At 3:07 a.m. on December 3, 2020, in Room 1802, 18th Floor, Tianbao Tower, Tianhe Plaza, Guangzhou, Zhong Chunyuan, a tenant of the eggshell apartment, sent his last message to his friends.
Sorry.
It was followed by two WeChat freshly online (cracked) expressions.
At this time, the three roommates in the other rooms were all still asleep. Half an hour later, the roommate farthest away from Xiao Zhong’s room got up to use the bathroom and pushed open the door, only to find that the entire hallway was filled with smoke.
After searching around, he found that the smoke was pouring out of the door of Zhong’s room, and he did not have the combination lock of Zhong’s room.
He didn’t have the combination of the combination lock and couldn’t open the door, so he could only knock loudly and shout, but no one responded. He immediately woke up his other two roommates, ran downstairs to notify the property security, and called the police.
Ten minutes later, the police, doctors, and firefighters arrived one after another. They asked Zhong’s roommates if there was a missing person in the room.
It was only then that they realized Zhong Chunyuan had jumped from the 18th floor.
It never occurred to anyone that this normally quiet, but not introverted boy would choose suicide to end the nightmare before him.
Born in 2000, Zhong Chunyuan was a native of Huizhou and had just graduated from a vocational and technical college. In September, he signed a one-year lease with Eggshells Apartments.
The house was originally a three-bedroom, one-bedroom apartment, but in accordance with the practice of long-term rental apartment operators, Eggshells partitioned the living room into a bedroom, and stuffed the entire house with four tenants. The hut Zhong Chunyuan lived in was only 10 square meters, with only a closet, bed, table, and air conditioner.
Since he didn’t have a job, he chose to take out an eggshell rental loan, which cost him 1,450 yuan a month, or less than 18,000 yuan a year, for rent and other expenses. During the three months he lived in Tianbao Pavilion, he occasionally went out for interviews, but spent most of his time in the house playing games. According to his roommate, he actually tried very hard to find a job, but he was always on hold.
One day in September, he posted a screenshot of a job-hunting conversation in his circle of friends, saying, “I’m trying to get into the factory again.
The boy, who was born in 2000, usually likes to share games with his friends, such as League of Legends and CS:GO, and his roommates don’t communicate much with him, saying the following about him.
Boring.
Not long after renting this small apartment, the news of the eggshell apartment thunderstorm came. The roommates were disturbed to hear that many of the tenants had actually been evicted by their landlords.
Zhong’s roommate recalled that on November 25 or 26, a notice from the landlord appeared on the apartment’s door, saying that he had not received rent for two months.
You have one week to move out of this room after you see the notice.
According to this notice, the deadline is either December 3 or December 4.
In the meantime, Xiao Zhong’s roommates received a WeChat message from their landlord that after one week, they should either pay the rent or leave.
This has been a common occurrence among the tenants of Eggshells.
In January 2020, Eggshells went public in the United States. It took a real-life model apartment prepared for young tenants and moved it to the doorstep of the New York Stock Exchange. Gao Jing, the founder of Eggshells, says he wants to provide a warm shell for every young person in a foreign country.
According to the figures disclosed by Eggshells, there are 420,000 houses in 13 cities across China, with at least 500,000 tenants involved. Ten months into the winter, tens of thousands of young people are either forced to move out or confront their landlords.
The shell was shattered all over the place.
In the week before Zhong Chunyuan’s suicide, his roommates didn’t see much of him; they all had jobs and had to get up early and work late. They all communicated through WeChat and talked about the eggshells.
On the afternoon of December 1, Zhong Chunyuan suddenly told his roommates, “I’m going back to my hometown, where I have to pay for rent, food, and utilities. It will take two months to pay off the rent loan by going back to work, and at that time I will be able to pay it back.
It doesn’t affect my credit.
Pear Video interviewed the landlord and asked about asking the tenant to vacate. The landlord denied the request for the tenant to vacate.
There is no such thing, no.
In fact, the landlord himself is not a victim at all.
There is no official conclusion on Xiao Zhong’s suicide. What was the motive for Zhong Chunyuan’s arson, and whether the eggshell thunderstorm was the last straw that broke his back, have yet to be investigated more deeply.
If it was really because of eggshells, then it is the biggest tragedy in the entire lightning storm.
On December 4, less than 24 hours after Zhong Chunyuan jumped from the 18th floor, Weizhong Bank, the cooperative bank of eggshell apartment rental loans, proposed a solution: after the customers of eggshell rental loans surrendered their leases, they would sign an agreement with our bank to use the prepaid rent owed by the customers of eggshell apartments to offset their loans with our bank, and then our bank would settle the loans.
The customer of the eggshell rental loan will be able to settle the loan without having to continue to repay the loan. Prior to the implementation of the policy, Micro Focus Bank also guaranteed that there would be no collections, no chargebacks, no interest accrual, and no credit impact.
This settlement policy, which relieved many eggshell tenants, was actually one day late.
After the accident, the eggshell’s housekeeper contacted Xiao Zhong’s roommate and asked him the following questions.
Is there something wrong with the room, or do you want to renew the lease?
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