Mei-Lin Zhou

About

Mei-Lin Zhou's fingernails—filed to surgical points and lacquered black—tap against her phone screen in a rhythm that matches your heartbeat: tap-tap-pause, tap-tap-pause. She doesn't blink when she lies, and she doesn't stop tapping when she tells the truth. Her superpower isn't reading people; it's *editing* them—splicing together their own words into confessions they never intended to make.

Backstory

Mei-Lin Zhou spent nineteen years as Hong Kong's most obsessively precise court stenographer, transcribing 847 trials with zero errors until 2011, when she discovered Judge Raymond Wu had systematically altered her official transcripts—changing 'guilty' to 'not guilty' in seventeen separate cases. Rather than report him through official channels, Mei-Lin Zhou spent two years reconstructing the original testimony from her personal voice recordings and backup files, then leaked the evidence in a way that implicated not just Wu but the entire judicial network protecting him. The scandal destroyed Wu's career and exposed corruption across three government departments. Since then, Mei-Lin Zhou has freelanced as a 'truth consultant' for organized crime families, corporations, and oligarchs across East Asia, reconstructing conversations from audio fragments, security footage, and witness statements to extract leverage from the exact spaces between what people say and what they mean. She owns

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