Chen Ge

Chen Ge is the owner of New Century Park’s House of Horrors. After his parents disappear, their black phone turns his failing attraction into the center of a network of dangerous missions, unresolved deaths, and doors leading into worlds built from despair. His unusual strength is not a formal spectral rank but an ability to turn frightened strangers and displaced ghosts into a family that repeatedly chooses to stand with him.

Biography

Saving the House of Horrors

Chen Ge begins with only three practical aims: keep his parents’ attraction open, pay its expenses, and discover why they vanished. The black phone offers rewards for daily, nightmare, and trial missions, but makes clear that failure can be lethal. He accepts because the building is both his livelihood and the last intact part of his family, then completes a mirror ritual and learns Mortician’s Make-up while testing every reward against the attraction’s real needs. (Chapters 1–13)

His first investigations convert crimes into stories without reducing their victims to props. At Ping An Apartments he exposes Wang Qi’s murders and helps Yin Xiaoxiao’s family reach a measure of peace. At Western Jiujiang Private Academy, he reconstructs Zhang Ya’s death and confronts the mirror monster pursuing him. Police evidence, visitor recordings, and the spirits’ own memories become equally important parts of his method. (Chapters 14–70)

The resulting Murder by Midnight scenario draws visitors back, while Zhang Ya’s conditional protection gives him a chance against threats beyond human strength. Chen Ge nevertheless refuses to treat her as a weapon he can command. His early victories establish the pattern that sustains the attraction: uncover the human grievance, resolve what can still be resolved, preserve the truth in a scenario, and offer surviving spirits a place rather than simply destroying them. (Chapters 14–70)

Building a home for the dead

Mu Yang High School and the Third Sick Hall force Chen Ge to think beyond individual hauntings. He restores the names of twenty-four dead students, reconciles Chen Yalin with Wang Xin, and uses his Dollmaker talent to create bodies in which homeless spirits can safely reside. When Men Nan’s dreams reveal a blood-red door, Chen enters the abandoned hospital and learns that some ghosts defend their worlds as fiercely as the living defend homes. (Chapters 71–185)

The House of Horrors grows into an organization whose employees have different fears, limits, and loyalties. Xu Wan and Uncle Xu keep the public attraction functioning; the white cat warns of supernatural danger; Chen Yalin and the students become performers; Men Nan and Xu Yin provide specialist help. Chen Ge earns cooperation through fulfilled promises, while also setting rules and monitoring visitors so that authentic supernatural force does not become uncontrolled harm. (Chapters 71–185)

Against the Ghost Stories Society, he learns the cost of leading that household. He rescues Gu Feiyu, infiltrates the society, carries Yan Danian’s comic as a refuge for employees, and pursues Fan Yu and Jiang Ling into Coffin Village even when Zhang Ya and Xu Yin cannot solve every danger for him. By the time several society members fall, the attraction is no longer a collection of prizes from the black phone; it is a community he is responsible for bringing home. (Chapters 186–400)

Doors, Li Wan City, and the School of the Afterlife

Doctor Gao’s underground morgue reveals that the Ghost Stories Society has built an entire blood world around bound cadavers and stolen suffering. Chen Ge frees trapped spirits and survives the chairperson’s design, but Doctor Gao’s fall leaves him an appointment letter, dangerous former patients, and responsibility for the uncontrolled door in Li Wan City. The inheritance is not a reward he sought; it is another burden created by refusing to abandon victims after the immediate enemy disappears. (Chapters 401–483)

Route 104 and Fan Chong’s game lead Chen Ge toward the shadow behind Eastern Jiujiang. He saves Huang Ling and Tong Tong, deciphers Xiao Bu’s repeated endings, recruits Tang Jun, and answers calls from people on the edge of suicide. Behind Li Wan City’s door, he unites suspicious passengers, living investigators, and powerful spirits against the ghost-baby vessel. The coalition destroys that vessel, saves Xiao Bu, and allows several isolated survivors to enter the Haunted House family. (Chapters 484–680)

The School of the Afterlife then removes the tools on which he normally relies: he enters under Lin Sisi’s identity without his black phone or summoned employees. Observation, role-play, and genuine concern let him awaken Zhang Ju, Zhu Long, Wang Yicheng, and Zhou Tu, cross from the false campus into its red core, and navigate the conflict between Chang Wenyu and the Painter. Choosing the old headmaster as steward helps the school survive without handing it to either claimant. (Chapters 711–906)

The Ghost Fetus and the Cursed Hospital

As New Century Park defeats its commercial rival, clues to Chen Ge’s missing shadow converge on nine children. He investigates their families and doors, discovering that the Ghost Fetus has cultivated suffering while searching for a suitable rebirth. The final trial forces him to confront the idea that the antagonist grew from the evil separated from his own childhood self. He still chooses to save Xiang Nuan as a child rather than treat him as a container to be sacrificed. (Chapters 907–1110)

That victory opens the way to the Cursed Hospital, which attacks identity rather than merely the body. In a false Xin Hai, Chen Ge is told that the supernatural world is illness and that Zhang Ya is a delusion. Zuo Han’s doubts and inconsistencies in the hospital’s story help him recover the truth. He accepts the Cursed Lady’s devastating heart curse, restores the memories of his employees, and calls on former enemies and beneficiaries for a final assault. (Chapters 1159–1208)

Doctor Gao, the Painter, Zhang Ya, and the many dead whom Chen once helped arrive because their relationships have become stronger than institutional control or fear. Together they defeat the hospital director and recover Chen’s parents. The outcome validates the principle behind the Haunted House: pain cannot be erased by manufacturing a perfect life, but it can be faced with witnesses, choices, and a community willing to carry part of it. (Chapters 1159–1208)

A bridge between worlds

After the hospital falls, Chen Ge learns that the black phone contains a lingering part of his mother, while the missions helped maintain a route between the ordinary city and the red city. He integrates former patients, reunites with his parents, and continues to give specters a chance to settle unfinished wishes. The attraction remains a business, but its deeper function is now explicit: visitors’ fear and attention reconnect the forgotten dead with human feeling. (Chapters 1208–1211)

Chen’s final position is caretaker rather than conqueror. New Century Park survives, his employees are recognized as family, and his parents accept Zhang Ya as the person closest to him. He has access to tremendous allies but never acquires their formal rank. His lasting advancement is structural—the House of Horrors becomes a stable passage where the living can encounter stories of the dead without being consumed by the worlds behind the doors. (Chapters 1209–1211)

The ending also preserves the ordinary habits that motivated him at the start. Chen still runs scenarios, thinks about visitor safety, and treats the park as home. What has changed is the size of the household and the reach of his responsibility: the failing attraction inherited from his parents now shelters human employees, specters, former patients, and a city’s worth of memories. (Chapters 1209–1211)

Appearance and personality

Chen Ge is a young Chinese man whose ordinary appearance helps him pass as an owner, investigator, patient, teacher, or improvised doctor when a mission demands it. He often wears practical dark clothes and carries an oversized hammer, creating the alarming “Doctor Skull Cracker” image visitors and enemies remember. Exhaustion, blood, and disguises frequently alter that impression, but the text emphasizes his composure and smile more than fixed decorative features. (Chapters 1–13, 188–200, 761–800)

He is observant, theatrical, stubborn, and unusually compassionate toward both living victims and hostile ghosts. Chen uses deception and fear as tools, yet he keeps promises and distinguishes a spirit’s pain from the harm it causes. His greatest risk is a willingness to absorb responsibility for everyone he meets; his greatest advantage is that those people later return voluntarily. He can be calculating in a crisis without becoming indifferent to the person inside a threat. (Chapters 14–70, 186–400, 616–680, 979–1110)

Skills and supernatural abilities

Haunted-house craft and investigation

Childhood in his parents’ mobile attraction and training in toy design give Chen practical control over pacing, mechanisms, visitor psychology, makeup, and realistic props. Repeated cases refine him into a careful investigator who compares statements, physical scenes, police findings, and supernatural evidence. He uses livestreams and calls as safeguards, exploits opponents’ assumptions, and coordinates allies whose powers are individually stronger than his own. (Chapters 1–38, 91–140, 214–232, 447–457, 639–676)

Supernatural senses

Yin Yang Vision improves night sight and reveals spirits, blood traces, and other presences invisible to ordinary people. Ghost Ear lets Chen hear very faint supernatural voices and memories, though its signals can overwhelm him or lack an obvious source. Spirit Sniff later allows him to distinguish emotional traces by scent. None makes him omniscient: dense door-world environments, stronger concealment, and deliberate manipulation can still mislead him. (Chapters 43–45, 129, 401, 434–436, 505, 580–581, 590–592, 785, 950)

Spirit-compatible craft

Mortician’s Make-up creates convincing corpse effects for performers, while the Dollmaker talent combines with Chen’s design skill to produce realistic mannequins that can house spirits. These abilities are labor-intensive crafts rather than instant combat powers. Their importance is social and operational: they let the dead work safely in public scenarios and give otherwise homeless employees a physical place within the attraction. (Chapters 4–7, 28–29, 125–130, 188–200, 344–356, 394)

Combat and command

Chen has exceptional stamina, courage, and improvisational skill but remains physically human. Hammers, cleavers, disguises, terrain, and surprise let him survive ordinary killers or weaker spirits; Red Specters and Demon Gods require allies, escape routes, or negotiated goals. His most effective battlefield ability is command: he knows the specialties and limits of his employees, assembles coalitions quickly, and creates circumstances in which stronger but divided entities act toward a shared objective. (Chapters 148–184, 233–281, 304–340, 639–680, 1159–1208)

Power progression

Relationships

• Zhang Ya: Begins as a dangerous protector bound through her love letter and becomes Chen’s closest partner. Their bond survives separation, jealousy, the School of the Afterlife, and the hospital’s fabricated life. (Chapters 44–70, 801–906, 1159–1211)
• Xu Yin: Recorder-bound employee, frontline protector, and one of Chen’s most reliable companions. Chen repeatedly helps him consume pain without losing his identity. (Chapters 198–209, 254–269, 408–410, 676–677, 950–1206)
• Doctor Gao: Starts as a respected clinician, becomes the Ghost Stories Society chairperson, and later returns as a dangerous ally against greater threats. (Chapters 81–125, 447–483, 668–676, 1160–1199)
• Xu Wan: Long-serving actress whose ordinary work keeps the attraction viable while Chen handles supernatural crises. (Chapters 1–13, 188–232, 907–978)
• His parents: Their disappearance drives his investigations; the black phone preserves part of his mother’s intention until their reunion. (Chapters 1–4, 907–978, 1208–1211)

Items

• Black Phone: Assigns missions, records employees and scenarios, and later reveals its connection to Chen’s mother and the red city. (Chapters 1–4, 1208–1211)
• Doctor Skull-Cracker’s Hammer: Chen’s signature practical weapon and the source of one of his feared performance identities. (Chapters 188–200, 639, 988–1141)
• Yan Danian’s Comic: Mobile refuge and deployment medium for the Haunted House’s spirits. (Chapters 299–303, 421–458, 640–709)
• Crying Tape and Recorder: Xu Yin’s original medium and one of Chen’s most important early supernatural tools. (Chapters 198–209)