Resumen del episodio 23 de No Pain No Gain
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Sima Tu and Sima Sui began their tenure by imposing a strict new regime at Tengda, sending out messages that the era of lax work habits was over and new schedules must be followed. Sima Tu initiated individual meetings with key employees to undermine their loyalty to Pei Qian through manipulation. He praised Lv Mingliang as the company's backbone, only to suggest it was unfair that resources were being diverted to Lin Wan.
Mingliang was not easily swayed and asked for a clearer explanation of these divisive comments. Sima Tu tried a similar approach with Lin Wan, questioning her contributions compared to her peers and claiming her talent far surpassed Mingliang's, but she bluntly asked if he was simply trying to instigate office politics.
Even Huang Sibo was targeted; Sima Tu offered him '82 vintage wine and spoke poorly of Sima Sui’s maturity, urging Huang to exercise his own judgment and choose the right person to follow within the company. Meanwhile, Sima Sui focused on physical "heart-power" training, forcing the staff to carry heavy logs and flip truck tires to build endurance. Unbeknownst to him, Pei Qian had spent the night replacing the equipment with foam props from a film set.
The employees found the exercises surprisingly easy but pretended to struggle to maintain the ruse. When Sima Sui pressured a terrified Huang Sibo to overcome his fear of heights by jumping from a platform, the team intervened to support him. The training session was eventually cut short when a representative informed Sima Sui that Li Shi had booked every available training ground in Jinchuan, leaving them with nowhere to practice.
Realizing the employees were too united under Pei Qian, the Sima brothers decided that the only way to gain control was to break the team apart. Despite Pei Qian’s formal objections that arbitrary reassignments would paralyze operations and violate labor rights, Sima Tu and Sima Sui used their two-to-one majority as shareholders to force a company-wide random department rotation.
Pei Qian sent a message to his staff, asking them to bear with the situation for now and offering full compensation to anyone who felt they had to leave, promising they would be welcomed back later. Amidst the confusion, Ma Yang speculated to the group that Pei Qian was a wealthy heir and the Sima brothers were his siblings embroiled in a tangled inheritance battle, even wondering if Pei Qian was the "fifth brother" of the Sima family.
The resulting rotation was chaotic: private kitchen staff struggled to write game code, fitness instructors were forced into singing roles, and Bao Xu found himself delivering food on an electric scooter, even getting into an accident while trying to complete an order for Qiao Liang. Two months passed as Pei Qian fruitlessly searched for Mr. Sima at various international addresses provided by Xin Hailu, finding only abandoned and moldy properties.
When he finally returned to the office, he found Xin Hailu working as a weary receptionist. She presented him with a disastrous financial report showing that Tengda was facing massive losses across nearly all sectors. Enraged, Pei Qian confronted Sima Tu and Sima Sui, demanding to know how they would justify the damage to their father. The brothers fled the scene in a car, and Pei Qian gave chase on a scooter.
The pursuit ended in a traffic accident that left Pei Qian hospitalized. While recovering, a frustrated Pei Qian demanded that Mr. Sima be brought before him. To his shock, he discovered that Mr. Sima had been in the same hospital all along, recovering from major surgery and currently in a coma. He had never been abroad; he simply wanted to hide his illness from everyone.
Xin Hailu warned Pei Qian that if Mr. Sima never woke up, it would be considered a force majeure, rendering their original agreement void and stripping Pei Qian of all promised benefits. Desperate to protect his interests, Pei Qian begged the doctors to save him, appearing to onlookers as a remarkably devoted son. With the Sima brothers having fled and Pei Qian sidelined, the employees took the initiative to save the company.
They halted the rotation and returned to their original posts to fix the mess. The developers worked at full speed to optimize the new version of The Divine Mountains and Seas, incorporating innovative ideas the chefs had brainstormed while stationed in the gaming department. Ma Yang suggested using the Yuanbao AI tool to help write scripts, which finally satisfied the demanding Lu Zhiyao.
Additionally, the streaming team at Ponytail Live successfully turned a profit by pivoting to broadcasts where they destroyed low-quality, unverified products. By the time Pei Qian could see the new reports, the team’s hard work had already begun turning the company's massive losses back into profits.
