Lady Meilin is seduced by her green tea brother-in-law everyday-Chapter 48: The past is gone.

When she finally got home that night, Mei Mei was later than usual and this was because she had been collecting unpaid debts. By the time she made it home, she had amassed assets worth one hundred eleven yuan. Mo Liang was waiting for her outside when she returned, he sprung out of a flying car that was parked in front of the gate and grabbed her arm.

The guards at the gate saw it and almost intervened but she stopped them. Mo Liang would not do anything to her in their presence.

She ripped her arm for his hand and sighed tiredly, "What do you want now? I am not in the mood to engage you this night, it was Mingzhu’s first day at her new school and I need to speak to her about it."

"We can do that together, I am Mingzhu’s father and you are the mother." he replied.

Mei Mei let out a snort and followed it up with a scoff. "Mo Liang, you ceased to be Mingzhu’s father in my eyes the day your mother ordered my daughter to cook her food at just four years old."

"I was in space." he answered.

Mei Mei nodded. She could not refute the fact that he had been away but she could not erase the image of finding her small daughter in the kitchen, crying because she had been scalded by hot oil and a wok when she was frying scallion pancakes with eggs for Mrs. Sun.

Mrs. Sun had been merciless because even though Mingzhu had been in tears, she was blaming her for being careless, calling her names and shouting orders at her to keep cooking.

Ever since that day, Mei Mei made sure that when it was timed for Mingzhu’s class to end, she would pick her up and they would both go straight to the flower shop.

Mei Mei flung her back from her left shoulder to the right one and said, "You were in space but I called you and told you what your mother had done. Rather than rebuke her, you had a conversation with her and then called me back and accused me of spoiling Mingzhu. You called Mingzhu lazy and said what had happened was a learning experience and next time she cooked, she should pay more attention.

It never bothered you at all that your four year old daughter had been burned because she was cooking for your sixty two year old mother. Between the adult and the child, who should have been cooking?"

She did not expect him to stand by Mingzhu, he would stand by his mother no doubt. The hierarchy in Mo Liang’s life was himself and then his mother.

"I am sorry." Mo Liang said.

Mei Mei drew her head back, the apology took her by surprise. It did not take her off guard however. "You! apologize!! What game are you playing now? Whatever it is I am not interested."

She figured he was trying to bring up the school issue again or the house or the things she had repatriated from the houses of his relatives. Mei Mei tried to walk around him and walk through the gate but the blocked her.

"Wait, I still think that we should have a conversation. I have realized that there are a few things that I could have done better and I want to apologize." He touched the right pocket of his jacket and retrieved a jewelry box.

Mei Mei would not take it so he opened it, revealing a small gold and jade bracelet. It had cost him eight hundred thousand yuan--well, the cost was not really on his shoulders because the emperor had sent the money. He had sent five million for Mo Liang to buy Mei Mei something nice, apologize and establish some temporary peace.

Mo Liang had spent only a small fraction on Mei Mei’s bracelet. He bought Tang Yue a new flying car worth one and a half million yuan and the rest of the money was in his off shore account.

"This is a peace offering." he said. "I was wrong about Tang Yue and the divorce. I did not know that you had given aunt Shu your bracelet. I don’t know how much it cost so I just picked out this one randomly. It cost me one million, I am saying this because I don’t want you to think that I am cheap."

Mei Mei had a feeling that Mo Liang was expecting her to reject the bracelet so she smiled impishly and snatched it out of his hand.

"Thank you, I will take it because I deserve it." She put it her back and patted it slowly. "Come to think of it, you have never bought me a single piece of expensive jewelry since we started dating."

Mo Liang’s lips which were already twitching when she ripped the bracelet from him twitched even more. He was trying hard not to snatch the bracelet back or say something rude. The royal agents were watching and Ji Waning was under instructions to ensure that Mo Liang made peace with Mei Mei.

"Does this mean that you have forgiven me?" he bit out.

"Of course not." Mei Mei laughed in his face. "I have known you for over ten years and dated you for eight and been married to you for seven. In that time, you always used the excuse of your financial situation to buy me street jewelry and junk that cost you less than fifty yuan.

As for the jewelry which you gifted me, passing off as branded goods, I already know that they were fake. I always knew but I thought that it was my duty as a wife to protect my husband’s fragile ego. Fortunately, I don’t have to do that anymore now." She swung the bag from the left shoulder to the right one.

Mo Liang flinched when the bag narrowly missed his nose. He took a step back to avoid the dangerous bag. His phone rung, rather than look at the phone he looked at the smart watch on his arm which was connected to his phone. The call was coming from Tang Yue, she wanted him to spend the night at her apartment but the royal agents were watching him like gamblers eyeing a roulette wheel: hungrily.

He rejected the call and looked at Mei Mei, then said in a voice devoid of feelings, "You see, this is one of the reasons why I was not a good husband and I want to make it up to you from now on. Mei Mei can we go back to the past? Can’t we be like we used to be eight years ago? No matter how we came to where we are now, there is no denying that I used to love you and I believe that you used to love me too."

"Used." Mei Mei cut into his fake appeals to win her back. "The major word here is used. The past is gone Mo Liang, it cannot come back. If you truly want to make it up to me, do the honorable thing and sign the divorce papers my lawyers will present. Give up Mingzhu’s custody, sell the company and give me what I am worth. Also, apologize to my family for deceiving them in so many ways."

This time, she stepped around him and entered the gate, he did not stop her.