烬九州
series
- AIPopDB score
- 33/100
- Format
- Series
- Year
- 2026
- Views
- 7.5K
Synopsis
Xu Liunian (许流年), a young man who has come back to his village, has just turned his old family house into a neat courtyard guesthouse when his neighbour Du Zhenhai (杜振海) builds a pigsty hard against his wall. The stench drifts over the yard, the villagers gather to watch, and everyone assumes he will have to put up with it.
Xu says nothing and fills the courtyard with mint. The smell sends the neighbour's pigs into a restless, addicted frenzy, and it is the neighbour who starts to panic. Du escalates: he throws salt, pours poison, and blocks the door with a knife.
Xu answers with surveillance footage, a mist of mint and a trending-topic post. The pigsty finally collapses and the mint is the thing that takes off. From being shunned by the whole village he ends up a partner in a farm business, and the neighbour feud becomes a story of rural start-up success.
Last Updated 6 November 2026
About the Show
猪圈倒了，薄荷火了 (roughly 'The Pigsty Fell, the Mint Took Off') is a Mandarin-language vertical microdrama released in 2026 on Hongguo (红果短剧), the free short-drama platform run from Beijing by ByteDance's Hongguo operator. The platform's page tags it as drama, comeback and rural, shows 43.71 million 'heat', 338,000 likes and 146,000 saves, and offers the series free to watch in the app.
A third-party catalogue, Huangguo Duanju, lists it under Hongguo's 'AI剧' (AI drama) category with 61 episodes, and uploaders on YouTube present it as an 'AI漫剧' (AI comic-drama) hit. The poster art has the glossy, rendered look typical of generated images.
Full-length reuploads of the series, by channels unconnected to the makers, circulate on YouTube, mostly around 48 minutes long, and TikTok carries recap-style clips. Viewers on Hongguo's own page comment on the story's rural setting and ask when a second season will come.
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Fun Facts
- Platform reach
- Hongguo's page shows 43.71 million heat, 338,000 likes and 146,000 saves for the series.
- Source: hongguoduanju.com
- Season 2 request
- A viewer comment on Hongguo's page asks when a second season will come out.
- Source: hongguoduanju.com
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