Lady Meilin is seduced by her green tea brother-in-law everyday-Chapter 74: Rose approve.

"Stop her." The elder statesman ordered. "Long Rize, this meeting has not yet ended. It is rude of you to leave half way through."

Rize put the phone away and she sat down. "What else is there to decide grandpa? Isn’t it simple? Nobody in the family should protect Mo Liang anymore. He is an attempted murderer, two times guilty. I don’t think that this is the kind of man we want to be known for associating with."

"I agree." Long Ruoxi was quick to show her support for her aunt.

"I think it is time that we address some of you that are engendering this royal family by harboring ill feelings towards our allies. You seem to think that our royal family is untouchable and you forget that we are only as strong as our closest allies. If we are the tree, they are the roots and when those roots weaken, the tree falls. That is what happened to the royal family in France ten years ago." The grand emperor said, reminding everyone of the fact through a resonant voice.

A thoughtful silence settled over the room as each royal weighed his words and remembered the day France’s royal family fell.

"It was not the only one. In the last decade, the Russian empire’s royal family was changed, so was Peru’s and so was Kenya’s. If we begin alienating our allies, their allegiances will shift. Many influential families in the empire already have branches of their businesses in foreign nations.

If you break their hearts, they might end up moving away along with their core technologies. Together, the industries owned by the Chi and Jun family employ at least one and half million people world wide. Seven hundred thousand are our citizens alone. freeweɓnøvel.com

Who of you here will be responsible for the loss of all those jobs?" The grand emperor asked.

Of course he was met with silence, after all, nobody wanted to be responsible for that loss, not even Long Bo who thought the royal family was superior to everyone.

"In the time that this feud had been ongoing, our scientists, students, projects, products and everything that the Chi’s or Jun’s provide to us has been cut off." The former grand dowager mentioned something that everyone in the hall was aware of.

"Except for me." Rize said. "Just putting it out there." she added when she saw that everyone was glaring at her.

"Even the supply of gene altering serums." Long Xiao added. "The supply was already limited and progress into that field of research slow. Now, we have nothing at all. In the last nearly three decades we have been able to cultivate one hundred fifty six super soldiers or super powered humans thanks to the help of Lady Chi Lian and her research team. I don’t think that she will be doing this anymore."

"I am more worried that she will start selling her serums outside the empire." Emperor Junjie sighed.

Rize snorted. "Its her serum, she can do what she wants with it."

Long Bo slammed the table. "Rize, are you named Long Rize or Chi Rize? We all know that you are on the side of the Chi’s but can you tone it down? This is your family after all. If Chi Rui divorces you, won’t you come back to us? Jun Meilin is divorcing, she is already making amends with her family. Can’t you learn from her example which should teach all women that East or West, home is best?"

Rize scoffed. "Why haven’t you allowed your wife to go back to her home then? She is from the Si family, not the Long family. Divorce her and send her back to her home."

"Stay out of my business." Long Bo snapped at her.

"You should be the one to stay out of mine first." Rize snarled fiercely. "One of these days I will cover a story on your wife on my show. Maybe I should invite her parents over and ask them why they have not seen their daughter in fifteen years." She laughed harshly and added, "Oh wait, I know why. It is because a vengeful psycho is holding her captive."

Tension between the two grew, everyone had a feeling that the intense battle of words between the two was just heating up.

"Shut up." The grand emperor barked.

Rize picked up her phone from the table and she stood up. Looking at the holograms of the elders and then those who were present she bowed and apologized. "I am sorry, I can’t stay here and look at his face anymore. If we are voting on supporting our friends, I say yes. If you all take Mo Liang’s side, I will be changing my surname because I know Chi Lian and I know Jun Muyang.

I also know Mingzhe well enough to know that when he goes nuts because someone has harmed his sisters or mother, he is not afraid to pull the trigger. I am not saying that he will assassinate someone here but I am saying he is not afraid to risk it and go to prison or die in the process. If you let his sister’s attempted murderer walk away scot-free by intervening in the justice process, you should buy yourselves some full face bulletproof helmets and wear them outside and inside all the time."

She started to walk away and this time, nobody stopped her. Rize stopped and turned around, she still had something to add. "Then again, bulletproof helmets might not work because Jun Mingzhe invented the best ones on the market currently. He is also the leading ammunition’s expert and creator in the empire. If anybody knows the type of bullet that can rip through that helmet, its him."

She opened the door, walked out and closed it with a loud bang to let everyone know just how pissed she was.

"There will be no vote. Our stance is simple, we are siding with our allies." The grand emperor declared.

"Start the apology rounds. Fix this while there is still time." The former empress dowager ordered.

***

Back at the bar, Rose was handing Mei Mei a glass full of wine, the third in number.

"Sister, I can’t drink anymore." Mei Mei complained.

Rose shoved the glass into Mei Mei’s hand anyway. "We must celebrate. I officially approve of your puppy. This whole time you have been reuniting with your friends and enjoying yourself he has not tried to stop you. He is even involving himself with us and having fun."

Mei Mei looked at Jingzhe and she smiled. He was suffering the same fate as her, having one drink after the other being handed to him by Jun Mingzhe and his soldiers. They were laughing, which was a good sign because Mingzhe did not laugh with many people. He had never even smiled at Mo Liang.

"He is not trying to involve himself the same way Mo Liang used to do it, trying to make connections and talking about his future projects while shopping for investors and making everyone uncomfortable." Rose’s face frowned in disgust at the memories but it relaxed as he glanced at Jingzhe again. "I like this one, he is just having a good time and taking care of you. His official name is even Feng Jingzhe not Mo, I had no idea." Rose put her arm around Mei Mei’s shoulders. "You chose well this time round."

Mei Mei laughed silly, they toasted and drunk all the wine.

C4 was rolling his eyes on the virtual screen meanwhile. The little system fox was sure that Rose was praising the wrong person. Mei Mei had not chosen Jingzhe, her mother Chi Lian had done so.

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