AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 81
by VolareRuan Tang indeed intentionally played along and set a trap for Auston, but he knew that Auston always wore a mask and was actually somewhat concerned about the flaws on his face.
Therefore, he had considered that if this matter were exposed, Auston would find other ways to smooth things over and would be honest with him in private afterward.
But he never expected—
Auston would actually remove his mask in public for his sake, exposing the face he didn’t want the world to see.
This made Ruan Tang feel shocked, touched, and guilty all at the same time.
He secretly sized up Auston for a long time, pondering how to broach the subject with him.
Ruan Tang forced himself to remain calm. After much deliberation, as soon as they left the banquet venue and boarded the Duke’s hovercar, he pretended to be composed and opened his mouth, “Should I call you Your Grace, or Seth?”
The impact of Auston removing his mask was too great, so much so that he couldn’t find a better way to start the conversation and just wanted to continue acting according to his original plan.
“You did it on purpose, didn’t you? You actually knew all along, you were deliberately trying to trick me, right?” Unexpectedly, Auston didn’t give him a chance to perform at all, interrupting him directly, grabbing his wrist, and angrily questioning him.
Auston wasn’t stupid. As long as he calmed down and thought about it carefully, how could Ruan Xi, with his current status, have the opportunity to attend such a banquet to humiliate and target Ruan Tang? And Ruan Tang had previously tried so hard to persuade him to attend the banquet, combined with his calm demeanor when Ruan Xi publicly accused him.
Auston knew that even if Ruan Tang hadn’t participated, he probably knew about Ruan Xi’s plan to deal with him. He had chosen to play along only to trap himself.
How ridiculous that he had fallen for this Omega’s trick.
Knowing it was a trap, he still stood up at the first moment when he heard someone humiliating this Omega and slandering his reputation, disregarding everything else to protect the Omega’s reputation and jump into it.
His first reaction afterward was still to worry about how to tell the Omega if his disguise was exposed.
Fortunately, the banquet lasted long enough for Auston to have enough time to calm down and come up with such a good plan to strike first.
Ruan Tang blinked, looking at him innocently, “Your Grace, what are you talking about? I don’t know.”
But the words he spoke sounded more like he was trying to act cute, and were not very convincing.
“Don’t treat me like an idiot!” Auston immediately glared at him, becoming even angrier.
He had grown up in the backstabbing, deceitful royal family since he was a child, and all of Ruan Tang’s tricks, as long as he was willing to think about them carefully, there wasn’t one he couldn’t see through.
He just didn’t want to think about it; he couldn’t control his body, his body had its own thoughts and was willing to jump into the trap.
But that wasn’t a reason for this Omega to take advantage of him and even try to fool him.
“Even if I was tricking Your Grace, it was Your Grace who tricked me first.” Seeing that he had brought it up, Ruan Tang no longer hid it, and he no longer had the intention to continue acting, stating it directly.
Actually, it wasn’t impossible to continue acting like a fool, stubbornly refusing to admit that he had tricked Auston. But watching Auston take off his mask for him, Ruan Tang couldn’t continue acting anymore.
While tricking Auston and taking advantage of the situation to let Ruan Xi frame him, Ruan Tang had imagined countless possibilities in his mind, countless contingencies, strategies to achieve multiple goals with one action, and ensure that he would always be in an invincible position. He even considered the possibility that Auston would grit his teeth and refuse to admit or defend him, insisting on divorcing him.
But he never expected that Auston would repeatedly abandon his principles for him like this.
Auston taking off his mask was only a moment, but the shock it brought to Ruan Tang’s heart was difficult to describe.
At that moment, Ruan Tang finally realized that only sincerity could be exchanged for sincerity. Auston’s kindness to him was so genuine and sincere that if he continued to pretend and test him, he wouldn’t be worthy of Auston.
And now was the best time for them to be open and honest—
Therefore, he no longer wanted to act in front of Auston, nor did he want to have even the slightest deception towards him.
Auston didn’t expect that he had already struck first, but he was still left speechless by Ruan Tang, and he was immediately furious, “You—”
He couldn’t imagine what Ruan Tang was thinking in his heart after saying such words. Since he had known all along that Seth was him, how had he viewed him all this time, how had he deliberately played with him?
To cover up the panic in his heart, he looked fierce and terrifying.
“It was clearly Your Grace who tricked me first. It wasn’t enough for you to seduce me every day wearing a mask, you also had to take off your mask and pretend to be a manservant to come to my side, change my clothes, touch my feet, and give me everything I wanted to seduce me… It’s normal for me to be hooked and want to trick Your Grace back, right? After all, it was Your Grace who provoked me first…” Ruan Tang stared at Auston, his eyes sparkling.
When he stared at people like this, it gave them a very affectionate feeling, as if his eyes only reflected the person in front of him.
Auston was suffocated by his gaze and immediately looked away, angrily scolding, “Who the hell seduced you?”
“That’s right, I did know all along that Your Grace is Seth, Seth is Your Grace, but I pretended not to know. But it was also Your Grace who gave me the opportunity to pretend not to know and play along to trick you.” Ruan Tang looked deeply at Auston, “Your Grace, tell me, doesn’t this count as you being coy and playing hard to get?”
He didn’t give Auston a chance to escape, “Otherwise, why would you refuse me on one hand, and secretly come to see me disguised as a manservant on the other hand? And why would you break your own principles again and again to protect me, and take off your mask in public?”
“Shut up!” Auston wanted to sew up Ruan Tang’s mouth in embarrassment and annoyance.
His heart was beating nervously and erratically, but when he heard Ruan Tang clearly tell him that he had always known that he was Seth, he couldn’t help but feel happy.
He couldn’t help but think, oh, so he always knew, he did it on purpose… so the person he has liked from beginning to end is me.
Auston could hardly suppress the joy in his heart.
“Oh, right, and the surveillance… I don’t know where Ruan Xi got the surveillance from, but first of all, there has to be surveillance in my room for him to get it, right? In the entire Duke’s manor, who could install surveillance in my room?” Ruan Tang looked directly at Auston, resolutely not giving him a chance to escape, “Your Grace, why did you install surveillance in my room? Is it because you still want to watch me often through the surveillance when you’re not with me?”
Auston’s behavior of installing surveillance in his room was somewhat obsessive and perverted, but Ruan Tang didn’t find it scary, and even felt a bit sweet.
Facing such a Ruan Tang, Auston almost wanted to run away on the spot.
But the small space in the hovercar didn’t give him any escape route…
And it would be too ridiculous for an Alpha to be chased away by an Omega.
“I didn’t deliberately install surveillance to spy on you. There was already surveillance in your room. You’re the one with impure thoughts, thinking too much.” Auston squeezed out a rebuttal from his throat after a long time.
But Ruan Tang didn’t listen to anything at all, directly grabbing Auston’s wrist and attacking again, leaning over and kissing him.
So-called practice makes perfect. Ruan Tang already had experience in forcibly kissing a certain tsundere Alpha.
Auston didn’t expect this Omega to be so audacious, knowing that he was the Duke and daring to do this. His entire face flushed red, and he angrily pushed Ruan Tang away, “What are you doing? How can you be so lewd? Do you even know that you’re an Omega, do you know what shame is?”
“Oh, I thought that Your Grace not signing the divorce agreement already meant that you acknowledged that I have the right to do such things to you.” Ruan Tang released his pheromones, whispering in Auston’s ear.
Auston was silent. He was surrounded by the scent of Ruan Tang’s pheromones, which were like orchids and plum blossoms, and his mind was immediately distracted. He was about to push Ruan Tang away.
Ruan Tang’s kiss covered him once again. This time, Ruan Tang didn’t kiss his lips, but kissed the hideous, ugly scars on his face.
Ruan Tang gently kissed the uneven, scarlet scars on Auston’s face, carefully and without any desire, as if afraid of hurting him, cherishing and devoutly kissing every inch of his injured skin.
Auston had never imagined that Ruan Tang would kiss such an ugly place, which even he himself disliked, with such loving and cherished gentle kisses. He was immediately stunned, and his body stiffened and couldn’t move.
“Does it still hurt?” Ruan Tang whispered in his ear while gently kissing his face.
Looking at such hideous scars, he didn’t feel afraid or scared in his heart, but couldn’t help but feel sorry and painful for Auston. Auston was so young at the time, only a teenager, and suffered such a heavy injury. When he woke up, he not only didn’t receive comfort from his parents, but instead received the news that he had been abandoned by them. It must have been very uncomfortable, right?
It was just a pity that he didn’t know him at that time, and couldn’t be by his side.
Auston was being kissed like this for the first time. In Ruan Tang’s gentle, comforting, and even somewhat sacred kisses, his emotions gradually relaxed. He never thought that Ruan Tang would ask such a question, but he still answered truthfully, “…It doesn’t hurt anymore, why are you asking this?”
Ruan Tang gently let go, retreating back to a safe distance again, not dodging or avoiding, and looking directly at Auston, “I just think you must have been very painful and uncomfortable at that time, right?”
“…It’s nothing, I don’t remember it anymore.” Auston didn’t expect Ruan Tang to ask such a question, and immediately felt a little embarrassed.
The incident happened too long ago, and he didn’t remember the situation at the time, only the heart-wrenching pain and the despair of being abandoned by his mother, which was like falling into an endless hell.
Ruan Tang looked at him deeply, his gaze gentle and peaceful, and didn’t speak.
Looking at his dark eyes, Auston suddenly asked, “Now that you know what I look like, do you think my face is ugly?”
He had already asked Ruan Tang this question once when he was working as a manservant.
But today, he asked it a second time.