AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 69

Seeing Ruan Tang so eager to rectify the Ruan family, his methods were so ruthless and sharp, eliminating dissidents and randomly supporting newcomers. Many Ruan Corporation elders who considered themselves extraordinary were waiting to see him make a fool of himself, waiting for him to fail to secure his position and instead become a laughingstock.

But unexpectedly, Ruan Tang seemed to have planned everything in advance.

These people who seemed to be suddenly picked up and promoted by him actually held their ground. Each performed their duties and truly completed every task Ruan Tang assigned them in the chaos. This surprised those who were originally waiting to see Ruan Tang make a fool of himself.

They couldn’t help but sigh at how capable Tang Yun’s youngest son was.

Sitting in the position of head of the family was far more suitable for him than for his Alpha brothers.

Having spent their lives with Ruan Ming and holding high positions, the Ruan family’s senior members were not fools. After witnessing Ruan Tang’s strength and competing with him several times, they saw that Ruan Tang didn’t intend to subvert the Ruan family or destroy their life’s work. On the contrary, he truly had the potential to do well as the head of the family and lead the entire Ruan family to prosperity.

They all obediently accepted their fate and acknowledged Ruan Tang as the new head of the family.

After Ruan Ming’s death, Ruan Tang spent less than three months securing his position as the head of the Ruan family. This made the Empress favor him even more and value him increasingly. The various forces on Imperial Star also began to view him with new eyes, sensing the potential of this rising star.

When Ruan Tang had just married Auston, although he was nominally the Duke’s lady, in reality, not many people took him seriously. They all regarded him as a tool for the Empress’s forces to produce offspring, an appendage of that mad dog Auston.

But from the moment he married Auston and Auston spoiled him to the heavens, doing everything in his power to benefit him, to his sudden rise from a tool for the Empress’s forces to a promising new talent being cultivated by the Empress’s forces, demonstrating his personal abilities, successfully taking the position of Chairman of the Omega Protection Association, gradually coming into contact with power, and now taking control of the entire Ruan family and becoming the new head of the Ruan family…

Everyone’s attitude towards him was greatly different.

For Ruan Tang at this moment, his status as the Duke’s lady and Auston’s love for him were already very small parts of his personal label. His personal abilities and his current position as Chairman of the Omega Protection Association, the head of the Ruan family, and the identity of the most beloved younger brother of the Imperial Star’s most promising Lieutenant General of the White Tiger Legion were his current first impressions and greatest reliance.

From his teens until now, he had always pretended to be mediocre and incompetent, allowing Ruan Xi to overshadow him, until now, he had accumulated enough strength to turn a bad hand into such a success.

This Omega was truly not simple.

Many family heads who prided themselves on being shrewd regretted it, lamenting why they hadn’t seen that this unremarkable Ruan Tang was actually someone of importance and hadn’t married him back for their family’s younger generation.

How much help would it be to the family to have such a capable and outstanding Omega?

Ruan Tang’s current conditions, when examined, were all outstanding. No Omega of the same age could compare to him on the entire Imperial Star. They only hated that they had been blind and had given Auston, that madman destined to die young, such a bargain for nothing.

However, on second thought, these old foxes became happy again, thinking that it was good that Ruan Tang’s husband was Auston, that madman who was crazy and destined to not live long and be dealt with. When Auston died, Ruan Tang, as a scarce Omega, would soon be able to marry again.

As long as family background, status, and personal value were in place, what did a second marriage matter? He could still become the future spouse of their family’s grandchildren.

Thinking of this, many family heads on Imperial Star became interested and searched their minds for which of their family’s younger generation were single, divorced, or widowed at the same age as Ruan Tang, giving them a strict order not to marry in the next ten years, completely planning to wait for Ruan Tang to become a widow in the future.

With such a combination of resources, it would be almost impossible to find anything more cost-effective than marrying Ruan Tang back home on the entire Imperial Star.

These old foxes were calculating very shrewdly.

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“Auston, I’ve heard that your lady has been stirring up trouble recently, making the old guys on Imperial Star take notice and regret that they didn’t let their grandsons marry him when their grandsons were interested in him… How interesting.” The Emperor had recently heard a lot of rumors. After calling Auston to discuss matters, he made a subtle remark while they were drinking tea.

After Ruan Yang woke up and received the rank of Lieutenant General, and Ruan Ming’s will passed the position of Commander of the White Tiger Legion and the head of the Ruan family to Ruan Yang and Ruan Tang respectively, the Tang family’s forces, led by them, could be said to have risen and expanded rapidly. Seeing them grow stronger, the Emperor felt very uneasy.

Because he knew very well that Ruan Tang was the Empress’s man, and his increased power meant that the Empress’s power had grown even stronger.

He wanted to curb this, but he was helpless.

Because according to the Empire’s laws, once an independent legion approved by the Imperial Military Department was formed, the appointment and removal of personnel within the legion were all decided by the commander of the independent legion.

As for the replacement of the legion commander, it was entirely determined by the vote of appointment and removal held by the former legion commander and the founder of the legion. Even the military and the emperor could not interfere.

Ruan Ming died too quickly, and the will was made too quickly. The Emperor didn’t even have time to react, and it was already a fait accompli.

Now, even if he wanted to deal with the Ruan Tang brothers, he couldn’t find any fault, and he had no legitimate reason to do so. Therefore, in order to interrupt the Empress’s forces from expanding again, the Emperor decided without thinking to borrow the best knife in his hand, his mad dog son Auston.

The best way to strike at Ruan Tang was to sow discord between them when the new forces of the Tang family had not yet established a firm foundation, to make Auston suspicious and disgusted with Ruan Tang, and to directly attack the new forces of the Tang family.

After all, a madman’s madness, or rather, matters between husband and wife, cannot be traced back to the source.

The Emperor deliberately wanted to badmouth Ruan Tang in secret.

“That’s right, my lady is indeed excellent. They were indeed quite blind before. It’s only natural that they regret it now.” Unexpectedly, Auston was unromantic. Hearing the Emperor say this, he nodded as a matter of course, looking quite pleased that others coveted his Omega.

The Emperor: “…”

The Emperor was instantly speechless.

Was that what he wanted to express? Why didn’t his son have any brains? He himself was ugly, disabled, disfigured, and had a strange personality, but his Omega was the most beautiful woman on Imperial Star and was also very capable. In the past, it was fine that his parents didn’t love him, but he was now the head of the Ruan family, the Chairman of the Omega Protection Association, and had a highly respected older brother who loved him. It could be said that Auston couldn’t pick a more suitable Omega to be his partner?

After hearing that many family heads regretted not choosing Ruan Tang as a partner for their grandsons, and that these excellent young talents were still interested in Ruan Tang.

Wouldn’t he feel inferior and ashamed?

He simply wanted to pry open Auston’s head to see what he was thinking.

“I also heard that your lady is ambitious, very capable, and has recently been highly favored by the Empress. He gets along well with the Empress, has a harmonious relationship, and is as close as mother and son. He’s really a smart child, able to please both you and the Empress so much. He’s not simple.” The Emperor took a deep breath and persevered.

Auston hated the Empress the most. He didn’t believe that after he tried so hard to imply that Ruan Tang was the Empress’s man and had a close relationship with the Empress, Auston would still be able to continue loving him without any misgivings and reservations.

“That’s right, he is indeed smart and easy-going.” Auston roughly knew what his good father wanted to do, but he still turned a deaf ear and said indifferently, “Even someone as difficult to get along with as the Empress can get along well with him. It’s too normal for the Empress to like him.”

The Emperor was speechless: “…”

He only felt that his son’s brain was indeed problematic. He couldn’t understand his hints at all, and he couldn’t communicate with him at all.

“By the way, Father, do you have anything else?” Auston knew that he was about to be so angry that he vomited blood, but he didn’t show it on his face at all. In secret, he added fuel to the fire and angered him again, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll leave first. I see that it’s almost time for my lady to get off work. I want to go home and wait for him.”

He was completely infatuated with Ruan Tang, looking like he was at his beck and call.

The Emperor was instantly so angry that he had a heart attack and didn’t want to eat their dog food at all. He scolded Auston like an old father who hated iron for not becoming steel, “Go, go, go, hurry up and go. I see that you only have that Omega in your eyes now, and you can’t see me, your father, anymore.”

Auston didn’t want to cooperate with him in acting at all. Hearing that he agreed to let him leave, he didn’t even want to answer him. He immediately pushed his wheelchair away.

The Emperor watched his back disappear, and the look of kindness on his face instantly disappeared. He swept everything on the table to the ground and flew into a rage.

The people serving in the study were immediately frightened and trembled, “Your Majesty…”

“Get out!” The Emperor never thought that a ‘dog’ he had raised would start disobeying him like this for an Omega.

Seeing the Empress’s power grow, he was helpless.

The servants held their breath and immediately retreated together, “Yes.”

“I wonder what Your Majesty is so angry about?” At this moment, another person leisurely walked in, not at all afraid of the Emperor’s wrath.

This person was none other than the Emperor’s most beloved mistress, Madam Judith.

Madam Judith was a woman with outstanding political abilities and was also the woman who had stayed with the Emperor for the longest time. She had no children and no ambition.

Therefore, the Emperor trusted her quite a bit and also liked to talk to her about some political views and listen to her opinions.

Compared to Empress Catherine, they were more like husband and wife.

The Emperor wanted to get angry, but when he saw Madam Judith, he immediately stopped the anger on his face, “Don’t you know why I’m angry?”

“Is it still because of the Ruan family, no, should I say the Tang family’s affairs now?” Madam Judith asked with a smile.

The Emperor didn’t answer her question, but just said, “The Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang brothers have risen too quickly on Imperial Star. Although the Ruan family is full of scars and has countless moths, it is, after all, a large family that owns an independent legion. Ruan Tang has completely controlled such a large force all of a sudden and is deeply involved with the Empress. Doesn’t that mean that the Empress’s power will also increase so much?”

This was what he was most troubled about now.

“Actually, I think the sudden rise of the Tang family is a good thing for Your Majesty.” Madam Judith smiled slightly upon hearing this.