She imprisoned me in a cage, but made me feel alive for the first time.
Cheng Yan has never been seen by the world.
Her parents favored her younger sister, but she was a forgotten daughter; her classmates pursued fame and fortune, but she was a painter who was not understood. For twenty-three years, she was used to eating instant noodles alone, smiling in front of the mirror, and hiding all her desires in paintings. She thought this was life - no one cared about her until she died.
Until I met Xu Anhe.
The elegant art museum director used a gentle trap to lure her into a suburban villa. The warm fireplace, the cold collar, the whisper in the ear - "From now on, your tears, your smile, your breath, all belong to me only."
Captivity, domestication, branding, pain.
Cheng Yan struggled, resisted, and collapsed. But in the extreme pain, she felt the security of being completely possessed for the first time. When Xu Anhe carved his name on her tailbone, when she was awakened by the only touch in the endless darkness, when she stood in front of the open door but couldn't take a step forward——
She suddenly discovered that this cage was actually her first destination in this life.
And Xu Anhe, the person who seemed to be in control of everything, also learned what it means to be "chosen" for the first time during Cheng Yan's sacrifice. Childhood trauma prevented her from feeling warmth, and she thought pain was the equivalent of love. But when Cheng Yan carved his name on her arm, and when she said, "You are not alone in pain," Xu Anhe broke down and cried in another person's arms for the first time.
This is not a simple story of captivity.
This is the process of two incomplete souls identifying and shaping each other in the darkness. When Cheng Yan finally took the initiative to put on the collar and said, "This time, I choose to give myself to you," they completed a cruel sacrifice of love and pain, freedom and imprisonment.
"If I am free, I will truly die."
The cage is still there, but the bird in the cage no longer wants to fly.
Yandere | Sadomasochism | Imprisonment | Two-way redemption | Stockholm | First year x next year | Artist x collector | BE aesthetics
Intention: When a person has never been seen by the world, being imprisoned may also be redemption.