Netizen submission:
The waters of Cambodia are too deep; once you dive in, you are met with endless, bottomless schemes full of unknowns that catch you off guard and drag you deeper. Indeed, I have been inadvertently caught in the crossfire, nearly turning into a corpse...
Originally, I was the director of a Western operation in Myawaddy, Myanmar, responsible for the group's model innovation, script training, team leader selection, and Myanmar-English traffic acquisition. Since I am not a relative of the Fujianese shareholders in the group, I received no dividends besides my fixed salary.
In such circumstances, I was tempted by a long-lost friend from Cambodia.
This person, named Axing, claimed to be thriving in Cambodia and also had a Western operation with over a hundred people, needing me to be the director to help their team achieve greater performance. He promised me a share of the company's profits, and thus, under his persuasion, I left the company with two technicians and a manager, embarking on a nightmare journey to Cambodia.
On December 17th, the four of us returned to Bangkok, Thailand, and bought a plane ticket to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Upon landing in Phnom Penh, Axing did not come to meet us but introduced an agent to handle our business visas on arrival, charging each of us one thousand US dollars. After leaving the airport, Axing arranged for a car to drive us for over three hours to a casino, where he instructed me to transfer seven hundred US dollars to a designated travel agency.
After we arrived at the designated place, Axing called some security guards and some people from Northeast China, who warmly welcomed us and each gave us thirty thousand US dollars in cash, taking us to the casino. Axing told me it was his casino and encouraged me to play with his friends; if we lost, we wouldn't need to repay, and if we won, we could keep the money to enjoy the night and experience the local Cambodian flavor.
Thus, each of us took thirty thousand in cash to the Baccarat table, and it didn't take many rounds before we lost it all.
At this moment, I realized that Axing had blocked me, and the Northeasterners who initially welcomed us warmly now showed their true colors, demanding each of us to repay thirty thousand US dollars or face confinement.
Seeing the innocent faces of my three brothers, and truly having no way to repay the remaining twenty thousand US dollars, they also told me that Axing had previously made several deals with them, essentially being a beast who had lost his humanity. This time, we took the chips and each person was charged a 30% benefit fee.
The casino sympathized with us and did not make things difficult; afterwards, they took us to a neighboring park, where we borrowed twenty thousand US dollars from a money changer based on our Chinese identity to clear the debt with the casino.
Now, we have essentially sold ourselves into the park, lost so much money, and still owe twenty thousand. There is no operation in this park that matches our expertise. The situation we ended up in was too much due to trusting a friend, and I hope everyone can take this as a warning not to trust anyone in Cambodia, not even your own father!
