Lifelong Cook (2)

"Then let's make it a little more troublesome. Find a way to eliminate your opponents so they can't participate in the competition. For example, kidnapping, threats, disfigurement, drugging them – you can say anything goes!" Ye Lang proposed another method, but this one seemed to escalate things.

"Stop, stop! This method is no good either. Let's try another one, something that doesn't harm others, a normal method!!" Zhen Xiaoyan was starting to get fed up with Ye Lang, afraid he might actually go through with it.

"Alright, then let's skip those and use the last method. However, this method will be very arduous, and I'm afraid time will be tight, so we need to start immediately! Come, let's go now and won't return until the day of the competition. You guys can help inform our families and ask for leave from school." Ye Lang said as he prepared to leave, directly entrusting others to notify his family.

"???" Zhen Xiaoyan was confused, not understanding what Ye Lang intended to do.

"Let's go, don't just stand there foolishly! Trust me, you will definitely win the championship this time! Sigh, it seems I won't be able to squander my fortune this time." Ye Lang shook his head with a hint of helplessness.

Zhen Xiaoyan stood up, still in doubt, and followed Ye Lang with a hesitant belief.

At the very end, Ye Lang gave a wicked smile and said to Shalan, "You pig, you'd better be careful during this period. Don't blame me if something happens!"

"What do you want to do? I'm not afraid of you!!" Shalan said, trying to maintain her composure.

At this moment, Ye Lang no longer paid attention to Shalan and left with Zhen Xiaoyan. For the next twenty-odd days, until the competition began, neither of them reappeared.

After they left...

"Ye Lang, why are you helping me?" Zhen Xiaoyan was very confused. She didn't understand why Ye Lang would suddenly help her. With his personality, there was no reason for him to get involved, especially since he had bet on her winning.

Ye Lang casually replied, "I'm helping, so what's the reason? Don't think I'm helping for free. You have to promise me one thing."

Although he said it casually, Zhen Xiaoyan seemed to sense a bit of it – he stepped in because he disliked seeing her being humiliated and looked down upon like this.

"What is it?" Zhen Xiaoyan asked with a smile.

"From now on, you have to cook for me every day, and make extra pastries!" Ye Lang said. Zhen Xiaoyan's pastries were exquisite, but she rarely made them because the process was too troublesome. She felt that although the pastries were delicious, the portions were too small, not enough to even fill a gap in her teeth.

"As long as you help me win this competition and give me a chance to be with Moya, I'll cook for you for the rest of my life. I'll make as many pastries as you want!" Zhen Xiaoyan said. She didn't care about the consequences of her words; as long as it helped her win, she was willing to do anything.

"It's a deal!" The confused Ye Lang naturally didn't think anything was wrong with her words, only happy that he had tricked a private, lifelong master chef.

"Ye Lang, what are you going to do?" Zhen Xiaoyan finally asked, inquiring about Ye Lang's method.

Upon hearing this, Ye Lang became very serious and said earnestly, "Fatty! You can still regret it now. Otherwise, for the next twenty-odd days, you'll be living in hell, and success isn't even guaranteed. After all, the time is too short, and your conditions are truly too poor!"

"No, even if it's hell, I must go!" Zhen Xiaoyan gritted her teeth and said resolutely.

"Since you're so determined, then be prepared to suffer. Sigh, if your conditions were even slightly better, it would be fine. But you're extremely lacking. You know nothing of calligraphy, chess, poetry, or painting. You haven't even learned noble etiquette. And you're only 1.6 meters tall but weigh over 100 kilograms of fat. Even losing weight might be too late..." Ye Lang said, shaking his head. Beside him, Zhen Xiaoyan's face grew redder and redder.

"Enough! If you say one more word, I'll crush you!!" Finally, Zhen Xiaoyan became enraged.

"In extraordinary times, we can only resort to extraordinary measures!" Ye Lang sighed.

After this incident, in the following days, things developed in a very interesting way. Many people were paying attention to the missing Ye Lang, of course, with different perspectives and reasons.

"Chengtian, have you found that kid of yours?" The Emperor asked Ye Chengtian directly during court, as if discussing it as a national affair.

This was not him acting out of personal favoritism. It was because Ye Lang had recently given him a headache. What should have been a simple matter had now become somewhat ludicrous!

If it were just Ye Lang leaving with Zhen Xiaoyan, at most the Ye Family would be anxious. But Ye Lang was an adult, so the Ye Family's anxiety had its limits. Moreover, the Ye Family knew Ye Lang's personality, as the following words indicated—

"No, he's disappeared again. You know, when this kid decides to go missing, unless he shows up on his own, we can't find him at all. But we can be sure he's somewhere nearby, we just don't know where." Ye Chengtian said with some helplessness.

Ye Lang had disappeared many times before, and he always reappeared on his own. This time, especially since he had left a message, the Ye Family wasn't overly worried and didn't make as big a fuss as they might have in the past.

The problem was that Ye Lang had left some words beforehand that had caused many people to feel fearful during this period. Among those people, everyone was on edge.

And these people were the talented women participating in the Pigsty Competition—no, the Talented Women Unrivaled competition. After receiving the news, they were all afraid that Ye Lang would do something detrimental to them.

No one could guarantee what Ye Lang would do. Based on his past behavior, it could be described as a fool doing foolish things, making him the most frightening kind of person. Everyone knew he acted without regard for consequences.

Upon hearing Ye Lang's earlier threats of kidnapping, threats, and even their worst fear of disfigurement, they began to panic. They started mobilizing all the resources they could to protect themselves, day and night!

And the families of these talented women, unable to find Ye Lang, turned to the Emperor. They could only implore the Emperor to take charge and find Ye Lang's whereabouts!!

This situation gave the Emperor a severe headache. Ye Lang's public threats were indeed a bit excessive, and he wasn't sure if this kid Ye Lang would actually carry them out. Therefore, he could only tell the talented women to be careful.

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