Ruan Xi was stunned and speechless.
He had no way to explain to Shen Mozhi his obsession with Ruan Tang, nor could he tell Shen Mozhi that the system stipulated that he could only live a better life by constantly plundering energy from Ruan Tang.
"Isn't it good for us to live our own lives?" Shen Mozhi looked at him coldly: "Only by getting out of the haze and obsession of the past can we live a better life in the future. Isn't this what you told me?"
He didn't know how Ruan Xi had changed from a little angel in childhood to what she is now.
But as a normal person, he really couldn't understand Ruan Xi's obsession with pestering a person who didn't take him seriously at all and was living a normal life...
Ruan Tang had already moved on, so why should Ruan Xi keep trapping herself in the past?
Ruan Xi felt a chill run down her body when she heard his words. She quickly laughed dryly with a pale face and said, "I'm sorry, Mo Zhi. I was too angry and panicked for a moment, so I spoke nonsense. I was wrong..."
Shen Mozhi is his last hope and reliance.
He must not let Shen Mozhi know that the person who said these words to him was Ruan Tang, and the person who saved him was also Ruan Tang... but Ruan Tang had forgotten all this long ago.
He was the despicable person who shamelessly used the system to seize Ruan Tang's identity and pretended to be Shen Mozhi's savior...
He can't lose Shen Mozhi.
Shen Mozhi looked at him deeply without saying anything. Although he was extremely disappointed with Ruan Xi, he was an extremely trustworthy person. As long as he recalled that after Ruan Xi rescued him as a child, he held his hand tightly and promised him that he would marry him when he grew up and protect his promise.
He couldn't say anything.
Ruan Xi's kindness made him feel indebted to her for the rest of his life.
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After Ruan Tang asked Austin for the person, he led his men directly to the Ruan family.
Since breaking up with Ruan Ming, Ruan Tang has not contacted anyone from the Ruan family for a long time, and has rejected all invitations from the Ruan family.
The Ruan family might be holding some kind of banquet today. It must be some important day, and it looks very lively.
"... Fifth, Fifth Young Master... why are you back? Why are you bringing so many people with you?" The security guard was startled when he saw Ruan Tang, who had a gloomy face and was accompanied by guards, as if he was here to cause trouble, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.
Ruan Tang ignored him and rushed straight to the Ruan family banquet hall with Austin's personal guards.
He would not give the Ruan family an ounce of face. Ruan Ming and Xia Ruzhi had harmed his mother and siblings to this point. No matter what the situation, he would never let them have an easy time.
The Ruan family is currently holding a full-month banquet for Ruan Ming's third son, the youngest son of Xia Ruzhi's eldest son Ruan Zhuoxu.
The hands of the gilded floor clock in the hall moved slowly. It was a lively time with guests chatting and laughing.
At this moment, Ruan Tang rushed in directly with Austin's guards. The Ruan family was unable to stop them and could only follow Ruan Tang in embarrassment.
Looking at Ruan Tang's current posture, it was not good to move, nor was it good to stay still. They were all a little scared: "Master, the fifth young master..."
"Why did you come back suddenly?" Ruan Ming was surprised to see his son, who had not spoken to him for many days. Looking at his attitude, he didn't have time to think about what Ruan Tang wanted to do, but he had already put on his father's attitude.
Ruan Tang looked at the father and sneered, asking, "Why? Can't I come back?"
Everything in the Ruan family was earned with the blood and flesh of his mother, brothers and sisters. None of Ruan Ming's children have the right to return here, and he will not be without it either.
Ruan Ming didn't expect that Ruan Tang would be so arrogant and disrespectful to him in public. He gasped.
Unexpectedly, this son, who already had a weird temper and was stubborn, became even more arrogant and domineering after getting married.
Ruan Zhuoxu, another protagonist of today's banquet, did not wait for Ruan Ming to speak. He smiled and tried to smooth things over, but he was secretly accusing Ruan Tang of being unfilial. "Fifth brother, this is your home. How could we not let you come back? Don't you know how worried and anxious mother and father are when you didn't come back and threw a tantrum and ignored them?"
He had a smile on his face, but in fact he was extremely dissatisfied with Ruan Tang, Ruan Ming's first brother. He felt that Ruan Tang had been gloomy and cold since he was a child and was not likable. The most important thing was that Ruan Tang was born to Tang Yun. Ruan Zhuoxu would never forget the days when he was a child and Tang Yun was still the mistress. He could not even call his own father father, but could only call him master, and was poked in the back by others.
Ruan Tang was born in wedlock...
He would still be jealous even if the other person was just an oga who was not to be feared.
"I'm not here to see you. This is not the place for you to talk!" Ruan Tang gave him a cold look, but she had no intention of talking to him at all.
Ruan Ming had many illegitimate children, and he already had three before Ruan Tang was born.
The other two lovers each gave birth to the second and fourth child, while Ruan Zhuoxu, born to Xia Ruzhi, is the third child.
Although Ruan Tang was not very close to them in the past, he would not speak ill of them to such an extent, because he knew in his heart that no matter what these people did, it was actually Ruan Ming's fault. Ruan Ming was the root of everything and the culprit.
His brothers and sisters also had no right to choose where they were born.
But after knowing that it was Xia Ruzhi who harmed their family——
Ruan Tang would no longer be able to have a good face towards Xia Ruzhi's child. Everything Xia Ruzhi did was for herself and her child. Ruan Zhuoxu and Ruan Xi enjoyed everything that Ruan Yang and Ruan Yue should have enjoyed. This was their original sin.
And now thinking about it, the name Ruan Zhuoxu was also a calculation that concealed Xia Ruzhi's ambitions from the beginning.
His eldest brother's name is Ruan Yang. Xu and Yang have the same meaning, while Zhuo means to surpass or be better than.
Xia Ruzhi, this despicable mistress, had no good intentions from the very beginning.
Looking at Xia Ruzhi, dressed elegantly in a gorgeous attire, supported by her daughter-in-law, smiling and looking extremely proud, Ruan Tang felt it was extremely irritating.
He simply couldn't suppress the anger and hatred in his heart.
Everything their family has now should have belonged to his mother and brothers and sisters.
Everyone who came to the banquet looked at Ruan Tang's serious driving style, even bringing people with him, and thought that they would get to eat the Ruan family's melons again, and they immediately swallowed their saliva.
They all looked at Ruan Tang and Ruan Zhuoxu.
Ruan Zhuoxu didn't expect that Ruan Tang would change so much after marriage. He became so arrogant and stubborn that he didn't give his brother and future head of the family any face. His face suddenly became extremely ugly: "You——"
But because Ruan Ming was still there, he was not the head of the family and could not just tell Ruan Tang to get out, and he couldn't say anything to scold her.
"How do you talk to your brother?" Ruan Ming was furious when he saw that his family was about to lose face and become a laughing stock of the entire Imperial Star again.
But seeing that Ruan Tang brought so many personal guards, considering that he was planning to keep this son, and Ruan Tang's temper was originally bad and stubborn, the more you are tough with him, the more he will make you lose face, and he didn't intend to tear his face with him, and he didn't want to embarrass himself in such an occasion. After thinking it over again and again, Ruan Ming still endured it and said like a kind father: "This is your home, today is your nephew's full moon banquet, you should have come back. But you are in such a hurry, without saying hello in advance, and you brought so many people... Those who know you are going home, and those who don't know will think you are seeking revenge?"
He thought that since he had already lowered his posture so much, Ruan Tang should also stop while he was ahead and consider the overall situation.
But unexpectedly, Ruan Tang didn't give him this face at all——
"Is he my brother? He is nothing more than an illegitimate child born to a despicable third party." Ruan Tang looked at him coldly, his eyes red, no longer as gentle and indifferent as usual: "And, Marshal Ruan, you are really right, I am here today to seek revenge!"
His words were equivalent to completely breaking off relations with the Ruan family, Ruan Ming, and Ruan Zhuoxu...
Suddenly the whole place was silent.
The Ruan family's little troubles were known to everyone in the entire Imperial Star, but no one brought them up openly.
But at this moment, Ruan Tang, the son of the original wife, had torn his face like this, which made some people couldn't help but cast their gossipy eyes on Ruan Zhuoxu and Xia Ruzhi, mother and son.
Xia Ruzhi's face suddenly turned extremely pale. Having been Mrs. Ruan for so many years, she never expected that after so many years, someone would still call her a mistress in front of her face.
Ruan Ming was so angry that he almost fell over: "You——"
Ruan Zhuoxu clenched his fists, looking at the hateful son of his first wife and the pointing eyes around him, but he was the first to come to his senses and call a spade a spade: "Ruan Tang, I know you resent your father for divorcing your mother and marrying my mother, but there was nothing we could do about it. Your mother suddenly became seriously ill and could no longer help the Ruan family and your father. For so many years, although they had divorced long ago, your father had always supported the first lady and asked us to call her Mrs. Tang... and as a stepmother, my mother was not that good to you, but you had everything you deserved, and you grew up safely..."
He had been Xia Ruzhi's mistress and avoided talking about the fact that he was an illegitimate child.
"Even if you feel it's unfair, my mother can only do this as a stepmother. After all, you are not her biological child, so she can't treat you as her own." Ruan Zhuoxu understood his mother's essence and said a series of great truths: "I understand that you may think that if your mother was still Mrs. Ruan, your life would be much better than it is now, but have you ever thought about it?"
"Your mother had an accident more than 20 years ago, and she was just a commoner with no family background, but my mother was the daughter of the noble Xia family... My mother and my maternal grandparents have contributed so much to the Ruan family being what it is today, and my mother's wife's diplomacy played a huge role. Everything my mother enjoys is what she deserves..." Ruan Zhuoxu had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his words sounded righteous.
But his words were meant to discredit Ruan Tang: "And you, Ms. Tang, something happened to you when you were so young. My mother raised you to this age. It was a lot of hard work... I don't know where you got so much resentment from, and who influenced you to hate us so much that you don't even remember the kindness we gave you in giving birth to you and raising you?"
He had a loud voice and spoke beautifully and righteously.
As an older brother, his brainwashing skills are much better than Ruan Xi's. The crowd who were originally enjoying watching Ruan Tang, the son of the original wife, tearing apart the mistress's illegitimate child, gradually wavered and began to have some doubts.
It is true that Xia Ruzhi is a mistress, but it is well known that Ruan Ming is unfaithful. Among his early lovers, there were more than one who gave birth to illegitimate children while married. Moreover, Xia Ruzhi was not Ruan Ming's first mistress. Why did Ruan Tang blame Xia Ruzhi instead of them?
It's just that Xia Ruzhi is Mrs. Ruan and Ruan Zhuoxu is the heir. He must be dissatisfied in his heart, right?
But strictly speaking, when Tang Yun got into trouble, Ruan Tang was still so young. Even though she was his stepmother, Xia Ruzhi had raised him to this age. Even though she didn't take as much care of him as she did her own children, he had enough food and clothing.
Seeing that Ruan Tang took away so much of the Ruan family's assets when he got married, and Ruan Ming invested so much money in the foundation established by Tang Yun and her son to be responsible for their future lives, it is enough to see that even if the Ruan family cannot be said to be very good to Ruan Tang, they have not treated him unfairly.
Ruan Tang now seems to be influenced by Austin and is capricious and arrogant. He looks like an ungrateful person and has a bad character.
Many people were brainwashed by Ruan Zhuoxu and sympathized with Xia Ruzhi.
The facts of the Ruan family are such that it is difficult for an honest judge to judge their family affairs. The husband says he is right and the wife says she is right, and it is impossible to explain them clearly.
"Xiao Xu..." Xia Ruzhi immediately wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at her eldest son with an innocent look.
Previously, because of Ruan Xi's incident, her reputation was greatly damaged. Fortunately, she had this eloquent eldest son, so she had this opportunity to clear her name.
Ruan Zhuoxu gently supported her and called out, "Mother..."
Ruan Tang looked at the deep love between them as a mother and son, as well as the vague contemptuous looks from the people around him, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart that Ruan Zhuoxu was so skilled in calling a horse a zebra, and he was able to use it to whitewash himself so confidently, which was indeed a good trick.
However, he is no longer the same person he was before, and no matter how sophisticated their methods are, they cannot affect him at all.
The road he is walking on now is the most dangerous road in the world. He might fail and even lose his life one day. Does he still care about his good reputation or a bad reputation?
Now he just wanted to be like Austin, to take revenge when there was revenge, to have complaints when there was complaint, and to live happily as he pleased.
“Pah, pah, pah—”
Ruan Tang sneered and applauded Ruan Zhuoxu and Xia Ruzhi's performance: "Good performance, why don't you continue?"
"You disobedient son, how far do you want to go? You are rich and frivolous now, and you have become the chairman of the OGA Protection Association, but you must know that family is always family, and relatives are always relatives." Ruan Ming was immediately furious, and he didn't care about his face towards Ruan Tang, and scolded: "Why don't you apologize to your Aunt Xia quickly?"
Seeing this, Xia Ruzhi also wanted to show off her virtuous and kind side, and use Ruan Tang to clear her own name. She immediately took a step forward, approached Ruan Tang, and acted like a gentle mother: "Xiaotang, I watched you grow up. Although I don't treat you as my own flesh and blood, I also treat you as my nephew... When I see you like this now, my heart really hurts..."
This is her old trick, and Ruan Tang can't do anything to her anyway.
But she never imagined that the Ruan Tang of today is no longer the Ruan Tang of the past.
Seeing the enemy who had harmed her entire family approaching her, Ruan Tang became furious. She grabbed Xia Ruzhi's hair and punched her fake white lotus face with all her strength.
In the past, Xia Ruzhi had annoyed him, but he had ignored it and thought it did not cause any real harm to him. Xia Ruzhi herself was also a poor person who was fickle and promiscuous like Ruan Ming.
But now, knowing that her mother, brothers and sisters were killed by her——
Ruan Tang had no intention of being polite to her.
"Ahhhhh——" Xia Ruzhi didn't expect that he would dare to attack her, and she screamed miserably.
Ruan Tang refused to let her go and punched her in the face several times.
Ruan Ming and Ruan Zhuoxu reacted immediately and rushed forward to rescue Xia Ruzhi.
However, they were stopped by Austin's personal guards, who did not allow them to get close to Ruan Tang.
The sudden change startled everyone present. They looked at Ruan Tang in disbelief, almost thinking that he had been with Austin for too long and was infected by him, or had taken the wrong medicine and started to become violent.
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