"Forget that for a slightly more troublesome one, find a way to incapacitate your opponents so they can't participate in the competition. For example, kidnapping, threats, ruining their appearance, drugging them - use any means necessary!" Ye Lang proposed another method, a more severe one.
"Stop, this method is also not good. Come up with a normal, non-harmful method!" Zhen Xiao Yan began to lose her patience with Ye Lang, fearing that he might actually carry out these extreme schemes.
"Alright, let's skip those. The last method isn't through its hardships. I'm afraid time is running out, so we need to act immediately! Let's go, we leave now and only return on the day of the competition. You can inform your family and ask for leave directly from the school." Ye Lang started to prepare to leave while entrusting someone to notify his family.
"??" Zhen Xiao Yan was confused, not understanding what Ye Lang wanted to do.
"Let's go, don't just stand there! Trust me, you will definitely win this time! Sigh, it seems I've failed my family once again." Ye Lang nodded dejectedly.
Confused, Zhen Xiao Yan stood up and followed Ye Lang silently.
At the last moment, Ye Lang gave an evil smile and said to Sha Lan, "Watch your back, you'd better be careful, something might happen and it won't be my fault!"
"What are you planning? I'm not afraid of you!!" Sha Lan feigned composure.
At this point, Ye Lang ignored Sha Lan and left with Zhen Xiao Yan. In the following twenty-plus days, they were nowhere to be seen until the beginning of the competition.
After they left…
"Ye Lang, why are you helping me?" Zhen Xiao Yan was puzzled, not understanding why Ye Lang suddenly offered to help her. Given his character, there was no reason for him to involve himself in this matter, let alone buy her a victory, making it even more unlikely.
"Help is help, there's no reason. Don't think I helped you for nothing, you have to promise me something."
While he said it nonchalantly, Zhen Xiao Yan seemed to sense that he was helping because he didn't like such humiliation and being underestimated.
"What is it?" Zhen Xiao Yan asked with a smile.
"You have to cook for me every day from now on, with more pastries!" Ye Lang said, and indeed, Zhen Xiao Yan's pastries were extraordinary. It's just that she rarely made them, finding the procedure too cumbersome, and she thought the portion was too small to satisfy her.
"As long as you help me win this competition and give me a chance to be with Mo Ya, I'll cook for you for the rest of my life. How many pastries you want, I'll make them for you!" Zhen Xiao Yan said. She didn't care about the consequences, as long as she could win, she was willing to do anything.
"Deal!" The absent-minded Ye Lang naturally didn't think there was anything wrong with this, just happy to have conned a personal, lifelong, top-class chef.
"Ye Lang, what are you going to do?" Zhen Xiao Yan finally asked how Ye Lang planned to help her.
After hearing her question, Ye Lang became very serious and said, "Fatty! You can still regret now, otherwise, in the next twenty days or so, you will be in a hellish situation, and you might not even succeed, as time is too short, and your condition is too poor!"
"No, even if it's hell, I must go!" Zhen Xiao Yan said resolutely.
"Since you're so determined, be prepared to endure hardship. Sigh, if only your condition was slightly better, but you are at a severe disadvantage. You can't play an instrument, can't paint, have no knowledge of aristocratic etiquette, and you're only 1.6 meters tall with over two hundred kilograms of excess weight, even if you lose weight, it probably won't be in time…" Ye Lang shook his head as he spoke, and Zhen Xiao Yan's face turned increasingly red.
"Enough, if you say another word, I'll crush you!" Finally, Zhen Xiao Yan became furious.
"Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures!" Ye Lang sighed.
After this incident, the situation became very interesting in the coming days. Many people were paying attention to the disappearance of Ye Lang, but everyone had different perspectives and reasons for their concern.
"Ye Chengtian, have you found that kid from your family?" The emperor, who was holding court, asked Ye Chengtian directly, as if this matter was a national affair worthy of discussion.
This was not his private concern, but recently because of Ye Lang, he found himself in a bit of a predicament. What was originally a small matter had turned into something that left him feeling amused and exasperated!
If, just Ye Lang took Zhen Xiaoyan away, the Ye family would be worried at most. But Ye Lang is a mature person, and the Ye family is worried to a certain degree. They also know Ye Lang's temperament, as stated below:
"No, we still can't find him. You know, if this kid goes missing, unless he shows up on his own, there's no way to find him. But we can be sure that he must be nearby, just don't know where," Ye Chengtian said somewhat helplessly.
Ye Lang had disappeared many times before and always reappeared on his own. This time, he left a message, so the Ye family wasn't too worried, unlike the past when there was more commotion.
The problem is that this time, Ye Lang left some words before, making many people feel scared during this time, with everyone feeling threatened.
These people were the participants in the pigsty competition, no, they were the talented women in the match, and after receiving the message, they were afraid that Ye Lang would do something harmful to them.
No one dared to guarantee what Ye Lang might do. Based on his past behaviors, doing foolish things to warrant the phrase "fools do foolish things," he is the most frightening kind of person because everyone knows he doesn't care about consequences.
Upon hearing Ye Lang's previous remarks about kidnapping them, threatening them, and even the most feared, disfiguring them, they began to get nervous, mobilizing all their forces to protect themselves day and night!
And because they couldn't find Ye Lang, the families of these talented women turned to the emperor, now can only ask the emperor to intervene, to find out where Ye Lang is!!
This situation made the emperor feel a headache. Ye Lang was openly threatening them, which was indeed a bit much, and he couldn't be sure if that kid Ye Lang would really do those things, so he could only advise the talented women to be cautious.