Lin Fan

**Lin Fan** is Qi Fan's mother in the *Tea Leaves* series. Her name alone is feared and her daughter says that the rumors are true. Isaac was afraid of her. It is revealed that she killed him and many other children that she had locked away under the house. She buried their bodies in the rose garden afterward.

## Appearance and Personality

### Personality

Lin had a reputation that puts fear in people. She comes across as cold and cruel to everyone else. Isaac seemed to be afraid of her. Lin is cold to her daughter and the children that she kept locked down in the room under the house in cages.

## Back Story

Lin came from the other side of the Liao clan. She raised Qi in isolation. She wanted to make her daughter tough. She started by having her daughter walk on knives tied down to her feet. When Qi was five, she gave her her first doll by the name of Isaac. Everything was going fine with this arrangement until days before Qi's sixth birthday. Lin decided to take Qi and Isaac out to a local festival. Isaac looked afraid to a goldfish vendor. Lin ended up cutting the trip short. As a result, she ended up killing Isaac that night and burying him in the rose garden.

Throughout the years, Lin gave Qi many dolls. They would end up dead at her hands because they did something to make her mad. Lottie attacked her while protecting Qi. Phillip kissed her daughter. Ray didn't confront to how they were supposed to be. Pretty soon, Lin would push everything to the breaking point.

It is revealed that she has been buying children off the black market and keeping them in a secret room under the house. She kept them in cages and never really fed them. She would have them fight to the death to prove their worth. When the time came, Lin would pick out one child to be a companion doll to her daughter.

Sometime in December, Lin decides to perform the vessel binding ritual on Qi. She lures her upstairs to a room with lit candles. Lin stabs Qi in the chest, killing her. Before she could stab herself to complete the ritual, Lottie takes over Qi's body and stabs her in the chest. Qi returns to her body and stabs her mother to death out of retaliation. Lin's body was found as the firefighters put out the burning house.

## Relationships

### Qi Fan

*Main Article: Qi Fan*

Qi is Lin's daughter. She wasn't exactly abusive to her, but she did isolate her and put through some rough training to make her tough. Lin made Qi strap knives to her feet and walk to them. In reality, she was raising her daughter to be her soul's new vessel. What she didn't on was the souls of her daughter's old dolls possessing her body and helping her seek revenge. Qi wants to cleanse China of her mother's legacy.

### Isaac

*Main Article: Isaac*

Lin bought Isaac Africa along with several other little children. She became his tormentor to make him into the perfect doll for her daughter. Isaac is scared of her and she ends up killing her.

### Lottie

*Main Article: Lottie*

Lottie is another doll raised by Lin. The girl hated her for the way she treated the other children and Qi. She made the mistake of pushing Lin down to protect her friend. In the end, it costed her her life. But Lottie got her revenge by possessing Qi's body and stabbing Lin in the chest.

### Phillip

*Main Article: Phillip*

Phillip is another doll raised by Lin. His only crime was kissing on Qi. That ended up getting him kill by Lin.

### Ray

*Main Article: Ray*

Ray is another doll raised by Lin. They didn't fit in with her ideals to be a girl. So. Lin killed Ray.

### Noelle

*Main Article: Noelle*

Noelle is another doll raised by Lin. The woman despised her. Noelle's the only doll to survive.

## Trivia

* The inspiration for Lin and Qi comes from a picture on Facebook.
* More inspiration came when the writer was in the hospital.