AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 66
by VolareNo sooner had Tang Yun and Ruan Yang left than Auston immediately dropped his act, violently Skip Ruan Tang’s tightly clinging hand, and fiercely demanded, “Have I been too lenient with you lately? Who gave you the audacity to act so disrespectfully?”
Just the thought of Ruan Tang poking him and pulling him, treating him with such casualness, devoid of any basic reverence, filled Auston with the urge to properly discipline this Omega.
He had to maintain appearances for Tang Yun and Ruan Yang’s sake, but now there was no need to.
“Was I really that audacious just now? I didn’t think so at all. Weren’t we just putting on an act to fool my elder brother and mother? See, didn’t we cooperate quite well?” Ruan Tang blinked innocently, completely unfazed by Auston’s fierce and unpredictable demeanor.
He admitted that he was getting a bit cocky, daring to order around Auston, the “Bluebeard” Duke of the Imperial Star, feared by all…
But this was the consequence of Auston’s pampering and indulgence.
Because of Auston’s obedience and compliance, even when Auston put on his most terrifying act, Ruan Tang only saw it as bluster, a case of saying one thing and meaning another.
Ruan Tang changed the subject without the slightest pressure.
Auston glared at him, took a deep breath, but firmly refused to fall for his distraction, “Stop trying to change the subject. I’m asking you, who gave you the audacity?”
He had already given Ruan Tang so much face; did this Omega think he had none to spare?
His appearance was truly intimidating, fiercely so, and the dangerous aura that constantly surrounded him intensified when he was angered, sending shivers down one’s spine and making one’s scalp tingle.
But Ruan Tang wasn’t afraid at all. In fact, looking at Auston’s fierce expression, he thought of the man’s blustering nature and how he was even afraid of a little Omega like himself. He couldn’t help but chuckle.
It was the first time Auston had ever seen someone not only unfazed by his unprovoked anger but actually laugh. He was momentarily stunned, and after a while, he put on an even fiercer expression and angrily demanded, “What are you laughing at? Who told you to laugh? Do you find what I’m saying so funny?”
Ruan Tang’s behavior made him feel like the terrifying image and authority he had painstakingly cultivated over the years had completely vanished in the Omega’s eyes.
“No, I just feel very happy, so I naturally laugh,” Ruan Tang suppressed the smile on his face, finding the Alpha before him increasingly adorable. “You don’t want to see me smile, do you want to see me cry instead?”
Auston was speechless.
He was rendered speechless by Ruan Tang, and he felt that this Omega was becoming increasingly daring.
“I said you’re not allowed to laugh, and you’re just not allowed to laugh,” Auston paused for a moment before putting on a stern face and growling, “You still haven’t answered me. Who gave you the audacity to be so unruly? You don’t even have the most basic respect for me anymore?”
What was most infuriating was that he had just had to do as this Omega instructed.
“You did,” Ruan Tang said matter-of-factly, “You’re so adorable, Your Grace. When I see you, I can’t help but want to get close to you, so how could I feel afraid or in awe?”
He looked at Auston with extreme innocence, “I really want to respect you, but whenever I think about how adorable you are, and how you repeatedly rejected me but your body was so honest and came to help me, I can’t control myself…”
Auston had never been described as adorable before, and his face flushed red beneath his mask. Speechless and rather annoyed, he retorted, “Speak properly! Stop talking nonsense!”
“I’m telling the truth, every word is true, from the bottom of my heart.” The more Ruan Tang saw him like this, the more he wanted to tease him. He looked at him with sincere eyes and said, “Your Grace, I haven’t seen you in so long. I really miss you. Do you miss me? Do you want to smell me? Want to touch me? Or want to hear me tell you stories… You helped me so much today, as long as you say the word, I promise to accompany you to the end.”
He thought for a moment and added, “Or perhaps I should offer myself to you and let you mark me.”
Auston stared into his eyes, as if he were burned by Ruan Tang’s words, which were teasing but his eyes were sincere, and he dared not look at him again. He immediately pushed his wheelchair in a fit of embarrassment and anger, turned around and left, “Stop talking nonsense! I helped you once, I won’t help you a second time. Get away from me! Stop bothering me!”
In all his life, Auston had never imagined that he would one day be troubled by an Omega’s entanglement.
“Your Grace, why are you running so fast? I’m not going to force myself on you. Why are you dodging me like I’m a hooligan?” Ruan Tang watched him leave, finding it more and more amusing, and quickened his pace to catch up.
Life now was filled with a joy he had never imagined before.
…
Although Ruan Ming, that cunning old fox, cut ties with Xia Ruzhi and the Xia family very quickly and expressed remorse, as the in-laws of the Xia family and Xia Ruzhi’s former partner, it was almost impossible for the Ruan Family to completely extricate itself from this incident unscathed.
Ruan Ming ran around, expending countless efforts and connections, trying to minimize the damage of this incident to the Ruan Family.
But how could Ruan Tang let him get away so easily?
From the moment he decided to seek revenge, Ruan Tang’s target was not only the Xia family. Ruan Ming, that unfeeling and fickle Alpha who betrayed his marriage, was, in Ruan Tang’s eyes, the primary culprit.
As soon as he learned that Ruan Ming was trying to protect the Ruan Family, Ruan Tang joined forces with Ruan Yang and a series of rival factions of the Ruan Family, as well as some families who didn’t want to see the Ruan Family unscathed and wanted to divide the Ruan Family’s interests, expressing his deep disgust for his biological father, Ruan Ming, and his determination to unite with them to deal a fatal blow to Ruan Ming.
He united all the forces he could unite, and Auston also launched a comprehensive attack and suppression of the Ruan Family.
Ruan Ming wasn’t stupid. He quickly realized that the person stirring up trouble behind the scenes, targeting the Ruan Family, hindering the Ruan Family’s resurgence, and not giving the Ruan Family any chance to recover, was none other than his two good sons who had just changed their surnames.
“What exactly do you want to do? I’m your father, the Ruan Family is your family. Even if you’re ashamed to be associated with me and changed your surname… I still raised you for so long. You don’t have to put me and the Ruan Family to death, do you?” Ruan Ming felt guilty towards Ruan Yang and didn’t dare to approach him, so he directly confronted Ruan Tang and angrily questioned him.
The Ruan Family was the work of his life, and now, under the heavy pressure of various forces, it was almost driven to a dead end…
But Ruan Ming never dreamed that the person who wanted to force him into a desperate situation was none other than his own son.
The Ruan Family was Ruan Tang’s family after all, and even if Ruan Tang changed his surname, the prosperity of the Ruan Family wouldn’t be harmful to him. It could even serve as a big tree to shelter Ruan Tang, a blood-related branch. But Ruan Tang wanted to put the Ruan Family to death, watching helplessly as he became the driving force behind the decline of the Ruan Family…
This was undoubtedly self-destructive and harmful to himself.
In Ruan Ming’s eyes, this son was now utterly stupid.
If Ruan Tang didn’t hold power now, Ruan Ming wouldn’t even bother with him. But Ruan Tang had become successful, holding him, and the Ruan Family’s throat, in his hands…
Ruan Tang looked at his exasperated expression and chuckled, “As Tang Yun’s son, I think that rather than watching the Ruan Family grow strong, and seeing my mother and elder brother’s hard work divided by your mistresses and illegitimate children, I’d rather see it fall so that no one gets anything. Don’t you think so, Marshal Ruan?”
He knew that Xia Ruzhi and the mistresses around Ruan Ming looked down on his mother, Tang Yun, a woman from a common background and ordinary family.
Even though Tang Yun married Ruan Ming when he was still poor, and gave her entire family fortune to help Ruan Ming rebuild his family, accompanying him as he started from scratch, no one cared.
Because Tang Yun was just an ordinary woman, and her entire family fortune was nothing more than a drop in the bucket in the eyes of Ruan Ming’s current women.
No one cared that it was Tang Yun’s entire fortune, the entire assets of a common family.
And although Ruan Ming didn’t say it, he probably thought the same way in his heart…
Ambitious and self-willed, he probably only thought that the Ruan Family’s success today was all due to his own achievements, and he couldn’t see Tang Yun’s efforts, or the efforts of others, which were as light as a feather in his eyes.
And this was precisely what Ruan Tang hated and detested the most—
“Stop mocking me,” Ruan Ming looked at him with a pair of muddy eyes and sarcastically said, “Let’s be frank, just say what you want. Duchess Auston.”
He now hated this rebellious son who had no feelings whatsoever and wanted to destroy the work of his life.
But he had to beg him…
At the same time, he knew that Ruan Tang was doing this not because he was truly stupid, but because he definitely had a purpose and conditions to discuss.
If there was no room for negotiation, Ruan Tang wouldn’t have met him at all.
Ruan Ming was cold-hearted, but he was good at analyzing human nature.
“Alright, since Marshal Ruan said so, I’ll be frank too, without beating around the bush or hiding anything.” Ruan Tang no longer had the intention to pretend with him. He looked a little listless, completely abandoned all his pretenses, and said his conditions: “I want the entire Ruan Family.”
He looked at Ruan Ming, word by word, and said, “As long as you offer the entire Ruan Family with both hands and let me become the head of the Ruan Family, I will naturally stop and hinder the attacks of all parties against the Ruan Family, and ensure the Ruan Family’s safety.”
Even if Xia Ruzhi went to prison, Ruan Tang wasn’t willing to just watch Ruan Ming and those mistresses live happily and divide the marital property that originally belonged to his mother.
Tang Yun was mentally impaired due to poisoning, and when she divorced Ruan Ming, she didn’t get a single penny. Even though Ruan Tang got her a large sum of money when he got married, it was still a drop in the bucket compared to the entire assets of the Ruan Family.
And Tang Yun, as the original wife who helped Ruan Ming start from scratch, had the right to divide half of the Ruan Family.
“You—” Ruan Ming never expected that this usually silent son would have such great ambition and such a big appetite. His face suddenly changed, and he angrily said, “You’re dreaming!”
Even if it was the heir he favored, his eldest son Ruan Yang, whom he most valued and wanted to win back, wanted the entire Ruan Family, he would have to carefully support him, change his surname back, and treat him, his father, with respect before he would consider letting him take over.
Ruan Tang, such an Omega son who had married out, was naturally rebellious, didn’t get along with him, and had never said a good word to him… dared to take advantage of the fire to loot, and ask for the Ruan Family, which was the culmination of his life’s work, was simply delusional.
“Whether I’m dreaming or not, Marshal Ruan, you’ll soon find out.” Ruan Tang didn’t even look at him and directly sneered, “The things I want, I will get them at all costs.”
He warned word by word in advance, “However, I’ll say the ugly things first. The things I can’t get, I’d rather destroy them than see them intact. By then, the way I want the Ruan Family, whether it’s you handing it over intact, or me breaking it into pieces first and then slowly swallowing it bit by bit, is hard to say.”
“The Ruan Family is the work of your life, you should consider it carefully.”
He didn’t want to share the Ruan Family with others yet, but if Ruan Ming refused to listen, he would just destroy the Ruan Family first and then find a way to eat the biggest piece.
Anyway, the Ruan Family was the work of Ruan Ming’s life, not his.
“You… you think you really have that much ability? To swallow the entire Ruan Family, even if I dare to give it to you, aren’t you afraid of bursting yourself?” Ruan Ming was so angry that his face turned pale, almost suffering a stroke.
Ruan Tang was indifferent and didn’t even look at him, “Whether I burst myself or not is my business, it has nothing to do with you. Since you haven’t made a choice yet, let’s see how the tables turn.”
“You—” Ruan Ming looked at his back, so angry that he couldn’t speak.
That night, he suffered a sudden heart attack and was sent to the hospital.