Mrs. Sun trembled, she did not know what was going through her sons mind but he scared her now even more than when he had threatened to sell Mingzhu to someone in the mountains.
"Ayang, are you crazy? If she dies here, the police will arrest one of us. Have you forgotten whose daughter she is? It is one thing for us to treat her like a rag and another to kill her. The Jun family and princess Chi will not let us get away with it.
If she dies in a hospital, at least it will be seen that we tried to save her. We can simply say that she slipped on a toy, fell down and hit her head on the coffee table or in the bathroom." Mrs. Sun grasped her son's arm and tried to talk sense into him.
Mo Liang's face was marred by a dark scowl, it wasn't as if he could not understand this but the matter had to with his son. What if the truth was discovered, what would happen to Hao?
"Ayang...." Yue cried out softly, "Hao, what will happen to our Hao. He did not mean to shove her, he was just defending me. She beat me up first, if she had not put her hands on me this would not have happened. Ayang, save Hao, save our son."
Mo Liang was torn between a rock and a hard place, of course he would save his son the choice was simple.
"Mother, let us carry her to the bathroom, strip off her clothes and make it look she died in the shower while taking a bath. We can get rid of the coffee table, it is made of wood so we can burn it. As for the rug....." He looked at the white rug that had blood stains. "We can burn it too."
Mrs. Sun looked around nervously, after all they were not the only ones in the house. They employed two maids and Mingzhu was also somewhere upstairs.
"Mom," Ayang called Mrs. Sun sternly, "Go and distract Mingzhu, make sure that she does not see us." He turned to Yue, "Handle the maids, make sure they don't see anything and I....."
The front door was opened and they froze. In walked Mo Jingzhe, Mo Liang's half-brother, a product of his father's extra marital affair. The two brothers had never got along and Mo Liang knew without a doubt that the plan he had just come up with would never work. Mo Jingzhe would call the police happily and see all of them go to jail.
He gulped, sweat trickled down his back, his eyes looked furtively around.
"Uncle," Mingzhu run down the stairs in tears. "Uncle, mommy was hurt." She hurled herself into Mo Jingzhe's arms.
She had been around him ever since she was a child, he was the only member of the Mo family that had ever been kind to her. Whatever she needed in a father, he provided without being asked even when he was still a university student.
Mo Jingzhe, wasted no moment, he let go of Mingzhu and picked up Mei-Mei's body. He shot his brother a deep angry murderous glare. "If anything happens to her, I will kill you Mo Liang."
He turned on his heels and hurried out of the house, Mingzhu followed, wiping tears from her eyes. The little girl had been recording a video secretly when she was upstairs, she sent the video to her grandfather Jun Muyang.
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Around this same time, Chi Lian was in the palace, waiting to meet the emperor. She had been waiting for over an hour and already, she had grown impatient. One of the things she still hated about her transmigration from a normal earth to the Blue star planet, a modern version of earth where royalty and monarchies were still active was all the rigidness of the systems.
It had been over thirty years since she transmigrated and yet she still hated kneeling before the king, curtsying, being given orders and having to watch everything she did and said because of how the royal family would perceive it.
She tapped her foot impatiently and stood up, pacing around, ignoring the royal guards in their sharp black suits.
The doors to the throne room were opened and the head of the emperor's secretaries, a friendly elderly woman named Wang Meilan invited her in.
"I am sorry for the delay princess Chi, the schedule is tight today because of the return of the experts that went to space. The emperor has a dozen press conferences and interviews lined up in addition to other things." Wang Meilan explained as she led Chi Lian inside.
The two women moved quickly in the rather quiet throne room, the loudest sound heard was the clicking of Wang Meilan's short heels and that of Chi Lian's long black high heeled boots.
"I see that you chose to come casually dressed." Wang Meilan commented. Chi Lian was in jeans, a white shirt and black biker jacket. Many years had changed but her look stayed the same.
"Unless its a formal occasion, this is how I like to dress." Chi Lian shrugged.
They appeared before the emperor and Chi Lian bowed her head out of politeness.
"Aunt," the emperor started with a smile, "I am sorry for summoning you suddenly. How have you been, I haven't seen you...."
Chi Lian rolled her eyes and jumped in. "Cut the crap, I literally raised you on my lap, you fought for milk in my house with my children. I have to get back to work, make this brief. Is this about Mo Liang?"
The emperor who was only thirty five years sighed, he could threaten others but not his aunt. She had an album full of blackmail material to threaten him with.
He sighed again and went straight to the point. "Aunt, you can't touch him, not right now."
Chi Lian found his words funny and she laughed. "Are you joking with me? Oh...I am going to touch him, I am going to touch him so much that he will beg me to stop."
"Stop." The emperor said.
"You are not him, why are you begging me to stop?" She folded her arms and smirked.
The emperor Long Junjie toughened his face and used his most authoritative voice. "Aunt, Mo Liang is part of the joint international space pilot program, there are many eyes on him right now. His fame is good for the country, he is one of our best space pilots, he learned from you. As for that child, illegitimate as it is, he happens to be the first baby born on an international space station.
It is a mascot that no other country has. I have American, Russian, Mexican, Peruvian and other reporters from so many foreign countries waiting to meet the child. All I ask is that you give me time to enjoy this momentum before ripping Mo Liang and his mistress apart.
Keep in mind that she has also served as a doctor, risking her life out there for our astronauts and soldiers. I hate to be the bad guy here but Mei-Mei made her bed, she chose to marry against your wishes. Any consequences that she is suffering now are of her own making."