The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 114

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 114

Feeling slightly bitter, I clenched my jaw and forced a smile.

Then Yu-hwa added an explanation.

“I can help you a lot. I can give you personal guidance too. With your talent, you could debut right away with just a little practice.”

Come to think of it, I know that Yu-hwa’s agency hasn’t produced any new artists since Sierra, Yu-hwa’s group.

I wondered why Yu-hwa suddenly joined this program, but maybe her agency was looking for trainees.

“How about it? If you haven’t talked with Director Kim Ja-in yet, would you consider our company too?”

I knew Yu-hwa would like me, but…

I already knew my singing style and dancing matched her stage preferences since she’d told me directly several times in the past.

I’d actually used that knowledge to my advantage in securing more favorable competition parts.

But I didn’t expect her to be directly involved in casting.

That made it even more regrettable.

‘If only she had said this a little earlier.’

Since I’d already finished talking with Kim Ja-in, it was unfortunately impossible to join her agency.

I’d also made up my mind to work with all the Flora Members together.

Rather than starting over as a trainee at an already established company like Yu-hwa’s, it would be better to have full control over a company I invested in myself.

“Thank you for the offer, senior. I’ll seriously consider it.”

For some reason, I couldn’t bring myself to reject Yu-hwa outright, so I gave an ambiguous answer.

But Yu-hwa seemed satisfied with that response and nodded with a relieved smile.

“Good. It’s an important decision, so think it over seriously and let me know anytime. I’ve already talked to the company about it, oh, I did mention it, but don’t feel pressured at all – you can refuse if you don’t think it’s right.”

“Yes.”

My response to her considerate words marked the end of our conversation.

What I thought would be a short chat seemed to have taken longer than expected.

The members had already gone home, and Hong Jin’s car was waiting at the broadcasting station entrance.

“Go ahead and get in.”

Yu-hwa, who had walked me to the broadcasting station entrance, patted my head with a somewhat awkward gesture and waved goodbye.

“Thank you.”

When I bowed in greeting, Yu-hwa turned around and headed back toward the broadcasting station.

She seemed to have more work to do at the broadcasting station.

I stood still and watched Yu-hwa’s retreating figure.

‘Come to think of it…’

Once this program ends, it won’t be easy to meet Yu-hwa like this anymore.

Unless I actually join Yu-hwa’s agency.

That thought made me feel genuinely lonely, as if I were saying goodbye to someone forever.

Or maybe it finally felt like Choux Cream had truly disbanded.

‘These memories are still so vivid.’

Though these are all just my own memories.

Even if we ended up at the same agency, we’d never again sleep together every day, laugh together, and share threadbare hopes like before.

Yu-hwa’s figure walking away without any lingering attachment felt strangely cold.

Here I was, standing still with lingering feelings.

I watched Yu-hwa’s light footsteps for a long while before getting in the car.

***

And some time passed.

“Oh, this is good?”

Producer Jae-han, who had worked on the arrangement with us, nodded in admiration.

“I seriously want to recruit Da-min and Ji-ye to our team. If you’re interested in making music, consider this field too.”

When Jae-han said this half-jokingly with a refreshing laugh, Han Da-min also smiled and replied playfully.

“Should I? If I can’t debut, please take me with you.”

“If you’re not going to debut, come over. I’ll take Da-min anytime.”

Seong Jae-han, leader of the producing team Klaxon.

If Jae-han, known for being extremely picky and having high standards as much as his skills, was this satisfied, I didn’t need to worry about this song’s quality.

I watched Jae-han genuinely coveting Han Da-min and played the music again.

‘All that hard work through the night paid off.’

Flora would be the original artist, and the composition and lyrics were handled by Klaxon crew members that Seong Jae-han belonged to, so we arranged it with full commitment.

Without worrying about respecting or being considerate of the original song, we freely cut and pasted as we pleased – it was tiring but honestly incredibly fun.

I learned a lot in the process too.

“Ji-ye, um, I want to tell you to join our team too… Ah, forget it, just do the idol thing.”

Seong Jae-han, who had been openly trying to recruit Han Da-min even with cameras rolling, spoke to me as if doing me a favor.

Seong Jae-han also knew that we weren’t the winning team.

He thought Han Da-min, who was on the older side for an idol re-debut, was worth recruiting, but figured I was still young enough to debut if I set my mind to it.

“Ji-ye, when you debut later, you have to let us write songs for you.”

“Is that up to me?”

“Isn’t it? Then we’ll give them to you guys. The best thing would be for Flora to win.”

Seong Jae-han wrapped up the conversation with empty but encouraging words and continued working.

With that, the arrangement was complete. The choreography was also being smoothly modified to match the arrangement.

Though it wasn’t training camp yet, we were already meeting in advance to practice the song, so we wouldn’t have to struggle through last-minute practice during the final training camp.

About a week before the training camp filming.

The episode containing the 4th round ranking results aired, and the music show Countdown recording we filmed as a benefit was also released.

At the same time, the challenge videos we shot during Countdown began uploading one by one.

Even while focusing intensely on practice amidst all the various supplementary content suddenly released after the 4th round broadcast, I could immediately tell the fans’ reactions were enthusiastic.

***

Right after the Countdown recording aired, SNS was flooded with countless edited GIFs and people belatedly curious about the Start Plan cast members.

Even before Start Plan, quite many people were sick of U-Net’s competition programs.

With the recent vote manipulation and parachute controversies surrounding Flora added to that situation, even more people dismissed Start Plan thinking “there we go again.”

But after this Countdown broadcast, many people began taking interest in Start Plan and its contestants.

At the same time, the challenge videos the cast members filmed during the Countdown recording began trending heavily in algorithms.

The controversy surrounding Flora hadn’t completely died down yet.

People who still doubted Flora existed, but despite that, our popularity was growing day by day.

***

“I’ll see you in a week, miss.”

“Good work.”

Leaving behind the driver who politely greeted me and got in the car, I looked up at the unfamiliar building before me.

A unique 2-story standalone building surrounded by glass walls.

Flora’s final training camp began at this unfamiliar new dormitory I’d never seen before.

“Haah.”

Training camp after such a long time.

I walked toward the dormitory, thinking about the practice schedule that made me feel breathless just imagining it.

Since this was the final round, each group would use different dormitories, so I had expected a building similar to the one from the mix-match round.

But looking at the scale and the facilities visible at first glance, this was undoubtedly a much better dormitory than back then.

Just having practice room facilities on the first floor was quite satisfying.

As I passed through the grass yard with swings and climbed the stone steps, I could hear Min Ha-young’s inexplicably excited voice coming from inside the dormitory.

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