The Broker's Ledger

My name is Dong Jizhou, and I work as a labor broker on this street. When the factory pays twenty-one, I quote the workers eighteen—those three yuan are how I survive. I have a script book with a hundred ways to make a worker sign a contract; I have a hundred contracts, each one flawless even to a clever eye; upstairs we run a self-media studio that specializes in short videos about "honest brokers." The people squatting in the park waiting for work are our free living advertisements. I was once the one who got cheated in, and now I stand at the door with a contract, telling every new batch: "There's work, room and board included, high pay." This is not documentary—it's fiction. But every trick, every line of dialogue, every contract in here is real. — Description from novelcodex.org