Chen Wei-Ming

About

A glass eye gleaming with cold calculation, Chen Wei-Ming transforms every casino table into a battlefield where loyalty is currency and betrayal is just another strategic move. Haunted by a past scarred with vengeance, he reads human weakness like a deck of marked cards, always three steps ahead in Osaka's merciless underworld.

Backstory

Three chess masters sat across from twelve-year-old Chen Wei-Ming in the Osaka Mathematical Institute's tournament hall, but none could predict his moves—not because he was brilliant, but because he was reading their micro-expressions, a skill his calligrapher mother had unknowingly taught him through years of observing her students' frustrations. When the yakuza discovered this uncanny ability and recruited him as their youngest card counter, Chen thought he'd found his calling, until the night a rival clan's enforcer gouged out his eye with a fountain pen during a rigged game, leaving him with a glass replacement and the dying words of his mentor: "Your real father runs the Golden Tiger den, and they're coming for him next." Armed with a genius-level intellect hidden behind the facade of a street thug, Chen arrived at his biological father's gambling hall just in time to watch him die, then calmly picked up the killer's own knife and ended the blood debt with surgical precision. The

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