AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 44

Ruan Tang was immediately stunned in place, his thoughts complicated. Tang Yun and Ruan Yang and Ruan Yue’s accidents had happened more than twenty years ago, and Ruan Tang was only a few years old at the time.

He had no idea who would attack Tang Yun, feeling that everyone was possible, and yet no one had the opportunity.

“Moreover, the person who poisoned her was very precise in grasping the dosage of the poison, using a very slight amount, precisely stuck at the point of causing idiocy without being discovered. A little more would have made people see it, and a little less would not have been enough to cause your mother to be like this…” The doctor hesitated, his voice extremely heavy: “If it weren’t for me this time, even those on our side who know this kind of poison, I’m afraid they wouldn’t have been able to detect that your mother was actually poisoned to this extent…”

In fact, even he couldn’t see anything the first time, and it was only after constantly examining Tang Yun that he discovered a few clues.

Looking at the scene before him, the doctor couldn’t help but sigh in his heart that the relationships and grudges in wealthy families were complicated and truly terrifying.

Ruan Tang felt a burst of dizziness, finding it really difficult to guess who would attack his mother.

His mother, Tang Yun, was not a big shot, without a prominent background, just an ordinary woman from a slum in a remote star system, but she happened to be the wife of Ruan Ming, one of the five most powerful marshals of the Empire, and also had an eldest son as the heir to the Ruan family, and a beloved daughter whom Ruan Ming regarded as a pearl in his palm, spoiled in every way.

Ruan Ming had too many lovers, and too many illegitimate children.

But on the surface, he was a traditional chauvinistic ALPHA, believing in the principle of not abandoning his wife who had helped him in his early days. Although he didn’t have much love for Tang Yun, his original partner, he still respected her very much. As long as Tang Yun was around, she would be his wife, the mistress of the Ruan family. Similarly, the children born to Tang Yun would also be the direct line of the Ruan family, the heirs of the Ruan family.

There was only one position for the mistress and the heir, and there were really too many people who might want to attack Tang Yun.

And before Xia Ruzhi came to power, those lovers who had Ruan Ming’s children all had the possibility of rising to the top—

No one at the time would have thought that the person who became Mrs. Ruan would be Xia Ruzhi.

This undoubtedly increased the difficulty for Ruan Tang to guess who the real culprit was back then.

Even Ruan Ming, Ruan Tang’s seemingly righteous and moral but actually unfeeling and fickle good father, was also suspected in Ruan Tang’s eyes to a certain extent.

After all, Ruan Ming was chauvinistic and valued his reputation, so he couldn’t divorce Tang Yun, his original partner. Tang Yun had helped him start from scratch and build everything from nothing. Once divorced, she might even take away half of his assets.

If Tang Yun had some dispute with him and angered him, it was not impossible for Ruan Ming to attack her, causing her to become idiotic, in order to protect his property and reputation.

Who could it be?

Was it Ruan Ming or Xia Ruzhi who attacked his mother?

Or was it Ruan Ming’s other lovers?

Ruan Tang’s mind raced, and finally he opened his mouth, squeezing out a sentence from his throat: “…Doctor, can my mother’s illness be cured?”

“Mrs. Tang has been poisoned for too long. If it had been earlier, I would have had more confidence. Now, I can only do my best.” The doctor took a deep breath and said so.

He also sympathized with Tang Yun very much, but that was all he could do.

Ruan Tang also took a deep breath, trying his best to make his voice sound calm: “Okay, then I’ll leave my mother to the doctor.”

After seeing the doctor off, Ruan Tang recalled everything he had just heard, and his hands unconsciously clenched into fists.

Ruan Tang secretly vowed in his heart that no matter who it was, no matter how long it had been, he would definitely find out the real culprit and make the person who harmed his mother and siblings pay a heavy price for it.

Returning to the room where Tang Yun and her children were, looking at his sleeping brother and his idiotic mother and crazy sister on his bed.

An extremely strong sense of unwillingness emerged in Ruan Tang’s heart. He couldn’t help but think, why? Why? Their family had never done anything bad, but they ended up so miserable, with the crazy ones crazy, the ones who became vegetables becoming vegetables, and they couldn’t even catch a murderer…

It was clearly all Ruan Ming’s fault, so why should his mother and siblings bear the consequences?

And the mastermind who harmed them was still hiding behind the scenes, enjoying the wealth and glory that his mother’s day and night of hard work, his brother’s battles on the battlefield, and his sister’s marriage as a price had earned.

Just because they were the original partner and the children born to the original partner, just because they had a fickle and promiscuous husband and father, didn’t they have the right to live a good life and could only be harmed by others?

Ruan Tang was extremely unwilling. On this night, he quickly made a bold decision, which was to push open Auston’s door and solemnly say to him: “Your Excellency, I have decided to give my brother high-stimulation therapy.”

“I believe that my brother will definitely be able to endure it, he will wake up and get better…” He said to Auston word by word.

He didn’t believe that God was so cruel to their family. They had already reached this point, and it was time for a rebound.

Ruan Tang believed that Ruan Yang and Tang Yun would definitely get better. Good people would be rewarded, and the mastermind would never be allowed to be smug.

Auston wasn’t surprised by his choice, but he still asked him: “Are you sure?”

“I’m sure.” Ruan Tang didn’t hesitate at all, his tone firm.

Auston immediately responded: “Okay.”

Without saying a word, he immediately found the most authoritative brain surgeon in the Empire overnight to examine Ruan Yang’s body and formulate a detailed treatment plan…

Auston always did things as he pleased, doing whatever he thought of. The news that he had dug the doctor out of bed overnight to treat Ruan Yang spread throughout the Imperial Star the next day. After hearing that Auston had made such a fuss for Ruan Tang’s brother, everyone once again affirmed Auston’s great favor and infatuation with Ruan Tang.

The first thing Ruan Ming did after hearing about this was to call Ruan Tang, wanting to care about his eldest son’s situation.

But Ruan Tang hung up the communication the first time he saw his name—

Although he had previously had a cold relationship with Ruan Ming and hated performing filial piety with him, now, looking at his miserable mother and siblings, and then seeing the two words “Ruan Ming”, Ruan Tang only felt disgusted and wanted to vomit.

Regardless of whether Ruan Ming had harmed them or not, this fickle and ungrateful man was the mastermind who caused their family’s current situation in another sense.

……

“…Your Highness, the Wan family in Hoolunbuir Star is very disobedient, what do you think should be done?” Duke Carlos sat in Auston’s study and talked to him about official business again.

Hoolunbuir Star is close to Xingyu Star, which is under Auston’s jurisdiction, and the Wan family in Hoolunbuir Star is a family that Auston has to deal with from time to time.

Hearing that the Wan family had once again offended him and challenged his bottom line, Auston immediately frowned impatiently: “Since they are disobedient, they should naturally be killed.”

“For such a family, how can they learn to be obedient if no one dies?” He waved his hand, not even thinking about it.

Saying that killing people was no different from cutting vegetables.

Carlos immediately obeyed and nodded: “Yes, Your Highness, I understand.”

After the two finished talking about official business, Auston immediately rubbed his forehead irritably.

Carlos suddenly thought of something, looked at the bright sunshine outside the window of Auston’s mansion, and immediately joked: “…Seeing Your Highness this time, I feel that Your Highness is in a much better mood. It seems that it’s all thanks to our Duchess?”

“I heard that Your Highness is very fond of this Duchess.”

Auston’s favor for Ruan Tang had long been no secret throughout the Imperial Star.

Hearing him mention Ruan Tang, the irritability in Auston’s eyes eased slightly: “…He is indeed quite good. He is a very interesting OMEGA. I like him quite a bit.”

Ruan Tang was the first OMEGA that he rarely didn’t hate.

“Since that’s the case, why doesn’t Your Highness mark him? I’m still waiting to be a great-uncle.” Carlos smiled with a loving face.

He knew that Auston hadn’t touched Ruan Tang, nor had he marked Ruan Tang…

“Uncle should know that what I hate the most is the entanglement of information between AOs. I didn’t plan to in the past, and I don’t plan to mark any OMEGA in the future.” Auston’s face darkened slightly, and he said bluntly.

He extremely hated the entanglement of information between AOs that influenced each other, and he also hated the feeling of ALPHA’s bestiality overcoming humanity and being unable to control itself when attracted by OMEGA’s information…

Every time he was influenced by information, he felt like a beast, not a human.

Therefore, he hated the behavior of having information contact with others, and he also hated letting others smell his information.

He always wore an information-covering bolt, hiding his information very well, and never let anyone other than himself smell it.

The reason why he had a good impression of Ruan Tang was also because of this reason. Ruan Tang’s information smelled very clean and clear, and because he didn’t have the slightest intention of trying to influence or seduce him… It was like smelling spices, which he liked very much.

But even Ruan Tang’s information, he didn’t want to smell the strong, fishy, and beastly scent of his estrus, which could influence him and make him fall into madness, full of seductive information, which made him want to kill and couldn’t help but throw people out.

“Your Highness thinks this way, but your Duchess may not think so.” Carlos sighed softly, feeling really sorry for Ruan Tang: “You are so fond of him, but you don’t plan to mark him. He may be sad and disappointed in the future.”

As soon as Auston thought of this, he felt extremely irritable. He felt that Ruan Tang might have developed some kind of demand for him, wanting to get something like emotional comfort from him.

But that thing was something he couldn’t give Ruan Tang—

The reason why Auston agreed to get married was only because of a temporary strategic compromise and exchange of interests with the Empress’s forces.

He was initially interested in Ruan Tang only because he thought Ruan Tang was interesting and not afraid of him. He even dared to say that he pitied him, and his smell was good, making him feel comfortable. He liked Ruan Tang and favored Ruan Tang only because he wanted to like him and wanted to favor him. The focus of this like and favor was that he wanted to, not that he loved Ruan Tang so much and wanted to understand this person, to know his heart, emotions, and to get and occupy an OMEGA as an ALPHA.

If Ruan Tang had something that didn’t suit him, or tried to manipulate him, he wouldn’t like him anymore.

He could like him, and he could take back his like, and not like him.

Auston always did things as he pleased, going his own way, and the only thing he cared about was what he wanted or didn’t want.

Later, he was good to Ruan Tang, but it was only because he understood some of Ruan Tang’s experiences and felt that this OMEGA was weak, innocent, unlucky, and very pitiful. He stood up for him and made decisions for him, but it was only because his own people’s faces couldn’t be trampled on by others, and only he could bully his people.

He gave Ruan Tang everything only because doing so could make him happy, and he wanted to give it…

Ruan Tang asked him what he wanted, and he was willing to give it only because he felt that the request was not too excessive and he could give it.

He liked Ruan Tang, but he never planned to understand Ruan Tang, or let Ruan Tang understand himself. He didn’t want to integrate into Ruan Tang’s life, and he didn’t want to let Ruan Tang integrate into his life. If he wanted to see Ruan Tang, he would go to see him, play with him, stand up for him, and do something that could make him happy. This was Auston’s pastime, not the whole of his life.

But Auston didn’t think he had that kind of emotion for Ruan Tang. He just liked him quite a bit, just like he liked Simba, or anything else he cherished.

He never even planned to maintain his marriage relationship with Ruan Tang for a long time. Ruan Tang was never in his plans for the future.

Originally, the distant and estranged way of getting along with Ruan Tang made Auston very comfortable.

But now, probably because he had done too much for Ruan Tang, and Ruan Tang had never seen a real ALPHA who was good to him, Ruan Tang’s attitude towards him had gradually changed—

Thinking of this, Auston felt extremely irritable and missed Ruan Tang’s initial fear and sense of distance towards him.

Recalling the diligence and expectation in Ruan Tang’s eyes when he looked at him sometimes, Auston had a headache and only wanted to ask Ruan Tang if he was blind or crippled in the head. He wasn’t that good to him, and he was ugly and disabled. Why did this OMEGA have such thoughts towards him?

Their way of getting along was so good, why did it have to be like this?

Auston wanted to talk to Ruan Tang several times, but looking at Ruan Tang’s appearance, he was afraid that this weak and delicate OMEGA would cry after knowing the truth of his unrequited love.

Auston had a terrible headache, but he still stubbornly said: “…It doesn’t matter what he feels, what matters is what I think. I always do whatever I want and only care about my own thoughts.”

“If he’s sad, I can only let him be sad.” He said coldly.

Carlos immediately smiled: “…Your Highness, you are really ruthless.”

He was so fond of Ruan Tang, but in reality, he didn’t have any love for him. He could lift him up to the sky, and he could take him back at any time. He loved him so much that he wanted him to live, and he hated him so much that he wanted him to die.

Such a strong contrast, I wonder if that young Duchess can bear it?

“…Emotion, what is that thing?” Hearing this, Auston immediately sneered disdainfully: “I’m afraid that’s the most hypocritical lie in the world.”

The relationship between the Emperor and the Empress is now so stiff and cold that they can’t wait to kill each other. Back then, it was also a love story, extremely sweet, and they had made vows of eternal love, but didn’t they still become unrecognizable in the passage of time and the erosion of power.

When he was young, his parents had said they loved him—

At that time, they also treated him like a star surrounded by the moon, and loved him in every way.

Auston didn’t question that the Emperor and Empress had feelings for him in the past, but what is it like now?

Therefore, Auston never believed in the thing called emotion, only feeling that it was a joke, a lie. He only cared about his current happiness.

He never yearned for tomorrow and eternity.

Looking at him like this, Carlos immediately sighed in his heart and said in a gentle voice: “…I heard that this Duchess’s information can soothe and relieve Your Highness’s headache and make Your Highness feel calm and comfortable. Even if Your Highness is unwilling to mark him, you can still sleep with him to make Your Highness sleep better at night.”

“After all, Your Highness’s insomnia is really serious.” He didn’t care much about Ruan Tang as a person, but if Ruan Tang could be of some use to Auston.

He really suggested that Auston make the most of it.

Hearing him mention Ruan Tang, Auston couldn’t help but sigh in his heart again that OMEGAs are really troublesome and difficult to raise.

He lowered his head and thought, considering the possibility of sleeping with Ruan Tang, but he only felt that if he really did that, Ruan Tang would probably misunderstand even more.

Thinking of this, Auston immediately shook his head gently and said impatiently: “No need, I’m afraid I’ll have an attack at night and strangle him to death.”

He’s such a bad person, what’s there to like about him?

Ruan Tang must be sick.

Hearing this, Carlos looked at him in surprise, feeling that Auston didn’t necessarily not care about Ruan Tang as he said.

If he really didn’t care, and Ruan Tang’s smell could cure Auston’s insomnia, why would Auston, who always did whatever he wanted and only cared about the present, worry about strangling him to death? He would definitely only think that he was just an OMEGA, and it would be fine to strangle him to death.

The more he said this, the more he worried about it, the more it showed that he didn’t necessarily have no heart for Ruan Tang, but he himself was unwilling to admit it.

……

The Imperial Star always has countless banquets and parties, and the identity of the Duchess and the Empress’s instructions also made him have to attend such gatherings for networking, as if he was doing a job, a business trip.

At this gathering, Ruan Tang once again ran into Zhou Yao.

Zhou Yao looked very strange, only using his eyes to scan him remotely, drinking on his own.

Everyone else in the Imperial Star rumored that he was regretting it, realizing that he was the person he liked the most, but he missed it. He was heartbroken, but Ruan Tang didn’t care about it.

He didn’t want to know how Zhou Yao had changed, and he didn’t want to know why he suddenly attacked Ruan Xi, and whether it was for him or not. From the beginning of the dissolution of the engagement, Zhou Yao was already air in his eyes.

Ruan Tang didn’t even look at this ex-boyfriend more than once.

When taking a short break at the banquet, Ruan Tang took advantage of the gap to go to the restroom to go to the bathroom.

Unexpectedly, he ran into Zhou Yao head-on in front of the sink.

Ruan Tang frowned and turned to leave.

But Zhou Yao walked towards him with a drunken face. Ruan Tang thought he wanted to go crazy like last time, so he was about to press the emergency alarm button to call someone to lock Zhou Yao into the OMEGA Protection Bureau to sober up and educate him, so that he wouldn’t pester him again.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yao’s eyes swept across his face, but he suddenly knelt down in front of him with a ‘plop’: “Ruan Tang, I’m sorry, I’m the one who let you down…”