MRG Chapter 43: Ge, Do You Like Him?

Translator: Kii

Editor: EllieKit

Out of the instinctive reaction of a mecha soldier, Light subconsciously took a defensive posture the moment he was dragged into the room.

He gripped the other party’s arm, his back was stretched taut—this was a move that could knock a person to the ground.

“Gege…”

Then he heard Mu Chen’s familiar voice.

Light’s eyes trembled. The strength of his hand unconsciously loosened. The fingers that were originally tightly gripping the other’s arm loosened and slowly slid down Mu Chen’s sleeve.

Mu Chen, “I feel unwell.”

Hot lips fell on the crook of Light’s neck, as light as a feather, causing a slight itch.

The most sensitive part was completely exposed to the other party. Light turned his neck stiffly to try to avoid the other’s touch.

But Mu Chen had no plans of letting him go just like that. He used the tip of his nose and lips to gently slide along the curve of Light’s neck, like a coquettish little animal.

Sensing the other party becoming increasingly stiff, the corner of Mu Chen’s mouth curled upward. Immediately afterwards, he felt something usual on the other’s smooth skin.

—It was slightly uneven, slightly protruding.

He stopped his movements.

Mu Chen realized that it was a bandaid Light had stuck on his neck.

In the dark room—

There was only silence and Light’s deafening heartbeat. He pursed his thin lips, his brows furrowing, but the uncontrollable pounding almost jumped out of his chest.

Click! The light suddenly came on, illuminating the handsome and fair face of the person in front of him. Light’s eyelashes were trembling, and his heartbeat involuntarily quickened.

Mu Chen had the AI butler turn on a small orange-colored light. With half-lidded eyes, he looked at the bandaid with an ambiguous gaze.

“Was this one by me?”

He asked even though he knew the answer.

Light’s Adam’s apple bobbled, and he avoided the other person’s gaze. Just when he was about to say something—

Mu Chen’s fingertips were already pressed against that protrusion. He gently tore off the corner of the bandaid. “Let me see…”

“It’s red.”

“No…”

Light’s pupils constricted, and a look of panic appeared on his face. He suddenly reached out his hand to block that area.

But before he could finish speaking, Mu Chen took Light’s hand and moved it away.

“Did I hurt you, Gege?”

Light’s thin lips pursed tightly, seeming to want to say something but hesitating. After a long time, he said in a deep voice, “No.”

Mu Chen raised the corner of his lips. “I didn’t mean it, I just couldn’t control myself… I don’t know why, but when I’m with Gege, I don’t feel as unwell.”

After speaking, the arms hooked around Light’s waist tightened.

Light held Mu Chen’s arm in an attempt to prevent any further movements, but, thump thump thump, his heart beat violently. At this moment, he even had the illusion that his heart rate was unbalanced.

No matter how slow he was, at this moment, even he could tell that their relationship had far exceeded a normal brotherly relationship.

Light’s mind went blank for a moment.

Why, why did things turn out like this…

Because of the influence of the mating period, and without a partner by his side, he subconsciously regarded the person he was closest to as his partner who could comfort him, which caused this kind of…

Erroneous, unbalanced attachment?

Light felt that the complicated thoughts in his mind were like a ball of tangled threads that couldn’t be sorted out or untied, making him feel confused.

After a long silence, he raised his head, looked Mu Chen in the eyes and asked, “Then with others…with him, when you’re with Vincent, you also feel like this?”

After he said this, Light looked at those blue eyes with bated breath, feeling a little nervous for no reason.

The atmosphere suddenly turned quiet.

One second, two seconds…

Light tightly closed his lips, then he heard the youth in front of him speak up—

“No.”

Light’s hand that was holding Mu Chen’s arm let go, and he dazedly loosened his own collar.

Mu Chen took the opportunity to lean over and tightly hug Light, mumbling, “…It’s strange.”

“It could be that Gege is the most important person to me, and out of everyone, I like Gege the most.”

The merman’s words were passionate and direct, like a child expressing their complete unconcealed fondness.

Feeling the other’s warm and powerful hug, the heartbeat in his ears became increasingly intense. Light’s long eyelashes trembled, his ears began to heat up, and the word “like” kept resonating in his mind.

He almost was going to unconsciously reach out his hands and hug Mu Chen back, but—

Like…

Light’s Adam’s apple bobbled. Does Mu Chen really know what this love is?

The other party was taken to the Oz Palace when he was fourteen. His parents had passed away and his relatives were also not by his side. As the only person the little merman could rely on in this unfamiliar environment, he naturally became the closest and most dependent person to him.

As Mu Chen’s brother, he had always regarded the little merman as a pearl he needed to protect. He always tried his best to keep Mu Chen as far away from danger as possible. For example, when it came to the matter of choosing a partner and a school, Light often acted assertive and he didn’t let Mu Chen get close to those “imperfect” suitors.

However, it wasn’t until today when he heard Mu Chen ignorantly say “like,” that Light suddenly became aware that it might be this assertiveness that caused the other to confuse the emotions of “dependence” as “like.” Moreover, he was in his susceptible period, guided by this primitive and impulsive emotion, Mu Chen was more likely to do irrational actions in an unconscious state.

Light was a lot older than Mu Chen. Mu Chen may not be clear-headed, but he was.

He shouldn’t let this mistake continue.

At this moment, the burden of guilt overwhelmed the pounding in his heart, and Light subconsciously clenched his hands hanging at his sides.

He was just about to say something when the person in front of him suddenly lost his balance and fell to the side.

Light subconsciously reached out his hands to steady him, but he obviously underestimated Mu Chen’s weight and fell to the floor along with him.

Bang! The two fell onto the thick carpet.

“What’s wrong?”

Light’s voice was a bit anxious. He propped himself up and tried to get up from Mu Chen, but the moment he moved his legs, he felt a soft and smooth touch. The cold object was between his legs. He moved a little and could feel the itchiness of the scales rubbing against his clothing.

He was slightly stunned. His gaze slowly shifted downward and realized that he was sitting on Mu Chen’s wide fishtail.

Mu Chen, with a tone of “I didn’t expect this either,” said, “My legs turned into a tail.”

Light’s ears were so hot that he turned speechless. His entire body was relying on the strength of his arms and waist to maintain a plank position, trying his best not to touch the other’s tail.

From this angle, his narrow figure was clearly visible in front of Mu Chen, and his slightly concave back was sunken into a graceful arc.

Mu Chen curled the corner of his lips…

Does Gege know how indecent this position looked in his eyes?”

In the next second—

Light only felt that something cold and slippery slid over his pants and wrapped around his calf. His tense jaw muscles suddenly twitched, and his waist gave out, causing him to collapse on top of Mu Chen.

Hearing a light chuckle by his ears, he eagerly turned his body and wanted to get up from the floor, but the more anxious he was, the more chaotic his movements became. In his panic, he felt he had rubbed against a hot and thick outline.

He was wrapped around the merman’s slippery and tender flesh.

Light’s gaze froze. It was as if he had a fever, his whole body began to feel hot. Moreover, in this cramped space, the more he struggled, the more he was bound to rub against the other party.

The more he rubbed, the hotter he became. Light felt so hot that the sweat was almost dripping from his forehead. In his distracted state, he felt a fireball passing through his abdomen, and something was propped up from that area of his pants.

He was a man.

So he naturally knew what this was.

Light’s expression turned blank in an instant. After becoming aware of what reaction this was, he turned red starting from the back of his neck to the base of his ears, like a boiled shrimp.

“Gege?”

Obviously, Mu Chen also noticed.

The strong sense of sin and unspeakable shame were like a flood that almost washed Light away.

He suddenly stood up from the floor and staggered outside. Because he was moving too quickly, he almost tripped on Mu Chen’s fishtail on the floor.

After rushing back to his room, Light leaned against the door gasping, his chest heaved violently, and the corners of his eyes were tinged with red.

He…how could he have this reaction toward him?

Light couldn’t help but remember when he had once rubbed the little merman’s head and said, “I’ll protect you,” and when he was choosing a dance partner at the banquet, he said to him righteously, “They are not worthy of you. I’m doing this for your own good.”

He rubbed his temples with a headache.

He said it was for his own good.

But in fact, what was the difference between him and those hypocritical people?

……

At midnight, Lance finished drinking with his friends. When he was heading back to his room, he heard some clanging and banging sounds coming from Light’s room.

He pushed open the door with curiosity, then looked at the several big suitcases spread out on the floor and the busy robot attendant standing in place.

“Ge, what are you doing? And in the middle of the night?”

Light’s blonde hair was messily spread out on his forehead, his shirt was also wrinkled. He picked up something and was about to put it in the suitcase. “I want to…return to the base.”

Lance’s expression immediately turned serious. “Did something happen over there?”

For Light to rush back to the border overnight, there must be a serious problem over there.

But in the next second, Light was still silent. He looked down at the thing in his hands—it was the shark doll Mu Chen had given to him before, Sharky.

He suddenly seemed to have thought of something, dazedly taking a step back and sat down.

Lance finally clearly saw the mark on Light’s neck.

Being stung by a bee was pure bullshit; that was obviously a hickey. Thinking of Mu Chen’s recent mating period and their strange behavior, a bold guess emerged in his mind. Lance took a breath of cold air instantly.

“Ge, it couldn’t be that you…”

Being pointed at by the other party, Light frowned, feeling somewhat apprehensive.

He knew Lance’s intuition in some aspect was accurate. It couldn’t be that he found out he…

Lance, “You’re not going to admit it at all?”

Seeing Light being so secretive, being in a rush, and even packing his bags ready to run away in the middle of the night, it somehow gave off the vibe of a man in his thirties who suddenly awakened his scumbag instinct.

Could it be that he did something to the merman and didn’t intend to take responsibility?

Light, “???”

It was better for him to not talk to Lance.

Just when Light got up and was about to continue packing—

“Ge, what the hell is going on? Calm down a little.”

Lance took the shark doll from Light’s hands after speaking.

“What are you doing?” When he saw that Sharky had been taken, Light panicked in an instant, and he reached out his hand to get it back.

Lance went behind the table to dodge, as if playing hide-and-seek with him. “Then giving this to me is fine, right? It’s just a ragged doll.”

Light furrowed his brows, going around the table to chase after him.

He was confused as to what was going on with Lance today.

“This isn’t a ragged doll, it’s mine.”

Light emphasized, “It’s mine.”

“Ah?” Lance treated Sharky like a toy ball, throwing it back and forth in the air with his hands. “You care so much about this doll, why?”

Light tried to take it several times, but missed each time. The clean Sharky was getting dusty from Lance throwing it to the ceiling. He, at the end of his patience, said, “Because he gave this to me!”

“Ge, do you like him?”

Lance stopped his tossing around and looked into Light’s eyes without hesitation.

Judging from all the signs he previously showed, Light was probably the only one stupid enough to not notice his own feelings.

Light’s expression froze for a moment, then he mumbled to himself, “It shouldn’t be like this. He and I shouldn’t have that kind of relationship.”

“Ha…” Lance pointed at him. “Classic words from a scumbag.”

Light, “…”

Lance tossed the shark doll back to Light. The other party immediately hugged it in his arms, sitting blankly, almost as if he had lost his soul.

Lance took the chance to seize his luggage. “Why can’t it be?”

Light reached out his hand to rub the messy hair on his forehead. “He’s being influenced by the mating period, so his actions aren’t rational.”

Lance, “Then have you personally asked him what he thinks? He’s twenty and is an adult now. He has already graduated from No. 1 Military School. He is an adult who can think independently and take responsibility for himself. Do you think he’s still your baby merman?”

Light looked down at Sharky in his hands, his expression was somewhat empty. It was unknown what he was thinking.

Lance spoke again, “Now take a look at what you’re doing right now? You’ve driven away all his suitors, then you…sigh, I don’t even know what you guys did. In any case, after doing it, you’re packing your bags and leaving in the middle of the night…”

“Do you really think doing this is for his own good? Look at how much you care about that ragged doll. By the time you come back, I reckon he won’t even want to see you. What are you going to do? Raise the shark doll in the pond?”

Light looked up with bewilderment, and there was a rare trace of hesitation in his expression.

Seeing how indecisive he looked, Lance felt even more frustrated.

In the past, he was immature and was lectured by Light, but he was confident for once tonight. He finally said the words he had never had the guts to say—

“Ge, how old are you? Facing such a situation, do you still resort to running away to solve the problem?”

Light’s Adam apple rolled. He opened his mouth, and after a long time, he said, “You have a cigarette?”

Lance, “Ah?”

In his impression, Light was self-disciplined to the core, including when it came to smoking. Lance had almost never seen Light use such an indulgent method to relieve stress. After such a long time, he had almost forgotten that Light knew how to smoke.

Lance felt around his clothes, and after a long time, he finally took out half a pack of cigarettes to throw to Light.

Light took out one stick and put it in his mouth, then raised his head and looked thoughtfully at him.

Lance, “? What?”

Light, “Lighter.”

Lance, “…”

Now he was treating him as a servant?

He found the lighter and helped Light ignite the cigarette.

Light took a deep breath, coughed twice, and exhaled a puff of smoke. “Alright, you should go. I want to be alone and calm down.”

Lance, “…”