Chapter 899 An Unexpected Discovery

"You...how come you are here!?" Restraining the fear in his heart, Art stiffened his neck and looked at the visitor.

Saotome Ranzo, the contemporary head of the famous Saotome family, is also Saotome Art's biological father. However, after Art gave up the road of acting and chose to pursue his ideal of flying, there was no contact.

Moreover, Art and Saotome Ranzo had a bad relationship since childhood. Not only was he too strict with Art, but he also imposed his own ideas on Art without considering Art's own ideas.

Before Art's mother died, there were people who made Art feel warm and supported. After his mother died, that family was just a cold house, so Art fled from the Saotome family and began to pursue his own ideals.

But the psychological shadow left to Art when he was a child still made him afraid to face Saotome Ranzo.

"Humph! Where am I? I don't need you, a coward, to worry about me."

"You bastard..." Art was furious. In Saotome Ranzo's eyes, Art only saw a pile of garbage and didn't regard him as a human being at all.

Look, Saotome Ranzo ignored the angry Arte and glanced at Li Lanhua, whose tears had not yet been wiped away: "The stage is for those who are prepared. Don't go up and insult the stage if you are not prepared."

"You guy..."

"Hey, you are too much!?"

"Lanhua is just..."

Originally, the relationship between Saotome Ranzo and Arte is the family of the Saotome family, and it is not convenient for them to interrupt, but Saotome Ranzo put the bad words on Li Lanhua, and Michael, Luca and Matsuura Nanase could not stand it.

"I don't agree with your opinion on this, Mr. Saotome." Lacus and Shirley also came backstage. They knew that Li Lanhua would be very sad if she had a performance accident, so they planned to comfort her, but they happened to come backstage and encountered this scene, and Shirley's face immediately sank.

Lacus still kept smiling, but people who knew her could feel that there was a chill behind the smile.

"In the field of stage and performance, I don't think you have more say than me, Ms. Klein." Saotome Ranzo also didn't look good to Lacus. As a traditional performing family, Saotome Ranzo looked down on the popular stars. In his opinion, they didn't understand the essence of performance at all. Compared with the head of the traditional performing family, they were just little kids who couldn't stand up to the stage.

It was only because Lacus was the wife of the commander-in-chief of the 25th Fleet that he used the formal title. Otherwise, he might not even respond to her, and even didn't sit with Lacus and Shirley when he went to the judges' seat.

"I don't think so, Mr. Saotome." Lacus still kept smiling, but her tone and attitude became stronger. "My husband said a word, every dream is priceless, regardless of high or low, regardless of noble or humble."

Hearing this, Li Lanhua was very moved, and even Art was touched. They all knew that Lacus was not only speaking for Li Lanhua, but also for Art. After all, Art was the one who gave up the Saotome family in pursuit of his ideals.

"In other words, not knowing one's own abilities is also worthy of recognition?" Saotome Ranzo asked with a sneer.

"Whether it is not knowing one's own abilities, Mr. Saotome, have you really understood it?"

"... Humph!"

Saotome Ranzo snorted coldly and left with his favorite disciple. Before leaving, Art's senior brother bowed to Lacus to express his apology, patted Art's shoulder to encourage him, and followed.

"That bastard..." Art looked at his father's back as he left, without reluctance or nostalgia, but only full of anger.

"Okay, Art, don't judge things by appearances." Lacus said to Art.

"Eh? What does this mean?" Although Art didn't like to hear others defending Saotome Ranzo, he had to control his emotions since it was Lacus who said this.

Lacus smiled and didn't say it clearly. It was useless for her, an outsider, to say more about these things. It was best for Art to discover and understand them by himself.

"And Lanhua." Lux and Shirley came to Li Lanhua together, holding her hands on the left and right: "It's a good performance, but you were a little too nervous, and you don't have enough stage experience. You haven't been trained in stage body movements, so you tripped. In addition to vocal lessons, I will focus on teaching you this aspect. It will be very hard, so be mentally prepared."

"Ah? Well!" Li Lanhua was ready to face Lux's scolding. After all, it was very hard for Lux to give her special treatment, but her performance was very poor. Unexpectedly, Lux not only didn't scold her, but also planned to continue to give her special treatment more strictly.

"Well, wipe your tears and go back to school. Don't leave anything behind."

"Well, okay, Teacher Lux!"

Li Lanhua's face regained a firm expression, and Lux ​​and Shirley were relieved. They had other things to do, so they would not return to Meixing Academy with them, so they took the car and left first.

And Li Lanhua and others also packed up their things, adjusted their mood, and prepared to return to Meixing Academy.

However, when they were leaving, a purple-haired uncle stood in front of them.

…

On the other side, Lux and Shirley left the scene of the Miss Macross contest by car and went directly to the secret research institute of LAI Company.

"Isn't he here?" In the research institute, Shirley didn't see Yang Hui, and she was inevitably disappointed. She was worried until Yang Hui fell into a coma, but she... didn't know what identity to visit Yang Hui.

"Disappointed?" Lux asked Shirley with a naughty smile.

"No... no! I don't want to see him!" Shirley retorted arrogantly.

"Ah? I didn't say I was disappointed because of him, and, who is that he... referring to?"

"Luxury!" Shirley's pretty face was quickly filled with blood red. She was really convinced by this black-bellied pink-haired monster. Why does he like to tease her so much!

"Luxury, Miss Shirley, you are here." Yang Hui was not there, and the job of receiving Lux and Shirley naturally fell on Billy Katagiri.

"Well, do you need to do any tests today?" Lux asked proactively.

"No, there is no need to do the test today. I will simply report the current results to you two, and... this person."

"Lanhua!"

Lacus knew from the beginning that Li Lanhua was also a pre-selected target for the singer, so she was not surprised to see Li Lanhua's information, but Shirley Luke was very surprised.

"Yes, this Macross Miss Competition is also an opportunity to find other singers, and this girl's singing voice also found a special FOLD wave reaction. Here is the data."

"How could it be..."