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    Ruan Xi hung up the phone, his pupils constricted. He stared in disbelief as the uniform online attacks against Ruan Tang gradually ceased. Fear and bewilderment, impossible to conceal, surfaced on his face.

    He clearly remembered that in the original plot, Wen Run, the chief of the First Research Institute, was actually the illegitimate son of Ruan Tang’s older sister, Ruan Yue, and also Ruan Tang’s nephew.

    Although Wen Run harbored resentment towards the mother who abandoned him, he developed an excellent impression of his little uncle through various contacts and trials with Ruan Tang, and they got along very well.

    Although he did not acknowledge Ruan Tang, he secretly protected and helped him.

    It was because of the existence of this talented nephew, whom the empire cultivated with great emphasis, that Ruan Tang’s path in the First Research Institute was exceptionally smooth. Whenever someone plotted against him or framed him, Wen Run would learn about it in advance and block it before they could even take action. Ruan Tang was completely unaware of this.

    He was one of Ruan Tang’s very important golden fingers in the early stages of the book. After his identity was revealed in the ending, he was also persuaded by Ruan Tang to reconcile with his mother, who had regained consciousness, regain his mother’s love, and obtain a happy and fulfilling ending.

    Ruan Xi already knew this when he read the book. Therefore, as soon as he transmigrated, in order to sever Ruan Tang’s first golden finger, the first thing he did was to accurately grasp every time in the book before Wen Run developed a subtle emotional dependence on Ruan Tang due to his inner desire for blood ties and maternal love. Using system props and Wen Run’s inner knot about his birth mother, he not only did not develop any warmth or goodwill towards Ruan Tang, but even transferred the subtle resentment and anger towards his birth mother, which had been amplified by Ruan Xi’s props, onto Ruan Tang.

    He misled him into thinking that Ruan Tang and the Ruan Yue he imagined were the same kind of person, and he appeared at just the right time, perfectly displaying the ideal mother and perfect omega image that Wen Run hoped for. While he was in a daze, he used props to snatch all the inexplicable goodwill towards Ruan Tang that existed in him due to blood ties.

    Since then, he became Wen Run’s best friend, and Ruan Tang’s first golden finger also became his.

    Everything was going well, developing as Ruan Xi had envisioned, but now, for some reason, Wen Run suddenly changed…

    “What’s going on? What’s going on?” Ruan Xi’s face was livid, and he muttered to himself in confusion, “Aura cracks, it must be caused by the cracks…”

    He was so angry that his whole body trembled.

    Because of the announcement from the First Research Institute, voices of doubt had already appeared under his Star Blog: “What’s going on? Ruan Xi, aren’t you going to explain? The First Research Institute has issued such a categorical announcement. Your ambiguous Star Blog can’t set the rhythm. If you have really been wronged, you should take out the evidence and clarify the matter. Ruan Tang and the Research Institute have both responded positively. Aren’t you going to respond?”

    “That’s right. I believe in Chief Wen’s character. The announcement stamped by him categorically states that this Ruan Xi is slandering emmmmm…”

    “Come out and talk. What’s the meaning of posting a few semi-covered drawings?”

    “Although but, I believe Chief Wen won’t make a mistake.”

    Wen Run, as the youngest chief of the First Research Institute, who is highly regarded by the empire, is much more famous than Ruan Xi. An announcement stamped and signed by him is much more convincing than Ruan Xi’s ambiguous Weibo and that secretly venting tree hole.

    Looking at the voices questioning him on the screen, Ruan Xi shuddered and was almost driven mad: “I won’t let you succeed. I won’t admit defeat. I won’t…”

    His reputation on the interstellar social network was built over many years. Ruan Xi was counting on turning the tables on the social network, crushing Ruan Tang, and then seizing the aura from him to repair the cracks in his golden finger.

    At this moment, if he lost, if his reputation was ruined, he would become a persona non grata…

    By then, not only would the cracks in his aura be irreparable, but they would also become even larger. Once his golden finger completely shattered, the system would leave. Thinking of the props he had used in exchange for his life over the years, Ruan Xi knew without thinking that he would definitely lose his life.

    Therefore, he could not lose, absolutely not.

    “You can’t win against me. You can’t win against me…” Ruan Xi’s entire face was flushed red because of the surging blood: “Ruan Tang, even if you have regained Wen Run’s golden finger, so what? You have blood ties. You have blood ties. You can’t win against me in this matter!”

    Ruan Xi looked at the screen full of doubts and scolding towards him. He couldn’t care about anything else. He opened his personal terminal and sent a Star Blog post: “Chief Wen, Ruan Tang, what kind of skill is it for you two nephews to bully me alone? I really didn’t expect that you were actually the son of my older sister, Ruan Yue. According to reason, you should call me uncle… Even if Ruan Tang is your blood-related uncle, with our many years of friendship, you shouldn’t be so biased, right?”

    “Helping him seize my hard-earned crystallizations of effort, using your power to suppress others, and saying that I am slandering and defaming, what kind of skill is that? Now the entire First Research Institute is under your control, right? Chief Wen.”

    He directly announced Wen Run’s identity, which he had been concealing, to the public.

    This was the only solution he could think of in a flash of inspiration. Ruan Tang’s drawings had already been hidden by him, and no one had discovered them yet. No one had any evidence to prove that Ruan Tang hadn’t plagiarized him…

    So what if the First Research Institute issued an announcement? So what if Wen Run was helping him?

    Ruan Tang and Wen Run had a blood relationship. Based on this point alone, the arbitral judgment made by Wen Run and the announcement issued by the First Research Institute on the matter between him and Ruan Tang could not be said to be fair or neutral.

    For an announcement that had lost its credibility, he could naturally call a stag a horse and reverse black and white.

    Ruan Xi spoke with certainty, looking like he had been pushed to the limit. His voice was a shocking revelation, and everyone was stunned.

    The entire Interstellar Weibo exploded like a firecracker because of this incident.

    “No way? Isn’t Chief Wen an orphan? How could he be Ruan Tang’s nephew? Is Ruan Tang’s older sister Ruan Yue? I remember her. She was the number one beauty of the empire back then. Her second marriage was even grander than her first!”

    “I checked it out. Chief Wen’s parents’ death is unknown… The planet he was born on seems to be the planet Ruan Yue lived on back then. Is he really Ruan Yue’s son? Ruan Xi is also a member of the Ruan family. What he said shouldn’t be false, right? Oh my god, what kind of shocking insider information is this from a wealthy family…”

    “Chief Wen is actually the grandson of the Ruan family?”

    “So, is this really a targeted, thorough, high-level behind-the-scenes operation? If Wen Run is Ruan Tang’s nephew, then the announcement issued by the First Research Institute has no credibility, right? If you can’t produce evidence and say that Ruan Xi is defaming him, and Ruan Tang didn’t steal research results, then aren’t all the words being said by these two nephews?”

    “Ruan Xi is also Wen Run’s uncle. What he said is probably true… Tsk tsk, look at how quickly the First Research Institute issued this announcement without any evidence? Ruan Tang really deserves to be Wen Run’s uncle!”

    “Her husband and nephew are both so overbearing. Ruan Tang’s life is really awesome. It’s just a pity for Ruan Xi…”

    “Plagiarism can be whitewashed, and the victim can be falsely accused of seducing her husband and defaming him. It’s true that those with power can crush others to death. It’s awesome to have a powerful nephew and husband. Black can be said to be white.”

    Wen Run’s face darkened instantly when he saw the Weibo post made by Ruan Xi. He never expected that Ruan Xi would already know his identity, which he had been painstakingly hiding and thought no one else knew, and even announced this secret in public.

    Recalling the topics Ruan Xi had discussed with him in the past about his mother, and the behavior of deliberately guiding him to deepen his resentment towards his birth mother.

    Wen Run felt disgusted and wanted to vomit.

    He also regretted and hated his lack of discernment.

    Ruan Tang was also stunned when he saw the Star Blog post made by Ruan Xi. Ruan Tang had already noticed Wen Run’s recent weirdness and his behavior of helping him, but he didn’t want to care about it or pay attention to it.

    He was a person with clear likes and dislikes. Whether it was a friend or a lover, once they betrayed him, he would never be able to return to the past with them, and he would never treat them as friends or lovers again.

    The most concrete expression of not treating them as friends and lovers was that he would no longer pay attention to them at all—

    Even if they had abnormal behavior, he wouldn’t want to, and he would be too lazy to pay attention to it.

    It was the same with Wen Run. Therefore, even if Wen Run first wanted to say something to him and then helped him at a critical moment, Ruan Tang didn’t care much and didn’t think about exploring the reason. He never thought that Wen Run would reveal such shocking news from Ruan Xi after he confronted Ruan Xi to help him.

    Ruan Tang’s older sister, Ruan Yue, was more than twenty or nearly thirty years older than Ruan Tang. From the time Ruan Tang had memories, this former number one beauty of the empire, the Ruan family’s most beloved daughter, was already a madwoman.

    Ruan Tang only heard a little about the glory and popularity of this Ruan family’s eldest daughter from the old people who took care of him.

    Piecing together various rumors, Ruan Tang only vaguely knew that his older sister had countless suitors back then, but she only loved the poor painter who was her childhood sweetheart. At that time, Ruan Ming was in a period of rise, so naturally he looked down on such a son-in-law. Therefore, he beat the mandarin ducks with sticks and forcibly separated Ruan Yue’s love, forcing her to marry the son of his superior.

    A few years after Ruan Yue’s marriage, something happened to her first husband’s family. Ruan Ming, who had a keen political sense, forced her to have an abortion and divorce without hesitation.

    Ruan Yue was greatly affected and didn’t come out for a long time until she met her first love again, and she slowly recovered.

    But at this time, Ruan Ming had a new goal to climb up, and a family son who could help him took a fancy to Ruan Yue. Ruan Ming wanted to marry Ruan Yue again.

    Ruan Yue refused to obey at all costs. Her elopement failed. Ruan Ming already had many lovers and other children at the time, so he wanted to use the position of Tang Yun’s mistress and Ruan Yue’s brother, Ruan Yang’s heir, to blackmail Ruan Yue.

    For the sake of her mother and brother, Ruan Yue had to compromise again and broke up with her first love, and married again according to her father’s orders.

    But not long after her marriage, her second husband died on the battlefield. Her mother and brother had accidents one after another, and her child died prematurely. Misfortunes came one after another… She went crazy not long after.

    She was really a beauty with a tragic fate.

    Wen Run was actually his older sister, Ruan Yue’s, son?

    Ruan Tang tried hard to recall Wen Run’s appearance and the similarities between his own aging and disheveled older sister, as well as Wen Run’s strangeness in his interactions with him from the past to the present, and fell into deep thought.

    Several tags about #Wen Run’s Identity# #Ruan Tang’s Awesome Background# were all hung at the top of the hot search list and were constantly being pushed up.

    Someone even dug up Wen Run’s birth time and compared it with Ruan Yue’s second marriage time. Weibo was used to solve cases and identify that Ruan Yue was an immoral woman back then.

    Seeing countless ignorant masses on the Internet follow the trend and humiliate his mother, Wen Run’s face instantly became extremely ugly, and he wanted to kill Ruan Xi.

    His attitude towards his mother had always been a mix of love and hate. He resented her in his heart, but he had always guarded her secret and never revealed it, not allowing anyone to discuss and humiliate her reputation because of his identity.

    Now, Ruan Xi’s actions completely touched his bottom line…

    Ruan Xi was completely unaware of this. Seeing that the online public opinion was about to reverse, and everyone was condemning Ruan Tang and Wen Run, and scolding Ruan Tang’s crazy older sister, Ruan Xi was extremely happy.

    After calming down a little, he suddenly recalled Ruan Tang’s drawings that he had hidden in the research institute. He immediately called out to the system in his mind: “System, system, I want to buy another small prop to help me destroy that drawing.”

    Although the drawing should still be hidden in its original place, he must not leave any future troubles for himself…

    “Sorry host, you don’t have enough points left to buy this prop! Please save enough points before buying it again!” The system’s merciless mechanical prompt immediately rang in his mind.

    Ruan Xi frowned deeply when he heard this. He went into his consciousness to check his remaining system points and found that he really didn’t have enough to buy the small prop to destroy the drawing. He felt a chill in his heart.

    At this moment, looking at the screen full of scolding towards Ruan Yue, Wen Run directly posted the drawing that Ruan Tang had completed a day earlier than Ruan Xi, with the code blocked, and the surveillance video that he had restored that recorded the entire process of Ruan Xi stealing Ruan Tang’s drawing on his personal Star Blog…

    And at the first moment, he contacted the research institute and pushed it to the entire network, once again igniting the entire interstellar network.

    In addition to the video and drawings, Wen Run didn’t post a single word on his Star Blog, but he concisely and powerfully spoke with facts, which was more useful than anything else.

    This matter was at the center of public opinion, and it also involved various social darkness, wealthy family grievances, and many people were paying attention to it. After it came out, all of Ruan Xi’s fans closed their mouths.

    Many fans of Wen Run and the First Research Institute, as well as passers-by who had been unhappy with Ruan Xi for a long time, entered the arena and attacked Ruan Xi: “Slap in the face! This is it! The First Research Institute’s judgment is based on surveillance and drawings as evidence. Is this Ruan Xi’s brain broken? He rushed to get slapped in the face! It’s the first time I’ve heard of a doctor who can steal other people’s drawings first, hide them, then make a similar copy, imply others in the forum, and then post on Weibo to create himself as a victim. Why doesn’t such a drama queen go to act? No, how did he get into the First Research Institute!”

    “How disgusting, this Ruan Xi. The plot is full of ups and downs. I thought I was watching a TV series! How did he come up with such a bad idea.”

    “The person who stole other people’s drawings is still embarrassed to be so high-profile and wants to turn the tables. The stage in Imperial Star is not enough for him to play! Who is targeting whom? I’ve never seen a thief turn around and say that he was targeted by the victim. What’s wrong? If you can’t win the argument, you have to expose other people’s identities. You’re simply shameless!”

    “I suddenly feel sorry for that Ruan Tang researcher who resigned. What kind of weirdo did he encounter? Is it wrong for his husband and nephew to be capable? It has become a reason to be blacked.”

    In the face of such strong evidence, no one spoke for Ruan Xi anymore. Everyone sympathized with Ruan Tang for encountering a psychopath. He was simply sitting at home, and the pot came from the sky.

    Some people said: “I have long felt that Ruan Xi’s efforts to create a persona and attract fans on Star Blog are not right. He is simply taking the path of an internet celebrity and doesn’t look like a rigorous scientific researcher at all. It’s just that he had many fans before, so I didn’t dare to say it. Now I can finally say… What kind of drama queen is this psychopath? He wants to debut!”

    Ruan Xi looked at the scolding towards him on the entire screen and felt another sharp drop in his aura. His face instantly became extremely ugly, and he vomited blood.

    The success of the Crocodile Tooth Sword Cannon and the C902 plan was originally a highlight moment in Ruan Tang’s career line in the original book. Ruan Xi naturally couldn’t allow Ruan Tang, who had been suppressed to the extreme by him, to have a moment to rise again and shine.

    Therefore, before Ruan Tang completed the drawing and submitted it, Ruan Xi found the opportunity to steal the drawing and copied a similar copy to prevent future troubles and was determined to falsely accuse Ruan Tang of plagiarizing himself.

    The First Research Institute is the peak of scientific research technology in the empire. The drawings inside are called drawings and look like drawings from the Earth era, but they are actually an interstellar recording device that cannot be destroyed. If they are damaged or taken out of the research institute, it will trigger the research institute’s alarm to ensure the security of scientific research secrets… Even damaged or incorrect drawings must be returned to the personnel in charge of managing the drawings in the research institute for unified zeroing and cannot be disposed of privately.

    Ruan Xi couldn’t destroy it, nor could he take it out of the research institute. Although he was called a researcher, he was actually not good at this kind of thing. He relied entirely on the system’s blessing to have his current achievements and successfully entered the research institute. He himself couldn’t crack the data and destroy the contents of the drawings like Wen Run.

    To use the system to destroy it, he would have to use his points, which would cost too much…

    After thinking about it, Ruan Xi found a hidden place in the research institute to hide Ruan Tang’s drawings, intending to dispose of them when he had enough points in the future.

    But later, Ruan Xi had too many things to do, and the drawings were never discovered… So he didn’t take this matter to heart anymore…

    He didn’t expect that Wen Run would be able to find these drawings and even restore the surveillance that he had destroyed once.

    Ruan Xi’s fans were still desperately shouting: “The court arbitration hasn’t come out yet? Who can prove that this evidence is true and not forged?”

    Wen Run submitted the original drawings he found to the Intellectual Property Arbitration Court at the first moment. At this time, the arbitration result of the Intellectual Property Court came out. The Intellectual Property Court determined that Ruan Tang designed the drawings earlier and with clear logic, and the drawing process was reasonable as the original…

    Ruan Xi’s manuscript was completed a day later and had confusing logic. It was determined to be a plagiarism.

    The slap in the face was so direct that Ruan Xi’s fans were all speechless and didn’t dare to say a word.

    Many people who had followed the trend to scold Ruan Tang and support Ruan Xi were ashamed and deleted their comments.

    However, the water army hired by Ruan Xi was still jumping: “Even if Ruan Tang didn’t plagiarize and steal Ruan Xi’s experimental results, it is an indisputable fact that he asked his husband to frame Ruan Xi and slander Ruan Xi.”

    “Maybe Ruan Xi was so angered by the slander that he came up with such a bad idea to let Ruan Tang taste the feeling of being slandered?”

    “That’s right. It’s disgusting for an alpha to attack an omega and slander the omega for seducing him.”

    Various attempts to wash Ruan Xi back.

    At this time, Mrs. Elena transmitted the surveillance video that Ruan Tang wanted that day to Ruan Tang. Ruan Tang uploaded the video to his Star Blog space without hesitation.

    Ruan Xi’s appearance with spring water in his eyes, and the obvious “admiration” in his mouth, anyone with discerning eyes could tell what was going on.

    If this isn’t called seduction, then people wouldn’t know what seduction is.

    Another slap in the face, making the water army speechless.

    This rare scene of continuous face-slapping was so satisfying to watch.

    “Asking for a hammer and getting a hammer is awesome. This plot is really comfortable to watch.”

    “Speechless, is this Ruan Xi mentally ill? First, he stole other people’s scientific research results, falsely accused people of plagiarism, and seduced people’s husbands. What is he thinking? He has a mental illness. I really feel sorry for Ruan Tang. He actually has such a younger brother and is still being clung to. What dog shit did he step on…”

    “Please send this kind of psychopath to a mental hospital, okay? Will you let people live in peace? He still has the face to tree hole…”

    Because of Ruan Xi’s drama queen and troublesomeness, people’s sympathy and goodwill towards Ruan Tang reached their peak.

    After it was successively revealed that he had been entangled and tricked by Ruan Xi since he was a child, and that he had been excellent in academic performance since he was studying at university, graduate school, and doctorate, and his academic performance was much better than Ruan Xi’s.

    Everyone became his fans.

    An article he posted on Star Blog refuting the fallacies of his colleagues was Forwarded more than ten million times.

    “I suddenly became a fan of Ruan Tang. I accidentally found a photo of his ID a long time ago. He is handsome, low-key, and talented! This is the proper behavior of a real noble and knowledgeable omega, unlike that Ruan Xi drama queen who likes to show off his character too much. He doesn’t look like a normal person at all…”

    “Ruan Tang is too soft and kind. He can actually tolerate Ruan Xi for so long. I would have slapped him a long time ago.”

    “I became a fan. He is really the perfect omega in my mind. Except for the fact that his husband is not perfect and he is unlucky to be entangled by this crazy Ruan Xi, he is simply perfect and flawless… But, on the other hand, Ruan Tang’s husband is actually very handsome besides being disabled. Ruan Xi seduced him and moved his hands and feet and was directly thrown out. Hahaha~”

    Ruan Tang became popular inexplicably and instantly gained countless fans.

    Even the news that Ruan Xi was sent to the hospital was on the news, and no one sympathized with him. Some people relieved their anger and cursed him for being alive…

    The love and hate of strangers on the Internet is such a simple thing, coming and going quickly, changing constantly, and swaying uncertainly.

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