AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 16

Ruan Tang looked at him in surprise, not expecting him to not go crazy.

The entire breakfast was spent with Ruan Tang eating something, and Auston following suit, creating a very harmonious atmosphere.

So harmonious that Ruan Tang almost felt that this legendary Bluebeard Duke wasn’t as crazy as rumored and was quite normal most of the time.

And Ruan Tang wasn’t the only one who thought so, Head Butler Andrew thought the same…

Seeing the harmonious atmosphere and that Ruan Tang and Auston were getting along relatively well, he, who was standing beside Ruan Tang, immediately gave Ruan Tang several more glances, attempting to use his eyes to hint at Ruan Tang to show Auston some affection.

Over the years, as Duke Auston’s illness worsened, his temper also grew increasingly volatile…

It was rare for him to be in such a good mood, and in his opinion, this was the best time for Ruan Tang to please Auston.

Ruan Tang immediately understood Head Butler Andrew’s hints and grasped his meaning.

Actually, from the bottom of his heart, Ruan Tang didn’t want to ruin this breakfast, which he considered quite perfect, but he knew that Head Butler Andrew was the Empress’s man…

Although Andrew was just a butler and he was the Duchess… but as the Empress’s eyes and ears, the butler had far more power in this mansion than a Duchess like himself, who was just a tool with no one to back him up.

Ruan Tang had no choice but to listen to the butler’s instructions representing the Empress and at least show Auston some goodwill on the surface.

But how to please this crazy Duke? Ruan Tang racked his brains but couldn’t think of a way.

Thinking of this, Ruan Tang immediately lost his appetite, and even the most delicious breakfast couldn’t tempt him to continue eating…

Seeing that Ruan Tang didn’t move, the butler immediately gave him a few more glances, urging him with his eyes.

“Your Grace…” Ruan Tang put down his chopsticks, feeling pressured, and was just about to say something to get closer to Duke Auston.

“What are you looking at? Who told you to look?” Just then, Auston, who had seemed perfectly normal just now, suddenly flared up, picking up the tableware on the table and throwing it towards Ruan Tang’s side, where the butler was standing. His tone changed drastically, becoming sinister and terrifying: “If you look again, I’ll dig out your eyeballs!”

“Bang—” The sound of the tableware shattering suddenly rang out.

Ruan Tang was immediately dumbfounded: “…”

The butler’s face immediately changed drastically, knowing that he had violated Auston’s taboo. Because Auston’s temper had been too good recently, he had forgotten what kind of person he usually was. A look of fear appeared on his face, and even his body couldn’t help but tremble slightly: “Your Grace, I…”

The other male servants standing nearby, seeing the butler like this, also showed fear on their faces, holding their breaths unconsciously, trembling with fear, but still trying to maintain a calm facade.

Ruan Tang had been at the Duke’s mansion for several days, and this was the first time he had witnessed the Duke’s volatile and unpredictable nature online. He finally understood the fear the people in the Duke’s mansion had of him, as well as the lingering gloomy and oppressive atmosphere throughout the mansion.

Looking at Auston like this, Ruan Tang decided to retract his sympathy for him from the past few days. Although they were both helpless and pitiful people at the mercy of fate, Auston at least had the right to vent his anger on others. Head Butler Andrew was the Empress’s man, but in front of this madman, he could only be at his disposal.

But he could only be controlled by others, constantly adjusting his mentality and forcing himself to adapt to this world.

“Your Grace, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to. Please forgive me…” Head Butler Andrew’s face was pale, but at the first moment, he didn’t try to defend himself, but chose to directly admit his mistake and beg for forgiveness.

Having reached the position of butler, he knew Auston’s temper well. He knew that when he made a mistake, it was easier to gain his forgiveness by admitting his mistake directly than by trying to argue.

But this time, Auston was clearly genuinely angry. He glared at the butler with hostility, as if he wanted to devour him alive: “Once wasn’t intentional, twice, three times, are you still going to tell me it was an accident?”

He clearly saw the butler looking at Ruan Tang several times, making him lose his appetite.

From this morning, he had already sensed Ruan Tang’s nervousness. He knew that someone must have put pressure on Ruan Tang…

“Your Grace, I…” The blood drained from the butler’s face. He hadn’t expected Auston to be so concerned about details today. He didn’t even know how to defend himself.

Auston didn’t even look at him, and said in a cold tone: “Choose yourself. Do you want to dig out your eyes yourself, or should I help you!”

The butler could no longer control the fear in his heart, and his whole body trembled. He didn’t know what to choose: “I…”

The others were also pale with fright. For a moment, even the sound of breathing could not be heard in the huge dining room.

Ruan Tang didn’t expect that after only a few days at Duke Auston’s mansion, he would witness the bloody and terrifying scene of the legendary Bluebeard Duke gouging out someone’s eyes.

“Your Grace, you can’t do this.” Ruan Tang looked at the trembling butler, and before his hand could touch his eyes, he finally couldn’t bear it any longer and couldn’t help but speak.

Although the butler had been spying on him as the Empress’s eyes and ears, putting pressure on him, Ruan Tang still couldn’t bear to see such a bloody and violent scene happening before his eyes.

As soon as he said this, everyone in the restaurant, including the butler, looked at him in surprise… They never expected that he would actually stop Auston.

The way they looked at Ruan Tang was like looking at a brave warrior who was generously going to his death, heroically sacrificing himself.

Auston’s eyes, which were like a poisonous snake spitting out its venom on the first day they met, making people’s hair stand on end, also turned to him, staring straight at him: “Oh? Why can’t I do this?”

“Because, the Empire has the Empire’s laws.” Bearing the pressure of Auston’s impending outburst, Ruan Tang said word by word: “The Empire’s laws emphasize human rights. Although they are your servants, they are also independent individuals… You have an employment relationship. The butler is not your appendage, and you have no right to dispose of them at will.”

Recalling Seth’s disfigured face, although Ruan Tang didn’t have a good impression of the butler, he really couldn’t bear to watch his eyes being gouged out alive in front of him.

When he said these words, he was even prepared to die. Even if Auston transferred his anger to him, he had the watch the Empress gave him to protect him. Auston couldn’t kill him. It was better than heroically sacrificing himself by watching the butler’s eyes gouged out.

“They are not my appendages, and I have no right to dispose of them at will?” Auston seemed to have heard a joke when he heard these words.

He chuckled lightly, and immediately looked at the butler coldly: “Alright, Andrew, I won’t dispose of you. You get out of the Duke’s mansion immediately!”

“Now—you answer me, do you want your eyes or do you want to stay?”

The butler’s face was pale. Thinking of the pressure the Empress had put on him, he immediately answered without hesitation: “I… I voluntarily gouge out my eyes and offer them to Your Grace.”

As the Empress’s eyes and ears, he had to stay in the Duke’s mansion. Once he left, he would be useless to the Empress.

In order to achieve his goal, what did sacrificing a pair of eyes mean to him?

Auston wasn’t surprised by his answer. Hearing this, he chuckled boredly: “Heh~”

It was as if he was mocking Ruan Tang.

“Then you can’t do this either!” Ruan Tang was speechless and could only continue to insist: “No one has the right to turn a normal person into a disabled person. This is a very perverted act.”

Since everyone was indulging this madman and no one was telling him that his behavior was wrong—

Then he would say it.

It would have been fine if such a thing hadn’t happened before his eyes, but since it happened before his eyes, out of his own conscience, Ruan Tang felt that he couldn’t ignore it.

“I don’t want him to become disabled.” Auston didn’t seem to have any intention of venting his anger on Ruan Tang. He just said as a matter of course: “Later, however he gouges out his eyes, I’ll put them back on him as they were, and use the best medical technology to heal him, guaranteeing that it will be exactly the same as before he gouged them out.”

Since these eyesores were trying so hard to stay by his side to inform others, then he would let them stay.

However, they must be punished and pay the price.

When the butler heard Auston promise to put his eyes back as they were, so he wouldn’t be blind, he breathed a sigh of relief. His fingers began to gather strength, ready to gouge out his eyes in front of Auston and show them to him, satisfying the Duke’s violent nature.

But Ruan Tang still frowned deeply, not daring to agree. He wanted to speak, but he didn’t know how to dissuade them when he saw that they were both willing: “But…”

He finally understood that Duke Auston didn’t like the people around him becoming disabled, but enjoyed the bloody and violent process.

He looked away, no longer looking at the butler and Auston, and felt a little nauseous in his stomach.

Auston looked at Ruan Tang’s frowning face through the mask, thought for a while, and then suddenly asked: “Do you not want to see such a scene, and feel scared?”

He suddenly remembered that Ruan Tang had told him that he hated bloody scenes.

He also remembered how kind this Omega was.

“Yes, I don’t want to see such a scene.” Bearing the great pressure, Ruan Tang paused for a moment, and finally chose to give up: “I feel very disgusted, it will make me nauseous…”

If Auston hadn’t asked him, he wouldn’t have said it, but since Auston had asked, he decided to tell the truth…

Even if Auston was angry, he couldn’t do anything about it.

Although he had known what kind of person Auston was before the marriage, and had prepared himself to stay alone in the bedroom and not see anything, if such a thing happened in front of him often, Ruan Tang still felt that he couldn’t bear it, and didn’t want to force himself to adapt and get used to it.

Anyway, he was now in a honeymoon state, and Auston couldn’t kill him, so be it.

“In that case, your eyes don’t need to be gouged out. Get out.” Looking at Ruan Tang’s frowning face, Auston waved his hand at the butler impatiently and ordered.

Punishing people was a small matter, he didn’t want Ruan Tang to lose his appetite because of this.