Chapter 151 - Power Struggles

At the Yue Mansion, Yue Clan Territory

Raine and Tyrone had arrived back in country V, and like how Raine warned him in advance, she was back to her usual demeanor as the Moon Clan Princess. Gone was the Raine from just a day ago. Instead, she was now acting calm and cool as if nothing had happened between them in the past two days.

As such, Tyrone had to endure the cold shoulder as he promised until they solved Xander's case. Although, he wondered if he could manage to last that long.

Raine went straight to the Yue mansion that morning to visit her father at the underground facility. The scanner went over Raine's face, and the glass door opened in her wake. She entered the room filled with high technology, Tyrone following behind her with silent sighs.

"How is he?" Raine asked Janus, who instantly greeted her warmly.

"He's stable and in good condition already, Raine. He'll be ready to open his eyes in just two weeks," Janus confirmed. 

Immediately, Raine signaled Tyrone to leave her alone with Janus. Tyrone nodded, leaving the room with a frown on his face. Raine's father would wake up soon, and he assumed that Raine would signal Janus as soon as Yoon received his verdict from the Mirage Trial. He clenched his fists as he looked around him.

Every corner of the room was heavily guarded with hidden cameras, not to mention the laser beams. One wrong move made by anyone in here would compromise the King's safety, and a beam would easily hit that someone and shred them to pieces in an instant.

Marcus' safety was the top priority. 'Two weeks,' Tyrone mused. One would never get bored with how time flies. Before anybody knew it, it could be the next day and realize that two weeks had already passed. 

'What would you do now?' Tyrone questioned himself.

Tyrone's mobile phone vibrated, and after reading his text message, he looked in Raine's direction. He waited till she went out with Janus, then he whispered the news to Raine about how Xander's plane had just landed at country V.

She then looked at Janus and said, "I have to go now, Janus." 

The latter nodded and walked Raine out of the room. Tyrone childishly wanted to kick the man away. After all, he did nothing but place himself in between Tyrone and Raine.

"That man is annoying," Tyrone couldn't help but voice out his opinions as soon as they were finally inside the car. He was about to send Raine to her flight to country D.

Raine chuckled, "Stop being jealous and clingy, okay? You promised, and we both agreed to act professionally. No mixing personal life with work."

"I know… It's just that he's like… Ah, never mind," Tyrone scoffed with a pout, making Raine shake her head as she suppressed her laughter with how cute Tyrone was acting while he was jealous. She knew what Tyrone meant. She knew that Janus had feelings for her, and Tyrone noticed it too.

At that moment, Raine chose not to tease Tyrone anymore. They should focus on the tasks at hand before her father woke up. She wasn't sure if her father would spare Xander, so they must finish the Mirage Trial first before she could let the tubes out of his body.

"It's too bad that I won't be available to welcome Xander on his arrival and congratulate him personally for entering the actual world full of power struggles," Raine murmured as she looked out the window of the car door beside her.

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At the Deputy Chairman's office at Yue Group Building...

"Are you sure about that?!" Yun exclaimed, clenching his jaw in fury. Dalgon had just confirmed Xander's arrival in their country.

"Yes, Boss…" Dalgon reconfirmed.

"Those Quan clan people are really getting on my nerves! Maybe we should start a proper war with them. Waging a silent war with them doesn't seem to be effective. Do they really think that they are still untouchable? F*ck these Mirage Rules. It's time we create our own rules!" Yun hissed. He and his brother were already against the system and the order implemented by the Mirage Rules. 

They were all bullsh*t, too soft for their tastes. What they needed was an iron hand in the system.

"Is he with his wife?" Yun asked while grabbing his tobacco cigar. 

Dalgon lit the cigar and answered, "He's alone, Boss."

"Keep searching for his wife. She will be useful…" he instructed. "That Xander is planning something against us, though I know that he has a connection with Chad, who hid behind Xander's cousin before… I still sense that those two are up to something. Did that Xander think that I really can't touch him even if he's under the Quan clan's roof?" Yun smirked. After all, he had planted several spies at the Quan clan territory.

"Where's Raine?" He asked next.

"She went back to country D. She said that she had gone to settle some of her unfinished business," Dalgon answered. 

Yun threw his tobacco cigar at the man's face. "What kind of answer is that? I told you to put a tail on that brat! I can feel the wench doing a lot of shady things behind my back! She's a real pain in the ass!" Yun yelled. 

He would really kill that brat if his brother didn't wake up soon. The only reason he was lenient to that bastard was because he knew how his brother treasured that wench in his heart.

Raine's constant mocking was still very vivid in Yun's memory. He would grit his teeth in annoyance whenever the wench's laughs would just pop up in his head.

Dalgon, meanwhile, scratched his head while looking at his Boss's furious face. He did put several tails already, but his men always ended up coming back with broken bones. With the last team he sent, he received a call directly from the Princess that she would break his bones next if he sent another team of men to tail her. 

"Sorry Boss… I'll scold the men so that they  would give out a precise and detailed answer next time." Dalgon lied. He was more afraid of the Princess than his Boss. He had already witnessed firsthand how capable the Princess was in breaking his neck with just a flick of her finger. 

The Princess even had better offers for him. The Yue clan was in deep sh*t ever since King Marcus fell into a coma.. Dalgon must make a wise choice, and at that moment, changing sides and supporting Princess Raine was the best choice.