AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 59
by VolareHe withdrew his previous flirting attitude and sent Auston another message: “Sir, do you still want to hear a bedtime story tonight? Can I tell you a story?”
Auston seemed to have disappeared, not replying with a single word.
Ruan Tang, however, nonchalantly opened “One Thousand and One Nights,” turned on the voice recording mode, and started telling Auston stories through the communicator.
After getting used to telling stories to coax the older Auston to sleep every day, Ruan Tang felt out of sorts if he didn’t tell him a story for even one day.
But that night, even after Ruan Tang finished the story, Auston didn’t reply with a single word.
Ruan Tang glanced at the time, realizing it was late, and then closed the book in his hand. He softly said to the communicator, “Good night.”
Only then did he turn off the lights and go to sleep.
On the other end of the communicator, Auston quietly listened to Ruan Tang’s story, and in the darkness, he inexplicably felt his cheeks were a little hot.
After this, Auston didn’t necessarily reply to Ruan Tang’s messages instantly, but he changed his disappearing act. If Ruan Tang contacted him often, he would occasionally reply with a word or two.
Although Ruan Tang was busy with work and couldn’t see Auston, he would squeeze out time whenever he had a moment to say something to Auston.
“Sir, look, this is my work lunch today.”
“What are you doing right now?”
“I saw a flower blooming in the garden of our office today. It’s very beautiful. I’m sharing it with you.”
…
Because he knew Auston would definitely see the messages, Ruan Tang was happy to send them, even if it was a one-man show with no response.
Auston looked at this annoying and clingy Omega, who still had such a strong presence even when they couldn’t meet. He was so clingy that he couldn’t help but reply, annoyed, “Doesn’t the Omega Protection Association have any work? How can you be so idle, having time to send so much nonsense during work hours?”
“Even if I’m busy, I still have time to miss you,” Ruan Tang replied, seeing that he had indeed read his message, and immediately hit him with another direct flirt.
Auston immediately bristled: “What nonsense are you talking about?”
This time, Ruan Tang might have been busy with something, and it was Ruan Tang’s turn not to reply to his message.
Auston stared at his personal terminal for a long time and saw that Ruan Tang didn’t reply to his message for a long time. He immediately got annoyed and complained to Vincent with some dissatisfaction, “You say, current Omegas are delicate, clingy, and shameless, always saying things they shouldn’t. Are these even Omegas?”
“…” Vincent offered no opinion on this.
After being Auston’s emotional consultant several times and listening to him complain about his and Ruan Tang’s relationship, no matter what Auston said to him now, Vincent treated it all as him showing off their love and affection.
Anyway, these two couples were both sick, and they didn’t seem normal. Let them do whatever they wanted.
…
After learning that his mother had been poisoned and was in her current state, Ruan Tang had been investigating all sorts of information to find out who had harmed his mother back then.
No matter who had done it, Ruan Tang was determined to find this person and make them pay for what they had done.
After receiving a call from the person Auston had assigned to investigate this matter, Ruan Tang had a premonition: “Did you find something?”
“Madam, based on the time when Tang Yun was poisoned, I traced back and investigated your father, his mistresses, and many people with vested interests related to your parents… I found that the most suspicious person is your father’s current wife, Xia Ruzhi.” The person in charge of the investigation sent a series of information he had investigated to Ruan Tang’s personal terminal: “After several investigations, I found that a dismissed maid next to Xia Ruzhi had a younger brother who had been to a planet that produced that kind of toxin and purchased a certain amount of the toxin. Coincidentally, during that time, Xia was learning about health preservation from a doctor and was in contact with various drugs every day… Moreover, at that time, she was also very close to a chef who was good at your mother’s home planet cuisine.”
Ruan Tang’s eyes darkened.
The people Auston lent to Ruan Tang were extremely meticulous in their work, and the things they investigated were far more than these. He took a deep breath and continued: “Also, I found that the incident involving Ruan Yang back then was also likely man-made rather than an accident. A distant relative of the Xia family was also in Ruan Yang’s army, responsible for mecha modification… According to my investigation, the recovered data shows that this person and another mecha data engineer were the ones who modified Ruan Yang’s mecha together…”
“Although mecha modification doesn’t explain anything, and there is no evidence to prove these things, I think Ruan Yang’s accident is the best proof…”
While uncovering these things, the person in charge of the investigation could only sigh in his heart again and again, Xia Ruzhi’s mind was too vicious.
He didn’t know what sins Ruan Tang’s family had committed to end up with a father like Ruan Ming and attract a villain like Xia Ruzhi, who was scheming to kill them.
“Good, very good, extremely good.” Ruan Tang’s anger reached its peak, but instead, he laughed out loud: “Xia Ruzhi, Madam Ruan… I really underestimated her. What else has she done that I don’t know about?”
From childhood to adulthood, even without evidence and after several fruitless investigations, Ruan Tang had always had a faint suspicion and premonition that the accidents involving his mother, brother, and sisters might not have been accidents.
Now that the mastermind had been found, Ruan Tang wasn’t surprised.
He just didn’t expect that the mastermind would be Xia Ruzhi, who usually looked stupid and cowardly and obeyed Ruan Ming’s every word… Just for the sake of being Ruan Ming’s wife, she had actually harmed his family to such an extent.
The person in charge of the investigation heard Ruan Tang’s voice was cold, but still continued: “Also, regarding the incident of the eldest young lady of the Ruan family, Ruan Yang’s accident, and the miscarriage of Miss Ruan’s child, Marshal Ruan Ming had always ordered to keep it secret from Miss Ruan… Later, one day, some subordinate leaked the news, which stimulated her, who was already in a bad mental state…”
“And the subordinate who leaked the news had private contact and financial dealings with Xia… Although these traces were later erased, I still found some clues.”
Ruan Tang calmly listened to him, and the resentment towards Xia Ruzhi, Ruan Ming, and Ruan Xi reached its peak.
He should have guessed that with a vicious son like Ruan Xi… how could Xia Ruzhi be a good person?
He had been deceived by Xia Ruzhi’s appearance of being submissive, timid, and afraid of trouble in front of Ruan Ming.
“Madam Xia is very careful and meticulous. After she became Madam Ruan, many traces of those things back then were erased, leaving only some clues, so the evidence may not be conclusive enough. If Madam needs it, I can go and examine it again carefully,” the person in charge of the investigation said dutifully.
Ruan Tang coldly looked at the information he had sent, which linked together and proved that Xia Ruzhi had harmed them, and politely said to the person in charge of the investigation, “Okay, then thank you, and I’m sorry to trouble you.”
After cutting off the communication, his face suddenly turned gloomy, and his hands clenched into fists…
He had said that as long as he found out who was behind the attacks on his mother, brother, and sisters, he would definitely make them pay with blood.
“…Sir, can you lend me some people? Preferably members of your personal guard team,” Ruan Tang gritted his teeth and sent a message to Auston as soon as possible.
Auston and Ruan Tang received these investigation results almost simultaneously. After Ruan Tang sent him a request for help, he didn’t even reply to Ruan Tang, didn’t ask him what he was planning to do, and directly transferred the people to him readily.
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“Mo Zhi, you see, I was deceived by Ruan Tang before. Look at him now, he’s the chairman of the Omega Protection Association, so powerful. I think he clearly planned to go for this position from the beginning. I used to believe him so much and was deceived by him…” At this moment, at the Ruan Family Estate, after recovering from his illness, Ruan Xi found that Ruan Tang was doing well and had become the chairman of the Omega Protection Association, and he hated him so much that he gritted his teeth.
His mental state was very bad. After several consecutive blows, he looked ten years older: “I was too stupid to see that he was such an insidious person. He could even sell his marriage for that position. I even wanted to save him.”
Ruan Tang’s success and gradual access to power seemed to him to be evidence that Ruan Tang was an insidious black lotus.
He eagerly wanted to put this label on Ruan Tang in order to clear himself and create an image of a victim.
Before shaping the image, the first step he eagerly wanted to get was the recognition of his fiancé, Shen Mozhi…
“Why are you paying so much attention to Ruan Tang?” Unexpectedly, after listening to his words, Shen Mozhi didn’t show any recognition of him, any pity for him being wronged and framed, or any hatred for the black lotus Ruan Tang who had harmed him like this. Instead, he was calmly indifferent.
Shen Mozhi had already heard about Ruan Tang’s access to power and success in this circle, unlike Ruan Xi, who had just recovered from a serious illness.
When he first learned about this, he was also very touched and surprised—
But not in the way Ruan Xi hoped, thinking that Ruan Tang was a black lotus and that everything he had done before was to pave the way for the glory of this moment.
He just couldn’t help but think that Ruan Tang didn’t seem to be like this in the past, and he wasn’t so willing to scheme against people. But now everything was already different…
Ruan Tang’s path to today seemed to be forced and created by them all along.
Looking at Ruan Tang now, and recalling Ruan Tang’s original appearance, Shen Mozhi couldn’t explain the slight pain and regret that arose in his heart.
And looking at Ruan Xi’s eagerness to put the blame on Ruan Tang and prove that he was a black lotus, he also deeply disagreed.
Ruan Xi looked at Shen Mozhi in disbelief, unable to imagine that he would react like this: “Mo Zhi—”
Ruan Tang’s current appearance had completely proved that he was not a white lotus or a good person. He was a black lotus who was unscrupulous in order to climb up, but why didn’t anyone believe him, sympathize with him, and condemn Ruan Tang with him like in the past?
Ruan Xi couldn’t understand.
Shen Mozhi was silent for a moment, but said, “He’s already married, and you two are no longer living together. What he does or doesn’t do, how he is, no longer interferes with you and has nothing to do with you. Since the previous things have already happened, they’re already in the past. Why do you still insist on clinging to him?”
He actually couldn’t understand why Ruan Xi had such an obsession with putting the blame on Ruan Tang and proving that he was a black lotus.