"Huh~"

After avoiding Cecile's natural darkness, Ryan breathed a sigh of relief. The idea of ​​originally planning to encourage Lixia before the show started was temporarily put aside with Cecile's arrival.

With only 5 minutes left before the performance started, the Rainbow Theatre Troupe had made final preparations for the performance.

The curtain of the stage was pulled down, the lights were turned off everywhere, and the audience in the theater gradually lowered their voices.

At this time, Mayor McDowell's granddaughter Ellie, who was resting today, helped her to the private room.

"Haha~ I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for a long time."

After the old mayor sat down, he pulled Ellie to his right hand and sat down, expressing his late apology to Ryan with a kind expression.

Ryan smiled and shook his head, "You are polite, because the chief secretary incident and the establishment anniversary will come one after another, the state government must be very busy. Besides, the performance has not started yet."

Mayor McDowell sighed softly, and he grabbed Ellie's hand and patted her, "It's really very busy. My granddaughter was just saying that she wanted to give up her job in the spy support department and come back to help me, but fortunately, I was persuaded to stop."

"Grandpa..."

Ellie's expression seemed a little entangled. On the one hand, she did see the other side of Kezhou that could not be seen in the political arena in the work of the spy support department, but... at the same time, she was also very worried about her grandfather who had lost the chief secretary.

Anister has been working hard for the past decade to assist Mayor McDowell. His sudden departure will undoubtedly make the mayor busy in a short period of time, and a suitable successor is not so easy to find.

Recently, Mayor McDowell has even had little time to go home for dinner. In order to make up for the vacancies left by Anister and the large amount of work brought by the recent anniversary of the founding, the respectable elderly man in his seventies almost overdraw his body and strive to maintain the situation in Kezhou.

"Don't worry." Mayor McDowell smiled at Ellie with relief. "Since you have found a way forward in the secret service support department, then continue this path, and grandpa can still stick to it."

"Besides, after the mayoral election in May this year, maybe I will step down from this position. There is time to rest at that time, so don't worry about me."

Ryan heard Mayor McDowell's somewhat lonely words and looked slightly moved. It seemed that the old mayor was really not sure about the election that was not long before.

The short-term exchange between the three before the start of the performance temporarily stopped with the opening of the stage play. The Sun Dancer, played by Ilia, began the first act of the Golden Sun and Silver Moon after the opening curtain.

Although Mayor McDowell watched it once in the preview before, Ilia's performance seemed to be magical.

When she stood on the stage, even Ryan forgot the guy's previous mischievous behavior, leaving only this performance that attracted everyone's attention with the infinite charm of the Flame Dance Girl.

Only when Ryan made a long sip when he switched the gap between the second act, did the same move with Allie, who was separated from Mayor McDowell.

"Ah haha..." Ellie obviously didn't expect that she would be so addicted. At this time, she smiled awkwardly. "Miss Ilia is really amazing. She is worthy of being the famous Yan dancer from the mainland. Every move is full of amazing charm that cannot be ignored."

"Haha~" Ryan smiled dryly, "That's because you didn't see her usual state in life, otherwise your impression of her in your heart would collapse instantly."

While the two were chatting, Mayor McDowell did not interrupt them. Ryan could even tell from the old man's uniform breathing... he fell asleep during Elia's performance.

‘For an elderly man like Mayor McDowell, the intensity of his work has exceeded his tolerance recently…’

Just as Ryan sighed at the mayor's desperate work attitude, the curtain was once again pulled open, and the starring actor of the second act, Yuezhi dancer Lixia, had already appeared in the eyes of the audience.

Lixia, who had just joined the Rainbow Theatre Troupe for a few months, showed amazing talent in the performance of the dance drama. In addition, the theme of the Moon Dance Girl is very consistent with her own temperament. The shock brought by Lixia during the performance is no less than that of the previous Sun Dance Girl Ilia.

Ryan looked at Lixia, who was showing off her charm on the stage with some obsession. "Sure enough, she really likes the job of starring the troupe, but... it's too tiring to take into account both Yin and Lixia's dual identities.'

After the second act, Ellie obviously realized that her grandfather was asleep. In order not to disturb his difficult rest time, Ellie quietly left the seat, circled behind the VIP seat and sat down on the left side of Ryan.

"Miss Lixia is also very good. The newcomer who has just joined the troupe can actually compete with Miss Yilia in the performance."

Ryan's lips curled up a proud smile, but said without moving his face, "Because she has that potential, I heard that Lixia was pestered and beaten into the troupe by Miss Illia while visiting the Rainbow Theatre. Now I have to admire Illia's eyes."

Ellie smiled softly, "Indeed, I can only enjoy such a wonderful program now by entrusting Miss Ilia's blessing."

The next play is not the solo performance of the two dancers. Others from the troupe appear one after another in the third and fourth acts. The interaction between the two dancers gradually retreats to the climax.

When the wonderful finale ended, the lights of the audience lit up at the same time. Lisha and Ilia and other troupe members stood on a huge chandelier that slowly rotated and fell, waved to the audience.

It is said that the various puppet mechanisms of the Rainbow Theater Troupe were all from Master Yolugu in Rozan Belk's workshop. It's really a puppet they were able to invite the strange-tempered master of puppet.

Thanks to Ilyana's performance that was almost "Tao", it was probably because of the pure artistic perspective that the withdrawn old man was impressed.

As the actors gradually left the stage, thunderous applause resounded throughout the audience. Such a huge movement naturally woke up Mayor McDowell who had been taking a nap for more than half an hour.

"Um……"

The old mayor rubbed his eyebrows and gradually came back to his senses from the haze. He looked at the situation of the theater below and sighed in shame.

"Sorry, old man, I am indeed old and fell asleep in Miss Illia's performance. Ally...well?"

When Mayor McDowell turned to look at his right hand, he accidentally discovered that his granddaughter was missing.

"Grandpa, I'm here."

Ellie then stood up from Ryan and walked quickly to Mayor McDowell. "I just saw you sleeping well. I changed my seat to avoid waking you up. Have you been resting for half an hour?"

Mayor McDowell smiled and patted his granddaughter's hand to comfort him, "Haha~ Although I'm sorry Miss Ilia, the nap during this period has indeed restored me a lot of energy. Now I can complete the afternoon and evening work again."

With the end of the performance of the Rainbow Theater Troupe, Mayor McDowell did not intend to leave the seat immediately, and the security personnel and the theater manager outside did not open the door to urge him. Ryan gradually understood.

‘It seems that the mayor decided to talk about the serious matters after the performance…it was also considered to have allowed me to enjoy the whole wonderful performance.’

Sure enough, after Mayor McDowell asked Ellie to sit down again, he finally showed a serious expression on his face.

"Mr. Reinhardt, based on the information investigated by the secretariat, I know you don't like to go around the corner, so I just said it."
Chapter completed!