Lou Ma

Born in China, Lou Ma (楼妈) did not know his father. Raised by a single working mother and had a brother, Aiguo. Born within a year of each other. Both got into the crime movements of China, extortion, prostitution, gambling. All trying to impress the various leaders of the Triads and get their blessing to join them. Lou then had to move to Liberty City to escape issues with crime family's over in China (the issue being that he was too reckless, being intoxicated whilst working). His brothers whereabouts were unknown since he moved to LC. His mother passes away after 2 years in Liberty City, which hits him hard (and makes him conspire that it wasn't natural causes), as he can't go back to China to bury her in fear of being seen by any of the Triads there.

Pushed drugs in LC for Elizabeta until she got caught by the cops. At risk of being trailed by the cops he sells his stash of drugs to the Lost MC and uses the cash to move across to the west coast of America - Crescent City. With little money to start off with himself, and trying to clear his name with the Triads he had tried joining many years prior, he's left with a trunk of clothing, a rent-a-car, and his previous knowledge of the crime world of Triads, Bikers, and Hoodlums. After some time in Crescent City, Lou gets acquainted with the locals. He gets a dealer for cocaine, a motel room, Room 14, and gets his bearings on his crappy red car. He works some jobs for various gangsters, the most notable being Jake Leonardi - and stockpiles some cash (after blowing a portion of it on cocaine fuelled parties.) Eventually, after a couple months in this city, he gets a call to meet someone at the airport. He meets the individual, [[Huang Shen]]. Lou didn't know anything about him, they first meet and have a party, but nothing is known to Lou for a while, as he was pushed out of the city - due to a raid by the cops on his hotel room, Room 14.

This individual he meets, Huang Shen, is another Chinese criminal. Who spent his early years in China, making moves and getting his name out there. It is eventually revealed to Lou, that Huang is his nephew - and that his brother, Aiguo, was killed by someone in China. And that Huang was sent here by his mother, to avoid the same fate. With the knowledge that his brother is now dead, and his mother already passing at a fate he doesn't know of. Lou hits a stage of depression and gains a sense of recklessness. Both to himself, and his enemies. He expresses a sense of unpredictability at first, but retains his skills as a competent mathematician and driver. During the this time of Lou's mental state, he grows hungry for power and the security that brings as well as paranoid for his own wellbeing. Out of this - he hatches a plan with Jake Leonardi to take over the heroin trade from the Korean gangs populating Crescent City's Little Seoul district, and take their territory over in the process. With the help of Alyx Sutherland and his associate Jay - the Chinese gangsters rolled into the hub of the Korean operations in the district, massacring them and stealing their supply aswell as territory. 5 Months later in Crescent City, and Lou spends his time with his Nephew, getting drunk and running a few illegitimate businesses. Eventually, a man is revealed to Lou. His name was Eddie Woe, and Eddie worked closely with Aiguo years prior to his passing.

Eddie is sympathetic to Lou, coming across as sincere and caring about what had happened. Extending his hand to him and offering to help track down the killer of Lou's brother. The hand was shaken and the deal was made. Lou gets inspired by the old-ways of Eddie and how he runs his Triad family, buying a restaurant in Little Seoul that would eventually turn into the restaurant chain, Wong's Wings. A front for Lou & Huang's operations in Crescent City, to funnel their illegitimate money and stash the corpses of 'disagreeable' clients. Their were rumours that the food isn't all beef and pig, but they are just rumours right? However, before Lou could act on the plan to kill every-single member tied to his brothers undoing - he had loose ends that needed tying up. The Koreans - Who Lou started a war with in Crescent. He was contracted to acquire some weaponry that they had stolen (the contract of which, was completed). And after that, the Koreans kidnapped him for 3 months, which leaves him with a vendetta to get off his chest. Another unresolved issue, was his Nephew. Huang had been sent to rehab, and was pushed away by Eddie, temporarily exiled. Lou knew that before he could start tracking down the people who killed his brother, he needed his nephew would be free to have peace of mind. Lou discharges Huang from the rehab centre some months later, with Huang seeing things with clarity the pieces slowly fall into place as to the conspiracy of who killed Aiguo, Huang's father & Lou's brother. They needed to confront Eddie.

The two head straight to his office in the city 'Woe Consulting', only to find the office an empty space - as if it never existed. Ontop of that, the Yacht which Eddie ran his Triad from was no longer docked at the shoreline of the city, he was smoke in the wind. Lou and Huang get to work crossing the names off the list Eddie had given them, each one loyal to the end - except one. A former bodyguard and high ranking Triad to Eddie. Who revealed that Eddie wasn't showing all of his cards. The body was unidentifiable after the two were through with him. Some months later, Huang pieced everything together. Lou worked tirelessly to solve the mystery but his years in America and out of the world of the Triads left huge gaps in his recollection of events. - Huang has pieced together that Eddie killed his father, but why? That was something Lou had figured out but didn't have conformation on to reveal. 2 Months before the riots of Crescent City, Lou and Huang meet at a discrete location. Huang revealed his suspicions to Lou that Eddie was the one to kill Lou's brother, Lou [who already considered the notion] revealed to Huang that Eddie was a undercover cop the entire time. Sending Huang into a frenzy and a shootout between the two ensues, Lou gets critically wounded and is put into a coma.

After Huang puts his uncle into the hospital, he uses drugs more frequently and starts talking to street-level thugs that the 'once great' Eddie Woe was a narc & was playing all sides of the table. The word spreads into international politics and causes public outrage, the riots began. During the time of the riots Lou awoke from his coma state to cars on fire and stores ransacked. His goal was to find his nephew, clear the air, and get out of the city. Lou and Huang meet again, Huang expressing sorrow for what had happened during the shootout, but Lou - knowing it was Huang who made sure he was in a hospital and the bills were paid, forgave his nephew. The family bond of triads was a code neither of them would break, and used as a key motivator in fuelling their rage towards Eddie. Eventually they track Eddie down in the Westview district of Los Santos, living in a mansion surrounded by guards. The two hatched a plan to make sure he didn't leave the compound. After a hailstorm of blood and fire, the two accomplished their goal - Eddie was dead. Huang urinated on the corpse and Lou spat on it, the two burned the mansion down and moved on as civilians, until the mainland triads contacted them in need of a replacement for their west-coast connections, Huang [the next in line] accepted the offer under the condition that Lou ran the organization with himself as the 2nd in command. They begrudgingly accept the offer.