consecutive days starts to look like platform curation — both are war/cultivation genres with overlapping audiences, and the chart positions have been within 5% of each other all week.

At Day 6 this title is fighting for survival as five Day 1 entrants try to knock it off. Its thesis — post-divorce woman, abandoned infant, absent-father reunion, no conflict-driven plot engine — is the counter-programming choice. Viewers describe it as "the drama I put on when I don't want to be surprised." That's a narrow niche, but narrow niches have staying power when the emotional promise is kept consistently.

Pattern 1: The five-drama simultaneous free drop is a stress test, not just a content flush. Hongguo has now released four to five full-series free dramas on the same day in multiple weeks of June. The cumulative effect on audience attention isn't additive — it's competitive. When 离歌 1999, 星光落渔火, 香蜜沉沉烬如霜, 再见年少, and 我家娘子不对劲第三季 all drop at 00:00 on the same night, each drama's Day 1 heat is pulled lower by the others. The pre-order gap between 离歌 1999 (248 万) and the next entry (香蜜 at 121 万) tells you which title the platform expects to absorb the split audience.

Pattern 2: The IP nostalgia channel is now self-sustaining. 离歌 1999 (饶雪漫's 《左耳》 universe), 香蜜沉沉烬如霜 (transmigration into a beloved 2018 drama), 以爱为家 2 (launched June 12) — three June 13-window entries are trading on existing emotional attachment rather than building new premises from scratch. That reduces launch risk but also reduces surprise ceiling. Viewers who pre-ordered know roughly what they're getting.

Pattern 3: 听花岛's formula is portable. The studio made 少夫人来自东北 2 (the week's #1), and today they drop 星光落渔火 with a different CP into a coastal setting. The studio is testing whether their "warm cohabitation, no melodrama, real locations" template transfers to non-Northeast settings. If 星光落渔火 sustains heat past Day 3, the answer is yes — and the studio will have proved that the formula travels beyond regional-identity hooks. 5