Zheng

Zheng (, Zhèng/ , Tei) is a character featured in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Zheng is bald, has a medium build, and sports a thin moustache
=== Attire ===
He wears a printed orange shirt, a pair of pinstriped black pants, a pair of leather shoes, and a chain necklace.
=== Personality ===
While he initially displays a hostile, cowardly personality, Zheng is actually very loyal to his boss in the Liumang, Mabuchi. His loyalty is such that, when Mabuchi is exiled from Yokohama, Zheng willingly goes with him into his exile and; when Mabuchi later returns to town to assassinate Zhao and Kasuga, Zheng helps him despite the great risk the plan poses. 
Zheng also appears to have a fetish for armpits; as he tries to lick Saeko's when she's working undercover at a Liumang-controlled hostess club in Restaurant Row. During each encounter with him, Kasuga's party teases him about said fetish, and even Joon-gi Han remarks that nobody in Geomijul knew that.
== Background ==
Zheng was born in Japan and barely speaks any Chinese. He worked at Akira Mabuchi's Yokohama Trading Company as a part-time for one month due to the exhaustion of unloading freight, but never saw Mabuchi himself in that time.
==Involvement==
=== Yakuza: Like a Dragon: 2019 ===
Zheng is running a shakedown ring where he coerces money out of Ijincho's homeless camps in exchange for being left unmolested by him and his cronies. It is while running one of these shakedowns that Zheng first encounteres Ichiban Kasuga, who is residing in the camp to recover after being patched up by Yu Nanba. In gratitude for Nanba's help, Kasuga beats Zheng and one of his thugs when they try to rob the camp. In exchange for keeping his humiliating defeat at the hands of a homeless guy a secret, Zheng agrees to not shakedown that camp anymore.
Zheng visits the Lin Lin Hostess Bar. At that club's VIP room, Zheng harasses Saeko Mukoda; who is undercover as a hostess to get close to him, by trying to lick her armpit. This prompts another fight between him and the Kasuga Party; which once again ends in his defeat, in spite of the fact that he had more back up this time. After his defeated, Zheng is asked for information on Akira Mabuchi, and he reveals all that he knows about him and his business after Kasuga pledges to not inform Liumang higher-ups of the information Zheng gave or his homeless shakedown scheme.
Later on, when Mabuchi tries to stage a coup against the Liumang's ringleader, Tianyou Zhao, Zheng is among those who side with Mabuchi's revolt. When Kasuga and his friends try to stop the coup and save Zhao, Zheng confronts them in the streets of Restaurant Row and attacks them with a large group of cronies. However, even when outnumbering the Kasuga Party, he is still unable to defeat them. After the coup is stopped, Zhao exiles Mabuchi and all his supporters from Yokohama, including Zheng.
Zheng is encountered for the last time when Kasuga fully befriends Zhao. Zheng travels to the Kasuga Party's favorite hangout, Survive Bar, and tells Kasuga and Zhao that Mabuchi wants to meet with them to request forgiveness and to be allowed to return to Yokohama. However, when the duo go to the meeting, it turns out to be an ambush set up by Mabuchi to kill them both. Zheng aids Mabuchi in fighting both men, but the ambush fails and Mabuchi, Zheng and their cronies are beaten and forced to flee the city once again.
==Gallery==
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==Notes==
== References ==
Category:Chinese Characters
Category:Yokohama Liumang
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Characters
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Antagonists
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Bosses
Category:Yakuza: Like a Dragon Sujimon