Chapter 55

Ruan Tang clutched the divorce agreement in his hand, took a deep breath, but stared fixedly at Auston and said solemnly, 'How could this be a meaningless trifle? As one of the parties to this marriage, I have the right to choose.'

At the very beginning of this marriage, he had no right to choose; Auston was his last resort.

But at this moment, he had already set his heart on him.

'What the hell do you want?' Auston was so irritated he wanted to curse.

Ruan Tang, however, showed not a trace of fear. He directly tore the divorce agreement, which couldn't have been more favorable to him, into pieces: 'Unless I die, I won't agree to a divorce.'

Unless Auston killed him, even if he was the weaker party in the power dynamic of this marriage, he would never agree to a divorce.

'Are you fucking insane?' Auston cursed out loud.

Ruan Tang, however, threw caution to the wind and confessed to Auston again: 'Your Grace, I like you.'

Faced with his desire to speak properly with this Omega, but the Omega kept talking about liking him so shamelessly, Auston was extremely uncomfortable, his whole body awkward, and he wished he could sew up this Omega's mouth that had no filter.

'I know you're blind, there's no need to repeat it.' He was embarrassed and angry, and opened his mouth to coldly mock him.

From Shen Mozhi to Zhou Yao, and then to himself... Auston really didn't think it was an honor to be liked by this Omega; he just felt Ruan Tang was utterly blind.

'Your Grace, I don't know what exactly you are running from?' Ruan Tang, however, held his hand tighter and tighter, not giving him any chance to escape. 'But I like you. You are the first person I have ever liked, the one I want to spend my life with. I think you like me too, so I won't let go...'

He had seen too many people with honey on their lips and swords in their hearts, so Ruan Tang was not hurt or resentful about Auston's harsh words; instead, he wanted to understand why Auston was unwilling to be with him.

'Shut the fuck up, stop talking nonsense here!' Auston simply couldn't listen any longer. He felt goosebumps all over from the cheesiness. He wanted to shake Ruan Tang off, but was afraid of hurting him, so he could only yell at him angrily.

Watching Auston's embarrassed anger, Ruan Tang completely threw aside all shame, and no longer knew what 'embarrassment' meant. Holding onto Auston, he became more and more animated: 'How could liking someone be nonsense? I just like you, Your Grace.'

As an Omega, he had never pursued anyone before, but if the target was Auston, Ruan Tang felt he didn't mind pursuing him.

'You don't even know what I look like, how can you like me?' Auston's entire face under the mask was red, but it was completely hidden by the mask as he scolded Ruan Tang angrily.

He just felt this Omega's liking was extremely shallow.

'Liking someone is the attraction between souls, it has nothing to do with what they look like... Your Grace, since you don't like me, then let me pursue you.' Ruan Tang looked at the Alpha before him, his whole body radiating vitality, and sparks of light lit up in his eyes.

Auston took a deep breath and yanked his hand away from Ruan Tang: 'What the hell are you pursuing? Give up, I'm telling you, you won't succeed!'

'I am the Alpha you will never get in your entire life.' He thought for a moment and added after his words.

Although he had thrown off Ruan Tang, his force was controlled perfectly, not at all like his usual raging beast, but like a cat retracting its claws, lightly waving its paw, trying to scare the person away...

'Fine, I just like challenging the impossible.' Ruan Tang completely let himself go, throwing caution to the wind: 'Your Grace, one day, I will make you willingly take off your mask for me and take the initiative to be my Alpha.'

After letting go, Ruan Tang completely abandoned the reserve that belonged to an Omega, feeling that it was perfectly normal as a male to pester a beloved object in a shameless pursuit.

And Auston's attitude of wanting to refuse but still seeming to welcome gave him some confidence...

He knew that Auston was unwilling to take off his mask in front of him, and unwilling to reveal his pheromone scent in front of him. This was a barrier between them, but Ruan Tang firmly believed that one day he could make this barrier disappear completely, and he and Auston would become the closest existence in the world.

Auston was too special to him. He appeared at just the right time, and from the moment he appeared, he had already become the one that Ruan Tang couldn't do without.

Even if he didn't know his appearance or pheromone scent, Ruan Tang still wanted to have him just the same.

'Fine, like what you like.' Auston was extremely annoyed with him, couldn't drive him away, so immediately gave him a big bowl of chicken soup for the soul: 'If you like someone, why can't you just like them quietly? Why must you say it and get them? Truly liking someone means wishing them happiness, not necessarily wanting a result, possessing and obtaining them... This isn't real liking at all, it's just a moment of being hot-headed.'

This was Auston's view of love, hidden deep in his heart.

From this, it can be seen that Ruan Tang's feelings for him were not true love at all, just possessiveness.

Ruan Tang listened to his clichéd love theory, and suddenly burst out laughing.

For no other reason than that Auston's love theory was too good and perfect, so good it could almost be written into a textbook, making people feel that this was the ideal model of true love, without any selfish desires, only wholeheartedly considering the beloved's interests... It was actually particularly good, particularly reasonable...

Anyone else in the world could say this theory and it would be normal, but only coming from Auston's mouth did it seem particularly strange and bizarre.

Because the impression Auston gave was completely opposite to the kind of person who would say such a thing...

But Ruan Tang, looking at him now, felt that perhaps he had caught another glimpse of a corner of Auston's inner world.

Underneath the ferocious exterior, he might actually be a particularly gentle and kind person. His concept of love, in this chaotic and vulgar world, was so pure that it seemed incredible, hard to believe.

'Your Grace, I am different from you. I am a very vulgar person. In my view, liking someone and wanting to possess and obtain them are interconnected and linked...' Ruan Tang said slowly and deliberately. 'If I like someone, I want to get him. I don't want to just watch him be happy and satisfied silently.'

He looked deeply at Auston and said bluntly: 'So, please prepare yourself to either kill me or be obtained by me.'

Auston neither wanted to kill him nor be obtained by him. He felt wordless, his patience exhausted. He directly grabbed a cup from the bedside table and smashed it hard on the ground, bellowing: 'I don't want to hear your nonsense. Get the hell out!'

Ruan Tang was yelled at, but he was still extremely excited because he had finally spoken his confession. Seeing Auston on the verge of explosion, he knew when to stop.

Looking at the cup fragments on the floor, he smiled at Auston: 'Your Grace, having such a bad temper is not good for you. Anger harms the liver. You should change.'

With that, he immediately hugged his 'One Thousand and One Nights' and happily left Auston's room, not forgetting to close the door for him on his way out.

Auston watched his retreating back, but felt himself getting more and more irritated. His whole body seemed stimulated by the suddenly excited, thick pheromone scent that Ruan Tang had left behind, still lingering in the air, carrying clear courtship hints. He burned like fire, the inexplicable heat persisting, feeling that even his cheeks hidden under the mask were hot...

Suddenly thinking of something, Auston almost couldn't help but burst into laughter, but as he laughed, all of a sudden, his brows furrowed, veins bulged on his forehead, and he showed obvious signs of irritation and pain...

Auston immediately knew he was having an episode again. He immediately rang a bell in his room.

At night, the personal valet Kyle, who was on night duty, immediately pushed open the door with medicine, and asked worriedly: 'Your Grace, has your illness flared up again?'

Although there were many spies planted by others around Auston, there were also quite a few of his own people.

This Kyle was Auston's confidant hidden among the servants.

Auston didn't speak. He quickly took the medicine from his hand and swallowed it with water. After a long while, only when that wave had subsided did the painful, ferocious expression on his face ease a little. He answered in a low voice: 'Mm... my illness really has been flaring up more frequently lately.'

'Your Grace, if this goes on, your illness cannot be delayed any longer. You must get Spirit Guidance...' Kyle looked at him with great concern.

Auston had been suffering from Spirit Sea disorder triggered by many causes of migraine for a long time. The doctor had said that the best way was to find an Omega with a high Pheromone Matching Rate with Auston to guide his Spirit Power.

Everyone around Auston advised him to do this, but Auston firmly refused.

Auston knew what he meant. His face darkened and he said nothing.

But Kyle tentatively said: 'Your Grace, actually, the Duchess has a very high Pheromone Matching Rate with you, fully 95%. You are not repulsed by the Duchess's pheromones... Perhaps you could tell the Duchess all this and let him try.'

Although in the eyes of the world, Auston was a complete madman, a heinous Bluebeard, in the eyes of subordinates who truly understood Auston, he was the gentlest and most upright person, only that he had hidden all his goodness under a mask of madness.

He had indeed killed countless people and was brutal and violent to many, but he had truly never harmed an innocent person.

With his power, if he were a little more ruthless and didn't care about the lives of others, he could have countless Omegas treat him, one after another... but because he didn't want to harm the innocent, afraid that he couldn't control himself in the manic state of his illness, he insisted on refusing, willing to bear great pain by taking medicine to suppress his condition...

The Empress, in order to obtain the Crown Prince, once took advantage of his episode to send him several Omegas. Later, those Omegas all went mad. Everyone said Auston was cruel and had tortured those Omegas into madness. But in fact, when Auston was in such a delirious state during his episode, if he hadn't tried his utmost to control himself and drove those Omegas out... I'm afraid those Omegas wouldn't just be insane; they would all have died in a terrible state.

Kyle felt deeply wronged for Auston from the bottom of his heart.