The queen held Ruan Tang's hand and spoke kind words to her for a long time before letting her leave.

As soon as Ruan Tang left, the queen immediately put away the kindness on her face and asked her personal maid with a stern face: "Did our Duchess's mother really become stupid due to poison?"

"I don't know about this." The female official immediately reported all the information she knew to the queen: "But these days, His Highness has indeed searched for famous doctors in the Imperial Star to treat the illnesses of his mother and siblings. I heard that the doctor who treated the Duchess' mother began to study a method to remove a rare toxin that causes dementia after returning..."

The Queen's chief lady-in-waiting was both her secretary and her eyes and ears.

The queen sighed softly: "Ruan Ming is really cruel. However, the law of nature always pays back, and God has punished him by giving him a good son. This time, they will fight each other, and it is still unknown who will win in the end."

No matter how powerful Ruan Ming is, he is old.

And Ruan Tang is still the rising sun...

"Then, Your Majesty, if this lady wants to seize the Ruan family, should we help her?" The female official knew very well that it was Ruan Tang's words that Ruan Ming could betray them at any time, and as long as Ruan Tang gave birth to a child, she and the queen would be completely tied to the same rope and obey the queen's orders. This touched the queen's mind, and the queen would agree to give him this opportunity.

Therefore, the female official was very curious about what the queen was planning, whether she wanted to help Ruan Tang seize the position of the head of the Ruan family and make full use of the Ruan family's power for her own benefit.

"Help him? Help him for what?" The Queen was pruning the flowers in her hands with a dull look on her face. "Since he wants the position of Patriarch of the Ruan Family, he must prove to me that he has the ability to take this position. Otherwise, if he is unworthy of the position, what use would I have for him?"

She was willing to give Ruan Tang this opportunity so that he would have the capital to compete with his father and brothers, but she would not help him, let alone place the bet on Ruan Tang.

In other words, if Ruan Tang won, she would be happy to see it happen; if Ruan Tang failed, she would not suffer any loss and would not have any sympathy for him.

Only if Ruan Tang proves to her that he has this ability, will he be qualified to join her camp and become her confidant. Otherwise, he will only be a reproductive tool...

"Yes, Your Majesty." The lady-in-waiting nodded immediately, and then suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, Your Majesty, the Duchess had a long conversation with you, do we need to conceal it from His Highness?"

The mother-son relationship between the Queen and Austin had long been hostile. Although Ruan Tang was now favored by Austin, if Austin knew that Ruan Tang was close to the Queen and wanted to be the Queen, Austin would probably be furious and might even stop favoring Ruan Tang.

Although the female official did not care about Ruan Tang, she clearly remembered that Ruan Tang's first priority as a duchess was to give birth to a crown prince. If she made Austin angry, how could she give birth to a crown prince?

"There's nothing to hide. Since he asked me to give him this opportunity...Auston will sooner or later know that his good wife has joined us." The queen gently put the trimmed branches into the vase: "Such a young omega, if he can't even handle his own alpha, how can he be so shameless?"

She was somewhat optimistic about the ambition and ruthlessness in Ruan Tang's eyes, and wanted to cultivate him to become her confidant.

And her way of cultivating confidants is to raise Gu...

If the Gu breeding fails and the promising seedling is killed halfway, she won't be too sad or care too much about his life or death.

But it's just a tool. If this one dies, she can replace it with another one.

…

Ruan Tang left the palace exhausted in a hovercraft. The first thing she did when she returned to the Duke's mansion was to visit her mother, brothers and sisters.

He knew that once he got involved, there would be no turning back and he had to stay alert at all times, considering every detail carefully and meticulously without any slackness.

The force that keeps me alert at all times and pushes me to keep moving forward is my family and Auston in the mansion...

"Madam, you are here." Upon seeing Ruan Tang, the maid who was in charge of taking care of Tang Yun and her two children stepped forward respectfully and greeted Ruan Tang.

Ruan Tang nodded gently to her: "Yes."

Tang Yun and Ruan Yang were still the same, one lying motionless on the bed, while the other was hugging his pillow, babbling, immersed in his own world.

Ruan Yue, on the other hand, looked very different from usual. Not only did she clean herself up carefully and put on new clothes that she would never wear no matter how much she was persuaded, she also sprayed perfume in front of the mirror and put on light makeup. A faint light ignited in her dim and blurry eyes, and she looked left and right in the mirror with great hope...

Although she has experienced many vicissitudes of life, she still makes people recall her former breathtaking beauty.

"Sister, what's wrong with you today? Why are you so happy?" Ruan Tang almost didn't recognize her. She immediately stepped forward, took the comb from her hand and combed her hair.

Ruan Yue seemed to have encountered something particularly happy. She was extremely happy. When she saw him, she said, "Xiao Tang..."

Ruan Tang didn't expect that she could recognize him. This was one of the rare times that Ruan Yue was lucid since she went crazy. Both her mother Tang Yun and her brother Ruan Yang have treatment methods that give people hope of recovery, but Ruan Yue suffered so much and was so traumatized that she closed her heart and went crazy, making it impossible to find a treatment method.

Seeing that she suddenly woke up, Ruan Tang was so excited that she asked happily, "Sister, do you recognize me?"

"Xiaotang, will the kid who came to see me today come tomorrow? I want to see him. I don't know why, but when I see him, I feel so happy..." Ruan Yue did not answer Ruan Tang's words, as if she didn't hear them. She was immersed in her own world, telling Ruan Tang the reason for her happiness.

Ruan Tang was immediately disappointed, knowing that although Ruan Yue recognized him, she was not actually recovered. He immediately frowned in surprise and asked the maid who was taking care of them: "Children? What children? Has any child come to the house today?"

Logically speaking, there should be no children in the Duke's Mansion.

Could it be that Ruan Yue has changed her madness and started to imagine that she has seen a child?

"No children have been here." The maid shook her head.

Ruan Tang frowned slightly and was about to say that it was true, and planned to find Ruan Yue's doctor to communicate further.

The maid suddenly thought of something and added, "But today, Chief Wen came to visit the young lady, and the young lady was very happy when she saw him."

She heard that Chief Wen seemed to be the eldest lady's...

He is also someone who can be called a child by the eldest lady, right?

"Wen Run?" Ruan Tang was stunned. She didn't expect that Wen Run had been here.

The maid immediately responded, "Yes."

Ruan Tang didn't pay attention to what she said, but just stared at Ruan Yue, who looked so radiant and alive in a long time.

Even though Wen Run is so old, Ruan Yue can still see him as a child...

They should obviously be strangers to each other, but Ruan Yue, who had been crazy for so long, became much more sober and happy when she saw him. Could this be the legendary mother-child bond and blood connection?

"Xiaotang, do you think he will come?" Seeing that Ruan Tang ignored her, Ruan Yue anxiously pulled Ruan Tang's sleeve and asked expectantly.

Ruan Tang's eyes darkened immediately: "He will come, he will come to see you, as long as you want to see him, no matter what method you use, I will let him come to see you often..."

"That's good." Ruan Yue immediately smiled contentedly.

Ruan Tang gently held her hand and said, "It will be fine, big sister. Our family will all be fine in the future."

Looking at his relatives, even if he wanted to live in seclusion in a corner, he had the courage to risk his life...

…

After visiting his mother, siblings, it was already very late.

After washing up, Ruan Tang still took the copy of "One Thousand and One Nights" and knocked on Austin's door.

Even though she knew that Austin only treated him as a pet that he loved to the extreme and had no romantic feelings for him, Ruan Tang was still tamed by his dominance.

I developed a habit of having to see him every day before I could sleep peacefully.

There was still a dim light in Auston's room, as if he was waiting for him.

Auston had a gloomy face, and even through the mask one could feel the gloom and intense oppression brought about by his unhappy mood.

"Sir, what story do you want to hear tonight?" Ruan Tang looked at the other person, took a deep breath, and felt a little nervous for some reason.

Auston's face was gloomy, he sneered, but said in a cold voice: "Why not tell me what story you and the queen told today?"

Ruan Tang didn't expect that he was so well-informed and was stunned: "Sir..."

"Who gave you the courage to even provoke the Queen? Do you think you have nine lives?" The next second, Austin overturned the tea and snacks on his coffee table in a rage.

Ruan Tang was so nervous that her palms started to sweat a little: "I didn't provoke the queen..."

Austin hated the Queen deeply. When he made this decision, Ruan Tang actually didn't know whether Austin would believe or understand him, but he still wanted to tell the truth in front of Austin.

Whether Auston wants to believe it or not.

"It's true that I'm a lunatic, but don't take me for a fool!" Austin said in a gloomy tone, his blue eyes emitting a terrifying murderous light through the mask: "Is what I gave you not enough? Do you need to beg her? Do you think the queen is a simple person? You are such a fool who knows nothing and can do nothing, and you dare to negotiate with her and ask for power. You are bewitched by her sweet words and will only be used by her. She will eat you up until there is nothing left..."

"Do you think you are someone she can use?" he said angrily.

No one knows a mother better than her son. No one in the world knows the noble Queen better than him.

When Ruan Tang heard his ferocious words, she suddenly felt relieved, and her whole body, which had been frozen with fear, was finally unfrozen.

Although Austin's expression was awkward, he still felt that he had not misunderstood him, and did not question him because he went to see the queen. He was worried about him and cared about him...

I don't know why, but in Auston's eyes he seems to have a deep naive filter.