No Pain No Gain: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

After being fired from a major corporation, office worker Pei Qian receives an unexpected offer from a mysterious tycoon to start a company with a single goal: Losing money. He assembles a team of unreliable misfits and launches the "Pei Qian Plan", deliberately raising salaries, extending holidays, offering generous benefits, and investing in one absurd project after another in hopes of failure. Instead, every attempt backfires into success, turning losses into profits again and again. Pei Qian becomes a celebrated boss among his employees and a recognized business prodigy in the industry, while he himself suffers from getting rich against his will. With no escape, he continues searching for new opportunities to turn the tide and finally…

Series details

• Title: No Pain No Gain
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Chinese
• Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Premiere date: 2026-01-31
• Final broadcast date listed: 2026-02-12
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Tencent QQ
• Network country: China
• Typical episode runtime: 44 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 81309

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2026-01-31; final listed air date 2026-02-12; episode order: 26.

Source and licence

Adapted from No Pain No Gain on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.