Fifty-Fifty (1)

"..." Xi Er and the other young brides fell silent. Xi Er knew that Ye Lang didn't care about them, but she didn't expect Ye Lang to refuse so decisively.

The young brides were even more surprised to find that, at this moment, most of the men wanted to come up, but Ye Lang couldn't persuade them to come up no matter how hard he tried!

At this point, they seemed to have come to believe one thing: that Ye Lang, this commoner, might really look down on Xi Er, and even more so on them.

"I have something to say to you. Come up here for a bit. It's not like you'll die!" Debbie said bluntly.

"If you have something to say to me, then you should come down here; you won't die." Ye Lang replied calmly. If it were an ordinary person, they would have been furious at his words.

However, Debbie is Debbie; she wasn't angry and directly stated her reason. "I can't go down there; my clothes are inconvenient. Otherwise, I would have jumped down and punched you already!!"

"..." Ye Lang was silent for a moment, "Okay, I'll go up. Where's the ladder?"

"Can't you jump up? You're a swordsman!" Debbie was a little surprised when she heard Ye Lang say he wanted a ladder. Although this platform was called a platform, it was very simple for martial artists and there were no obstacles at all.

In Debbie and the others' minds, Ye Lang was a martial artist, and a rather skilled swordsman at that, so this high platform posed absolutely no challenge for him.

"I don't want to jump. Is there a ladder?" Ye Lang said casually, but his words made it clear that he could jump up, but he just didn't want to.

"Why not? The ladder is at the back, and it'll be a hassle to climb," Debbie asked, telling Ye Lang where the ladder was.

"I just don't want to! It'll be troublesome later. Let your hair down and pull me up..." Ye Lang looked at Debbie's long hair and thought this method was feasible.

Clearly, Ye Lang mistook Debbie for Rapunzel and actually wanted to use her hair to pull himself up!

But could Debbie possibly be Rapunzel? Although her hair is relatively long, it's impossible for her to pull Ye Lang up, unless she disregards her image and uses her body as a bridge.

However, in that case, she might as well reach out and pull Ye Lang up.

"Get lost!" Debbie cursed directly, inwardly cursing Ye Lang for coming up with such a thing.

"Oh, then I'm leaving!" Ye Lang turned around and left immediately. He didn't want to go up there; it was a troublesome thing for him. Now that Debbie was telling him to get lost, that was for the best.

"Come back! I'll pull you up, you're such a nuisance!!" Debbie said somewhat irritably. Of course, she wouldn't actually use her long hair to pull Ye Lang up; she just took out a rope from her Space Pouch and used it to pull Ye Lang.

No one seemed to care about Debbie taking out the rope, because everyone thought it was normal. Debbie often fought and tied people up, so it was normal for her to have sacks and ropes on her.

When Ye Lang arrived on the platform, Ye Lang was destined to become the focus of the entire event, because apart from the hundred brides, there was no one else on the platform, and certainly no other man.

Ye Lang's ascent made him stand out like a patch of green amidst a sea of flowers, drawing attention and simultaneously inspiring envy, jealousy, and hatred in many!

However, he himself showed no awareness whatsoever, as if he were in a very ordinary place.

"You're the troublesome one, just say what you have to say!" After Ye Lang came on stage, he smiled and nodded to the others as a greeting, and then spoke to Debbie.

Ye Lang hadn't forgotten etiquette; he had been raised in a noble family since childhood. This surprised Xi Er and the others, who hadn't expected that Ye Lang, a commoner, could be so polite.

"I want to ask you, why did you leave?" Debbie asked.

"If I leave, how will we participate in this activity! You were the one who made me stay back then, did you hit your head on something?" Ye Lang asked Debbie directly, looking at Debbie with a pitiful expression.

"You're the one who got hit on the head!! I'm asking you, what's your number!" Debbie cut straight to the point, which was what she really wanted to know.

"It seems so, 5050, a very easy number to remember, and it's repeated." Ye Lang held his sign and examined it a bit more. He felt that this sign seemed a bit unusual, not just a number sign, but also had some other functions.

Ye Lang's guess was correct; this sign was indeed not an ordinary number, but had a small function. What that function was would be announced soon.

"What? You're 5050?"

After hearing Ye Lang's words, Debbie and the others were stunned. Soon, Debbie was the first to react and immediately asked Ye Lang a question.

"Yeah, 5050, what's wrong? Is there a problem?" Ye Lang held the sign and looked at Debbie with some confusion.

"No..." Debbie gritted her teeth, seemingly a little resentful.

That's strange. Shouldn't my number appear? Even if I didn't take it, someone else would have gotten it, so it shouldn't be my fault.

Well, that's just how women are, you can't explain it. I'd better get out of here!

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now. Goodbye!" Ye Lang turned around and jumped off the platform, giving Debbie no chance to stop him.

"Hmph! When you came, you made excuses and said you couldn't get up, but now you're leaving so decisively, just jumping down." At that moment, Debbie's hand was outstretched in mid-air. She seemed to want to call out to Ye Lang, but in the end, she didn't, watching Ye Lang leave.

"Debbie, it seems you and this Ye Lang are quite destined for each other. He actually has the number 5050." Xi Er and the others surrounded them, teasing them.

The reason they have such expressions is actually quite simple. Before this, each of the one hundred brides had already chosen their partners. Of course, it was a random selection; they would just say any even-numbered number, and that person would be the one paired with the bride today.

Although the event numbers are only being distributed now, the teams for both the red and blue sides, as well as the "groom" for the Blue Team, have already been selected.

This isn't cheating; it's still random because nobody knows who will get which number. Each number is assigned randomly.

Odd numbers are for the Red Team, even numbers are for the Blue Team, and the bride's one hundred grooms are among those with even numbers; they can choose any number they want, and the grooms are assigned randomly.

It's just an activity, and if it can be interfered with by other interests, then the game loses its original charm and will make people want to stay away.

Unfortunately, the number Debbie had given earlier was exactly the one Ye Lang had in his hand: 5050!