AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 4

Ruan Tang got what he wanted.

After saying goodbye to Ruan Ming, he immediately planned to return to his room to prepare, intending to take his mother and siblings out of the Ruan Family Estate and settle them properly before the wedding.

Unexpectedly, after only a few steps, he heard a burst of noisy arguments.

Because Ruan Ming had openly brought all kinds of lovers and illegitimate children into the mansion, placing them under the same roof as the legitimate wife and children.

Ruan Tang had seen these domestic disputes countless times since he was a child, and he was already used to them.

Hearing the commotion, he was about to take a detour to avoid the source of the quarrel.

Unexpectedly, the hurried footsteps came directly towards Ruan Tang’s direction…

“Zhou Yao, don’t be like this! I think Fifth Brother, he certainly doesn’t want to see the situation like this now…” A familiar voice reached Ruan Tang’s ears.

Ruan Tang immediately understood.

Oh, this storm was coming for him.

He immediately raised his eyes to look at the source of the sound.

He saw a handsome young Alpha in military uniform rushing towards him in a rage, with a weak Omega and a Beta trying to hold him back.

Unable to match his strength, they couldn’t hold him back and could only appear in front of Ruan Tang along with him.

Ruan Tang looked at the young Alpha in the lead, and a cold sneer immediately appeared on the corner of his mouth.

It was because he was too vicious and repeatedly ‘framed’ Ruan Xi that his former fiancé, who couldn’t stand it, broke off the engagement – Zhou Yao.

And his gentle and kind half-brother Ruan Xi, and his once best friend Wen Run.

Seeing these three annoying people, Ruan Tang couldn’t help but feel an urge to turn around and leave.

“Ruan Tang! Stop right there!” But before he could leave, Zhou Yao had already stopped him with a stern shout. The look in his eyes was always complicated and mixed with inexplicable emotions.

Once upon a time, Ruan Tang thought this Alpha really liked him –

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a joke in the end.

Ruan Tang stopped, his attitude incredibly calm compared to the turbulent waves in Zhou Yao’s eyes: “I wonder what Young Master Zhou has to teach me?”

As if he and Zhou Yao were complete strangers.

“Are you really going to marry that mad dog Auston?” Seeing Ruan Tang’s indifferent attitude, Zhou Yao didn’t know why the anger in his heart burned even more fiercely. He stared at Ruan Tang fiercely, the blazing flames in his eyes almost burning Ruan Tang to ashes.

Ruan Tang calmly acknowledged the fact: “That’s right, I didn’t expect Young Master Zhou to hear about it so soon…”

Zhou Yao didn’t expect to get a positive answer from Ruan Tang. After hearing Ruan Tang personally tell him the news that he was going to marry Auston, his brain was stunned for a moment.

After a brief daze, his face became even more gloomy and ugly. He stared at Ruan Tang, almost devouring him alive, and mocked angrily: “Auston is a mad dog who kills without blinking an eye and has scared countless Omegas… You are willing to marry for power and status!”

“To climb up, you really use any means and stop at nothing!” He was furious, gnashing his teeth, every word full of disdain for Ruan Tang: “I was wrong, I thought you would be forced.”

It was his mistake. He knew what kind of person Ruan Tang was…

But he couldn’t control himself from holding expectations for him again and again, only to be disappointed time and time again!

Ruan Tang looked coldly at his angry appearance, as if he cared about him very much, but he had betrayed his trust. He only felt extremely ridiculous.

Zhou Yao appeared in his life and pursued him suddenly when he was dumped by his first fiancé and his reputation was ruined.

Ruan Tang thought he was lucky to meet him. Even if this person was willful, domineering, and had a bad temper, as long as he sincerely cared about him, he could try to manage a marriage with him.

But unexpectedly, after he got engaged to him, Ruan Tang realized that Zhou Yao was actually an admirer of his half-brother Ruan Xi. He had been secretly in love with Ruan Xi. He approached him because Ruan Xi and his ex-fiancé Shen Mozhi had gotten together. He then chose him as a substitute for Ruan Xi.

By the way, he also removed obstacles for his beloved and cut off the possibility of his reunion with his ex-fiancé before getting engaged to him.

Later, when friction arose between him and Ruan Xi, this fiancé unhesitatingly stood on the side of his beloved Ruan Xi, accusing him of being ‘vicious’, causing him to be dumped again and become the target of public criticism.

Knocking him from heaven to hell.

It was ridiculous that such a person still had the face to act hypocritically in front of him now.

“I don’t need Young Master Zhou to worry about who I marry. It’s my own choice and has nothing to do with Young Master Zhou!” Ruan Tang sneered indifferently: “Besides, I think Duke Auston is very good…”

“Even if he is a madman, a madman has his advantages… At least he doesn’t have such a complicated brain. He can’t do the bizarre thing of selling his body for his beloved, getting engaged to his beloved’s nemesis, and then breaking off the engagement, can he?” Ruan Tang sneered coldly.

When he was younger, Ruan Tang would never have thought that a madman like Auston would be a good marriage partner, no matter how much benefit he could bring him.

But at his current age, he had experienced too many disgusting things… and seen too many normal Alphas.

Ruan Tang thought madmen were pretty good now.

At least that madman had clear grievances and was straightforward… He wouldn’t be like Zhou Yao, who seemed magnanimous but secretly schemed and plotted against people.

“You—” Zhou Yao didn’t expect Ruan Tang to say this, and immediately looked at Ruan Tang with red eyes, gnashing his teeth.

Ruan Tang’s name was given to him by his mother, meaning that Ruan Tang’s mother hoped that her youngest Omega child would grow into a sweet and soft, soft candy-like Omega, doted on by everyone.

But Ruan Tang himself was completely opposite to this name, cold and hard, not only mean but also hard to chew.

During the period of their marriage, when Ruan Tang hadn’t exposed his vicious true face, although Zhou Yao hadn’t loved Ruan Tang, he had sincerely thought about marrying this Omega and living a good life with him.

But unexpectedly, before they got married—

Ruan Tang exposed his true face because of calculating Ruan Xi, not only vicious but also unrepentant.

Zhou Yao had been waiting for Ruan Tang to feel guilty, wake up, and apologize to Ruan Xi, but Ruan Tang went all the way to the dark and became increasingly irreconcilable with Ruan Xi.

The relationship between him and himself could no longer return to the beauty of their engagement, becoming more and more deteriorated, and more and more extreme.

They had been hurting each other with the most vicious words, and Zhou Yao didn’t remember how long it had been since he and Ruan Tang had spoken properly.

Looking at such Ruan Tang, Zhou Yao only felt a tightness in his heart—

But he didn’t even know what he was feeling tight about.

Clearly, this kind of vicious and calculating Omega was completely opposite to his aesthetics, Zhou Yao didn’t know why he always held expectations for him…

“Brother Zhou, don’t be like this! Since you’re worried about Fifth Brother, talk to him properly. I believe Fifth Brother must have some unavoidable difficulties.” Seeing them arguing endlessly, Ruan Xi immediately came out, looking like a standard white lotus, weak and kind, as if he was going to be a peacemaker between the two.

The more gentle, kind, and innocent he was, the more he set off Ruan Tang as unreasonable, stubborn, and sinister.

Ruan Tang sneered when he saw his white lotus act.

Once upon a time, he had also been blinded by Ruan Xi’s weak and harmless appearance, thinking that Ruan Xi was really a white lotus… Because of his mother and siblings, Ruan Tang had always hated Ruan Ming, but he had never hated Ruan Xi, and even once thought that this half-brother was innocent.

He thought he was weak and kind, and once treated him with all his heart, caring for him in every possible way.

Until later, Ruan Tang suddenly discovered that the unlucky things that happened to him seemed to have inextricable links with Ruan Xi, and then he woke up a little.

Because of Ruan Xi, first, his father, who was lukewarm to him, became more and more indifferent and disgusted with him. Then, Shen Mozhi, the heir of the Shen family, the head of the top ten families, the youngest speaker of the Empire, who had inexplicably taken the initiative to propose marriage to him, suddenly discovered that Ruan Xi was the lifesaver who had saved him when he was a child and fell in love with Ruan Xi madly.

He broke off the engagement with Ruan Tang in a desperate manner and went to pursue Ruan Xi instead.

Well, breaking off the engagement was fine. Although Ruan Tang, as the marriage partner, originally intended to marry Shen Mozhi and had expectations for each other’s future, if the other party didn’t like him, Ruan Tang felt that he hadn’t reached the point where he had to have him, so he planned to let it go.

Anyway, he was the victim in the public opinion.

But unexpectedly, Shen Mozhi not only broke off the engagement, but also spread rumors everywhere that Ruan Tang had deceived him, that Ruan Tang was insidious, and that he had mistakenly thought that Ruan Tang was Ruan Xi, his lifesaver, so he had gotten engaged to Ruan Tang.

Suddenly, Ruan Tang became the target of public criticism in the noble circles of Imperial Star, becoming a representative of black-hearted lotuses who were insidious and unscrupulous in order to climb to the top.

Ruan Tang had a black question mark on his face, not even knowing what had happened.

He went to explain to people, but no one believed him. Instead, they were even more convinced that he was highly skilled, which was why he had been able to deceive Shen Mozhi into getting engaged to him…

And Ruan Xi’s reputation in the circle became better and better.

Not only Shen Mozhi, but also Ruan Tang’s second fiancé Zhou Yao… All of Ruan Tang’s misfortunes seemed to be caused by Ruan Xi.

After losing two fiancés in a row, suddenly, for some reason, it was as if Ruan Xi had a halo on his body, and everyone around Ruan Tang seemed to be inspired by him and stood on Ruan Xi’s side.

Including Ruan Tang’s friends, pursuers, and childhood friends.

And because of the conflict between him and Ruan Xi, they all accused Ruan Tang: “Ruan Tang, how can you be so vicious? What good is it for you to frame and calculate Ruan Xi again and again? He has forgiven you again and again, but you bully him like this, harm him… Isn’t it just because you rely on Xi Xi’s kindness?”

“Do you always think that you are the son of the first wife and you are noble! Do you think that Xi Xi is the child of a mistress? Let me tell you, this is all a matter of the previous generation. Besides, your mother silently acquiesced to Marshal Ruan looking for lovers outside when she was conscious. He had many lovers and illegitimate children, although only Xi Xi’s mother became the legitimate wife… But your behavior of only targeting Xi Xi is really disgusting and vicious. I think you are doing it on purpose. You are just jealous.”

Everyone believed that Ruan Tang was vicious and mean and targeted Ruan Xi.

Ruan Tang began to argue with reason, but later found that his struggle and resistance were not only useless, but also made this group of idiots more convinced that he was the vicious villain targeting Ruan Xi, and after constantly ‘slapping him in the face’ with public opinion.

Ruan Tang was too lazy to argue.

This group of people was like maggots in a gutter to him. He felt disgusting but couldn’t cause him any real harm. The more he paid attention to them, the more excited this group of people became, jumping higher and targeting him more.

On the contrary, Ruan Tang ignored them and didn’t pay attention to them, and this group of maggots calmed down.

Although Ruan Ming didn’t like this son, as the patriarch of a noble family and the marshal of the Empire, he wouldn’t treat his own son harshly.

Especially, this son was the only normal child left to him by his original wife who had shared weal and woe with him.

In fact, in the most extreme times, Ruan Tang had thought about leaving, leaving Imperial Star, leaving the Ruan Family Estate, leaving Ruan Xi and his group of idiots, but later looking at his mother who was out of her mind, his brother who was unconscious, and his sister who was crazy…

Ruan Tang knew he couldn’t leave.

He was already the only sane person in their main family. Ruan Ming wouldn’t deliberately treat his original wife and two children who were once proud but now completely disabled harshly.

But if he left…

The current Madam Ruan, Ruan Ming’s group of lovers, and those children were not easy to deal with. It was possible that his three blood relatives wouldn’t even know how they died.

Moreover, he had a feeling that even if he left, Ruan Xi wouldn’t let him go…

He had a vague feeling, although he didn’t know what it was or why, but his intuition told him that Ruan Xi, who was the center of attention and wanted everything, wanted to plunder something from him… He wouldn’t let him go, but he couldn’t kill him either.

Ruan Tang always had an animal-like intuition.

So, he chose to stay in the Ruan Family Estate and become a parasite who lived a comfortable life of eating and waiting to die.

As for other people’s opinions of him, the loneliness since childhood had created his indifferent personality. Ruan Tang didn’t care at all.

Those who are pure are pure, and those who are turbid are turbid.

Those who didn’t believe him, betrayed him, and chose to stand on Ruan Xi’s side didn’t have the qualifications to stand by his side in his eyes.