Fan Yu — My House of Horrors

Fan Yu is a living child artist who can see ghosts and communicate what he sees through stark drawings. The deaths of his parents leave him withdrawn and searching for “heaven,” but his bond with Chen Ge and Jiang Ling gradually draws him back toward other people. The supernatural Painter uses his appearance, yet remains a separate person rather than Fan Yu’s later form.

Biography

The only witness of Mu Yang High School

At roughly eight years old, Fan Yu visits the House of Horrors with his aunt and insists on searching its well for heaven. He avoids touch, fears sunlight, speaks very little, and watches the ghosts around Chen Ge with more interest than the attraction itself. His behavior grows from a concealed trauma: he witnessed the chain of violence that ended with both parents inside Mu Yang High School’s buried well. (Chapters 71–82)

Fan Yu records what adults overlook with black and red crayons. His repeated black-house pictures place red figures where ghosts stand, reveal the dead children living with his aunt, and guide Chen Ge toward the abandoned school. Drawings made years earlier show that this sight began in childhood. Although Fan Yu cannot explain the whole crime aloud, his pictures let Chen distinguish living people from spirits and reconstruct the danger around his family. (Chapters 73–89)

After the well is uncovered and his aunt admits her part in his father’s death, Fan Yu loses the last adult in his household and enters care. Chen Ge refuses to blame the boy for the adults’ crimes, promises to watch over him, and remembers him as the House of Horrors’ first special visitor. The resolution gives Fan Yu safety, but recovery remains gradual rather than ending with the case. (Chapters 89–93, 281–283)

Going home with Jiang Ling

At Jiujiang Children’s Home, Fan Yu befriends Jiang Ling, another isolated child accompanied by a frightening supernatural presence. He accepts her spider-like elder sister without treating her as a monster and behaves more gently with Jiang Ling than he does with most adults. When Jiang Ling wants to return to Coffin Village, he accompanies her, turning his unusual sight from a private defense into a way to protect a friend. (Chapters 282–290, 306–309)

The children reach the village while the Ghost Stories Society and its residents fight over the blood door. Fan Yu recognizes concealed beings and remains beside Jiang Ling as the Zhu woman shields them. When the danger drives them behind the door, he follows Jiang Ling through the blood fog instead of abandoning her, even though the distorted village and its Red Specters place both living children at risk. (Chapters 322–339)

The Coffin Village woman gives Fan Yu a jade bangle carrying her blood and protection. After Jiang Ling shows him the method, the bangle lets him reopen the sealed blood door and lead the group back into the living world. He returns not merely as the silent witness Chen Ge first met, but as a companion who chooses danger for someone else and earns the friendship of a powerful spirit. (Chapters 339–342)

A living artist and a future home

Inside the School of the Afterlife, Chen Ge discovers a Top Red Specter who has copied Fan Yu’s face and calls the living boy his self outside the door. Their resemblance does not merge them: Fan Yu remains alive at the Children’s Home, while the Painter possesses separate memories, goals, followers, and supernatural art. The distinction helps Chen recognize that protecting the boy does not require accepting the Painter’s plans for a compulsory heaven. (Chapters 861–905)

Fan Yu’s own life slowly becomes less confined to black and red. His teachers observe that he begins interacting with other children and using more colors, and he voluntarily calls Chen Ge to ask when he will be brought home. Later, Chen provides a drop of Fan Yu’s blood while seeking the Painter, whose unfinished portrait imagines the two artists peacefully together and whose final request is that Chen protect the living child. (Chapters 982–983, 1156–1157, 1209)

After the Cursed Hospital falls, Chen Ge completes the promise implicit in years of visits and protection. He formally adopts Fan Yu and Ying Tong, brings them to the House of Horrors, and plans for them to inherit the attraction in the future. Fan Yu therefore ends with a living family and a possible vocation that turns his comfort around ghosts into stewardship rather than isolation. (Chapter 1211)

Appearance and personality

Fan Yu is introduced as a small school-age boy with fluffy hair, lowered head, and eyes marked by fear, inferiority, and detachment. He often stoops, avoids touch, and appears more comfortable in darkness than sunlight. His black-and-red drawings and quiet watchfulness make him unsettling to adults, but his physical presence remains that of a vulnerable living child, not a Specter. (Chapters 71–85, 883)

He is withdrawn, literal, observant, and unusually calm around ghosts. Trauma makes ordinary communication difficult, yet he does not lack affection: he warns people through drawings, treats Jiang Ling gently, and risks himself to accompany her home. His later use of additional colors and willingness to telephone Chen Ge mark a modest but meaningful recovery without erasing his reserved nature. (Chapters 74–93, 282–342, 982–983)

Skills and supernatural abilities

Spirit sight

Fan Yu can see ghosts and other hidden supernatural figures that ordinary people miss. His gaze follows presences in Chen Ge’s shadow, distinguishes the spirits inside his aunt’s home, and detects Jiang Ling’s spider-like sister. This perception appears to have existed since early childhood and does not require a ritual, tool, blood door, or deliberate summoning. Its origin is never explained. (Chapters 71–88, 282–290)

Sight does not give him the force of a Specter. Fan Yu remains physically vulnerable, depends on adults or allied spirits during direct danger, and can struggle to translate what he sees into speech others understand. He is most useful as an observer and warning voice, especially when his drawings give shape and position to beings whose presence would otherwise remain concealed. (Chapters 73–93, 282–342)

Supernatural drawings

Fan Yu uses color as a practical visual language. Red figures represent ghosts, black figures can identify living people, and changes in position record how unseen presences move through a location. These pictures lead Chen Ge toward Mu Yang High School, expose the crowded haunting in Fan Yu’s home, and accurately depict the large spider presence attached to Jiang Ling. The drawings can therefore convey information he has not verbalized. (Chapters 73–89, 282–285)

Some later pictures are unsettling or seemingly predictive, but no consistent foresight mechanism is established. Fan Yu may draw what his exceptional sight already detects, what he remembers, or what he cannot otherwise express; neither he nor Chen Ge proves that every image forecasts a future event. His expanding palette at the Children’s Home is presented chiefly as emotional recovery, not a formal increase in supernatural rank. (Chapters 861–905, 982–983)

Blood-door interaction

Fan Yu can open the Coffin Village blood door with the jade bangle after Jiang Ling teaches him how. The woman’s blood inside the bracelet spreads over his palm and supplies the connection needed to move the door. This is a specific borrowed interaction rather than proof that Fan Yu created the door, controls its world, or can open unrelated doors without a matching medium. (Chapters 337–342)

Relationships

Chen Ge: Treats Fan Yu as a child to protect rather than a frightening curiosity, follows the boy’s drawings to the truth, remains present throughout his recovery, and ultimately adopts him. (Chapters 71–93, 281–342, 982–983, 1211)
Jiang Ling: Fan Yu’s closest child companion. He accepts her supernatural family, accompanies her to Coffin Village, and follows her behind the blood door rather than leave her alone. (Chapters 282–342)
Painter: A distinct Top Red Specter who copies Fan Yu’s appearance and regards him as a self outside the door. The Painter’s concern for Fan Yu influences his treatment of Chen Ge and survives in an unfinished portrait and final request. (Chapters 861–905, 1156, 1209)

Items

Black-and-red drawings: Fan Yu’s principal means of recording ghosts, locations, and warnings when speech fails him. His later use of other colors reflects his improving emotional condition. (Chapters 73–89, 282–285, 982)
Jade bangle: A gift from the Coffin Village woman containing blood-red threads. It protects Fan Yu and lets him reopen her blood door after Jiang Ling teaches him the method. (Chapters 339–342)