Wei Shen

""You're a cop. I am an undercover cop. The rules are different.""

- Wei Shen

Wei Shen is the main character in the 2011 video game Sleeping Dogs. Shen was born in Hong Kong, but moved to San Francisco with his mother at age ten. Shen would become a police officer in San Francisco, before returning to Hong Kong to work as an undercover officer with the Hong Kong Police Department who is tasked with infiltrating the Sun On Yee Triad. Shen successfully infiltrates the gang, and eventually becomes friendly with some members of the Sun On Yee, and quickly rises through their ranks, becoming a leader, or "Red Pole" of the Sun On Yee after the death of previous "Red Pole" Winston Chu. This leaves Wei caught between two worlds, that of law enforcement and the Triads. It is revealed early in the story that Wei has a personal stake in the mission, as his sister may have been killed by the Sun On Yee, and later, Shen has several of his friends in the Sun On Yee murdered by a rival Triad, the the 18K. Shen ends up personally involved with the conflict between the two rival Triads, and the internal power struggle within the Sun On Yee after the death of boss David Wa-Lin "Uncle" Po. Shen is attacked by the 18K at Po's funeral, at which point it is reveal that this was set up by corrupt HKPD superintendent Thomas Pendrew. Shortly afterwards, Henry "Big Smile" Lee, a rival Sun On Yee "Red Pole" has Shen's friend Jackie Ma kidnapped and buried alive. Shen rescues Jackie and escapes and ambush by Lee's men. Jackie leaves Shen, only for Shen to find him murdered the next day. Shen is ambushed at the scene by Lee's thugs, and taken to an construction site, where he is tortured for an extended period of time, before he finally escapes and kills the torturer, Tong, with his own machete. Shen discovers the location Lee, and storms the area, intially armed with Tong's machete, though he quickly gets a hold of a firearm and shoots his way through a horde of Lee's men and attempts to hijack a boat Lee intended to use to escape. The boat ends up crashing into a gas station on a dock, and both Lee and Shen wash up near a dockside warehouse. Shen fights and kills Lee, beating his and then tossing him into an ice crusher.