As a foodie, Taotie's greatest pleasure was eating.
He was either eating or going to eat. Other than food, he was not interested in anything else.
For Taotie, the fact that he could not eat was simply a torture for him.
In fact, if the elves gave Taotie some food every day, even if it was the cheapest food, the beast would obediently stay in the dungeon. As long as he was allowed to eat, he would be obedient. Even if you locked him up until the end of time, as long as there was food, he would not have any intentions to resist.
Shen Yanxiao looked at the grieving Taotie and asked, "Didn't you tell them that you were hungry?"
According to Taotie's gluttonous personality, he must have been driven into a corner after not eating for more than a hundred years. He would be willing to do something as humiliating as holding his claws out. It was not impossible for him to act cute to the elves in exchange for food.