AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 111

When Ruan Tang opened his eyes, he was leaning on Auston’s shoulder.

Auston was staring at him intently. Seeing him open his eyes, he immediately said in annoyance, “You’re finally awake? I’ve been watching you for a while now. You can even fall asleep at a time like this; I’m truly impressed by you.”

Ruan Tang leaned against him, staring at the Alpha in front of him, but he didn’t really want to remember what happened.

“What are you still spacing out for? Didn’t you say you wanted to see Iso Camichel? We’re about to arrive at the Imperial Palace.” Auston was a little confused by his gaze, unsure what was wrong with him, and immediately urged him.

But Ruan Tang suddenly grabbed his hand and, with an overbearing and irresistible force, kissed his lips, saying each word distinctly, “I love you…”

These were the words he most wanted to say to Auston after regaining the memories of his three lifetimes.

There are many people in the world whose upbringing, personality, and hobbies are completely different. Therefore, even if there are countless people in the world, his personality traits and other aspects have determined from the very beginning whom he will fall in love with.

A person may meet many people in their lifetime, but they may never encounter even one who fully meets their requirements and preferences for a partner.

In his first life, Ruan Tang only met Auston a few times and never had the opportunity to truly understand him. But throughout his life, no matter how many people pursued and admired him, he never fell in love with anyone, because none of the people around him matched his requirements as perfectly and flawlessly as Auston.

And now, looking at the Alpha beside him—

Ruan Tang only felt incredibly lucky, because fate had already arranged for him the perfect match, the destined one who couldn’t be even a little bit off.

Allowing him to either not have to search in the vast sea of people, or not have to live his whole life without knowing what love is.

“You… why are you saying this all of a sudden?” Auston was stunned by his sudden confession and kiss, his ears immediately turning red involuntarily. He tried his best to maintain his composure and said in a low voice, “I know.”

This Omega was really too much; he was being too affectionate.

He should at least consider the time and place.

“It’s good that you know.” Ruan Tang looked at Auston, his mind instantly unable to contain anything else. As if reborn, he said each word distinctly, “You need to know that I am the protagonist of this world. Being with me, you won’t be at a disadvantage. If you dare to let me down, the world will punish you.”

Auston looked at him with a smile, thinking he was joking, and playfully pinched his nose, saying, “You have always been the only protagonist in my world.”

“You are also my absolute protagonist.” Ruan Tang looked at him deeply and kissed Auston with a passionate embrace.

Regardless of whether they were characters in a book or how many outsiders wanted to invade this world, as long as he was with Auston, Ruan Tang felt no fear.

Through three lifetimes, his arrival was only for the sake of meeting him…

They were truly destined for each other, irreplaceable.

…

When they entered the Imperial Palace, Iso had already changed into the Imperial Emperor’s formal attire and sat upright on the Emperor’s throne, waiting for them.

Having risen from an orphanage to where he was today, Iso had always been a person with extremely strong mental fortitude. Even at this point, there wasn’t a trace of panic on his face. From beginning to end, he was so elegant and composed, as if radiating nobility from his very bones.

“…I didn’t expect to see you so soon.” Seeing Ruan Tang, Auston, and Ruan Yang, he even greeted them as if nothing had happened, “You arrived sooner than I expected.”

Winners are kings, losers are bandits.

From the moment he failed to kill Auston and began to seize his fortune, Iso had already anticipated his current ending. Therefore, he accepted this outcome very calmly.

Ruan Yang looked coldly at his former boyfriend and took a deep breath, “…Although it’s probably pointless, I still want to ask, why did you do this?”

If in the past, Iso had nothing and had to climb upwards, now he already had everything. Why would he still do this?

Iso looked at this former boyfriend whom he had once truly loved, questioning him like this, but he suddenly laughed out loud, and the mask on his face cracked for a moment, “Hahaha, why did I do this? Ruan Yang, you’re asking me why I did this?”

“I am a member of the Osfia Imperial Family. The same noble blood as Auston, Wilson, and Andrew flows through my veins. They live in luxury, surrounded by attention, while I, because of that woman Marie’s persecution, could only drift in the red-light district with my mother, and eventually end up in an orphanage… living the poorest, most miserable, and most destitute life, fighting with a group of impoverished orphans for moldy bread, having to rely on hard labor from a young age just to barely make ends meet…” He chuckled, as if he had heard a joke, “So you ask me why I did this?”

He used to love Ruan Yang very much, loved the warmth and sunshine Ruan Yang gave him…

But gradually, he realized that he and Ruan Yang ultimately had incompatible values, they could never be on the same path, and they could never be together.

He was like a fungus constantly absorbing nutrients in the darkness and dampness, while Ruan Yang was like a pine tree growing in the sun and dry environment. They might be briefly attracted to each other and come together, but they would eventually separate because they could not understand each other.

Just like now, Ruan Yang was still asking him why?

Wasn’t it obvious?

“You used to tell me that you couldn’t stand the life you were living, the hardship, the desolation, so you worked hard and unscrupulously to climb upwards… Although I didn’t approve of it at the time, I could understand it. But now? You are already the most noble Imperial Duke of the Empire, the Emperor recognizes you as his own younger brother, the highest, most noble, and most pampered Omega in all of Osfia…” Ruan Yang couldn’t understand his actions, “Why do you still do this?”

When they were in love, Ruan Yang once felt very sorry for Iso’s dark and bitter past. Although sometimes, he would feel that some of Iso’s ideas were too extreme, he ultimately felt more sorry for his lover who had suffered so much.

But now, he thoroughly realized—

He had never completely understood Iso; their values had been incompatible from the beginning.

Iso simply didn’t understand what it meant to know when enough is enough; he would only be endlessly greedy.

Even if someone wanted to give him a hand, he simply wouldn’t climb up; he would only drag people into the same swamp and abyss as him.

“Imperial Duke?” Iso sneered at his words, “Do you think my position as Imperial Duke fell from the sky? I am more diligent and work harder than anyone else. I gave up my love, sold my soul, and did countless dirty things for the Emperor, my whole being became distorted, and only then did I barely obtain this so-called title of Imperial Duke.”

“But what was the result?”

“What’s the point of being the highest and most noble Omega?” Iso said each word with hatred, “Even if I am the Imperial Duke, that idiot Andrew still treats me with contempt, relying on his status as the Empress’s son to humiliate me in every way, taking my things whenever he wants to, and the Emperor, I have done so much for him, he says nice things, but in reality, he still helps his own brother to humiliate me, he has never truly looked up to me, never treated me like anything…”

The most pathetic thing in life is nothing more than this—

He thought that by giving up everything and making a deal with the devil, he could climb to a high position and get everything he wanted.

But when he climbed to a high position, he found that he was still nothing… and he had lost the things he originally possessed.

“You…” Ruan Yang didn’t expect him to be so obsessed.

“I won’t allow you to insult my father!” Hearing Iso insult Prince Andrew, Ryan, who had been silent all along, suddenly stood up, looking at Iso with hatred, saying each word distinctly, “My father has never harmed you, nor has Brother Auston harmed you. You have been harming people all along. You were the one who harmed my father first… A fool doesn’t fight back when they’re hit. Does that mean you’re allowed to harm people but not allowed to be retaliated against?”

“You colluded with Leyton to harm my father. What’s wrong with my father retaliating!” Ryan was furious at his twisting of the truth, “Also, what does your impoverished background have to do with my father? It’s not like he stole it from you. He was able to enjoy all that simply because he was the Empress’s son. You weren’t… Why are you blaming this and that? Why don’t you blame your own mother?”

Although Prince Andrew was a well-known wastrel, reckless and not good at speaking, he would never take the initiative to humiliate others without a reason.

The reason he targeted Iso was simply because Iso had first colluded with Duke Leyton to harm his family.

Prince Andrew was no longer here, and Ryan felt it necessary to clear his name.

“Shut up! What do you think you are? Just a bastard Andrew brought in to pretend to be of royal blood, daring to spout nonsense in front of me?” Iso didn’t expect that after snatching Ruan Yang and losing everything, Ryan would dare to confront him. He looked at Ryan with gloomy eyes and scolded him in a chilling tone that almost wanted to flay him alive.

He was both self-conscious and very proud of the so-called noble blood of the Osfia Royal Family flowing in his veins. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have spent most of his life painstakingly striving to regain his identity as a member of the Royal Family.

In his eyes, Ryan, who was not of the Osfia Royal Family’s bloodline but had pretended to be a Duke for so many years, was nothing more than a lowly commoner, a mixed-blood who had confused the Royal Family’s bloodline.

“You’re the one who should shut up!” Ruan Yang didn’t expect him to dare to speak to Ryan like that and immediately shielded Ryan behind him, his tone cold, “Based on the blood that the Xue family and the Calandre family have shed for Osfia, not to mention His Imperial Highness the Duke, even anyone in Osfia, including His Highness Auston, has no right to say such things to Ryan!”

The Osfia Royal Family owes Ryan a blood debt from top to bottom; therefore, Ryan is qualified to be high above anyone in the Osfia Royal Family, to be the center of attention. These were Prince Andrew’s original words.

Even a royal wastrel knew this truth, knew how many people the Xue family and the Calandre family had died for the Empire, how much blood they had shed. How could Iso, who grew up in a slum, not understand or know?

He simply didn’t care.

Because, in the eyes of such high and mighty royals, the people of the Xue family and the Calandre family were nothing more than lowly commoners who deserved to die for them, not worth mentioning at all.

Although Iso Camichel did not grow up in the Osfia Royal Family, he deeply inherited the cold-blooded and selfish nature of the Osfia Royal Family.