AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 24

Auston looked at Ruan Tang with surprise, not expecting Ruan Tang to say such a thing.

He had always thought Ruan Tang was soft-hearted, always liking to sympathize and help others even when he could barely protect himself. To put it nicely, it was kindness; to put it bluntly, he was a soft persimmon that anyone could squeeze.

He was a good person in the traditional sense, a saint-like figure completely different from himself.

Ruan Tang’s forceful confrontation with Owen had shown him another side of Ruan Tang, refreshing his perception of Ruan Tang, but that was still within the normal range.

It wasn’t until Ruan Tang finished speaking that Auston suddenly realized that Ruan Tang might not be quite what he had imagined.

This couldn’t help but make him even more interested in Ruan Tang.

“After all, a thousand-mile dike is destroyed by an ant hole. There are countless great figures in the world who ultimately die at the hands of insignificant people they look down on…” Ruan Tang didn’t know what Auston was thinking, he only expressed what was in his heart: “It can be seen that offending too many people, whether great or small, is not a good thing, because you never know when someone will stab you in the back unexpectedly.”

Ruan Tang didn’t know what this madman was thinking; he just wanted to tell him his experience as a normal person.

As an unloved child who grew up in the most fiercely competitive noble circles of Imperial Star, Ruan Tang had experienced the coldness of human relationships since he was a child. He didn’t consider himself a completely good person, a saint, but he had certain bottom lines.

He had read many historical records and knew that many famous figures ultimately died because of the hatred of small people. A certain emperor in history was even smothered to death by a servant while he was sleeping because he was too cruel, a very disgraceful death…

Therefore, Ruan Tang never offended or looked down on others, even if they were just insignificant little people.

Living in the noble circle, he knew very well that none of these great figures had clean hands. He didn’t care if Auston killed people, but he didn’t want to see Auston deliberately torture others without killing them…

Keeping someone you’ve tortured by your side, hating you day and night, means they might want to strike back at you someday.

Perhaps Auston enjoyed this feeling.

But in Ruan Tang’s view, this was the most unwise and suicidal behavior…

Even a rabbit will bite when cornered, let alone a person. Today, this person may be kneaded and flattened by you, but one day he may accumulate strength and put you to death.

This was also the reason why Ruan Tang would stop Auston from torturing servants in the mansion whenever he saw it.

Unless he was sure or wanted to kill that person, he would never deliberately humiliate others, nor would he stand by and watch others torture people to provoke collateral hatred…

If the resentment was too deep, it could be erased with death.

Killing is just a matter of a nod of the head; torturing others… is really unnecessary.

Auston didn’t expect Ruan Tang to say this, and his eyes became even more interested: “They humiliated you to this extent, how come I didn’t see you give them a knife?”

“How does Your Grace know that if you give me a chance, I won’t silently kill them in the future?” Ruan Tang looked back at him calmly and asked.

He was never one who liked to put hatred and thoughts on the surface.

If he hated someone, he would either not touch that person, or he would strike with one blow when he had the opportunity…

Auston didn’t expect to hear such words from Ruan Tang, and his whole body shook. A strong sense of excitement made him tingle all over as if he was seeing Ruan Tang for the first time, as if he was being electrocuted, and he couldn’t help but burst out laughing: “Hahahaha—”

Suddenly, he felt that Ruan Tang was becoming more and more interesting, so incredibly cute.

Ruan Tang: “…”

Ruan Tang couldn’t understand what was so funny about this, or why Auston was laughing so happily, as if he had heard a joke. He could only understand it as Auston’s madness acting up again, something that normal people couldn’t understand.

Anyway, he always had these fits from time to time.

“You… you’re too cute, you’re really too cute. I like you, I really like you.” Auston almost choked with laughter, and said several times that Ruan Tang was cute, and his goodwill towards Ruan Tang doubled.

Ruan Tang froze on the spot: “…”

Faced with such a declaration of liking from Auston, he couldn’t understand it as liking in the true sense and feel shy. He could only think that Auston was out of his mind.

His idea of having a good chat with him today was probably not going to work out.

“So, what do you want to say to me by telling me all this?” After a while, Auston suddenly became normal again, stopped laughing, and asked Ruan Tang directly.

In this Imperial Star, everyone wore a mask and lived with a false face.

Auston was already used to it. He himself had a mask, but he didn’t know why Ruan Tang was taking off his mask in front of him at this moment.

Looking at Auston like this, Ruan Tang didn’t know if he was really normal at this moment or pretending to be normal. But after hesitating for a moment, he felt that since the conversation had already reached this point, he decided to say what was in his heart: “I just want to advise Your Grace, leave people room to maneuver in the future, and don’t go too far in everything. If you don’t like someone, just send them away. There’s really no need to torture people.”

“There are already enough people in Imperial Star who want to stab Your Grace in the back. Your Grace doesn’t want this number to continue to multiply by continuing to act like this, right…” He didn’t know if Auston could listen, but he wanted to say it.

Growing up in this circle since childhood, Ruan Tang believed that his political sense was still relatively keen. As one of the seven great dukes, Auston had done countless dirty things for the emperor that offended people, and had already provoked enough hatred.

Now, although the empress had maneuvered to get the emperor to agree to let Auston’s child be the next crown prince, the emperor didn’t think so in his heart. The one sitting on the throne now was wholeheartedly trying to put Mrs. Samantha’s son on the throne. Auston, the notorious eldest son born to him and the empress, had long become a thorn in the emperor’s side, and he couldn’t wait to get rid of him.

The current situation was delicate, and Auston’s situation was already dangerous enough. As long as the emperor gave the signal, countless people who hated him would want to rush up and tear him apart.

Right now, Auston wasn’t lying low and restraining himself, but instead continued to offend people, wouldn’t that be sending his fatal weaknesses into their hands?

When the time came, even finding stains and evidence for the emperor to deal with him wouldn’t require any effort…

Ruan Tang hadn’t planned to say these things to Auston before, nor did he want to involve himself by advising him and suffer a loss. He just wanted to live his own life well.

But after getting married, this duke, who was known to be fierce and brutal by outsiders, was actually quite nice to him…

Ruan Tang didn’t want to watch him just live like this, muddle-headed and acting himself to death, so, whether Auston could listen or not, he wanted to tell Auston.

Auston didn’t expect Ruan Tang to say this, and he was immediately stunned on the spot, looking at Ruan Tang with probing eyes.

But Ruan Tang responded with a directness and clarity in his eyes…

“You’re worried about me?” Auston looked at him for a long time before asking uncertainly, a little confused.

He wasn’t a fool. He could understand the meaning in Ruan Tang’s words and the things conveyed in his eyes, but understanding them only made him more confused.

Because of his status and position, there were countless people around him who approached him, wanted to use him, and use him to achieve some kind of goal.

And while these people were using him, they also wished he would die because of his cruelty and terribleness…

Auston knew all of this very well.

Ruan Tang, the wife that the empress had forced on him, was different from them. His eyes were full of clarity, and he didn’t fight or snatch, full of wanting nothing, and sometimes even excessively kind like a soft persimmon.

But he thought that Ruan Tang should hate him and want him to die like everyone else.

After all, he was hated by people and ghosts and was also disabled. No normal Omega would regard an Alpha like him as a good match, even if Ruan Tang had said he sympathized with him.

It was just that Ruan Tang wouldn’t show it as obviously as others.

Auston had always understood it this way. He didn’t understand Ruan Tang, and he was too lazy to explore it. He just indulged him as he pleased…

But he didn’t expect that Ruan Tang, who had never conveyed any biased words to try to influence him, would actually try to influence him for the first time, not for any purpose or reason, but purely out of concern for him…

This made Auston suddenly unable to understand?

Why?

“Of course.” Ruan Tang gave an affirmative answer to this question without even thinking about it.

Auston looked at him as if he didn’t understand, and asked to the bottom of it: “Why?”

He couldn’t figure out why Ruan Tang would worry about him, or why he would wade into this muddy water to advise him…

“Because you are my husband.” Ruan Tang didn’t know how to answer this kind of question at all, so he could only use a formulaic template: “We are partners in the legal sense, and naturally we share weal and woe.”

He wasn’t sentimental, and he didn’t know how to be emotional. Even saying these words was stiff.

But when Auston heard his words, it was as if he had heard a joke, and he couldn’t help but laugh: “Puhahaha, I am your husband, we are partners in the legal sense, and naturally we share weal and woe?”

Ruan Tang: “…”

He really didn’t know how to communicate with someone who went crazy from time to time.

“Aren’t you someone sent by my good mother? I think, even if I die, it shouldn’t have a big impact on you…” Auston suddenly spoke after he had laughed enough.

Since Ruan Tang wanted to be honest with him, he didn’t mind being frank with Ruan Tang.

No one knows a son better than his mother. Although Auston often had fits of madness, he was actually very clear-headed. He knew very well what his good mother would promise Ruan Tang.

Even if he died immediately, his good mother would still get his sperm, get Ruan Tang pregnant, and say it was a posthumous child, so that the so-called ‘crown prince’ could be born.

It was just that he wouldn’t give them this opportunity.

And whether Ruan Tang chose to be a tool of his mother, or tried to continue to avoid fighting and live his life without fighting or snatching, presumably with his such a good attitude, his life and death would not have a big impact on him.

He wouldn’t believe his lies.

Ruan Tang looked at him in surprise, not expecting that Duke Auston, who had been acting himself to death, actually had such a thing as intelligence.

Being crazy didn’t prevent him from being clear-headed at all.

Ruan Tang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that talking to a smart person was much better than talking to a real madman and talking at cross purposes.

He sighed and said, “Since Your Grace knows the empress… then you should also know that I don’t have such great ambitions to be the empress’s pawn. Therefore, compared to being the empress’s lackey, Your Grace being alive and me being by Your Grace’s side is much better than being caught in the whirlpool by the empress’s side…”

The hovercar was a driverless closed space, and Auston had already told the truth.

Therefore, Ruan Tang didn’t worry about having ears on the wall, and also told his truth.

“After all, since getting married, Your Grace has been quite good to me…” Ruan Tang said bluntly: “I hope that Your Grace can always be well.”

It was sad to say, but growing up, Auston, this crazy husband who was forced on him, was actually the best person to him.

Before getting married, he didn’t care about Auston’s future life and death after marriage, but after getting along after getting married, he hoped that Auston could live well…

After all, if Auston didn’t die, Ruan Tang felt that maintaining the current days was quite good. If he died… with the empress and the Ruan Family’s strong pressure, Ruan Tang really didn’t know what his days would be like…

He really didn’t want to continue to be a rootless duckweed at everyone’s mercy.

Auston looked at him deeply, with a touch of emotion.

“So, Your Grace, just rest assured…” Ruan Tang said word by word: “As long as you are alive, no matter what the empress wants me to do in the future, I will be on your side.”

If Auston wasn’t crazy, he wouldn’t have the ability to compete with the empress…

But Auston, this high-ranking duke, did have it.

Auston looked at Ruan Tang quietly for a long time without speaking.

The two were silent for a long time. Just when Ruan Tang thought he wouldn’t speak again, Auston suddenly opened his mouth: “They… whether it’s those just now, or those in the mansion, don’t look at them like they’re very pitiful, but their hearts are very dirty, very poisonous, and very deep. They can endure it, and they won’t be eager to attack me now because of this little humiliation. The time hasn’t come yet…”

“Just rest assured, I have a sense of propriety, and I won’t force them to the point where they have to fight me to the death.” Being able to pretend to be crazy and muddle along to this day, Auston has always been clear-headed and had a standard in his heart, and he wouldn’t be stupid enough to act himself to death.

Ruan Tang was stunned, and didn’t react for a moment what Auston was telling him these things for.

After a long time, he realized that Auston was telling him that he was actually crazy in moderation, not to the point of playing himself to death, and to let him rest assured.

He didn’t know if he was exaggerating?

So, this Bluebeard Duke, who was known for his ferocity, wasn’t a madman, but had been pretending to be crazy and acting stupid all along?

Ruan Tang quietly sized up Auston, wanting to find out the truth from his face, but he couldn’t see anything clearly through the mask.