AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 68

If he had known this would happen, he wouldn’t have cheated in the first place and would have just cherished Tang Yun and their children.

Only they were truly worthy of his affection.

Unfortunately, there’s no medicine for regret in this world. Even if heaven gave him a chance to be reborn, allowing him to return to a time before everything happened, and even if he saw that everything was developing in a good direction, his own life was still counting down.

This was all his retribution.

Fortunately, he was still able to correct the wrongs in time and repay everything he owed Tang Yun and their children.

This could be considered his last bit of worth.

After announcing his will, Ruan Ming’s heart was filled with guilt.

“How is this possible? How can this be? Dad, how can you give all your assets to Tang Yang and Ruan Tang? What about us? We are also your children, aren’t you going to leave anything for us?” His illegitimate children collectively exploded, completely unable to accept the outcome of getting nothing from the Ruan Family Estate.

His mistress shrieked on the spot, “Master, how is this possible? Did Tang Yang and Ruan Tang coerce you into making this will? Were you forced? Your mind is not clear, you don’t know what’s in this will, you’ve been deceived… This will is invalid!”

They argued noisily.

Ruan Ming, lying on the hospital bed, and Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang, however, remained surprisingly calm.

The lawyer, still skeptical about the will Ruan Ming had personally declared, ignored their complaints, and didn’t even want to explain. He directly said to Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang, “Mr. Ruan Tang, Mr. Tang Yang, Marshal Ruan Ming’s will has already been written, notarized, and signed. When… you can come directly to me to sign the documents, and you can take what you are entitled to.”

Before the accident, Ruan Ming had already divorced Xia Ruzhi. The people in the room now were just his mistresses and illegitimate children. Once he died, these people would have no real connection to him or the Ruan Family Estate. From a legal perspective, if Ruan Ming’s will did not specify their shares, they wouldn’t even have the right to contest Ruan Ming’s assets.

Moreover, they were all adults with the ability to support themselves and didn’t need to be raised.

Since Ruan Ming’s will clearly stated that all his assets would be inherited by his legitimate children born to his first wife, he didn’t need to care about them at all.

“Okay.” Ruan Yang and Ruan Tang exchanged a look and responded softly.

Although they didn’t know why Ruan Ming would make such a division of assets, which was quite unexpected, they wouldn’t refuse money…

Especially since half of those assets originally belonged to their mother.

“Tang Yang, Ruan Tang, explain yourselves! What did you do to Dad? He hates you so much, how could he make such a will? You must have confused his mind, put a spell on him… I don’t accept this will, this will is invalid.”

“That’s right, that’s right, I don’t believe Dad wouldn’t leave anything for me, he was very fond of me when I was little…”

As soon as Ruan Ming’s illegitimate children heard the commotion on their side, they couldn’t wait to pounce on Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang and tear them apart.

They usually fought to the death over Ruan Ming’s assets, but at this moment, they were unexpectedly united against a common enemy.

Ruan Tang was prepared. Before they could approach him and Ruan Yang, Auston’s personal guards stepped forward and blocked them all three feet away from the Ruan brothers.

Ruan Tang didn’t even glance at these illegitimate children of Ruan Ming.

They were already strangers with so-called shallow blood ties. Now that he and his brother had changed their surnames, once Ruan Ming died, they wouldn’t even be strangers, but unrelated people.

He didn’t care about them at all.

“Father, please wake up, look at me – are you confused, hypnotized? Do you know who you just announced you were giving your assets and the position of head of the Ruan Family Estate to? To Ruan Tang! The one who is usually the most disobedient and unfilial to you, the Ruan Tang you hate the most… What makes an Omega qualified to be the head of the Ruan Family Estate?”

“That’s right, Father…”

Seeing that they couldn’t get close to Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang, Ruan Ming’s illegitimate children desperately tried to harass Ruan Ming, who couldn’t even get out of bed.

Some of them even shook Ruan Ming’s body, trying to make him sober up and change his will.

Ruan Ming was shaken a few times by his youngest illegitimate son and suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood. He seemed to rally momentarily, sitting up with a sudden clarity in his eyes.

The illegitimate son was immediately overjoyed, “Father, do you still know what you just said?”

Ruan Ming ignored him completely. After scanning the people in the room, his gaze fell on Tang Yun, who was standing far away with Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang, looking at him coldly. A look of incomparable relief and longing appeared on his face, as if he had returned to his youth, “Xiao Yun, is that you? You’ve come. You’re well. It’s good, it’s so good to see you…”

The person he had wronged the most in his life was Tang Yun.

Now, even though he was dying, he was happy to see that Tang Yun was doing well in this world.

Tang Yun looked at him coldly, her lips trembling slightly, but she didn’t say a word.

“I know you hate me, blame me… I, I’m sorry to you, sorry to Xiaoyang, Xiaoyue, and Ruan Tang.” Ruan Ming didn’t resent the coldness in her eyes at all, but his guilt deepened. He murmured, “The person I’ve wronged the most in my life is you. If… if there’s a next life, I’ll take good care of you and our children, and never be tempted by external things or flirt with other women again… Okay?”

Looking back on his life, Tang Yun was the only good thing left in his life. He was sorry to Tang Yun, so even if Tang Yun hated him, blamed him, or despised him, he didn’t care.

He didn’t have much time left.

Now he just wanted to make a promise for the next life with Tang Yun, hoping to grow old with her in the next life.

Tang Yun watched the people surrounding him without moving.

There were many people surrounding Ruan Ming’s bed, several of the older women were his mistresses, and their pupils shrank when they heard his words.

But Ruan Ming completely ignored their feelings. He weakly stretched out his hand in the direction of Tang Yun, his eyes empty and somewhat desolate, “The greatest luck in my life was meeting you…”

Strictly speaking, meeting Tang Yun when he was down on his luck and marrying her was the turning point in his life’s good fortune.

Unfortunately, he never knew how to cherish it in the past.

“But the thing I regret the most in my life is meeting you.” Tang Yun looked at his pitiful appearance, glanced at the group of women behind him, and suddenly sneered.

She didn’t know what was wrong with Ruan Ming now, whether it was a case of “people’s words are good when they are about to die”.

She only felt that everything was incredibly ironic. Ruan Ming didn’t know how many times he had cheated in his life, how many times he had betrayed her.

Now that he was about to die, he said that she was the love of his life, acting like a saint in front of his mistresses, it was really ridiculous.

“I, I knew you hated me…” Ruan Ming also found her like this extremely lovable, and suddenly gave a bitter smile. His voice became lighter and more ethereal, filled with longing for the next life, “If there is a next life…”

“If there is a next life, I don’t want to see you again.” Tang Yun didn’t give him a chance to finish his disgusting words and coldly interrupted him.

From the moment Ruan Ming cheated for the first time, she had been completely disappointed in this relationship and marriage, holding a negative attitude.

The many years of marriage that followed were just to endure for the sake of the children. If there was a next life, she didn’t want to be disgusted by this person again.

Ruan Ming looked at Tang Yun’s firm attitude and gave a bitter smile. He thought of something else and reached out to call the Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang brothers to his side, wanting to give them some instructions, “Ruan Tang, Ruan Yang…”

But Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang looked at him coldly and didn’t intend to come forward at all.

No one reached out to take his hand, which had been suspended in mid-air for who knows how long.

“I…” Ruan Ming was about to say something, but suddenly his eyes widened, and he vomited another mouthful of blood, collapsing back onto the bed.

The medical detection system displayed an alarm indicating that his heartbeat had reached zero and his vital signs had disappeared.

“Father…”

“Father, you can’t die, you haven’t redistributed the inheritance yet! You were tricked and deceived by allocating it that way…” His illegitimate children were in chaos, wailing everywhere.

But no one was truly sad about his death, everyone was thinking about his assets.

His wife hated him, his sons were indifferent, and his illegitimate children wanted to fight for his inheritance… Ruan Ming, the Imperial Marshal who had dominated the world for a lifetime, died in such a noisy and chaotic environment, with no one caring about his passing or feeling sad for him, ending his life in a way that was hard to judge.

…

The contents of Ruan Ming’s will shocked the entire Imperial Star.

Although no one knew how Ruan Tang had managed to do it, after seeing the result, many people had to admire the skill of this Omega, Ruan Tang…

Even in the situation where he had already had a falling out with Ruan Ming during his lifetime, he was still able to make Ruan Ming leave the position of head of the family and the entire Ruan Family Estate to him.

Everyone thought that after Ruan Tang changed his surname, the Ruan Family Estate would fall into the hands of Ruan Tang, who had changed his surname to Tang. It was feared that the Ruan Family Estate would change and be renamed Tang.

But Ruan Tang did not do so.

After holding Ruan Ming’s funeral, he began to vigorously rectify the entire Ruan Family Estate with ruthless methods. He had no feelings for the Ruan Family Estate. After Ruan Ming’s death, everyone else in the Ruan Family Estate was a stranger to him. Without any hesitation, he ruthlessly cut off the idlers and sent them away from the core of the Ruan Family Group… One by one, he transferred those who were originally unknown but at least capable of doing things neatly to important positions.

This caused resentment throughout the Ruan Family Estate and almost led to a rebellion, but they couldn’t do anything about him.

The Ruan family members who had followed Ruan Ming to build the current foundation of the Ruan Family Estate thought that Ruan Tang’s next step was to completely uproot them and eliminate them from within the group. They were uniting to discuss how to deal with Ruan Tang, the new head of the Ruan Family Estate.

But after finishing a series of cleanups that he had determined, Ruan Tang never attacked the remaining people of the Ruan Family Estate again.

Or rather, he treated everyone in the Ruan Family Estate and the current internal group equally. As long as they were capable and able to do things, no matter what their surname was, he would keep them.

And those who were incompetent and relied on a surname to live a life of idleness—

No matter who they were, or what their relationship was with him and the deceased Ruan Ming, he would drive them away!