One heroine, rebirth, special abilities
In the spring of 2016, 22-year-old Lin Zhou was reborn in his rented room on Han Street.
In his previous life, a marriage-industry giant drove him into bankruptcy and forced him to jump to his death. When he woke, he gained a golden finger that let him see through anything. With just one glance, he could see anyone’s real information: from height and weight to marital status, from bank balances to bedroom secrets, from hidden illnesses to a history of fraud.
With his last 2,000 yuan, he rented a 20-square-meter shop called “Fate Brought You to Me.”
On the very first day, he exposed a marriage scammer who was dating seven men at once, right on the street, and helped a programmer who’d been conned three times recover 80,000 yuan in bride-price money.
In the first week, he brought down a marriage-scam ring operating in Optics Valley and sent its ringleader, “Sister Hong,” to prison.
In the first month, he livestreamed a fake rich kid’s time-management routine, and six victims beat the scumbag up in the street.
From then on, a bloody storm swept through Wuhan’s marriage market:
Behind sky-high bride prices lay the schemes of siblings’ parasites; government employees hired as fake dates had protection from within the system; international marriage scammers spoke elementary-school English; the girlfriend-for-hire business concealed kidnapping and extortion; sham marriages became a breeding ground for fraud; and rich men’s beauty pageants turned out to involve the spread of HIV…
With one hand, Lin Zhou matched people with their perfect partners. With the other, he tore scams to pieces. From a little shop on Han Street to a nationwide chain, from fighting alone to building an “Anti-Fraud Alliance.”
“My rules are simple: don’t deceive people, don’t cheat them, don’t break up true couples, just expose scams.”
“Marriage can involve money, but people aren’t for sale. You can be practical, but you can’t be shameless.”
“Anyone who treats marriage like a business will become my prey.”
This is a war over love and marriage that began in 2016 and lasted a decade.
