Reverse Goal: Please Let Me Lose Money!

Urban workplace comedy, reverse entrepreneurship, dark humor, ensemble character growth

Core premise: Li Wei, an operations manager who was "optimized out" by a major corporation for refusing to join the rat race, unexpectedly receives a mysterious invitation: become the "Strategic Loss-Making Project Manager." He'll receive a guaranteed monthly allowance of 5,000 yuan, but must use every bit of his creativity to make the company's projects fail. The greater the losses, the higher his personal bonus. Li Wei is ecstatic, thinking he's found the perfect way out, only to despair when the "eccentric geniuses" he recruits and every "self-sabotaging" project he carefully designs, such as a shared bookstore with inhumanly complicated rules, a music app that insists on releasing music on physical cassette tapes, and a "paid knowledge" platform that deliberately loses money, all become unexpected hits for one absurd reason or another. His massive loss-making bonus gets farther and farther out of reach, yet he is forced to become the "idealist" in his employees' eyes, an industry-renowned "disruptor," and an "inscrutable business genius" to investors.