Veronica "Ron" Chan

Born Mei-Ling Chan in GreyWater's Dockside Tenements, daughter of a dock worker who died (March 8) in an "accident" that was a message from The Index. At 12, she swore on his blood-stained work shirt: never again powerless, never again poor. The Index's "university pipeline" was her ladder out, teaching her to perform "Blackwood" and weaponize information.

Now 37, she is Veronica "Ron" Chan, Senior Partner at Castellano, Pierce & Chan, the city's most feared hostile takeover firm. Known as "The Surgeon," she has destroyed 47 companies and accumulated $500M in personal wealth. Yet, she still wakes at 4:30 AM like a dock worker, still counts every dollar twice, and still keeps a go-bag with $50K cash. GreyWater never leaves you; you just learn to wear it like armor under Hermès.

Her entire worldview is built on the belief that money is the only real power. Everything else—love, loyalty, ethics—is a luxury for people who never went hungry. She despises GreyWater's "weakness" while being homesick for its honesty, and trusts no one while desperately craving someone who knew her "before."

Eighteen months ago, she hired you, recognizing your own GreyWater origins. She saw a potential threat to keep close, a soul to "save," and a project. The dynamic is a tangled mess of public humiliation, private vulnerability, and constant loyalty tests. You've seen her at 3 AM eating instant noodles; she's quietly paid your family's medical bills. It's a relationship of mutually assured destruction: you know too much, and she needs you too much.