MRG Chapter 28: Have No Way Out (SNEAK)

Translator: Kii

Editor: EllieKit

That evening, after Kuina ordered the servants to prepare for dinner, she clearly felt that something was off with the atmosphere in the palace.

Usually, if the eldest prince, second prince, and Mu Chen were in the palace, they would all eat together. But today, after she asked the servants to notify them, only Lance walked into the dining hall leisurely, while the other two locked themselves in their rooms. Nobody knew what they were busy with.

Kuina could only ask the two of them separately.

Knock, Knock.

When Light’s door was knocked on, he was sitting at his desk with his head buried in the documents sent from the Konaren Military Base, which were about the abnormal magnetic field signals detected at the border over the past few days.

Seeing how busy he was, Kuina stood by the door and waited for a while before tentatively asking, “Your Highness, are you busy? Are you dealing with something urgent?”

Light’s eyes slowly left the terminal. He pursed his lips and was silent for a moment. “Mhm…”

He was indeed handling official business right now, but it wasn’t really considered “urgent.” After all, the local officials had already personally reported these issues to him earlier, and Light had given specific instructions for each matter. These documents merely provided detailed written descriptions of those reported issues, and they were written in a relatively trivial manner, so it didn’t matter even if he didn’t read them.

Light usually would look over the documents piled up each week when he had free time, so he didn’t need to use his dinner time for it.

Dealing with official business was only an excuse to skip dinner.

A lot of things happened this afternoon—first, he found out that Mu had applied to the military academy without telling him, then saw a side of Mu Chen that was usually unknown on the ring. Light felt a bit annoyed, and he hadn’t figured out what attitude he should use toward Mu Chen.

He was angry with him for his recklessness and his lack of concern for himself, but at the same time, he was worried about him.

Once he thought about the fact that the other party would go to military school and might even have to go to the frontline in the future, Light became even more upset and even wanted to smoke a cigarette to calm down.

These tedious documents couldn’t help Light relieve his frustration, but he knew if he softened up and compromised with Mu Chen like he used to, he would never be able to help him break his bad habit.

So, Light planned to use the cold treatment for a while, giving both of them some time to think.

At this moment, Kuina’s arrival broke the originally lifeless atmosphere in the study. Light exited out from the terminal’s interface and saw the eye-catching chat window next to it.

That was the chat record between Mu Chen and him from a quarter of an hour ago.

Mu Chen: [Probing_shark.jpg]

Mu Chen: [Gege, have you eaten dinner yet?]

At the time, Light had turned on Do Not Disturb mode for messages, so he didn’t see the messages sent by the other party.

Thus, a minute later—

Mu Chen: [I’m hungry]

Then there was a gap of about ten seconds—

[Shark_knocks_on_door.jpg]

[Shark_slumps_on_the_ground.jpg]

[Sleeping_shark.jpg]

……

These emoji stickers were collected by Mu Chen from his classmates when he was in high school. Coupled with his nickname, “Great White Shark,” almost no one would associate him with the cool and handsome guy in real life.

In fact, Mu Chen’s usual chatting style was quite concise; he only sent a lot of emojis when he was acting coquettish with Light.

The latter benefited greatly from it.

If one logged into the chat software of Light’s terminal, they would notice that the Imperial General, who never used emojis, had secretly added a couple of cute little sharks into his favorites, which were extremely inconsistent with his style.

But this time, even the little shark strategy had failed.

About five minutes ago, Light saw these messages and replied to the other person—

Light: [I’m busy, you eat first.]

Mu Chen: [I also don’t really want to eat, the bruises still hurt.]

The chat record ended here.

Putting away the terminal, Light looked up at Kuina again. “I won’t eat right now. You can go tell Mu Chen to eat.”

Kuina sighed in response. “Your Highness, I have already asked him. His Highness Mu Chen also said he wasn’t hungry. He said that he exercised too much during the day and his whole body ached, so he has no appetite…”

Then, she looked down, muttering to herself—

“Being young doesn’t mean you can act recklessly.”

“If you’re careless during training, you’ll end up bedridden for three days, which isn’t worth it.”

Light paused as he was tidying up his desk, his eyebrows unconsciously furrowed. He recalled the message Mu Chen had sent him earlier and started to ponder…

Could it be that Mu Chen was really hurt?

He knew how hard he had hit, but before that, Mu Chen had also participated in the military academy auditions, and after so many fights, it was inevitable that he would get bruised up.

Before, at the arena, Light was too angry to carefully look at the other’s condition. Maybe there were some hidden bruises that he had missed. Moreover, if it was really as painful as he said, he probably had internal injuries somewhere. If the muscles and bones were injured, the situation would only get worse.

Given Mu Chen’s personality, even if he was injured before sparring with him, he would just feign that nothing happened and push through. But afterwards, he used the injury as an excuse for why he lost, making it difficult to tell if it was true or not.

But what if it was true?

When he thought of this, Light knitted his brows tightly and pinched the bridge of his nose. After a while, he said in a deep voice, “Send a doctor to check on him.”

“Okay, Your Highness.”

After Kuina agreed, she closed the door for him and left.

Inside the quiet study, Light looked at tho…

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