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Huangnian Quancun Kenshupi, Wo You Xitong Mancang Rou

Huangnian Quancun Kenshupi, Wo You Xitong Mancang Rou (In the Famine Year the Whole Village Chews Tree Bark, but I Have a System and a Storehouse Full of Meat; 荒年全村啃树皮，我有系统满仓肉) is a 2025 Chinese micro short drama adapted from the Fanqie novel of the same name by the author Zhaoyunzi (朝云紫). It follows Cheng Wanwan (程弯弯), a modern woman who transmigrates (soul moves into another body/time) into the body of a despised, widowed farm wife in a famine-stricken ancient village, where a game-like trading system lets her exchange foraged goods for grain and meat.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Native title	荒年全村啃树皮，我有系统满仓肉
Format	76 vertical episodes, about 3 minutes each, 2 hours 9 minutes total¹^•³
Source	Fanqie novel of the same title by Zhaoyunzi (朝云紫), about 1.9 million characters¹
Production	Produced by Guangzhou Linyang Culture Media; director Li Ke (李可), screenwriter Chen Siyu (陈思羽)¹^•²
Lead cast	Guo Jing (郭静) as Cheng Wanwan; Jiang Shaoming (降绍明), Yang Yuehua (杨玥华), Zhou Yuxuan (周钰轩), Yue Xunyu (岳训宇), Qu Ziqiao (曲梓桥)²
Performance	Over 1 billion views on Hongguo; in-app heat peaked at 98.93 million, near the platform ceiling⁴
Sequel	Season 2, 90 episodes, released 2025-09-18⁵

Spoilers

Premise

Cheng Wanwan wakes up in the ancient Dahe Village as a 33-year-old farm widow with four sons and a pregnant daughter-in-law, having been single her whole life in the present day. The original body was a "vicious" woman who kept her late husband's death pension for her own natal family and mistreated her household, so the whole village despises her and her natal family has just beaten her unconscious while extorting grain.¹^•⁶

The village is in a famine in which neighbors survive by chewing tree bark, and the family faces successive locust, drought, and snow disasters. Her advantage is a trading mall system: wild vegetables sell for 10 copper coins, a wild fat fish for 200, and foraged goods can be exchanged for rice, meat, and oil. She sets two goals, to bring her family safely through the famine year and to live a new, accomplished life in ancient times, and gradually extends her help to the whole village.¹^•²

Production and release

The drama was produced by Guangzhou Linyang Culture Media Co., Ltd. and adapted from Zhaoyunzi's Fanqie novel. The short-drama database Duanjubaike lists the production brand as Meiguang Short Drama (美光短剧), with Li Ke directing and Chen Siyu writing, and gives an online release date of April 30, 2025.¹^•² Baidu Baike's entry for the sequel records the series' first mainland broadcast as May 7, 2025, with 76 episodes of 3 minutes each.³

Reception and commercial performance

A breakout of the "system plus farming" wave. On May 16, 2025, the Hongguo platform announced that the drama had passed 1 billion views and had topped the Hongguo hot-play list for multiple days; its in-app heat at one point reached 98.93 million, close to the platform's ceiling. DataEye noted that on May 22, four "system plus farming" micro dramas, including this one, were on the Hongguo heat list simultaneously, each above 55 million heat.⁴

On the DataEye short-drama heat charts it placed 2nd on May 7, 7th on May 8, 17th on May 9, 11th on May 10, and 7th on May 30, 2025; it ranked 14th on the May monthly top-100 list and 50th for the first half of 2025.² Duanjubaike records 3.85 million plays, heat of 39.25 million, and 7.13 million favorites for the first season, with a site rating of 7.8.¹ On Douban the series held a 6.7 rating from 941 raters as of May 7, 2025, of whom 34.5% gave four stars and 42.7% gave three.³

Structure and storytelling

A script-analysis study of the series counts 76 episodes and 154 scenes, with an average of 14.6 lines of dialogue per episode and a dialogue peak of 31 lines in episode 8; it identifies 9 hook designs and 8 paywall points, the earliest within episodes 1 to 10.⁷ The analysis describes the opening formula as an extreme "bad start": the transmigrating heroine lands in a body hated by her family and village amid a lethal famine, maximizing the contrast between her modern identity as a corporate executive and her new situation, while the system gives her access to scarce resources.⁷

A review carried by The Paper's (澎湃新闻) micro-drama column, produced with AI assistance, highlighted the series' narrative perspective as its most notable innovation: instead of the romance-driven plot typical of short dramas, it uses a "big heroine" viewpoint centered on Cheng Wanwan's bonds of family and neighborhood, and it credited the show with advances in production quality and IP development while noting shortcomings in how the "system" itself is rendered on screen.⁸

Adaptations and related versions

The same novel has spawned a series of screen versions. A second live-action season, Huangnian Quancun Kenshupi, Wo You Xitong Mancang Rou 2, directed and written by Chen Siyu and starring Guo Jing, Zhou Yuxuan, and Yang Yuehua, premiered in mainland China on May 7, 2025, with 76 three-minute episodes; the Hongguo season-2 page lists 90 episodes and a user rating of 8.8, and its plot continues with the family selling ice jelly, a violent intrusion by Zhao Fugui that endangers the daughter-in-law's pregnancy, and a locust swarm beaten back by burning lantana.³^•⁵

An AI-animated version, Luan Shi: Huangnian Quancun Kenshupi, Wo You Xitong Mancang Rou (乱世：荒年全村啃树皮，我有系统满仓肉), launched on April 28, 2026, in 76 episodes totaling 2 hours 5 minutes, with a site rating of 8.1 and 356,100 plays.⁶ Duanjubaike also lists further derivative titles from the same novel, including Chuan Huangnian! Wo Dai Sizai Cheng Shoufu (60 episodes) and Chuanyue Zaihuang Nian Wo Kao Xitong Dai Quancun Zhifu (100 episodes), alongside animated versions of 59 to 189 episodes.¹

The novel itself, complete on Fanqie at about 1.9 million characters, is tagged as farming fiction, ancient romance, system, and transmigration, with no male lead; reader reviews describe a plot that moves from household farming and commerce to officialdom and court intrigue in its later arcs.¹^•⁹

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026