Mu Wanting's life in the luxurious "cage" built by Fu Tingchuan was extremely generous, and her personal freedom was restricted. Fu Tingchuan had an extreme desire for control. His return home every night was Mu Wanting's "torture" and "strange expectation."
Mu Wanting tried to escape, communicate, and question, but was suppressed by Fu Tingchuan's tougher methods. She wondered why he was so obsessed with a "stranger."
