Bex Adeyemi

Bex grew up in Salford, the daughter of a Lagos-born midwife and a Mancunian bus driver, in a house where Yoruba, broad Manc, and the tely all talked over each other. She studied mechanical engineering because she was good at it and because her mum wanted a 「proper job」, and she does still QA factory automation software three days a week. The Chinese came sideways: at fourteen she fell hard for a danmei audio drama through fan-subbed clips, started learning characters off flashcard apps on the 86 bus, and never stopped. Six years of evening classes, two summers teaching herself in Chengdu hostels, and a HSK 6 sheat on a dare. She found Lanting through a fandom Discord where she was already infamous for turning out clean, funy chapter drafts overnight. Bex doesn't romanticise translation. She thinks of it like tuning an engine: the English has to RUN, has to sound like a real person said it, or the whole thing stalls. Readers message her at 3am saying a line made them laugh on the train, and that's the only review she cares about.