- AIPopDB score
- 71/100
- Format
- Series
- Year
- 2026
- Views
- 160.5K
Synopsis
Su Wan (苏婉) is a woman who has been pulled into a novel, and she carries a lotus-linked gift (莲息异能). In her first life she was ground down by the scholar Xu Xiuzhi (许修之), the false gentleman she married. When her younger sister Su Xue (苏雪), reborn too, sets her heart on Xu Xiuzhi, she weeps and schemes to hand the Huo family's marriage proposal to Su Wan.
Su Wan goes along with it and marries Huo Shi'an (霍石安), a minor banner officer on the frontier, and the two settle into a warm, comfortable marriage. Su Xue insists on marrying into the Xu household and pays for it: quarrels between mother-in-law and wife, a sickly husband, and being turned away when she visits her parents.
Huo Shi'an hunts boar and kills wolves to protect the village and is promoted to chief banner officer, returning to the frontier town. Su Wan runs the household well, preparing herbs and roasting medicinal tea, and helps old Granny Zhao start a needlework class, so the family's fortunes rise. The tone is a revenge-and-rise farming romance with comic family friction.
Last Updated 7 November 2026
About the Show
药香满院，种田采药赚万金 (roughly, A Courtyard Full of Herb Fragrance: Farming and Gathering Herbs for Ten Thousand Gold) is a Mandarin-language microdrama series of 540 episodes, listed on Hongguo Short Drama (红果短剧) under its AI drama (AI剧) category. Hongguo gives it a rating of 8.8 and lists the tags revenge-rise, drama, transmigration and ancient setting; its listing page is marked up as a TV series.
Hongguo names no studio, and the YouTube uploads come from distribution channels, not a producer. One of them, 盛世短剧 (Shengshi Drama), describes itself as holding exclusive licensed rights to short dramas and uploaded the full 540 episodes as one video of about 6 hours 37 minutes on 2 October 2026. Several other channels carry the same 6:37:08 compilation, among them KK爱看 (titled 【AI漫剧全集】, "complete AI manhua drama"), 九州快看 and 爱看动漫, each saying it is licensed.
The uploaders label it as AI-made: KK爱看 titles it an AI manhua drama and the 盛世短剧 and 九州快看 uploads carry the tag #AI短剧 (AI short drama). Viewers on the 盛世短剧 upload call its animation smooth and natural, while some note that characters look alike and that mouth movements are exaggerated. The makers have not said which models or tools produced it.
The 盛世短剧 upload had about 158,700 views and the KK爱看 upload about 89,600 on 7 November 2026. Commenters on the 盛世短剧 upload ask for a second season.
Audience sentiment
What the comments say
44 comments about the show on YouTube · updated 7 Nov 2026
55%
positive
Score = positive ÷ all scored comments
Sentiment split
- Positive
- 24 comments
- 55%
- Mixed
- 12 comments
- 27%
- Negative
- 8 comments
- 18%
Viewers mostly enjoy the warm family dynamics, the comeuppance of the selfish younger sister and the smooth animation, and many ask for a second season. Complaints are about repetitive costumes, confusingly similar-looking mothers, and implausible details such as cooking game without gutting it.
Top themes
“The mothers in this drama are all lovely and the fathers are endearing too. It's a good show.”
“Very much a slice of real life, with a warm family bond that is comforting to watch.”
“I hope it keeps updating! It's really good!”
“The plot is rather instructive: getting along with in-laws takes real effort.”
“Five years raising lotus in the pond, yet the daughter-in-law keeps being pregnant?! That plot is absurdly strange.”
“The sister is so selfish and lazy that I want to hit her.”
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Fun Facts
- Licensed distribution
- The 盛世短剧 channel describes its uploads as exclusively licensed short dramas and posted all 540 episodes as one video of 6 hours 37 minutes.
- Source: youtube.com
- Many identical uploads
- At least five other YouTube channels, including KK爱看, 九州快看 and 爱看动漫, carry the same 6:37:08 compilation of the series, each describing it as licensed.
- Source: youtube.com
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