The Lord of Paradise’s mismatched eyes were cold and profound, hiding an indescribable and complex emotion. A faint blush rose on his pale face, born from anger.
White spider silk seemed to surge from all directions. He was suspended above Yu Zhizhi, and she could see her own reflection clearly in his eyes.
Everything around them was pitch-black; only the man before her seemed to emit a faint glow.
The ship swayed.
The sound of the waves was right beside them.
The Spider gazed at the girl’s beautiful eyes. He reached out, his fingertips wanting to touch her trembling eyelashes, but upon realizing his own action, his gaze darkened slightly.
"You shouldn’t have gone with him."
The Lord of Paradise was desperately restraining something as his five fingers slowly closed around the girl’s throat—
’You should never have left me.’
A feeling of suffocation washed over her in an instant.
Yu Zhizhi grabbed the man’s wrist with both hands, her whole body trembling.
Soon, she felt the pressure on her throat slowly release.
The Lord of Paradise seemed to have returned to his usual cold detachment. He just stared at her intently, his tone devoid of any emotion.
"Where are you."
Yu Zhizhi’s expression faltered when she heard this question.
’The Lord of Paradise...’
’He doesn’t know where I am?’
’Then right now, he’s...’
Yu Zhizhi was a bit lost. She raised a hand to touch her own cheek. "Am I dreaming?"
’But the Lord of Paradise before me feels so real.’
She pursed her lips slightly, her fingertips gently brushing against the crook of the man’s arm.
A dark glint appeared in the Lord of Paradise’s mismatched eyes. He stared at her intently, not saying a word.
It was as if he wanted to see what this little rabbit would do next.
Yu Zhizhi’s fingers slowly traveled upward, finally touching his jaw.
’He’s a little cold.’
The Lord of Paradise felt as if he had no body heat. Realizing this might be a dream, Yu Zhizhi grew bolder. She even had the urge to stroke his lips.
In fact, that’s exactly what she did.
On the man’s pale face, his rose-colored lips were especially striking, exuding a cold charm. They were soft to the touch.
The Lord of Paradise’s breath hitched.
The tightness in his chest seemed to have found a release. His eyes flickered, and one of his hands clasped her wrist.
He tilted his head slightly, leaving a wet imprint in the girl’s palm.
He let out a slow breath.
"Tell me, where exactly are you."
’Where should he go to find the little rabbit’s trail?’
After the Spider woke up, he heard she was missing.
She hadn’t returned to Varolan’s territory.
Nor was she with that wolf.
It was as if she’d been abducted by someone.
A faint tickle spread across Yu Zhizhi’s palm. The Lord of Paradise’s breath coiled gently, teasing her nerves.
She suddenly recalled the times they had been together.
Only, back then, her eyes had been covered by spider silk.
She couldn’t see clearly.
All she knew was that he had once held her hand with such reverence, the warm air from his nose gently winding around the lines on her palm.
That was the brief tenderness they shared after each tide receded.
Yu Zhizhi thought of what the "captain" had said. That mysterious man had mentioned every one of her conquest targets.
And he was right.
Both the Spider and Tang had been severely injured.
’I can’t let them risk their lives.’
Yu Zhizhi spoke softly, "I... I’m fine right now. Don’t come looking for me."
’For now... I guess you could say I’m fine.’
’I have my own room, and no one usually bothers me.’
’Although I don’t know what the future holds for me.’
The Lord of Paradise’s green left eye and black right eye both turned cold at the same time.
’What did this little rabbit just say?’
’Fine?’
His chest heaved. The thought that she might be with some other male right now made his heart ache with jealousy.
The one who took her was an expert in anti-Tracking techniques.
They had erased almost all traces.
The little rabbit had vanished so suddenly.
The Spider couldn’t accept it.
He could Manipulate everything, yet she had slipped through his fingers.
"This is the last time I’m asking you."
The man’s voice was like something out of the deepest, coldest hell. "Where are you."
He hoped the little rabbit would think carefully before answering.
If he didn’t hear the answer he wanted...
He didn’t know what he might do.
Yu Zhizhi’s body trembled slightly. The sudden drop in pressure terrified her instinctively.
But in that moment, she suddenly remembered the time in the fog when she went to the lighthouse and saw the scarred and battered Little Spider.
Recalling the Little Spider who kept asking her "why," "why," "why would you be willing to love him"—she suddenly wasn’t so afraid anymore.
Yu Zhizhi reached out and hugged him.
She buried her face in the man’s chest. "Don’t get hurt again..."
The Spider was already thinking about how to punish her.
But then she suddenly hugged him.
He forgot to push her away.
Or perhaps, he didn’t want to push her away at all.
The girl’s soft, slightly tearful voice reached his ears, like a fine spring night’s rain, nurturing all things in silence.
His heart suddenly felt drenched.
’Don’t get hurt again.’
The Spider thought back to the past—how he was always cut open, one slice at a time, followed by bloody, stinging pain and an aching numbness. In the end, it was always just him, clutching his broken body and stitching his wounds with spider silk.
This was the first time someone had held him and tearfully told him not to get hurt again.
Yu Zhizhi didn’t know why she wanted to cry.
In any case, she wouldn’t tell the Spider where she was.
Not that she could explain it clearly, anyway.
The sea was boundless, she had no sense of direction, and she didn’t know the captain’s true identity.
But she would absolutely not say—
—that she was being taken to the Deep Sea Empire.
Yu Zhizhi didn’t want the Lord of Paradise to come looking for her.
She didn’t want him to get hurt.
For a moment, the Spider couldn’t identify the emotion spreading through his heart. It was as if in a barren world, a small white jasmine flower had slowly begun to bloom.
He almost forgot to breathe.
All this time, he had never allowed himself to think too deeply about his feelings for this little female of the Rabbit Clan.
’Every time I think of her,’ he’d told himself, ’it’s just Lou and Louis’s obsession.’
’When I lose control during my heat, it’s just the instinct of a male animal.’
’When I heard she chose to leave Paradise with the wolf, the jealousy that filled me was just the possessiveness of a Manipulator at work.’
But at this moment, as she hugged him of her own accord, the speed of his heartbeat forced him to admit that he might...
...be a little moved.
"Lord Leader..."
Yu Zhizhi called to him softly.
The Spider’s drifting consciousness was pulled back. He saw the concerned look in the little female’s eyes, so bright that they made his own eyes ache slightly.
His white spider silk became gentler and more tender than ever before.
Yu Zhizhi felt a caress on her wrist.
It felt as if tightly wound spider silk was lifting her back, pulling her upper body against the man’s chest. The next second, his kiss landed on her eye.
Yu Zhizhi closed her eyes.
She felt a warm, wet sensation on her eyelid. He licked and kissed it gently, as if he were kissing her very eyeball.
’Such beautiful eyes.’
’Looking only at him.’
’He absolutely loved it.’
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