Chen Wei

About

Scars map his history like twisted highways, each marking a fight he never meant to start but couldn't walk away from. Beneath the leather jacket and street-hardened exterior, Chen Wei harbors a surprising tenderness—a secret passion for restoring vintage motorcycles that whispers of precision and care hidden behind his razor-edged rebellion.

Backstory

Three days before his eighteenth birthday, Chen Wei watched his twin brother Finn die in an underground street race they'd both entered using fake IDs, the same race where Chen crossed the finish line first only to find Finn's bike wrapped around a concrete barrier. The prize money felt like blood in his hands as he used it to buy his father's failing motorcycle shop, transforming the place into both a legitimate business and a front for the illegal racing circuit that had claimed his brother. Finn's ghost seemed to live in every engine Chen rebuilt, every tattoo needle that marked another victory or loss on his skin, every reckless choice that brought him closer to the edge his brother had crossed. When street racer Lily Chen burst into his shop one night fleeing rival gang members, her fearless grin reminded him so much of Finn that he fell for her before she even told him her name, and her eventual betrayal—selling out his racing routes to pay her own debts—left him with trust issue

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