Lady Meilin is seduced by her green tea brother-in-law everyday-Chapter 287: Late regrets.

Half way through its journey, The Deep Whale came to a stop. It was not due to unexpected weather conditions, damage to the ship or any other emergency. It was because the ship found itself surrounded in water and above, in the sky.

The coast guard and imperial soldiers made their way onto the ship and took down the smugglers and everyone on the ship. Mo Shuo and Mo Anqi were retrieved with their hands above their hands.

They were put in cuffs along, with other criminals looking to escape the country. Then, they were escorted onto speedboats and transported back to dry land where they were whisked off to jail directly.

Mo Anqi was in tears as the cell was closed behind her. She recalled the words Mei Mei had said to her once in order to advise her to turn back from a life of crime.

At the time, she used to own a small shop that sold clothes. Her business had not been big but when combined with her husband’s salary, it was enough for their family to live a normal life.

Seeing how extremely well the others had been doing had made her greedy for a flashier life so she took advise from Mo Wenbin and went into another line of business.

On one Mid-Autumn Festival at the Mo ancestral home, she had been grilling meat with Mei Mei in the kitchen when she burned her wrist. It was Mei Mei that helped her clean and treat the wound.

She remembered the words Mei Mei had said to her while cooling off the the wound. "Aunt, you are smarter than the rest of them. You went to school, you studied fashion design and you can go so far. I have seen the clothes you designed and made for your daughter personally. They are better than some of the ones on the market." She had coughed because the smoke of in the kitchen. "Maybe we should start a business together selling children’s clothes. You design them and I will do all the promotion and selling. Our children can be the models. You have a good brain and you are wasting it on a life of crime. Turn back before its too late."

Mei Mei had gone right back to grilling meat as the one they had grilled before had all been eaten up.

At the time, Anqi had been so angry to hear that advise. A part of her had taken it to mean that Mei Mei was underestimating her. She had even cursed her out and told her to mind her own business.

She had gone so far to rub it in Mei Mei’s face that her husband did not want her and her mother-in-law hated her.

Now, trapped behind unbreakable walls of concrete and iron, drowning in quiet regret, she recalled those words. They echoed louder than her own thoughts and the sound of her cell mate screaming at the woman in a cell next door that she would get her soon.

Mo Anqi could not stomach it and she did not want to accept her fate. She walked up to the bar of the cell and gripped them. "I want my phone call, I want to talk to Jun Meilin. Do you hear me? I am Jun Meilin’s aunt."

"Shut up." Her cell mate screamed. "Everyone knows that nobles don’t come to the same prisons as us commoners unless they commit unforgivable crimes. Miss 4008, I don’t think that you are a noble."

Mo Anqi continued to scream. Her screams were swallowed by the wind. This was an Imperial prison, there was no such thing as phone calls. You were released or transferred after the investigation was over. Only then did you get a phone call.

Mo Anqi and Mo Shuo would not be getting any calls anytime soon. They had been arrested trying to flee the country.

Chen Shanhe reported back to Jun Mingzhe in the morning, waking him from his sleep on the couch in his office. He turned in the report on the arrest and other things that had been confiscated.

"Great work, don’t alert the rest. The more fools try to flee, the better." Mingzhe laid back down and covered his himself.

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In the morning, Mei Mei was surprised to be invited out by the royal agents again because a law enforcement officer was back.

First she looked at her daughter who was not eating her breakfast but rather playing with it. Mingzhu and Jingzhe were trying to cheer up the royal princess Long Shuang who had cried at the beginning of breakfast. She had cried so much that Mei Mei felt sorry for the girl and carried her for a while before she calmed down.

Shuang was finally calm and drinking her milk to which Mei Mei had added a calming pill.

"Mingzhu did you call the police again?" She asked her daughter.

Mingzhu shook her head. Her dad had told her that the Emperor had borrowed that plushie because he was sad and he would return it when he was feeling better. Like the good baby she was, Mingzhu decided not to break the palace walls and allow the Emperor keep it for now.

"It wasn’t Mingzhu." The little one answered with wide eyes that had a lost expression.

Madam Feng and Chi Lian stood up and said the same thing at the same time.

"I will go and see what this is about."

After colliding verbally, they exchanged challenging glances and looked at the entrance to the dining room at the same time. Both of them calculated who could get to the door faster.

Mei Mei rolled her eyes and went out ahead of them. She had no plans of stepping into that battle of the grandma’s.

Before she reached the door, Chen Shanhe walked into the house. Mei Mei stopped and smiled. "Shanhe! What are you doing here?"

"I brought good news." He answered. "I know that you are probably having breakfast right now. I hope that I did not interrupt you."

His stomach rumbled like thunder on windy night. The hunger he had carried into the house was so loud that it alarmed Mrs. Strawberry. The wolf pup that was entering the house turned back.

"Sorry, I have been working all night and I haven’t eaten since lunch yesterday." Shanhe told her.

Mei Mei raised her eyebrows. "I have known you for sixteen years and I know that you are not the kind of person to work on an empty stomach. Did you come for cheese cake?"

Shanhe raised his hand and scratched the back of his head. His smile betrayed his intentions.