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Qu Changlin

Haunted-house designer and mannequin specialistNightmare Academy

Qu Changlin is a talented horror designer whose constraining work at Nightmare Academy leads him to seek a new start at the House of Horrors.

Biography

From Nightmare Academy to New Century Park

At Nightmare Academy, Qu Changlin is isolated in the toilet scenario and frustrated that commercial management limits or misuses his ideas. He adapts Xiao Lin's story into scares and mannequins, but Chen Ge's visit shows him a more ambitious approach to fear. Rather than cling to professional pride, Qu recognizes the difference and later applies to join New Century Park. Chen gives him responsibility for redesigning Night of the Living Dead on a fixed budget, restoring both his creative agency and his confidence as he moves from a defensive employee to a chosen collaborator. (Chapters 739–744, 759–761)

Appearance and personality

Qu is an adult male designer whose pride is rooted in craft rather than status. He is observant about how a scare should be paced, inventive with practical effects, and dissatisfied when management reduces his work to cheap commercial compromise. His willingness to leave a secure employer shows both frustration and renewed ambition. (Chapters 739–744, 759–761)

Skills and supernatural abilities

Qu specializes in scenario design, prop construction, and mannequins. He can turn written incidents into connected practical scares and later receives authority to rebuild an entire scenario, but he has no supernatural ability and previously worked within ordinary budget and management constraints. (Chapters 739–744, 759–761)

Relationships

  • Chen Ge: Qu first evaluates him as a rival professional, then accepts his recruitment and creative trust. (Chapters 739–744, 759–761)
  • Shang Guan Qing Hong: Shang Guan is Qu's former employer, whose priorities contribute to Qu's dissatisfaction with Nightmare Academy. (Chapters 739–744, 759–761)

Items

Qu works with design notes, props, and mannequin-making tools. Xiao Lin's diary supplies material for the Nightmare Academy scenario, but it is not established as Qu's personal property. (Chapters 739–744, 759–762)