AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 55
by VolareSeeing the other party’s parents felt like a commitment no matter how he looked at it, but he was someone who couldn’t give Ruan Tang a commitment.
“You’re so good to me, why do you think my brother wouldn’t feel at ease seeing you?” Ruan Tang hadn’t expected him to say this and asked directly, “Why do you belittle yourself like this?”
Auston often gave him a strange feeling, contradictory and conflicting… arrogant yet self-deprecating.
This made Ruan Tang unable to resist wanting to explore his inner world.
From the moment he fell for him until now, he had given Auston countless hints, but Auston’s reaction had always been avoidance. While avoiding him, he treated him extremely well, never running away from him…
They seemed to be stuck in a stalemate.
This kind of relationship was good, but Ruan Tang still wanted to break the deadlock.
“Which eye saw me belittling myself?” Auston didn’t admit it, his eyebrow under the mask arching with agitation.
He just felt that this omega was troublesome and liked to fantasize.
Ruan Tang ignored the evasion in his words and stared at him, saying each word carefully, “No matter how people outside evaluate you, in my eyes, you are the best, the best person in the world. I like you, and I believe my brother, mother, and sister will like you as much as I do…”
Evasion, in Ruan Tang’s eyes, was also a form of inferiority and escape.
Although he was an omega, he was also a man. Facing the alpha who had been ambiguous with him, Ruan Tang felt a hunting and pursuing impulse for the first time…
He wanted to get this alpha and make this alpha his.
“Stop trying to flatter me!” Auston pointed directly at the door and scolded, “Get out!”
He didn’t want to hear any of Ruan Tang’s flattery or attentiveness.
He was the Bluebeard Duke famous throughout Imperial Star, how could he be swayed by a small omega?
Ruan Tang keenly captured the embarrassment in his emotions. Taking advantage of Auston being bedridden, he refused to leave.
After all, the most ferocious expression of this notoriously fierce alpha in front of him was just a “get out.” He rarely even cursed him, so it had no deterrent effect at all.
As long as he grasped this characteristic of Auston, Ruan Tang felt he could be invincible in front of him.
“You’ve been so good to me since the day I met you. Apart from scaring me, you basically give me whatever I want. Why are you so good to me?” Auston’s indulgence fueled Ruan Tang’s courage, allowing him to look directly into Auston’s eyes and ask this question.
Seeing that he refused to leave, Auston couldn’t hit, smash, or use mental pressure against this delicate and frail omega…
“There’s no why, because I’m happy, it’s that simple.” Auston, no matter how fierce, couldn’t help but seem like he was putting on a show of strength.
He had always done things as he pleased, where was the reason?
He wanted to do it, so he did it, that’s all.
Ruan Tang took a deep breath and asked, “What kind of person do you like?”
He asked a question he had always wanted to know: what kind of person, *not* omega, would Auston like?
He wanted to know what type Auston liked and whether he fit that type.
“I don’t know, I haven’t thought about it.” Auston frowned, finding Ruan Tang’s question extremely boring. “Why are you always talking about this nonsense?”
He had never thought about finding a partner to spend his life with, nor had he ever thought about what his ideal type was… He felt it was unnecessary and didn’t want to waste time thinking about it.
Ruan Tang’s hints were too obvious, making him unwilling to respond at all.
Ruan Tang hesitated, looked at the flustered Auston, and boldly overstepped once again, “But the way you treat me, being so good to me, it’s easy for me to have the illusion that you like me.”
He often felt that Auston liked him. He didn’t think it was his illusion, even though Auston was unwilling to admit it.
“Since you know it’s an illusion, that’s good.” Auston said unhappily, “I’ve told you more than once, I don’t like you. I’m good to you just because I want to make myself happy. I hope you don’t have any misunderstandings.”
“But I’ve already misunderstood, what should I do?”
Auston didn’t expect him to say this, “Stop talking nonsense with me, if you misunderstood, it’s your own wishful thinking, it’s your own business…”
But before he could finish speaking, Ruan Tang suddenly took a step forward and grabbed Auston’s wrist.
Auston saw that he wasn’t afraid of him at all. In a situation where he was obviously about to lose his temper, he took the initiative to approach and touch him without permission, and was immediately dumbfounded: “…”
“Even knowing it’s an illusion, I still fell in love with you.” Ruan Tang met Auston’s blank eyes and said each word very seriously, “My lord, I’ve fallen in love with you. Will you want to kill me, peel off my skin, and gouge out my eyes to punish me?”
Today was a very good day for Ruan Tang. Ruan Yang was awake, and everything in his life was slowly getting better and developing in a positive direction.
This also gave him an unprecedented impulse to break through the window and confess to Auston.
There are only two things in the world that cannot be hidden: a cough and love… He didn’t believe Auston didn’t understand his feelings, and he didn’t want him to continue to escape.
Auston was immediately stuck. He hadn’t expected the thing he was most worried about, the thing he least wanted this omega to say, to actually be said.
In that instant, he even resented Ruan Tang somewhat—
They were getting along so well before, so happily. Why couldn’t Ruan Tang continue to live this muddled, happy life with him during this time that might just be fleeting in his life?
Why did he have to break through this window and put these things out in the open?
He really wanted to get angry at Ruan Tang, but looking at Ruan Tang standing straight in front of him, his eyes bright, expectant, and extremely sincere as he looked at him,
Auston couldn’t help but completely take back his desire to speak harshly, trying to be as gentle as possible, “It’s probably because you haven’t met any decent alphas. I’m not bad to you, so you had a misunderstanding due to the suspension bridge effect. I’m actually not that good, and I don’t like you that much either. I’m not a good match, and I’m not someone worth your expectations.”
“Take back all your feelings for me.”
The omega in front of him was too beautiful in his eyes, so beautiful that he didn’t want to possess or defile him, he just wanted him to continue to be pure and beautiful.
He didn’t know which of Ruan Tang’s eyes was bad to have taken a liking to him—
But—
“From the beginning of our marriage, I never thought about going all the way with you. Our marriage is just a strategic compromise to the Empress’s forces.” Auston said each word carefully, looking at Ruan Tang with rare clarity, and took out the divorce agreement he had prepared long ago from the bedside table: “I’m sorry for causing you to misunderstand me, and I’m also very grateful for your feelings.”
Ruan Tang stared at him and was stunned on the spot.
“I signed this divorce agreement a long time ago. When you want to end this marriage relationship, as long as you sign it, it will take effect immediately… In the future, if you have an alpha you like and want to get married again, I will also bless you.” He couldn’t give Ruan Tang a commitment, so he had prepared this divorce agreement long ago.
But even Auston himself hadn’t expected to take it out so quickly.
He thought there would still be a long period of pleasant time between him and Ruan Tang…
Ruan Tang opened the document and immediately saw that Auston had divided almost all the Duke’s assets to him in this agreement, making Ruan Tang feel heavy and unspeakably sad.
“You met me when you were at your most difficult, so it’s indeed easy to have an illusion.” Auston pretended to be relaxed, “But now, your brother has already woken up, and you’ve already become the chairman of the Omega Protection Association, holding a certain amount of power in your hands. I haven’t marked you, and you’ll still have the property that the Ruan family gave you before, plus the property I give you… After the illusion passes, you’ll definitely find an alpha who is a thousand times, a hundred times better than me, and then you won’t remember me anymore…”
Auston hadn’t thought he would meet such a special omega, but they were destined not to be together.
And Ruan Tang’s unwillingness to pretend to be ignorant made their already shallow fate end even earlier.
Ruan Tang looked at Auston with mixed feelings, without saying a word.
“What’s wrong, do you have any objections to the agreement?” Auston thought he had something to say and asked immediately.
“Objections? How could I have objections? We’ve only been married for such a short time, and you’re giving me almost all the assets of the entire Duke’s mansion. What objections could I have to such a divorce agreement?” Ruan Tang’s hand holding the agreement trembled unconsciously. He laughed, sarcastically, “My lord, you’re so great, so great that I think you’re a little unlike you?”
Auston frowned deeply upon hearing this.
Ruan Tang didn’t care about his emotional changes: “You’re Duke Auston, shouldn’t your persona be that what’s yours is yours, and even if you don’t want it, you’ll destroy it? How could you be so great?”
“Since you’re so great and willing to give me the assets of the entire Duke’s mansion, why are you unwilling to mark me and be my true alpha?” Ruan Tang asked him.
In the past, Auston was either proud or fierce in front of him, but those were all wearing a mask. Looking at Auston at this moment, Ruan Tang realized that he had uncovered a corner of his mask.
But this made him even more certain that Auston liked him?
Although he didn’t know why Auston wanted to reject him, who would do this if they didn’t like him?
“Why are you always thinking about these random things, getting caught up in meaningless things?” Auston finally ran out of patience and could no longer pretend to be normal in front of Ruan Tang, shouting out.
He was willing to give Ruan Tang so much, Ruan Tang just had to happily accept it like other omegas and live his life happily, right?
Why did he have to get caught up in these things?
Looking at Ruan Tang like this, his heart inexplicably ached as well.