Renting a House to Northern Myanmar: My 180 Days in Purgatory

30-Year-old Chen Lei lost his only dignity as a "security guard of a listed company" to an unwarranted accusation. The musty smell of the rental house in the urban village, the embarrassment of zero income for half a month, the call from his mother to pay for his younger sister's tuition, the medication bill for his bedridden father, and the cold thresholds of "under 35 years old" and "no experience required" on the recruitment app, were like a net, trapping him in a corner of the city and unable to breathe. He once set up a street stall and was chased by the urban management, worked as a daily worker and was owed wages, and even the community security guards thought he was "old and lacked energy" - when survival became a problem, the recruitment information in the short video "Northern Burma's daily salary is 3,000, including food and housing" became his only life-saving straw. But the moment he landed in northern Myanmar, his passport was robbed and his mobile phone was confiscated, and he saw clearly that behind the "high salary" was a purgatory of severe beatings, electric shocks, and forced fraud: 18-hour forced work, starvation and punishment for failing to complete tasks, and escapees having their legs broken and thrown to dogs... From a job outcast to a tool for fraud, Chen Lei struggled in despair, and every step was engraved with the helplessness of the bottom-level workers and the cruelty of reality. This is a story adapted from real experience. There is no sense of counterattack, only the bloody reality: when life forces you into a corner, the so-called "shortcut" may be the entrance to hell.