AGMATSWHLMAR Chapter 77
by VolareSeeing the confusion in his eyes, Ruan Tang deepened the kiss.
It was his first time kissing someone too, and he was flustered. Feeling Auston’s stiffness, he didn’t continue, only a fleeting, butterfly-like touch on his lips.
“You’re so sweet, I think I taste Baileys…” Ruan Tang slurred, his words a bit blurred with a hint of drunkenness.
As he spoke, he tried to press Auston down for another kiss.
Auston, however, had already snapped back to his senses. He clenched his fist, his eyes filled with bewilderment and terror, and pushed Ruan Tang away. “Madam, you’re drunk.”
He couldn’t figure out what was going on. Something must have gone wrong, otherwise, why would Ruan Tang, after agreeing to divorce him, drunkenly try to kiss a lowly manservant? He must be dreaming, he just had to be.
Otherwise, what was this? Was he acting as his own substitute?
Auston’s mind raced, unable to describe the feeling in his heart. He just wanted to escape.
And that’s exactly what he did. After violently pushing Ruan Tang away, he fled in a panic, not daring to look at the Omega again, leaving Ruan Tang behind…
“Seth,” Ruan Tang called out behind him.
But hearing Ruan Tang’s voice only made him run faster.
Ruan Tang watched his figure disappear from his room, his hazy eyes gradually returning to calm, but he remained seated on the floor, motionless and without chasing after him.
He thought that this Alpha was destined to be in his grasp, and they had a long time ahead of them.
Things were already like this today, and he really shouldn’t push Auston too hard.
Ruan Tang had a good night’s sleep and woke up at dawn.
After hesitating for a long time, the next morning, he got up and faxed the divorce agreement, which he had redrafted and signed, to Auston.
He also sent Auston a message: “Your Grace, if this is what you want, I respect your wishes.”
He was going all in. Now that he had decided to gamble, he was placing his bet and wouldn’t back down.
“Seth, although I was drunk yesterday, I still hope you can think carefully about what I said. I never take back my words, and I will take responsibility for you.” After finishing breakfast, he sent another message to the manservant Seth before heading out to work.
Ruan Tang left the house with ease, calm and composed.
But Auston, who received both messages, covered his lips, which still felt slightly hot from Ruan Tang’s kiss last night, and couldn’t recover for a long time.
Looking at the divorce agreement Ruan Tang had sent and the message to the manservant Seth saying he would take responsibility for him, he couldn’t understand what Ruan Tang meant.
He had just said he liked him, could he have changed his mind so quickly? After signing the papers, he had already found someone else…
Ruan Tang had even kissed that lowly manservant last night. He kept saying he liked him, but he had never kissed him, yet he kissed the manservant first.
Actually, Ruan Tang didn’t like him at all, right?
Compared to him, maybe Ruan Tang subconsciously had a better impression of that manservant, so he kissed him when he was drunk? And he even praised the manservant’s lips as sweet.
Although they were both himself, Auston couldn’t help but feel jealous and bitter…
“Madam, I’m sorry, but I’m just a lowly manservant, I’m not worthy of you. Moreover, I already have someone I like, so I really can’t agree to your request, and I don’t need you to take responsibility for me.” Auston looked at the message Ruan Tang sent to the manservant, stunned for a moment, then became increasingly angry, and directly rejected Ruan Tang’s request to marry ‘him’.
He really didn’t know what was going on in this Omega’s mind. He was an Omega, and he drunkenly kissed a lowly manservant, shouldn’t the manservant be the one taking advantage?
Moreover, it was just a kiss, it wasn’t like they did anything else?
Why would Ruan Tang think of taking responsibility for ‘him’?
Only after sending the message did Auston feel a little better.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know you had someone you liked. I apologize for causing you trouble. I was drunk last night, so if you don’t want to, then let’s just forget about what happened last night,” Ruan Tang responded skillfully.
Auston thought, that’s more like it.
But soon after, Ruan Tang sent another message, which made Auston even angrier.
Ruan Tang said with feigned seriousness, “Since you don’t want to marry me, and His Grace doesn’t want me to harass him anymore, maybe I should consider my ex-fiancé. Although he wronged me before, he’s been contacting me and seems very regretful… I really don’t have any more suitable candidates around me, so maybe after the divorce, I can consider getting back together with him… Seth, what do you think?”
“Madam, you’re just about to get divorced, so why bother caring so much about His Grace’s opinion and rushing to remarry so casually?” Auston thought of the foolish appearance of Ruan Tang’s two ex-fiancés, and then thought of Ruan Tang considering getting back together with Zhou Yao after divorcing him, and his lungs began to ache with anger.
He couldn’t help but add, “Haven’t you heard that a good horse doesn’t eat the grass it’s already grazed?”
“Frankly speaking, your two ex-fiancés don’t seem like much.”
Ruan Tang typed quickly: “Actually, I plan to remarry quickly after the divorce, not only because I’m worried about troubling His Grace, but also because my pheromones are out of balance, and the suppressants are gradually becoming ineffective. My heat is approaching. Since it’s destined that I can’t be with the person I love, I have to find an Alpha.”
“Then I guess anyone will do, it doesn’t make any difference who I’m with,” he wrote, his words as negative as when he decided to marry Auston.
Auston frowned as he looked at the text he sent. Remembering what Ruan Tang had said to him yesterday, he almost felt that he had given Ruan Tang hope, pulled him out of the abyss, and then personally snuffed out Ruan Tang’s hope, causing him to become numb to life again.
Thinking about the possibility of Ruan Tang being with Shen Mozhi or Zhou Yao after divorcing him, a thought that was neither noble nor generous, but even selfish and narrow-minded, suddenly arose in Auston’s heart.
He wanted a divorce because he felt that he and Ruan Tang were not a good match, and he wanted to give Ruan Tang freedom to find a wider sky. But if Ruan Tang divorced him and ended up with someone far inferior to him, not finding an Alpha who was countless times better than him…
Auston felt that this marriage might as well not be divorced?
But in his eyes, what kind of Alpha would be worthy of Ruan Tang, more outstanding than himself, and better to Ruan Tang?
Auston looked around Imperial Star and actually felt that no such person existed.
He was always both inferior and conceited. Although his body was crippled, there were really not many of the so-called young talents on Imperial Star who could catch his eye.
Thinking of this, Auston couldn’t help but be influenced by his own narrow possessiveness, and his beliefs began to waver.
Looking at the divorce agreement that Ruan Tang had sent, which he had always hoped Ruan Tang would sign, he didn’t have the slightest desire to sign his name on it.
…
At the same time, Ruan Yang was walking out of the military headquarters after work when he was stopped by a royal-exclusive hovercar.
The door of the hovercar opened in front of Ruan Yang, revealing the face of a young Omega man.
The Omega had fair skin, a handsome appearance, and wasn’t particularly outstanding, but he had a gentle and detached temperament. He nodded to Ruan Yang as soon as he saw him: “Long time no see, Ruan Yang.”
“…It has been a long time indeed, Your Imperial Highness, Emperor’s Younger Brother.” Ruan Yang stopped in his tracks, somewhat stunned. Although it felt like a lifetime ago, he still recognized the person in front of him at first glance.
The current Emperor’s youngest and only Omega brother, Iso Camille.
Also Ruan Yang’s former college classmate… and ex-boyfriend of many years.
Hearing Ruan Yang’s distant words, a hint of sadness immediately appeared in Iso’s eyes: “So, we have become so estranged?”
Ruan Yang listened to his sad and gloomy words, but his face was expressionless, without the slightest emotion.
He knew this Omega very well, knew that he was the best at deceiving people, and that everything he said and did was a trick, and not a single word could be taken seriously.
Iso was the illegitimate son of the late Emperor.
When Ruan Yang first met him, the other party was just an orphan Beta from an orphanage, whose parents were unknown.
Ruan Yang fell in love with him and insisted on being with him despite Ruan Ming’s opposition and threats. He poured all his feelings into that relationship and protected Iso to the extreme, only to find out in the end that it was just a scam. Iso had been using his identity to climb up the ladder, stepping on him to rise to power.
His identity was false, his gender was false, and his feelings were even more false.
The late Emperor had many illegitimate children. The current Emperor’s mother hated the late Emperor’s promiscuity and womanizing to the core. After the late Emperor’s death, she vigorously rectified the situation and dealt with those lovers who had competed with her for the late Emperor’s affection. Iso’s mother was one of them.
Although he was of royal blood, the current Emperor initially didn’t even glance at him, let alone acknowledge him as his brother or grant him the title of Emperor’s Younger Brother.
It was Iso who deliberately approached him and used him to integrate into their circle, which gave him the opportunity to prove to the late Emperor that he had the ability to serve the royal family and the late Emperor.
Ruan Yang had heard many stories about Iso’s unscrupulous means to achieve his goals, but at the time, he hadn’t believed a single word.
Until Iso somehow gained the Emperor’s trust, was granted the title of Emperor’s Younger Brother, and was recognized by the royal family.
Before Ruan Yang could even ask what was going on, Iso announced his engagement to Duke Leighton, who was riding high at the time… directly dumping him.
Ruan Yang realized then that many of the rumors about Iso were true, and that once his goal was achieved, he would become a tool that he discarded like a worn-out shoe, not even giving him a second glance.
Ruan Yang had never mentioned this relationship to anyone, but after that, he never had another relationship.
“Can we find a place to sit down and have a good chat?” Iso looked at Ruan Yang with a smile, as if he had never broken up with Ruan Yang to be engaged with someone else to obtain the position of Emperor’s Younger Brother.
Ruan Yang looked at his clear eyes, took a deep breath, and suppressed the many emotions in his heart: “If Your Imperial Highness, Emperor’s Younger Brother has something to say, you can say it directly.”
He didn’t want to beat around the bush with Iso at all.
“I want Marshal Ruan Yang to agree to marry me,” Iso said with a light smile, very directly.