Fan Casting Sir Henry Lee Ching in Portrait of a Lady

A brilliant British-Chinese industrialist, knighted for services to technology, celebrated as the architect of the automated future. Beneath the polished surface lies the orphaned son of an opium warlord, raised in exile, burning with a cold fury against the nation that destroyed his family. His global empire manufactures components for every major weapons system on earth—a monopoly he has weaponized into a private doomsday machine. Charming, cultured, and utterly without mercy, he treats mass murder as a negotiation tactic and views the world as a chessboard only he can see.