Cage

Su Yu, a seventeen-year-old art student, suddenly encounters an accident. His grandmother is seriously ill, and the huge medical expenses push the young man into a desperate situation. When he was desperate, he contacted the wealthy leader Lu Zhi, whom he met by chance, and accepted the deal proposed by the other party. Lu Zhi paid for all the expenses for his grandmother's treatment and all the expenses for Su Yu's education. In exchange, Su Yu lived in a mountainside villa and followed his arrangements. When he first entered the villa, the superior environment and proper care made Su Yu put down his guard for the time being, hoping that his grandmother would get better and wait for the end of the college entrance examination to pay off his debts and regain his freedom. But beneath the gentle surface, pathological possessiveness is growing crazily. Lu Zhi gradually tightened the restrictions: restricting travel down the mountain, controlling social contact, locking the studio, shredding his paintings, and turning the entire quiet mountainside mansion into a gorgeous prison. Su Yu resisted and tried to escape several times, which resulted in even tighter confinement. The most painful injuries followed one after another - Lu Zhi deliberately concealed the news that his grandmother was critically ill. By the time Su Yu learned the bad news, he had already missed the last one. The bone-deep despair cut off all the young man's compromises. One heavy rainy night, Su Yu tried his best to escape from the villa under the cover of darkness, and then disappeared into the sea of ​​people anonymously. Five years have gone by in a blink of an eye. Lu Zhi, who was once aloof, was trapped in endless regret and searched everywhere. When they met again at an art exhibition in a small southern town, Su Yu had long since healed his scars alone and resumed painting, leaving only a cold alienation from him. The former paranoid controller lost his edge and embarked on a long and arduous road to atonement. He did not dare to forcefully interfere in Su Yu's life anymore. He could only watch from a distance and approach cautiously. Old scars cannot be completely erased, and trust is difficult to rebuild after it is broken. Love is never about confinement and possession. A regret that has been delayed for many years, two people deeply traumatized, slowly groping through the pull and temptation, learning what equal and respectful love is, trying to find a way to each other with scars all over their bodies. Intention: 1. Possession does not equal love. The essence of control in the name of love is harm. True love is based on freedom, respect and equality. No one has the right to imprison or tie up another person's life. ​ 2. Injury cannot be erased by time, and there is no easy forgiveness. Mistakes committed require long-term payment, and belated repentance cannot make up for the trauma caused. ​ 3. Human nature has the possibility of self-examination and transformation, but change cannot be forced on the victim to accept it. Self-salvation in the later stage is to reconcile with one's own sins, not to obtain unconditional forgiveness from the loved one. ​ 4. Trauma has a long-lasting impact, and reconciliation does not mean forgetting the pain. The final choice is self-acceptance, rather than completely erasing the pain of the past; continuing to live with scars is also a kind of satisfaction. ​ 5. Be wary of self-motivated giving. The protection and gifts that Lu Zhi thinks are just to satisfy his own paranoid desires; unilateral giving that ignores the other party's wishes will only build a cage in the end.