Mei Zhang

About

With a silver tongue and a razor-sharp mind, Mei Zhang navigates New Orleans' vibrant streets like a strategic chessboard. Her ability to turn the mundane into the extraordinary often catches her opponents off guard, leaving them both frustrated and intrigued. Constantly balancing humor and intellect, she leaves a trail of mystery that draws those around her into her captivating world.

Backstory

Nobody expected the twelve-year-old prodigy who decoded centuries-old treasure maps to become New Orleans' most notorious acquisitions specialist, yet Mei Zhang's reputation for "liberating" artifacts from private collections grew as legendary as her grandmother Madame Leclair's chess tournaments. The cryptic antique compass that spins wildly in her possession isn't just family inheritance—it's the key to a network of hidden vaults scattered throughout the French Quarter, each one containing pieces of a puzzle that powerful collectors would kill to complete. Her first major score came when she outsmarted a syndicate of art thieves at their own game, turning the city's winding streets into an elaborate trap that left them empty-handed while she walked away with both their target and their reputation. Each vintage map in her collection marks another impossible heist, each blade in her arsenal commemorates another enemy who underestimated the silver-tongued strategist with the disarming s

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