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    Ruan Ming was shocked and furiously scolded Ruan Tang, “Ruan Tang, what are you doing? Are you crazy? How can you hit your Aunt Xia!”

    “Ruan Tang, how dare you hit my mom!” Ruan Zhuoxu rushed up to save Xia Ruzhi, but before he could get close to Ruan Tang, he was kicked away by the bodyguards beside Ruan Tang.

    Xia Ruzhi screamed continuously, “Help, help…”

    Ruan Tang completely ignored them, venting all the humiliation and hatred he had suffered over the years because of them on Xia Ruzhi.

    The extent of his madness was astonishing. He beat the dignified and luxurious Xia Ruzhi until her clothes were disheveled, her hair was messy, her nose was bruised, and her face was swollen. She looked like a steamed bun, unrecognizable.

    Ruan Tang had vented enough and was too tired to continue. He threw the powerless Xia Ruzhi to the ground like garbage.

    Xia Ruzhi was badly beaten by Ruan Tang, her nose was bruised and her face was swollen, and blood seeped from the corner of her mouth. She couldn’t get up for a long time. She reached out to Ruan Zhuoxu for help, “Xu’er…”

    Ruan Zhuoxu immediately stepped forward to help Xia Ruzhi up, but he was blocked by Auston’s loyal bodyguards.

    No one was given a chance to approach Xia Ruzhi, leaving the woman to be embarrassed in public…

    “Ruan Tang, what else do you want to do?” Ruan Zhuoxu had never been so humiliated before, and he was instantly furious.

    Seeing that Ruan Tang had reached this point and was still unrelenting, another royal duke with high authority, led by Auston’s distant uncle, spoke, looking at Ruan Tang with displeasure, wanting to stop this matter: “Duchess Auston, no matter what, Madam Xia is your stepmother. I don’t know what kind of grievances you have, but as your brother said, she still raised you after all…”

    “Even if you don’t want to regard her as your mother, why would you beat her so publicly, to such an extent?” He had lived most of his life, and except for his crazy nephew, he had never seen such an unreasonable person.

    This couple really is cut from the same cloth.

    With him speaking, several noble ladies who usually had a good relationship with Xia Ruzhi immediately chimed in: “That’s right, the Duchess is still the chairman of the Omega Protection Association. How can a chairman who so brazenly beats her stepmother who raised her, and doesn’t even understand basic filial piety, do a good job of leading the entire empire’s omega ideological education and support work?”

    Ruan Tang recognized at a glance that this noble lady had helped Xia Ruzhi and her son to defame his reputation in the circle and say bad things about him. He immediately stepped forward.

    “What are you doing? You still want to hit me?” The noble lady had just witnessed the brutal scene of Ruan Tang beating Xia Ruzhi in front of her. Seeing Ruan Tang approaching her, she was immediately startled and kept backing away.

    She retreated directly behind Duke Philip, and only when she saw a large group of people behind her did she feel relieved and shout at Ruan Tang.

    “Duke Philip, Madam Sharman, regarding what you just said, there are some things I must refute.” Ruan Tang didn’t even look at Madam Sharman. He walked directly to Duke Philip.

    Although this old Duke was high-ranking and powerful, he was low-key and had a good reputation in the Osfia noble circle. He was someone Ruan Tang didn’t want to offend and leave a bad impression on.

    Although he was now letting himself go, he wasn’t crazy yet.

    Duke Philip was old and his thinking was old-fashioned. He valued filial piety and rules the most. The fact that Ruan Tang beat his stepmother happened right under his nose, and his impression of Ruan Tang was already extremely bad. He didn’t want to listen to him, but considering Ruan Tang’s identity and status, he silently frowned and looked at Ruan Tang.

    He put on an appearance of being willing to listen to the details.

    “You just said that no matter what, Madam Xia has raised me, and no matter what kind of grievances I have, I shouldn’t treat her like this. Then, may I ask, if a person is indifferent to you, and even constantly gives you trouble, although she barely raised you with your father, but she is an enemy who harmed your whole family, stole your mother, and everything your family should have?” Ruan Tang smiled slightly. He had vented his anger and calmed down.

    He immediately looked at the old Duke very calmly: “In this situation, is the kindness greater than the hatred, or is the hatred greater than the kindness?”

    Ruan Tang’s implication was to directly imply that Xia Ruzhi had harmed his mother. Considering the liveliness of the Ruan family over the years and the strangeness of Ruan Tang’s mother and siblings’ successive accidents, as well as the fact that Xia Ruzhi, an outsider, became Madam Ruan not long after, the people present who had sympathized with Xia Ruzhi for a moment felt a little pain in their faces.

    But looking at Ruan Tang’s appearance, they only felt that the Ruan family seemed to have more gossip to eat, and this gossip was not small—

    Duke Philip calmed down and thought carefully about the meaning of Ruan Tang’s words. Looking at Ruan Tang, who was looking at him calmly, he also felt that he might have been too impulsive. There might be other secrets between Ruan Tang and Xia Ruzhi, and perhaps he shouldn’t have interfered. He suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

    “If a person harms your whole family, takes away all the resources your whole family should have, and then raises you… then the resources she used to raise you should have belonged to you in the first place, and were stolen from you. She is a despicable thief in the first place, so this kind of kindness naturally doesn’t count as kindness. Of course, hatred is greater than kindness…” Philip was a very hateful, fair, and just person. That’s why he had such a good reputation and prestige in the circle. When asked by Ruan Tang like this, even if he felt embarrassed, he still answered the answer he felt in his heart very fairly and honestly.

    If Xia Ruzhi harmed Tang Yun to get to her position, even if she became Madam Ruan and raised Ruan Tang together with Ruan Ming, she would not have any kindness towards Ruan Tang, but would be full of deep hatred.

    “Thank you for your answer.” Ruan Tang immediately smiled and said, “The relationship between Madam Xia Ruzhi and I is exactly like this. Although she married my father and raised me with my father using my parents’ joint property, she is also the culprit who harmed my mother.”

    Ruan Tang looked at everyone present and said word by word: “My mother is still foolish because of the poison she administered. There is not only no kindness between her and me, but also deep hatred… I have just found out about this matter, and my mother now has no capacity for civil conduct. As her son, I must seek justice for her.”

    He had no intention of being kind when he came here.

    As soon as Ruan Tang’s determined words came out, the whole audience was shocked.

    Although they had already had vague guesses in their hearts, Ruan Tang, the son of the original wife, directly confirmed this point, but it was still quite powerful…

    At the moment, there were quite a few people who had a bad relationship with Xia Ruzhi whispering.

    “It’s really unexpected. There was such an inside story about what happened to Madam Ruan, no, Madam Tang back then?”

    “I felt something was strange back then. Madam Tang was a good person, and she was in her prime. Even if her son’s accident was a big blow, Marshal Ruan Ming didn’t die, so why did she suddenly go crazy? It’s a pity, she was also a kind person, but she didn’t have any skills, scheming, or family background, so she was planted in the hands of a mistress who was bent on getting to the top…”

    “I knew that Xia Ruzhi was not a good person. You can tell by the son Ruan Xi she raised. The mother and son are the same as the mistress’s style…”

    Xia Ruzhi’s ears were ringing from Ruan Tang’s beating, but she still listened to these whispers word for word, and her face suddenly turned pale as paper.

    She didn’t expect that after so many years, the truth would actually be revealed…

    Sure enough, Ruan Tang was here to avenge that woman.

    “Ruan… Ruan Tang, what are you saying? What’s going on? Your mother… what happened to your mother?” And the one who was shocked was obviously not only these outsiders. Hearing Ruan Tang say these words so decisively, Ruan Ming’s face also changed drastically, and he looked at Ruan Tang in disbelief.

    Although he was flirtatious and didn’t treat omegas as anything, he still had some feelings and respect for Tang Yun, the original wife who accompanied him from scratch and married him when he had nothing. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have agreed to Ruan Tang taking so many things when he got married, and he wouldn’t have tolerated Ruan Tang’s repeated rebukes to him…

    He had always thought that something had happened to Tang Yun because she was stimulated by the eldest son’s accident, but Ruan Tang told him today that Tang Yun was actually harmed under his very nose…

    The person who harmed her was his current wife, whom he thought was gentle and weak.

    Ruan Tang looked at his shocked expression, as if he was so affectionate and righteous to his mother, and only felt extremely disgusted. He sneered.

    “Don’t believe him, Father, don’t believe him. Mother is so gentle and kind, how could Madam Xia harm Mother? Madam Tang was clearly crazy because the eldest sister and eldest brother suffered misfortune one after another… He’s just quibbling!” Feeling the pointing gazes of the people around him, Ruan Zhuoxu immediately clenched his fists and tried his best to defend his mother.

    Hearing this, Xia Ruzhi also immediately reacted and defended herself repeatedly: “Master, you have to believe me, believe me, I really didn’t do anything, and I didn’t harm the Madam.”

    Ruan Ming couldn’t seem to hear a word of what they were saying, and only stared straight at Ruan Tang, waiting for him to give him an answer.

    Ruan Tang had already anticipated the shamelessness of this group of people, and he was prepared. Without saying a word, he directly opened his optical brain and projected a series of evidence of Xia Ruzhi harming his mother and sister in front of everyone: “Since I dare to say this, I naturally have evidence.”

    Although the evidence in hand was not complete, Ruan Tang had long been prepared to restore and fabricate some ‘evidence chains’ after the original traces that were destroyed, putting the true and false together, so that discerning people could see at a glance what Xia Ruzhi had done.

    It didn’t matter whether the evidence was true or false. Now the person holding the power was him. As long as he could produce evidence, and Xia Ruzhi had indeed done these things.

    If he said it was true, then it was true.

    The optical brain projection showed how Xia Ruzhi poisoned Tang Yun first, and how she colluded with others to stimulate Ruan Yue, whose mental state was already bad due to the loss of her son… The evidence chain was complete and detailed, and the extent of her viciousness was appalling.

    As for Ruan Yang’s share, Ruan Tang hadn’t investigated it clearly yet, and he also wanted to use this to wipe out the Xia family, so he didn’t want to startle the snake, so he kept it hidden for the time being.

    Everyone who looked at the evidence released by Ruan Tang was stunned and amazed at Xia Ruzhi’s viciousness.

    A rivalry between love rivals, harming the original wife was enough, but she even harmed the daughter who was already suffering from emotional trauma. She was really too vicious.

    Xia Ruzhi didn’t expect that Ruan Tang would be able to produce evidence. Hadn’t she destroyed this evidence long ago? Seeing her conclusive evidence reproduced, Xia Ruzhi didn’t even think about distinguishing the truth from the false. She directly climbed up from the ground hysterically and shouted hysterically in the direction of Ruan Tang’s optical brain projection: “It’s not true, it’s not true… it’s not!”

    She had a guilty conscience, and even went crazy trying to destroy Ruan Tang’s optical brain, but she was dragged away by Ruan Zhuoxu, who reminded her: “Mom, calm down…”

    But her guilty reaction, in the eyes of others, was another confirmation that what Ruan Tang said was true. Ruan Ming’s original wife, Tang Yun, was really harmed by this mistress.

    Thinking of this, everyone present suddenly felt a chill towards Xia Ruzhi, and they also had endless doubts and contempt for Ruan Zhuoxu’s words that he had just defended Xia Ruzhi in every possible way.

    If Tang Yun was really harmed by Xia Ruzhi, this mistress, then how could Ruan Zhuoxu, the son born of this mistress, have the face to say to Ruan Tang in a hypocritical manner that Xia Ruzhi had raised him?

    She harmed his mother like this, and also took away everything he should have enjoyed. The son she gave birth to repeatedly hooked up with his fiancé and slandered his reputation.

    If he were Ruan Tang, knowing about this kind of thing, beating Xia Ruzhi would be a light punishment, and it would be good if he didn’t chop her up.

    Ruan Zhuoxu was still embarrassed to act hypocritically towards others. It was simply disgusting…

    “It’s not true, Master, you have to believe me, it’s not true…” With her evidence exposed to the public, how could Xia Ruzhi calm down? She couldn’t listen to Ruan Zhuoxu’s persuasion at all, and ran to Ruan Ming and kept defending herself.

    She had been a dodder flower all her life. Even when something happened, her first reaction was to run to Ruan Ming to seek his shelter.

    Ruan Ming was furious. He grabbed Xia Ruzhi, who was holding his hand, and slapped her hard, “Bitch!”

    Daring to harm Tang Yun was enough, but she even spared his eldest daughter.

    With a “smack—” sound, Xia Ruzhi, who had already been beaten black and blue by Ruan Tang, was dizzy from Ruan Ming’s slap and fell directly to the ground.

    Ruan Ming didn’t even look at her. He looked at Ruan Tang with grief and indignation, and couldn’t express what he was feeling: “Xiao Tang, I… I really don’t know…”

    He really didn’t know that this woman Xia Ruzhi would dare to harm Tang Yun.

    “Whether you really don’t know, or you had a guess in your heart and chose to turn a blind eye after weighing the interests, you know it clearly in your heart.” Ruan Tang sneered as he listened to his defense, and didn’t take his words at all.

    He knew his father too well. Don’t speculate about him with the most evil side of human nature…

    Ruan Tang didn’t believe that Ruan Ming, as Xia Ruzhi’s bed partner, was really unaware of Xia Ruzhi’s actions. He just felt that after weighing the interests, Tang Yun was already crazy, and Tang Yun’s children were either crazy or unconscious, and couldn’t bring him value. Xia Ruzhi was already Madam Ruan and had several normal sons… There was no need to seek justice for Tang Yun, the original wife, so he didn’t continue to pursue it.

    What kind of good person is he pretending to be now?

    Ruan Ming didn’t expect Ruan Tang to be so indifferent to him, and he was immediately a little embarrassed, but he had no position to accuse Ruan Tang, so he could only say with a pale face, “Xiao Tang…”

    He wanted to take this opportunity to rekindle his relationship with this son.

    Ruan Tang first watched their husband and wife bite each other, and then looked at Ruan Ming’s actions. He only felt extremely disgusted and bored.

    “I’m tired, let’s go.” Ruan Tang snapped his fingers directly.

    Auston’s bodyguards responded, “Yes, Madam.”

    They immediately dragged Xia Ruzhi, who had been beaten dizzy, up from the ground and followed Ruan Tang to leave.

    Ruan Zhuoxu didn’t expect that after Ruan Tang made such a scene, he would not only leave himself, but also take Xia Ruzhi away. He was immediately panicked and asked anxiously, “Ruan Tang, what are you going to do?”

    “Xia Ruzhi harmed my mother like this, and now there is evidence, of course I, the son of the victim, have to send her to the Public Security Bureau and file a lawsuit against her to protect myself with the weapon of law.” Ruan Tang said indifferently and matter-of-factly: “Third Young Master Ruan, can’t you tell?”

    He came here today with great fanfare, not to slap Xia Ruzhi in the face. Xia Ruzhi must pay the price for what she has done.

    Ruan Zhuoxu didn’t expect that he would not only make trouble today, but also take his mother away and send her to the Public Security Bureau to sue her. He immediately went crazy and said to Ruan Tang: “Ruan Tang, you are also a member of the Ruan family, how can you do this? How can you sue my mother in court? Do you know how much impact your actions will have on the reputation of the Ruan family?”

    “Father, you can’t let him do this, you can’t let him take my mother away!” After saying that, he hurriedly grabbed Ruan Ming’s hand, hoping that Ruan Ming could use his father’s identity to stop Ruan Tang from taking Xia Ruzhi away.

    Ruan Ming didn’t care about having many children, but he only had one mother, Xia Ruzhi. If Xia Ruzhi went in, and the crime was proven and she went to jail, Ruan Ming would definitely divorce her, and his position as the heir of the Ruan family would not be guaranteed.

    Ruan Zhuoxu didn’t want to sit idly by and watch all this happen.

    Ruan Ming took a deep look at Ruan Tang, but didn’t say anything. He could tell from Ruan Tang’s appearance that he couldn’t stop this son today no matter what he said.

    So he directly chose to say nothing.

    “The Ruan family is not mine anyway. What does it have to do with me if my actions have an impact on the reputation of the Ruan family?” Ruan Tang looked at Ruan Ming’s knowledge of current affairs and Ruan Zhuoxu’s raging appearance, and suddenly laughed: “After all, the Ruan family only grew to this point by relying on your maternal Xia family’s help in selling your daughter to a married alpha as a mistress, so what good reputation can it have?”

    His words implied that Ruan Zhuoxu had said before that the Ruan family was able to get to where it was today was inseparable from Xia Ruzhi’s diplomatic efforts as a wife and the help of his maternal family.

    The Xia family had not fallen to the point of selling their daughter to Ruan Ming as a mistress, so how could they have helped the Ruan family?

    Someone in the crowd of onlookers understood this point and burst out laughing.

    Ruan Zhuoxu choked on a mouthful of old blood and almost fainted.

    Ruan Tang’s voice fell, and he immediately ignored the reaction of this family, and dragged the half-dead Xia Ruzhi away like he was dragging a sack with a large group of people.

    Apart from the initial madness of beating Xia Ruzhi, his reaction from beginning to end was extremely calm, but for some reason, compared to the misery selling of Xia Ruzhi and her son, combined with the mess of things in the Ruan family, people couldn’t help but sympathize and feel sorry for him.

    What kind of people and what kind of things did this omega encounter to be forced to become like this by life? It’s too difficult.

    The entire Ruan family undoubtedly became the laughing stock of the entire Imperial Star again. Watching Ruan Tang drag his mother’s distant back away, Ruan Zhuoxu suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and looked at Ruan Ming nervously, calling out cautiously, “Father…”

    Ruan Ming didn’t even look at him. He seemed to have aged several years and pushed him away with all his strength.

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