MRG Chapter 45: Great White Shark and His Prey

Translator: Bamboo

Editor: Agneya

Late at night, the huge palace was completely silent.

Long past his bedtime, Kyle’s bedroom was still brightly lit.

The man sitting on the sofa had a malicious smile on his face. He looked up at the servant standing in front of him and asked, “Did you do it?”

Dolly lowered his eyes, “I did what His Highness ordered.”

Kyle, “You watched him drink it?”

Dolly, “Yes.”

Kyle raised his eyebrows, “And then?”

“Then I waited outside the door for a while…” Dolly paused, “And heard the sound of something falling.”

Kyle straightened up against the sofa cushions, “Did you let the maid in?”

Dolly clenched his fingertips hanging down at his side, his voice trembling, “… Yes.”

Kyle, “How long ago?”

Dolly, “Ten minutes.”

Kyle, “Did you see anyone coming out?”

Dolly, “No.”

Kyle stood up from the sofa, his smile deepening, “Let’s go and have a look.”

As he spoke, his thumb rubbed across a thin scar on his cheek that had now faded almost into nothing. But even after so many years, Kyle still couldn’t get over it.

Didn’t that merman like to play dirty?

He would let him play.

Kyle arrived in front of the heavy palace door, followed by a team of royal guards. With the lesson learned from the previous incident, he exerted more caution than before.

At this moment, even though there was a thick soundproof wall separating them, they could still hear a loud “ding-ling-clang!” noise, clamorous sounds, and a woman’s sharp scream.

Even the royal guards, who were used to witnessing tumultuous storms, could not help but be stunned hearing the commotion.

So fierce…

Dolly, who was standing by, had a pale face and his lips couldn’t help but tremble. He almost felt buried by an overwhelming sense of guilt.

Kyle’s expression brightened, and he impatiently ordered someone to open the door.

This time he would definitely disgrace the merman in public.

“Squeak!” The heavy door opened, and the biting cold air rushed out, making the whole room seem like an indoor ice cellar.

In the darkness, Kyle saw the maid standing alone in the room, screaming and jumping on the bed.

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, “?”

What the hell is going on? Where did that merman go?

The next second, through the dark gap, Kyle met a pair of glowing blue eyes. The other party’s deep, slanting eyes revealed a chilling coldness, like a trapped beast that had been starved for several days in the Colosseum.

……

By the time he realized that the alcohol had been spiked, the drug had already started to take effect.

Even though Mu Chen asked the AI butler to set the air conditioner to the lowest setting, the heat on his body did not get relieved in the slightest.

He was heavily sunk into the soft bed, veins on the back of his hands bulging, his eyes were dark red, his chest was heaved violently, and his whole body was like an overloaded coal furnace that could explode at any time. The hunger that had nowhere to vent was so overwhelming that he felt breathless.

That was still the most fatal part.

For the first time, Mu Chen came to an understanding that the passion of the heat could melt a person’s will like magma.

Super high mental power was usually a double-edged sword. It had enabled the creation of a contingent of super soldiers, but it had also turned them into humanoid machines that easily went out of control and had a violent temperament.

So in the very first mecha class after entering the military academy, the school didn’t teach them mechanical theory nor actual combat exercises, but taught them how to control their emotions.

Mu Chen had always ranked first in that class, and no one knew how to conceal emotions better than him.

But now, the buttons in the central emotion control room seemed to be broken, and there was no place to vent the anger.

With a “bang,” Mu Chen threw the terminal away, knocking over the wine bottle on the table, and the glass shattered all over the floor.

At this time, violence seemed to be the sole outlet.

Mu Chen buried his face into the soft pillow, his pale lips bitten and bloody.

He had asked Light to come over because he could control his behavior before, but he had truly spiralled out of control now, and only the most primitive and instinctive desire remained in his muddled mind.

Mu Chen didn’t want Light to see him in such a state.

Knock, knock, knock. Just then, successive raps were heard on the door. Then, the maid pushed the door open and said, “Your Highness, what can I do for you?”

Mu Chen half-closed his eyes and sat up alertly from the bed, like a lion whose territory was being invaded, with his mane standing high.

The maid standing outside the door clearly felt the freezing air coming out of the room. She shuddered and didn’t dare to go in.

Mu Chen asked hoarsely, “Who asked you to come here?”

The maid was stunned for a moment, “Just now, Dolly said you had something urgent to ask me.”

After listening to her, Mu Chen lowered his eyebrows and snorted.

What a disgusting trick. Even so, the other party may not know that during the mating period, mermans would only be interested in prey that they’d marked.

He frowned, stood up and opened the door to the living room.

Maid, “Your Highness, then I…”

Mu Chen looked at her, “You stay here. When you hear someone coming, create a ruckus on purpose.”

The maid was stunned for a moment. “Your Highness, this…”

Mu Chen, “Someone wants to use you, don’t you want to find out who this person is?”

With a “bang!”, the living room door slammed shut.

……

The door of the bedroom closed.

Kyle was dragged into a room that was as cold as a freezer. The other party took such a swift action that the royal guards outside could not react in time.

Then, Mu Chen punched him in the face.

“F*ck!”

Kyle cried out in pain and fell to the ground. He covered his blue eyes and rolled around in agony.

Mu Chen stretched out his hand and lifted him up, “Did you ask someone to do it?”

“Cough cough cough…”

Kyle was being strangled by him, his face gradually reddening.

He was unsure if his senses were failing him due to oxygen deprivation, but he felt that the deep blue pupils eyeing him had a hint of scarlet, like the blood-stained sea after a shark’s frenzied feast.

Just as Kyle was about to suffocate, Mu Chen finally loosened his grip. He let him fall onto his back and rushed into the artificial lake inside the compartment. He could no longer control his fishtail’s appearance.

The moment the long fishtail dipped into the lake, it made a large splash. The aquatic creatures nearby seemed to sense the danger and immediately fled in all directions.

……

“Tick, tick, tick”, the uniform ticking of the electronic clock reverberated inside the quiet room.

Light reached for the cigarette box again, but came up empty. He subconsciously looked up at the wall clock and suddenly realized that he had been sitting in complete silence until 4:30, and it was almost dawn now.

Looking at the pile of cigarette butts in the ashtray, his sleep deprived brain began to work sluggishly. What should he do now?

Go to sleep?

But wasn’t there something he had forgotten to do?

Light pressed his temple, sensing an oncoming headache. His throbbing eyelids and intuition reminded him that he had forgotten something very important.

What on earth had he forgotten?

Light began to recall how he’d spent the entire night. He had seemingly sat down to smoke after returning to the bedroom…

No, at first, he packed the box.

And before that?

He seemed to have been staying at Mu Chen’s room.

Two vague words echoed in his mind.

The words resonated in Mu Chen’s voice:

“Gege.”

“I’m uncomfortable…”

Thinking of this, Light’s pupils suddenly shrank. He’d left Mu Chen, who was in the mating period, alone in the room and ran out.

Four full hours…

He actually left him alone.

Light stumbled up from his seat, almost overturning his chair in the process. He hurriedly placed his terminal on the desk, but there was no message from Mu Chen on it.

Will he recklessly take medicines again?

Will he feel very uncomfortable?

Will he be…

The anxiety and self-blame crashed over him like a tsunami wanting to pull him under.

Just as Light rushed over and pushed open the door, he almost bumped into someone outside.

Lance stood outside with an anxious look on his face, accompanied by a maid.

“Ge…Ge, something happened…”

After taking in Light’s evident appearance, Lance paused.

The man in front of him had bloodshot eyes, messy blond hair, and even the collar of his shirt was crooked.

In Lance’s impression, Light had always been synonymous with “strict” and “orderly”. He had never seen the other man so flustered.

“What’s wrong?”

Light’s anxious tone brought him back to his senses.

Lance, “Mu Chen is missing.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Light running into the corridor with long strides.

Lance could only chase after him, “Ge, wait for me…”

……

Inside the messy bedroom,

“F*ck.” Kyle took a sip and spat out the residual blood in his mouth.

He had just staggered up to his feet from the ground, and his vision had not fully focused yet. Faintly, he saw a tall figure pushing aside the group of guards and rushing in.

Kyle frowned fiercely, “Damn it, don’t let anyone in, is there any…”

His voice stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, because in the gradually clearing picture, he saw Light’s livid face.

Kyle’s pupils narrowed, and before he could run, he was grabbed by the collar by the other party.

Bang!

Light punched him in the nose and gritted his teeth and asked, “Where is he?”

Kyle covered his face in pain, and Light grabbed his collar and lifted him up again.

“I asked you—where did he go!”

“Cough cough cough…” Kyle spat out a mouthful of blood and pointed at the compartment, “There…there.”

Light stood up with a frown, and kicked him again in anger before leaving.

……

Inside the empty indoor lake, Light ran to the edge of the pool and saw the fish fleeing in panic as a huge black shadow lurked within the shadows in the distance.

The continuous and rapid running had made his breaths wind up in short gasps.

At this moment, the only thought on his mind was to find Mu Chen quickly. Light didn’t even have time to adjust his breathing, before he jumped straight into the pool.

The icy lake water submerged him, and an abrupt wave of awareness washed over him.

Submerged in the fathomless shadows of the pool, Light saw a figure swimming towards him with his long fishtail.

The merman’s narrowed eyes glowed with a pale light, and the silver-black scales covering his fishtail reminded one of the cold-blooded giant python in the jungle.

Light wanted to swim towards the other side, but the merman was incredibly fast.

As soon as he moved his arms, that beautiful face had already appeared in front of him.

Mu Chen stretched out his hand to hold the man’s waist and dragged him all the way to the deeper waters closest to the sea.

There, his prey would have no chance of escaping.

“Oh!”

The moment he emerged from the water, Light gasped for air.

He leaned against the reef, the pair of blue eyes in front of him staring at him silently. The merman’s ear fins twitched, splashing a string of water droplets.

Mu Chen opened his thin lips slightly. His canine teeth were extremely sharp, akin to the great white shark who had equally sharp teeth. Droplets of water dripped along his angular jawline. The handsome face of the merman was the same as usual, but the chill emanating from his body was enough to make ordinary people retreat.

The person in front of him, however, was not afraid of him.

Light reached out and touched the merman’s cold and wet cheek, his long eyelashes trembling slightly.

Because of the tension and frost, his voice didn’t sound quite steady, “If you must find a mate during the mating period… Can I do it?”

The fear of nearly losing Mu Chen just now was like a raging fire, dispelling all of Light’s original concerns. He didn’t want to retreat anymore.

The two were very close to each other now, Light’s hot breath falling across Mu Chen’s lips. The latter’s eyes darkened, tinged with a deeper emotion.

Mu Chen’s eyes reflected Light’s appearance. His wet clothes clung to the well-defined muscles, his thin lips were pursed and pale, his wet hair stuck to his forehead, and his chest rose and fell violently, like a fallen sacrifice offering his body to appease the sea’s fury.

So holy, so tempting, so…

It made people want to sully it.

Mu Chen couldn’t bear it any longer.

As early as the moment Light appeared in front of him, he couldn’t help it.

Mu Chen held Light’s face and kissed him, not giving him a chance to catch his breath.

The damp and dense water vapor was mixed with a faint smell of blood.

The great white shark began to enjoy his prey.