"Why did you have to show up!"

The Little Spider lifted its broken spider body, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws as if wanting to charge over and devour the despicable rabbit.

Its young face was twisted in a ferocious snarl. "Why did you steal them away!"

For so many years, Lou and Louis had always been by the Little Spider’s side.

"You detestable... detestable female..."

After two seconds of ferocity, the Little Spider hugged its spider legs and sobbed quietly, "You’re all bad people..."

Yu Zhizhi climbed in through the window, and the Little Spider instantly became alert. It quickly shifted into its Beast Form, scrambled down from the cabinet, and hid in its familiar little den.

As Yu Zhizhi approached, she raised her Tutu paws and saw the Little Spider suddenly flinch.

Its eyes were rimmed with red. "Don’t touch me!"

"Don’t come near me!"

The Little Spider shrieked hysterically.

It shakily raised its front spider legs, waving them in the air. "Get lost! Get the hell out of here!"

The Little Spider’s mental state was in chaos. It seemed to be looking at the giant, snow-white beast before it, but also at something else entirely.

Yu Zhizhi slowly, deliberately, took a small step back.

The Little Spider watched her with a resentful gaze.

"I knew it. You’re leaving after all."

Yu Zhizhi: "..."

She didn’t know what to say. She could only try again, slowly taking one small, tiny step toward it.

The Little Spider hung its head and choked out, "Vich said my talent was extraordinary. He said that with the right training, I would definitely become a remarkable Imperial Warrior in the future."

"He was willing to take me as his student and let me learn Magic from him."

"He saved me from a pile of dead bodies and even gave me a cookie. Ah, have you ever had one? They’re really, really delicious."

The Little Spider murmured, "So I went with him..."

Yu Zhizhi already knew most of what happened after that.

Her eyes reddened slightly. She couldn’t imagine how the Little Spider had endured those years.

The Little Spider, who had just been whimpering and shedding tears, suddenly raised its mismatched eyes and looked at her furiously. "You’re just like him."

"You’ll hit me!"

It started to spiral, screaming.

"You’re getting close to me just to hurt me!—"

"I won’t." Yu Zhizhi lay down, resting her head on her own fluffy rabbit paws, and looked earnestly at the Little Spider. "I won’t hit you."

"You will hit me."

The Little Spider couldn’t hear a word she said, just repeating to itself, "You will hit me."

"You will hit me..."

It turned around, presenting its round, plump abdomen to her, and said stubbornly, "You will hit me. You’re like him. You’re all the same."

"I won’t." Yu Zhizhi slowly moved closer.

She looked at the Little Spider’s body hidden under the cabinet, a hint of tenderness in her eyes. She lifted a paw and gently stroked its head.

"I won’t."

Yu Zhizhi repeated it over and over. "I won’t."

"He is him, and I am me."

"I won’t hit you."

"I absolutely won’t."

The Little Spider felt the warm, fluffy Tutu paw stroking its head again and again. It buried its face in its spider legs and wept softly.

"But..."

"I’m so scared..."

It was so hard for it to trust anyone.

In the days that followed, it had no one by its side.

It lived alone in the shadows, covered in filth.

And the pure, flawless Tutu made it panic.

She was getting too close, far too close.

The Little Spider was aggrieved. "You stole them from my side. They all love you. You’ll all team up to exclude me, bully me, seal me away, and kill me."

"I can’t let that day come, so—"

The Little Spider turned its head, staring darkly at the snow-white Tutu. "I’m going to eat you and hide you inside my body. So you, just like them, will stay with me forever and ever."

Every word it spoke was in earnest.

Yu Zhizhi seemed to understand something all of a sudden.

She felt like she’d found the answer.

—Why the Lord of Paradise wanted to kill her.

Her heart stirred, and she explained patiently, "That’s not it. I don’t want to steal them away. I’ll be with them, and together..."

"We’ll stay with you, and love you, together."

The Little Spider lifted its mismatched eyes, which were now brimming with tears.

"Really?"

"Mhm!"

Yu Zhizhi slowly extended a fluffy, padded paw, as if wanting to give it a high-five.

"But, why?" The Little Spider shrank back again, confused. "I’m not brave like the wolf, or gentle like the eagle, or resolute like the snake. I’m not even beautiful like the Mermaid—so, so beautiful—"

"You have so many Beast Husbands. Why would you be willing to love me?"

Yu Zhizhi froze.

’This Paradise Little Spider’s words are all over the place. Weren’t we just talking about Lou and Louis? How did Tang Luo Ke and the others suddenly get dragged into this?’

Seeing her silence, the Little Spider started crying again, feeling wronged. "I knew it, you were lying to me..."

"You’re just a cunning, despicable rabbit who specializes in tricking males! You should have been reincarnated as a fox, not a Tutu with an innocent, pitiful appearance..."

Yu Zhizhi felt wronged too. "I’m not lying to you."

"Then why are you willing to love me? For being an ugly arthropod? For having eight legs? Or for being able to spit spider silk?"

"Why? Why? Why?" The Little Spider asked again and again, tirelessly.

The Little Spider’s tears fell, DRIP, DROP.

It came to a conclusion.

"So, you’ll only ever love Lou and Louis. It’s impossible for you to love me."

Yu Zhizhi was a little troubled.

She didn’t know how to answer this question.

The Little Spider sniffled. "Just go. I don’t want to see you."

It kept watching the little rabbit’s movements out of the corner of its eye.

It saw that she was still not moving.

Yu Zhizhi thought for a long time, then said, word by word, "Actually, just like you, I don’t know what love is."

"But I’m willing to explore it with you."

"...Are you willing?"

The Little Spider stopped crying.

It stared at its own front legs, not saying a word.

For a long, long time.

As if it had made some kind of decision, it said, "Okay."

It turned its body, crawled out from under the table, and actively reached out a front spider leg, placing it on the giant white beast’s fluffy paw.

"Then take me away from here."

The moment the Little Spider said this, a system notification suddenly sounded in Yu Zhizhi’s mind—

[System: Ding! Congratulations, Host, for completing Camp Task ③: Successfully rescuing the mysterious contestant imprisoned in Paradise!]

[System: Current Task Progress: ① Affinity, complete. ② Procreation, in progress. ③ Rescue mysterious contestant, complete.]

In that moment, Yu Zhizhi suddenly realized—

So, the one who was imprisoned was the Spider himself! Or rather, his younger self!

No matter how terrifying the Strength of the adult Lord of Paradise was, within his indestructible body, there had always hidden a crybaby Little Spider.

Suddenly, a fierce gust of wind blew past. Yu Zhizhi saw a tall, slender figure walking through the mist, gradually approaching her.

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