As soon as the Duke of Austin's words came out, the Queen was frightened before anyone else heard them.

The prince she had carefully nurtured was gone, and she herself had lost her fertility. Now the only thing she could count on was that Austin could give birth to a child.

Auston's reputation was bad enough now, and the Queen could not sit idly by and watch him actually kill his partner, adding scandal and shame to her power and future grandchildren.

For this reason, the Queen specially summoned Ruan Tang to the palace to talk on the eve of Ruan Tang and Austin's wedding.

He also gave Ruan Tang a valuable watch, asking him to carry it with him and never leave it behind, day or night, after they got married.

This watch is called a watch, but in fact it is a self-defense device for the rich and powerful developed with the latest technology. It contains a special electric current device. When it detects that the owner's life is in danger, not to mention an Alpha, even nine bulls can be knocked unconscious by the electric shock.

Ruan Tang took a look at the watch given by the Queen and immediately understood what the Queen meant. She smiled at the Queen knowingly and accepted the gift: "Thank you, Your Majesty. I like this gift very much. I will definitely keep it with me in the future..."

Although she was about to marry the notorious Duke of Austin, Ruan Tang was not panicking at all.

Because he knew very well that his marriage represented the union of the Ruan family and the Queen's forces, and he would soon become Austin's legitimate partner... Unless he sought death himself, no matter how cruel and perverse Austin was, the Queen and the forces behind him would not let him die.

So, he can be at ease and be a salted fish.

The queen didn't expect Ruan Tang to be so calm. She immediately took Ruan Tang's hand affectionately and smiled: "Good child, why call me Your Majesty? When you and Austin get married in the future, we will be a family. You are no different from my own biological child. You should call me mother..."

The beautiful and graceful Omega looks gentle and kind, and there is no sign that he is a person who stirs up trouble in the vortex of power and politics.

"Yes, mother." Upon hearing this, Ruan Tang immediately obeyed the Queen's order and changed her words respectfully.

The queen patted Ruan Tang's hand and smiled more kindly: "That's right. When you marry Austin in the future, you must find a way to have a child as soon as possible. When you have a child and want to move out and live alone, I won't stop you... I know that this marriage has wronged you."

"Mother doesn't force you to like him. He has a bad temper. You should be more patient with him before you have a child. Treat him like a child and don't be picky with him..."

"Although Austin - but, as long as you give birth to a child, that child will be the future crown prince of the empire. At that time, you will have supreme power, and the queen mother and the forces behind her will all stand on your side..." The queen patted his hand gently, constantly painting big pie for him, and showed her closeness to Ruan Tang without any reservation: "At that time, you, me, and my future grandson will be the most noble existence in the entire empire..."

"When the time comes, your mother won't stop you from doing anything you want." The Queen's words implied that she was urging Ruan Tang to have a child as soon as possible after marriage. She didn't even show the slightest concern for her eldest son, and even tacitly allowed Ruan Tang to cheat after giving birth to her grandson.

She was the queen but also an Omega. She knew very well that her eldest son looked so good that even she would feel disgusted and there was no way any Omega would like him.

The reason why Ruan Tang agreed to marry Austin and acted very happy about it was probably just because of the power it represented.

Therefore, she spared no effort to paint a big picture for Ruan Tang.

She never cared about her son, Auston. All she wanted was a grandson who combined her family blood with the royal blood.

As long as Ruan Tang could give her this grandson, she didn't care about her son's life or death at all. Even if Ruan Tang wanted Austin to disappear in the future, she didn't care.

Ruan Tang listened to the Queen's sudden promises and acted as if he was expecting and obeying her. He kept agreeing with her, like an obedient puppet, and he really wanted to be like her.

Only when the queen was satisfied did she let Ruan Tang go.

When Ruan Tang left the palace, she looked back at the towering palace walls from afar. Thinking of the queen's seemingly gentle and kind appearance, her heart sank. She didn't believe a single word that this distinguished figure said.

She inexplicably felt a little sad for her future husband, the Duke of Austin.

However, after the sadness, there is nothing left.

He can't even take care of himself, how can he take care of others?

…

Ruan Tang and Austin's wedding date is approaching. Although Austin is the eldest son of the emperor and empress, he is notorious for his viciousness and is rumored to be mentally ill.

The royal family did not choose to hold a grand wedding.

It’s not that he didn’t want to, but he was afraid that Austin would go crazy in public and bring shame to the entire royal family.

Ruan Tang had no objection to this, so after the royal family announced the news of Ruan Tang and Duke Austin's marriage in the newspaper, they directly asked the people from the Marriage Administration Bureau to have the two of them sign the marriage agreement and have it notarized.

Ruan Tang was considered to be married to Austin and officially became the partner of Duke Austin.

The royal family is the royal family after all. Although the wedding was cancelled and all procedures were simplified in order to avoid Duke Austin from going crazy on the spot, the Queen still chose to hold a grand wedding banquet in order to give face to Marshal Ruan Ming and to publicize Ruan Tang's future identity to the entire Imperial Star aristocratic circle.

The royal family and the most aristocratic families in the entire imperial star were invited to attend the banquet.

The whole banquet started at four in the afternoon and lasted until ten in the evening.

Duke Austin, Ruan Tang's partner and another protagonist of the banquet, never showed up. Instead, the noble Emperor of the Empire made a brief appearance, expressed his blessings for Ruan Tang and Austin's marriage, and performed a scene of deep love between him and the Queen in front of everyone before leaving the banquet.

The Queen stayed by Ruan Tang's side the whole time, guiding him to get to know the nobles he had known for a long time again in his new identity.

The men and women, all dressed in gorgeous clothes, smiled as they congratulated him on his marriage and wished him hello, but Ruan Tang could see that they were laughing at her in their hearts.

But Ruan Tang herself didn't care and adapted well to the situation.

He just stayed quietly beside the queen and dealt with her as her son-in-law.

He did not enter into marriage for love, and the person he married was not a normal person. Therefore, he did not feel lost or embarrassed about the current situation and was very calm.

After the wedding banquet, Ruan Tang was sent by the Queen to the Duke of Austin's residence.

People went back home and took off their false smiles to talk about Ruan Tang's marriage.

Ruan Tang didn't care, but no one who attended this solitary wedding banquet thought he didn't care. They all thought he was forcing a smile and pretending to be happy. As soon as they left the palace, they secretly talked about the ridiculous and shameful marriage between Ruan Tang and Duke Austin.

Some people think that he deserved it by selling out his marriage for power and status, others think it's a pity that such a beautiful woman, even though she was a little bit pretentious and vicious, married a moody, disabled and lunatic.

"How horrible! Ruan Tang really didn't even care about his life for power and status. What kind of person is Duke Austin? The number of Omegas who died in his hands, even if there are not hundreds of prisoners, must be dozens... And this is because the royal family deliberately suppressed the news. In fact, who knows if he has killed ordinary people? He is a cruel and heartless guy... He dared to marry such an Alpha..."

"Tsk tsk, even though Duke Austin is a lunatic, it's obvious that he doesn't like him. Otherwise, how could he just leave him alone at the wedding banquet to perform a one-man show?"

"I've never seen such a shabby wedding. It's really embarrassing..."

"Everyone, please don't laugh at this shabby wedding. If it falls into that person's hands, I don't know if he can survive for more than a month."

"He deserves it."

Listening to the whispers of the people around him, Shen Mozhi's brows frowned unconsciously. Thinking back to Ruan Tang, the Omega who had been engaged to him, and his calm appearance just now, he felt a little sour and depressed in his heart for some reason.

He didn't like Ruan Tang, and he hated him even more for pretending to be his savior and making an engagement with him in an attempt to pass himself off as the real thing.

But he didn't want him to die.

But Ruan Tang voluntarily chose to marry Bluebeard Duke Austin. Although he couldn't understand Ruan Tang's mentality in making such a choice, Shen Mozhi felt that marrying such an Alpha would not end well for Ruan Tang.

"Mozhi, is that Duke Austin really that scary? It's all my fault. If I had persuaded my brother more and tried to resolve the conflict between him and Brother Zhou, it would have been great..." Just as Shen Mozhi was distracted, a pitiful voice rang in his ears, and the words were full of worry about Ruan Tang: "He wouldn't have married the Duke like this. If I had tried harder..."

It was his sweetheart, the white moonlight—Ruan Xi.

Ruan Xi's voice immediately brought Shen Mozhi back to reality, making Shen Mozhi recall Ruan Tang's past evil deeds and his repeated schemes and frame-ups against Ruan Xi.

Looking at Ruan Xi, who was pure and innocent and still so kind even though she had been hurt again and again by Ruan Tang, Shen Mozhi suddenly came to his senses.

"Xixi, this has nothing to do with you. You are too kind." Shen Mozhi forced himself to ignore the weirdness and bitterness in his heart, hugged his sweetheart, and comforted her: "Marrying Duke Austin is Ruan Tang's own choice. Even if the ending is not good in the future, it is his own fault and has nothing to do with you!"

Ruan Xicai is the one who truly deserves his care and cherishment.

A black-hearted person like Ruan Tang is not worthy of being compared with him. Even if he died, it was his own fault and he didn't deserve his sympathy at all.

Shen Mozhi kept telling himself this, but for some reason he felt a sense of loss in his heart.

His intuition seemed to tell him that he seemed to have lost something extremely precious and important to him forever.