AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 74
by VolareAuston looked at him like this, and his heart immediately clenched. He frowned slightly and called out, “Madam.”
He was thinking that maybe he had done something wrong. No matter how he planned to handle the relationship between him and Ruan Tang, Ruan Tang was so delicate and had just recovered from an illness…
Maybe he shouldn’t be so ruthless and should take things slower.
Ruan Tang sat blankly for a long while, showing a very sad appearance. After a long silence, he finally sighed softly, “Seth, maybe you’re right.”
Auston looked puzzled, “……?”
He had no idea what he had said to Ruan Tang.
“I indeed have never truly understood Master Auston.” Ruan Tang looked at him deeply, saying each word clearly, “So, that’s why he has rejected me again and again, and even when I’m sick, he refuses to come and see me, right?”
Auston directly avoided the question. The fact that he denied taking care of him all night already explained everything.
Thinking back carefully, to everything when he and Auston first met, Ruan Tang realized that Auston’s attitude towards him changed from the moment he wasn’t afraid of the male servant’s disfigured face, applied medicine for him, and told him that appearance wasn’t important.
Auston seemed conceited, but in reality, he was very insecure. When he was a male servant, he had asked him more than once if he thought his appearance was ugly and if he was afraid of his face. And when he was in the Duke’s position, he had always insisted on wearing a mask to hide his appearance, not letting anyone see his true face.
When he was a male servant, he often completely denied and rejected the Duke version of himself, which further illustrated that deep down, he was extremely insecure and cared about his disability, believing that no one would love him.
Hypocritical as he was, he had always denied love and the things he liked, which meant that deep down, he had always longed for a perfect and flawless love, without any impurities, and hoped that someone could love him completely and purely, accepting all his flaws and imperfections.
He was fascinated by his warmth, and kept saying that he liked him, but he didn’t realize this sooner, which ultimately disappointed him.
Ruan Tang stared at the ALPHA in front of him, his mind racing, thinking about many things.
“Madam, why would you think like that?” Auston interrupted quickly as soon as he heard him say this.
He didn’t understand why this OMEGA, who was so good-looking and outstanding in every way, and now possessed so much, had so many thoughts to belittle himself.
He looked at Ruan Tang firmly, saying each word clearly, “The Master rejects you and doesn’t come to see you, maybe just because he doesn’t like you enough, and feels that you are not suitable, it doesn’t mean that you are not outstanding enough.”
“Madam, you are so excellent, and now you have such a high status, why bother wasting time on someone who doesn’t have you in their heart and doesn’t want to be with you?” Auston really didn’t know what Ruan Tang saw in him.
He only felt very troubled.
“Even if the Master doesn’t have me in his heart, I will still be set on him. I will only like him in this life, and only want him to be my ALPHA.” Ruan Tang’s eyes lit up with starlight, saying each word with incomparable firmness, “In my eyes, he is irreplaceable, and I must have him.”
It wasn’t the first time Auston had heard such a direct confession from Ruan Tang. Hearing him confess to him again, Auston was already a little helpless and numb, and didn’t want to refute or persuade him anymore.
He only glanced at Ruan Tang and said gently, “Madam, you just woke up, you’re still not well, eat the medicine and porridge first.”
Ruan Tang’s body had not yet fully recovered, and he didn’t want to say anything to spoil his mood.
Ruan Tang sighed, knowing that conquering Auston was not something that could be done overnight, and obediently ate the medicine and porridge that Auston handed him.
After taking the medicine, he sent a message to Auston through his personal terminal: “Master, I dreamed that you came to see me last night, and I smelled your pheromone, it’s milk candy flavored, sweet… So, is your pheromone in reality just as sweet?”
Auston saw this message in the first instance. He really wanted to reply to Ruan Tang that his pheromone was Baileys Irish Cream flavored, not milk candy.
But in the end, facing the tangled relationship between him and Ruan Tang, he didn’t send a single word…
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The sudden rise of the Tang Family caused a sense of crisis in the hearts of many aristocratic families in Imperial Star. Many old aristocratic families, seeing that the Tang Family could almost be regarded as the Empress’s party because of Ruan Tang, were just waiting for the Emperor to take action to rectify the Tang Family, or suppress Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang, so that they could not be promoted.
And they would seize the opportunity to step on the Tang Family, which had finally squeezed back into the ranks of the top ten families, again.
Thinking of this, many nobles who had previously wanted to annex the Ruan Family and were eyeing the past Ruan Family and the current Tang Family were eager to run to the Emperor and speak ill of them.
Unexpectedly, the Emperor, who had always been unyielding and greatly restrained all families connected to the Empress’s forces, this time went against the norm. Not only did he not take action to restrain the Tang Family, but he also greatly rewarded and praised Ruan Yang, Ruan Tang’s brother who had just woken up.
He seemed to want to reuse and support Ruan Yang in the future, which really left everyone waiting to kick the Tang Family when they were down at a loss.
Not only that, rumors also spread in the Imperial Family that the Emperor intended to marry the First Imperial Heir to Ruan Yang, to further strengthen the relationship with the Tang Family, which made everyone envious and jealous of the Tang Family, but also helpless.
“What? The Imperial Heir is marrying down? Is he out of his mind? Is he the Emperor or a matchmaker? His thoughts and the Empress’s are really in sync, with the same goal by different routes?” Auston was speechless when he received this news.
He didn’t know what was wrong with this couple. They had to confuse politics and marriage, and resort to political marriage to win over anyone they wanted to.
Mrs. Judith was also very speechless about this: “Our wise and brilliant Emperor, after hearing what you asked me to say, believed that the core of the Tang Family in the future would be in Tang Yang rather than the Madam. He didn’t close his eyes for several nights before coming up with such a good idea…”
In the eyes of the top straight-A male chauvinist Emperor, no matter the power of the empire or the family, AO, compared, would ultimately be grasped by the ALPHA…
And his way, as a superior, to control and win over the people he wanted to use was to send an OMEGA to his side to whisper in his ear.
Such an idea was extremely contradictory.
“Then, in the Madam’s opinion, is this marriage likely to succeed or not?” Auston tapped the table lightly with his index finger, very curious as to whether Ruan Yang could become his uncle-in-law.
Judith immediately revealed first-hand inside information for him: “General Tang Yang has not yet responded to the Emperor’s matchmaking. But Iso, on the other hand, is somewhat moved… After all, his inhibitor rejection symptoms are already very serious, and he will not be able to endure this year’s estrus, and he must choose someone to marry…”
“And among the young talents of similar age to the First Imperial Heir in the entire Imperial Star, there are only a few who can be counted. General Ruan Yang, as soon as he woke up, was one of the best choices, and he and the First Imperial Heir were also classmates before, so they can be considered old acquaintances who know each other well.” She said.
Auston lowered his eyes and stirred the tea in his cup, remaining silent.
But Judith asked, “Your Highness, do you need us to disrupt the possibility of this marriage being concluded?”
Although Ruan Yang and Ruan Tang are indeed very close now, as brothers, but over time, Ruan Yang, as an ALPHA, has his own OMEGA, it is not necessarily certain that he will not be convinced that Ruan Tang, who leads him, is the head of the Tang Family.
Judith felt that they might need to take some precautions.
“No need.” Auston, after careful consideration, still chose to refuse, “I trust Tang Yang’s character. Besides, even if Tang Yang and Iso really get together… whether my good father can control his good younger brother is still an unknown.”
Judith heard this and immediately remained silent.
And Ruan Xi, who had been waiting for Ruan Tang to be unlucky, waiting for him to fall from the position of the head of the Ruan Family, or for Ruan Tang to be the head of the family and simply let the Ruan Family be divided up and quickly decline, after seeing the news that Ruan Tang and Ruan Yang had each been greatly valued by the Emperor and Empress, and were thriving in the top circles of power in Imperial Star, felt as if his whole world had collapsed.
“Mozhi, I really don’t know how my dad could be so cruel? He didn’t even consider the years of love between my mom and him, and left all the family property to the Ruan Tang brothers. Are they the only ones who are dad’s children? Are we all not?” Ruan Xi threw himself into Shen Mozhi’s arms and cried his heart out.
He really couldn’t understand it. He couldn’t understand it when he was reading the novel. Ruan Tang’s attitude towards Ruan Ming was so bad, constantly contradicting and disobeying Ruan Ming, but Ruan Ming could still transfer his guilt to this son because of his feelings for his wife, making Ruan Tang his most beloved child…
But it was fine in the book, but now in this world, the plot has clearly been changed by him.
Ruan Ming and Ruan Tang’s relationship had previously become so incompatible, but Ruan Ming still left his entire family property to the Ruan Tang brothers in his will, and also gave the position of the head of the family to Ruan Tang.
Ruan Xi couldn’t understand all of this, and could only understand it as Ruan Tang’s protagonist halo working.
Shen Mozhi stiffly let him hold him, but he didn’t want to comfort him, nor would he agree with his words.
There are not so many whys in this world…
Since Ruan Tang was able to make Ruan Ming make such a will, read it out in front of everyone, and firmly sit in the position of the head of the Ruan Family, that was his ability.
There is nothing that others can question or be unwilling to accept, because you don’t have that ability.
But he also knew that Ruan Xi wouldn’t listen to these words, so he didn’t plan to say them.
“Mozhi, what should I do? What should I do? I only have you now. The Ruan Tang brothers are doing well. They hate my mom so much, they will definitely not let me go in the future…” Ruan Xi cried like a puddle of water in Shen Mozhi’s arms.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know Shen Mozhi’s recent indifference to him, but he had no other choice. After he lost his halo, Shen Mozhi was his only lifeline.
As long as he left Shen Mozhi, he would die, so he could only hold on to Shen Mozhi tightly.
Shen Mozhi heard this and immediately took a deep breath, closing his eyes suddenly, as if he had made a great determination, saying with a heart as dead ashes, “There’s nothing to be afraid of, we’ll get married, I’ll marry you, and I’ll take good care of you for the rest of my life.”
He knew that Ruan Xi kept crying, complaining to him here since Ruan Ming’s death, just to get a promise from him.
He owed Ruan Xi a favor, Ruan Xi saved his life…
Since that was the case, a promise was worth a thousand pieces of gold. Even if it sacrificed the happiness of his later life, he would definitely repay this favor.
At worst, he would take care of Ruan Xi more in the future, Shen Mozhi thought numbly in his heart.
“Thank you, Mozhi.” Ruan Xi hugged him tighter in ecstasy, crying with joy.
Regardless of whether he loved Shen Mozhi or not, or whether Shen Mozhi loved him or not, this was his only chance to survive.
But Shen Mozhi was neither happy nor sad, without any feeling, only feeling that since some time ago, his whole person seemed to be only a shell left, like a walking corpse.