Lady Meilin is seduced by her green tea brother-in-law everyday-Chapter 49: The dignified emperor in hiding.

The call came in the middle of the night.

Emperor Long Junjie had just put his head down on the pillow to get some much needed sleep after a long day. It had not just been one long day, it had been a few long days, starting from when Mo Liang returned to earth.

A call in the middle of the night was never a good one, it always meant that there was an emergency to handle and it was never a simple emergency like a cat in need of a bath or a dog in labor. It was always an emergency akin to a soldier venturing onto a battlefield.

"What?" he snarled the question.

"Did I wake you?" His father asked.

Junjie’s heart calmed down a bit when he recognized the voice on the other end of the phone. "No, I am wide awake because being an emperor means giving up the simple pleasure of sleep. But hey, who needs sleep when they can run the empire. Why are you calling me at this time royal father?"

"To give you a heads up." The former emperor chuckled. "Your aunt Rize has just entered the palace and she is not alone. She has brought Rose who is pretending to be her maid."

Junjie abandoned the phone and scrambled out of the bed, looking around like a cornered man in search of solace. He found the nearest closet and hid inside of it. Just thirty seconds later, his bedroom door was opened and more than one person entered.

From the pitter patter of many footsteps, Junjie assumed there were at least ten people. His royal agents never allowed anyone to enter his bedroom without their presence.

"See, he is not in the bedroom, he was driven out on an emergency twenty minutes ago." he heard his secretary say.

Junjie let out a quick breath in relief. his secretary would deal with his aunt and Rose.

"His phone is here." Rize pointed out.

"He has more than one phone." The secretary answered.

"You are here." Rose pointed out.

"He had more than one secretary." The secretary pointed out.

Junjie heard footsteps coming closer to the closet area and he closed his eyes. He was a dignified emperor of a whole nation, what would his subjects think if they found him hiding in a closet! Where was his royal image? He could already see the picture on the peep star’s page along with some silly headline meant to ridicule him.

His aunt too, she was still the host of the Tv show Tea with a princess. She would not be against using such a picture to make her audience laugh.

As his heart picked up speed, Junjie cursed Mo Liang. It was his fault that a powerful emperor was hiding in a closet. If he was humiliated, he would make sure that Mo Liang got a good beating.

"Oh my God! Will you stop searching through the emperor’s bedroom? If word of this spreads people will think that you came to catch an adulterer. Surely, you don’t think that the emperor is hiding in a closet, do you?" The secretary stopped Princess Rize.

"Hmmm." Rize responded. "Junjie cannot hide from me forever, I am his aunt. I have access to this palace and every other palace in the empire. Sooner or later we will meet."

"I will relay that to him." The secretary said.

The footsteps departed from the room. Junjie waited for two minute before coming out of hiding. He yelped when he noticed that there was someone in the room.

"Relax, its just me." His secretary said. The older woman shook her head in disbelief. "You are the emperor and you have been reduced to hiding in a closet from your own family. Is Mo Liang worth your dignity? Just hand the cheater over and stay out of his affairs."

The emperor returned to his bed and responded in a frustrated voice, "I plan to, why do you think that I have been pushing Huang Chao to go on interviews with Mo Liang. I am trying to build Huang Chao’s momentum. The problem is that Mo Liang is handsome and flashy, he looks like he could be an actor or a retired model. His good looks and charm are part of the reason why he is famous."

"The space expedition is not about looks, its about professionalism. Part of professionalism in this case is keeping it in your pants at work, not impregnating your co-worker and having a great family image. This new planet is being sold as humanity’s possible next homeland, the Tv ads all have happy families. Mo Liang is literally peddling two boats right now and both of them are in danger of sinking." She pushed the emperor down and covered him. "Perhaps you should begin by reducing Mo Liang’s solo interviews.

Those endorsements from the royal family which had been arranged for him, divide them among the other space pilots and others experts that went on the mission.

As for the talks at universities at home and abroad, change the itinerary from a solo speaker to three or five speakers. Mo Liang’s experience is important and it should be heard but its not the only one. People need to hear from everyone that went on the mission, not just one man."

She touched her breast pocket and got a syringe with the latest sleeping serum which had been designed for the emperor specifically. After shooting into into his arm, the emperor went to sleep in five minutes.

The secretary left the bedroom and closed the doors. She leaned against them and sighed in exhaustion. "This job will be the death of me." she mumbled.

Others went to work at even or eight and they went home at five or six. Even those that worked overtime got to go home at around ten or eleven unlike her. Her job was the definition of twenty four-seven, there was no break.

She stood up and called the former emperor to tell him that his son was still safe and his aunt had not killed him. Not only that but Rose’s slipper had not touched any part of his body.

How long this would last, she had no idea. What worried her more was that Mo Liang and other experts from the space team were supposed to visit Pear Scientific park in five days. The park was the property of the Jun family and the Jun family was hiding the fact that they were not on good terms with Mo Liang or the royal family at the moment.

The secretary had a feeling that the visit would not go as intended if Mo Liang was part of the group.