The young man seemed not to have expected Ruan Tang to ask this question. After a pause, he shook his head.
As if answering Ruan Tang, his face was not born like this.
"Your face... could it be the Duke's?" Ruan Tang looked at the scars on his face and felt that they were fresh wounds. She asked as she thought of something, but then stopped talking when she realized she had said something wrong.
Ruan Tang had heard many horrible rumors about her husband, the Duke of Bluebeard, who was notorious on the Imperial Star.
One of them is that after the eldest prince became disfigured, his temperament changed drastically, and he became violent and eccentric. Because of his disability, he could no longer stand the sight of normal people.
Therefore, apart from the old butler sent by the Queen to be by his side, there was no healthy person around him in his duke's mansion...
He could only feel happy when there were disabled people serving him.
Even the robots are not physically healthy. His mansion only recruits and employs disabled people. Even healthy people will become disabled if they enter his mansion to work.
Rumor has it that the Duke himself did it...
Disfigurement is also a form of disability...
Ruan Tang looked at Set and felt that he seemed like a newcomer, and the wounds on his face also looked fresh, so she couldn't help but make this guess.
The young man didn't seem to expect him to ask this. He lowered his eyes slightly, then shook his head and said, "...No, ma'am."
Ruan Tang looked at his timid and clumsy appearance, not knowing whether what he said was true or not, or whether she dared not to say it because of her husband's bad reputation.
Since he didn't want to talk, Ruan Tang didn't ask any more questions. She just sighed softly and said, "...I see that the wound on your face hasn't healed well yet. It seems to be festering a little. It's not very pretty. If you go out to serve like this and are seen by the housekeeper, you'll probably get scolded..."
"There's a medical kit in my luggage with medicine in it. Can you bring it over to me? I'll help you deal with it."
Life is not easy, especially in today's society after genetic modification and ABO gender differentiation, the gap between the rich and the poor is particularly huge.
Most of the wealth in society is in the hands of the nobles and AOs. The short-lived slum BETA can be said to be inferior from birth.
Although the Duke's Mansion is eerie and scary, the pay for work here is good. In order to make a living, turning oneself from a normal person into a disabled person in exchange for the opportunity to work in the Duke's Mansion is an incredible thing in the eyes of the AOs.
But after Ruan Tang learned more about it, she realized that this was a very normal thing for the BETA in the slums.
Many of them can't even afford to eat, and it is normal for them to make themselves unhealthy just to have enough food and clothing, and to exchange one thing for another.
Ruan Tang felt very sorry for them, but the ice was not formed in a day. Being in such an environment and with such an identity, she could only be nicer and gentler to them...
Ruan Tang also knew that she could not do more for them and change the world.
The young man named Seth seemed to have not expected Ruan Tang to say and do this, but after being stunned for a moment, he still obediently found the medical box that Ruan Tang brought from Ruan Tang's luggage and handed it to Ruan Tang.
Ruan Tang asked him to sit down directly and looked carefully at Set's face, which was injured by something unknown, had rotten polyps and hideous scars, and was still oozing clear liquid.
The man's back was straight, and the Omega in front of him was staring at him. Seth then noticed that the Omega in front of him not only had excellent skin and a special fragrance, but also had a pair of particularly beautiful eyes. His pupils were dark, like the sky in a deep starless night, quiet and deep, just like precious obsidian.
One can't help but want to dig out these beautiful eyes, keep them for oneself, and collect them as gems.
But no, these eyes are so bright and lively, I am afraid that if I dig them out, they will never shine again...
What should be done to dig out these eyes while maintaining their current beauty?
Seth was lost in thought in his mind.
Ruan Tang had no idea what the man in front of her was thinking. She had already wet a cotton pad with disinfectant and was cleaning and disinfecting the sores on the young man's face.
He was very careful, but the wound on the young man's face was too horrible. Even if he was careful, the constant movement still affected the young man's wound...
He pulled the young man out of his thoughts, frowned and made a "hiss" sound.
Seth almost immediately felt the urge to get angry.
"Sorry, did I hurt you? I didn't mean to do that. I'll be more careful..." Ruan Tang was concentrating on the wound on his face, not noticing what he was thinking. Seeing that he was in pain, she apologized repeatedly, and her hands became much gentler: "I don't actually have any experience in cleaning wounds like this."
Seth looked at him with the gentleness that couldn't be any gentler, and his calm eyes that ignored his hideous scars from beginning to end. For some reason, the violence in his heart disappeared all of a sudden.
He shook his head gently, "It doesn't hurt, ma'am."
Looking at the Omega in front of him, who was always calm and peaceful facing his face, without a trace of surprise or fear, and with a normal look in his eyes, his heart moved slightly, and he couldn't help but feel a little curious about the Omega in front of him.
Looking at his current face, even his biological mother screamed when she first saw it, unable to suppress the disgust and loathing in her eyes.
Not to mention, the Omegas he had met couldn't control the expressions of fear and horror they showed after seeing his face, even if they tried their best to disguise themselves.
But after seeing his face, Ruan Tang, apart from the initial surprise, did not show the slightest fear, panic or disgust from beginning to end...
He was calm from beginning to end, as if he was a normal person.
And Seth could see that he was not pretending.
All of this made Seth extremely curious about Ruan Tang.
"...Madam, aren't you afraid of my face?" The young man looked back at Ruan Tang and asked immediately.
Ruan Tang didn't expect him to ask this. She was stunned for a moment and immediately said, "Scared? Why should I be afraid?"
"…Because my face is ugly and disgusting." Speaking of his own face, Seth's tone was very calm.
He still remembers that when he woke up after being seriously injured, the first thing he saw was his mother. He looked at her weakly but expectantly, and stretched out his hand, wanting to be close to her and wanting her to hug him.
However, after seeing his face, his mother screamed hysterically in horror and fear: "Ah! His face, how could his face become like this, how could it become like this... Hurry up and heal me, heal me, I don't want to see him..."
"What? He can't be cured. He can't be cured. Why is he still alive? Why is he still alive..."
Although the memory was very old, he still had an indelible impression of the disgusting and ugly face. Therefore, he was particularly curious about why Ruan Tang could look at such a face calmly?
"What's ugly or disgusting about this? You're just injured, it's no big deal..." Ruan Tang looked at the young man calmly.
In fact, he really didn't think there was anything special about the young man's face. After seeing too many disgusting beautiful appearances, he always paid more attention to the inner qualities.
Beauty or ugliness really doesn't matter to him.
However, thinking that the young man asked this, although his tone did not reveal anything, he must be very concerned and inferior about the current appearance of this face.
Although Ruan Tang didn't want to say much, she still said a few more words in the hope of comforting the young man: "Appearance is not important. I have seen many people with gorgeous appearances, but their hearts are as vicious as snakes and scorpions. Inner kindness is the most important... I believe that you will definitely meet someone who truly likes you in the future and gain happiness..."
"Someone who truly loves me? Gain happiness?" When Seth heard this, he laughed sarcastically.
How could anyone like someone like him?
Besides, he doesn't need anyone to like him...
"Believe in yourself, you will definitely meet the one." Seeing him like this, Ruan Tang thought he was so inferior that he had lost hope in life, so she immediately encouraged him, "In fact, having good looks is not necessarily a good thing, because having too good looks will attract many hypocritical people... It will blind people, make them unable to see the true heart, and they will not be able to pursue true happiness."
Just like him, the so-called love at first sight is actually just lust, and it is difficult for him to find a true lover.
Ruan Tang's voice was gentle and soothing: "Only when you have flaws in your appearance and nothing can you see your true heart. Because, when someone falls in love with you, what they love must be your soul."
Such feelings are rare, which is why people yearn for and envy them.
Seth didn't expect Ruan Tang to say this to him, and no one had ever said this to him. He stared at Ruan Tang for a long time, confirming that what Ruan Tang said came from the heart, and it was obvious that she really thought so in her heart, and was not fooling him. Suddenly, he said: "...Madam, you are so weird."
It’s also really beautiful.
He suddenly felt that he didn't hate this Omega anymore.
"Thank you for the compliment." Seth was not the first person to say that he was weird, but Ruan Tang did not think that weird was a derogatory word.
Because everyone living in this world is a special, unique individual, and he does not want to become the same as others just for the sake of seeking something.
He doesn't want others to become like him.
Ruan Tang didn't see Duke Austin, her nominal husband, for the entire day. Instead, after breakfast, he asked Seth to take him around the mansion and familiarize him with the environment.
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