Ruan Tang was confused by his inexplicable words. She was stunned for a long time before she realized that Austin was talking about the story she told him yesterday.
Hearing his sudden praise, Ruan Tang couldn't help but feel flustered. He thought to himself that this lunatic was praising his beautiful voice. Could it be that he was attracted by his voice this time and wanted to cut off his vocal cords to keep?
But how should the sounds be collected?
Should cutting vocal cords be useless?
Ruan Tang's mind was full of thoughts, but she still calmly thanked Auston: "...Thank you for your compliment."
"Come and tell me a bedtime story every night from now on." This time, Auston's request was unexpectedly normal.
As a result, Ruan Tang, who was thinking about the response policy in his mind, was stunned for a moment: "Ah?"
"What? You don't want to?" Upon seeing this, Austin gave him a sidelong look.
Ruan Tang came back to her senses and said in a positive manner: "Of course not, I am happy to tell bedtime stories to adults. I just felt so honored that I didn't react for a moment..."
Aston looked at his obedient and submissive appearance, and immediately hummed with satisfaction.
Last night, while listening to Ruan Tang telling such childish stories, he slept unusually soundly despite having suffered from insomnia for a long time.
This discovery surprised him greatly...
This omega was like a treasure. He could find a use for him from time to time, giving himself a reason to continue to take good care of him and pamper him.
Ruan Tang looked at Austin's satisfied expression, and suddenly felt that the Duke Bluebeard, who was feared by everyone in the Imperial Star, was not that scary after all. He could be easily satisfied by just telling a bedtime story.
Even kind of cute.
This...alpha who likes to listen to fairy tales.
From then on, in addition to Ruan Tang being sucked every day, there was another thing in Ruan Tang's daily routine with Austin that she would go to Austin's room at a fixed time every day to tell him stories and put him to sleep.
While Ruan Tang was very happy about this, she also began to feel that the life she was living now was very much like "One Thousand and One Nights".
The news that Ruan's mother and Ruan Tang's brothers and sisters were brought to the Duke of Austin's mansion to live permanently soon spread among the Imperial Star aristocracy.
Once again, it was confirmed that Auston was very obsessed with the rumor that Ruan Tang, the black-hearted lotus, was obsessed with him...
Just look at how Austin first changed the entire mansion's schedule for him, and then allowed his relatives to live with him. It is clear that the Duke of Austin's mansion is now Ruan Tang's world.
It really made all the married omegas in the entire Imperial Star envious, but they also had to sigh that Ruan Tang could be favored and loved by that madman to such an extent, which was something they could not even envy.
…
After Ruan Tang agreed to marry Austin, she quit her previous job.
At that time, he didn't know what kind of person Austin was, nor did he know how he would live in the Duke's Mansion, whether he would get along well with Austin, and whether Austin, as the Duke, would be willing for him to work after marriage.
Therefore, after getting married, Ruan Tang spent most of her time in the Duke's Mansion, staying at home and never leaving the house.
But now, seeing that she and Austin were getting along well, and she was bored staying at home every day, Ruan Tang had already planned to find another job and go to work.
But before that, Ruan Tang still planned to enjoy this rare leisure time...
Ruan Tang was feeling a bit bored staying at home, and she happened to see her favorite theater troupe performing, so she went out to watch a play starring her favorite actors.
Ruan Tang finished watching the drama and was about to call a taxi to go home.
Unexpectedly, I ran into someone at the entrance of the theater...
It is warm.
Ruan Tang had no intention of communicating with Ruan Xi's protector and her old friend, so she immediately looked away, pretending not to see him, and turned away.
He was about to leave, but Wen Run blocked his way: "Wait, Ruan Tang——"
"Don't go yet, I have something to tell you." Wen Run seemed very afraid that Ruan Tang would not give him a chance to finish his words, so he spoke very quickly.
Ruan Tang looked at him with a very cold expression: "I don't think I have anything to say to you."
He once regarded Wen Run as his best friend and shared everything with him without any reservations, but Wen Run disappointed him time and time again, and chose to stand on Ruan Xi's side when he needed his support the most.
He never expected Wen Run to compete with Ruan Xi for him, or even just stay by his side silently without saying anything. However, Wen Run chose to add insult to injury and, together with Ruan Xi and his protectors, denied him as a whole.
From then on, Ruan Tang felt that he and Wen Run could no longer be friends.
And at this moment, Wen Run came to him. After what happened to Ruan Xi, he didn't need to say anything, Ruan Tang knew that he would stand on Ruan Xi's side again and blame himself for the kind-hearted Ruan Xi...
Therefore, Ruan Tang felt that he really had nothing to say to Wen Run, and did not want to listen to him.
Wen Run felt a sudden pain in his heart when he saw Ruan Tang's cold and distant look. They were blood relatives, the two closest people who were awake at the moment, and should have been the closest of people to each other, but because of his selfishness and narrow-mindedness, he had made the relationship between him and Ruan Tang become like this.
The plot line of this world is currently almost exactly the same as their previous life, except that Ruan Tang and Austin got married.
Thinking about how Ruan Tang in the previous life was as indifferent to him as she was now, but he didn't care, Wen Run thought that Ruan Tang must be disappointed in him. Even if they didn't know that they were close relatives, as a friend, Ruan Tang must be extremely disappointed in him and never wanted to see him again.
However, considering what he did in his previous life, it was reasonable for Ruan Tang to be disappointed in him...
"I... I really want to talk to you, can you give me two minutes? Please, just two minutes, for the sake of our past relationship..." Wen Run immediately laughed bitterly and almost begged.
Even if Ruan Tang is disappointed in him, let her be disappointed.
As long as Ruan Tang is still alive and his loved ones are still alive and well, that's enough.
When Ruan Tang heard him mention the past, she hummed calmly and said coldly, "Okay, but I won't talk about anything related to Ruan Xi."
He didn't think that there was any deep hatred between him and Wen Run to the point where they couldn't even talk to each other, but he didn't want to hear a single word about anything related to Ruan Xi.
Wen Run immediately said hurriedly after hearing this: "Of course, I didn't intend to say anything about him."
Ruan Tang stopped and gave him a look, indicating that he should speak quickly if he had anything to say, with a very cold demeanor.
Wenrun didn't care at all, she just felt extremely guilty and sad.
"How...have you been lately?" Wen Run looked at him nervously and awkwardly, wanting to find an opportunity to tell Ruan Tang about her life story and get to know him, to express that she would stand on the same front with him from now on, but she didn't know how to start, and could only squeeze out an extremely distant greeting dryly.
At this time, the relationship between him and Ruan Tang had become distant.
Once a rift appears in a relationship, it is difficult to go back to the way it was before, whether it is family, love or friendship.
"Very good." Ruan Tang felt that Wen Run was a little different at the moment, very strange, but she had no intention of exploring it, and asked calmly: "Anything else?"
Wen Run felt a pain in his heart when he saw Ruan Tang treating him like a stranger and her answer of "that's fine".
How could Ruan Tang be okay after marrying Austin, the madman who coveted to dig out his glands and cut off his skin?
Wen Run felt as if her heart was broken by a knife, and even her voice became hoarse unconsciously: "I... I know you must be having a hard time, and you must not be willing to marry the Duke of Austin..."
"I... I don't know how to make you believe me, or how to help you, but as long as you open your mouth, I will do everything I can to help you divorce him and get you away from him." Wen Run spoke incoherently.
He has always known that Ruan Tang has a stubborn and competitive personality, and she is never willing to show weakness in front of others, especially Ruan Xi's flower-protecting messengers.
Even if life is not going well, I will definitely pretend to be strong and do well...
Wen Run used to be disdainful of Ruan Tang's insistence on saving face but looking at Ruan Tang at this moment, he felt extremely distressed.
It was his fault, all his fault. They were obviously close relatives, and he was capable of helping Ruan Tang now, but he did not take the initiative to help Ruan Tang. Instead, he watched Ruan Tang face despair and fall into the abyss step by step. He also stood on Ruan Xi's side and added insult to injury.
Ruan Tang didn't expect that he would say such inexplicable words to her as soon as he opened his mouth. She immediately said in a cold voice: "I don't mean to get a divorce. My husband and I are living a good life. He treats me very well. I don't want to leave his side at all..."
"If you come to me for this kind of inexplicable thing and ask me to divorce, then don't waste your time. I have nothing to say to you."
He didn't know why Wen Run came to see him in such a strange way, but he didn't want to continue chatting with him at all.
His first half of life was miserable enough, and he finally got better. Auston was very kind to him, so he didn't need Wen Run's so-called "help" at all...
As soon as he finished speaking, Ruan Tang turned and left.
When Wen Run saw that he was about to leave, he immediately grabbed his hand and said anxiously: "Don't resist me like this. If you have any difficulties in your heart, you can tell me. I will not abandon you again. In fact, we are..."
He knew that although Ruan Tang seemed indifferent, she actually longed for warmth and affection the most, and what she feared the most was being alone and helpless with no relatives.
It is also because of this that he has been trapped in the Imperial Star because of his crazy sister, stupid mother and comatose brother.
It's a pity that he couldn't see through this in his previous life, and always misunderstood Ruan Tang as hypocritical... In this life, Wen Run wanted to tell Ruan Tang that he was not alone...
He is actually his relative, and he will stand on his side.
He was just about to tell his life story.
"Chief Wen, why is the work at the First Research Institute so leisurely? Can you even come out to chat with people during working hours?" Just at this moment, a sarcastic voice came from behind the two of them.
When they heard the sound, they looked to the side at the same time, only to see that Auston was pushing a wheelchair behind them.
He had nothing to do, so he decided to come pick up Ruan Tang, but he saw Wen Run, the omega he had kicked out a few days ago, pestering him...
When Wen Run heard Austin's voice, he stopped what he was about to say and saluted Austin in a proper manner: "Hello, Your Excellency the Duke of Austin."
As the youngest chief of the First Research Institute, he is a talent that the empire has focused on cultivating.
The top nobles of the Imperial Star would also give him some face and treat him with courtesy when they met him.
But this madman Auston is different. It's as if he has no such concept in his mind at all. His attitude is so condescending that it gives people the feeling that although he is sitting in a wheelchair, he is mentally standing at an unreachable height, looking down at you with contempt.
Wen Run felt very uncomfortable, and he also realized that this was no longer a good time to talk to Ruan Tang.
He had no choice but to swallow back the words he had unfinished and wait until the next time he contacted Ruan Tang.
But seeing how closely Austin watched Ruan Tang, and how resistant Ruan Tang was to him, Wen Run didn't know when she would have the chance to say these words again.
Auston didn't even look at Wen Run. Under the escort of the attendant, he pushed the wheelchair directly to Ruan Tang and said, "I'm here to take you home."
Ruan Tang was a little surprised, but still responded obediently: "Okay."
Auston held out his hand.
Ruan Tang hesitated for a moment, then immediately grabbed Austin's hand, pushed his wheelchair, and got on the Duke's Palace's hovercraft with him.
Wen Run looked at their receding backs, and saw the proud Ruan Tang being unexpectedly obedient and cautious in front of Austin. He felt more and more that he, his uncle, must not be having a good time with Austin.
He swore secretly in his heart that he must, must find a way to rescue Ruan Tang from Austin's clutches.
On the way back, Auston suddenly asked, "Is that Wenrun your friend?"
Ruan Tang didn't expect him to ask this question. She was stunned and didn't know how to answer. Then she said, "...not really."
"What do you mean by 'not counting'?" Austin's face darkened. He didn't expect that Wen Run treated Ruan Tang like that, but Ruan Tang couldn't answer with certainty that it wasn't. It was so ambiguous.
Ruan Tang was confused by his sudden change of expression and said immediately: "We were friends before, but now... we won't be friends anymore in the future."
Even though Wen Run was no longer his friend in his eyes, Ruan Tang could not deny that there was a time when he and Wen Run had a very good relationship, so good that they could tell each other anything that was in their hearts, so good that Ruan Tang once thought that they would be close friends who would know each other for life.
Even though things and people have changed now, Ruan Tang doesn't want to deny the good times they had in the past.
That represents Ruan Tang’s youth.
"Since we are not friends anymore, why does he keep coming to you?" Austin frowned, feeling inexplicably annoyed, and asked unhappily.
Ruan Tang had no idea where the word "old" in Auston came from, and could only ignore him because he was a lunatic.
He could only speak softly and slowly, as if coaxing a child: "...I don't know either. He was actually quite strange today."
Ruan Tang really thought Wen Run's behavior was very strange, but he was too lazy to explore it...
"Since he is not your friend, but he always comes to you, that means he is pestering you." Auston's eyes grew darker, and he recalled Wen Run's pestering of Ruan Tang just now. He immediately felt murderous, and asked Ruan Tang casually, but uttered terrifying words: "In that case, how about I have him killed?"
Ruan Tang was stunned on the spot, alert and terrified: "Why did you let someone kill him for no reason?"
He really didn't know what was wrong with Auston that he suddenly wanted to kill someone! Although Wen Run pestered him and kept saying nonsense to him, which was very annoying, it was not a crime punishable by death.
Moreover, he is the chief of the First Research Institute and the key target of cultivation by the Empire and the Kalande Family. If Austin kills him casually like cutting vegetables, it will cause a lot of trouble.
"Aren't you very annoyed with him?" Auston couldn't understand Ruan Tang's thoughts at all.
Ruan Tang became more familiar with him, and she became much bolder in front of him: "...I don't want him to die either. I'm annoyed with him, I don't want to see him, I just want to distance myself from him. It's really not good for you to have murderous thoughts about others. Especially, Chief Wen is a pillar of talent that is useful to the empire..."
The hovercraft just arrived at the door of the house. Ruan Tang wanted to pull Austin aside and have a good talk with him, so that he could change his bloodthirsty habit.
Austin suddenly sneered, left Ruan Tang and turned away.
Ruan Tang: “…”
Ruan Tang looked at his back with a confused look on her face. She had no idea what she had done wrong and how she had offended this alpha with an unusual way of thinking.
Ruan Tang didn't see Austin until dinner, and then she finished her dinner. Seth, the male servant with a wound on his face whom Ruan Tang had not seen for a long time, appeared in Ruan Tang's room holding milk.
"Ma'am, your milk." Auston held the tray with milk and bowed to him.
Ruan Tang was quite surprised to see him: "Why is it you? I haven't seen you for a long time. I thought you had left the Duke's Mansion."
He hadn't seen this clumsy servant for a long time, and he was too busy to ask.
No one in the mansion had heard that Austin had hurt anyone again, and they thought Seth had left the Duke's Mansion and found another way out.
"I had some family matters recently, so I asked the housekeeper for a long vacation and was unable to serve the madam." Austin replied in a deep voice.
Ruan Tang immediately said: "The housekeeper is quite nice to you."
Although she had never been a male servant, Ruan Tang knew that the rules of the noble mansion were strict. Male servants were generally not allowed to ask for leave, especially such a long leave...
"...Not bad, isn't it?" Auston said subconsciously. After thinking for a while, he felt that the butler would not speak like that, so he immediately added: "The butler has always taken good care of me."
Ruan Tang didn't take this to heart. She just looked at the milk in the cup and asked, "Didn't I order coffee? Why is milk delivered instead?"
"Madam, it's not easy to fall asleep after drinking coffee at night, so I replaced it with milk for you, which is more helpful for sleeping." Auston whispered.
He himself has been suffering from insomnia for many years, so he doesn't want Ruan Tang to suffer from insomnia by drinking coffee late at night...
He always did things arbitrarily and arbitrarily, and he directly changed Ruan Tang's drink without considering that no male servant would dare to do so.
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