The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 115

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 115

“Hey! If you’re here, you should open the door and come in! Wow, this girl waited until I opened it for her. Wow.”

“No, I could hear your voice all the way out here.”

“Come in quickly. Everyone! Princess is here!”

As Min Ha-young made a fuss and shouted, the members approached with giggles, excited about something.

“Ji-ye, you’re here?”

Han Da-min immediately reached out and hugged me tightly, then started touching my cheeks.

“Look at this. Ji-ye has good color too. The kids are all well-rested, so everyone’s skin is glowing.”

“Right? This is almost the first time we’ve had such good condition on a training camp day, isn’t it?”

“Rest is this important.”

They must have been talking about how good the members’ condition looked just before I arrived.

“Ji-ye, come in quickly. This dormitory is amazing.”

As Seo Ra-eun took my hand and led me, Han Da-min naturally grabbed my suitcase and brought it inside.

I followed the members inside while looking around.

“Wow…”

As Seo Ra-eun said, the dormitory was truly impressively good.

The first thing that caught my eye was the interior.

The bright and cheerful interior was decorated so well it lifted my mood.

But what I liked even more was something else.

The facilities like the practice room.

Exclamations naturally burst from everyone’s mouths.

“This is no joke, right? There’s a practice room in the dormitory. What kind of dormitory has all this?”

As Min Ha-young said, the practice room that was slightly visible from outside the dormitory looked even bigger from the inside.

This place seemed to be a practice and work camp dormitory used by some entertainment agency, and a full half of the first floor was entirely practice rooms.

The huge advantage was that we could freely occupy the practice room all day long inside the dormitory without having to go outside.

And what about the space? It looked wide enough for even all the dancers to come in and practice.

‘Wow, this dormitory is so good?’

I haven’t checked yet, but if it’s a dormitory prepared solely for practice, they must be using really good equipment too, right?

Should I suggest to Director Kim Ja-in later that we build our dormitory like this too?

We have enough money.

Ah, would the members dislike it?

Unless it’s a special situation like this, everyone would probably prefer to keep the practice room and dormitory separate.

It’s a bit disappointing though.

‘Ah…’

No, that’s not it. Before that, I need to ask the members if they’re willing to stay with me.

‘I might just be counting my chickens before they hatch.’

Let’s focus on practice and the competition for now, and talk to the members after the final competition ends.

It was when I belatedly realized I had been drinking a whole bowl of premature celebration.

“Geez, what a surprise! What are you all doing in front of the entrance?”

A hearty voice came from behind me.

When I turned around, I saw a familiar face I hadn’t seen in a while – Lee Si-ah, a judge and dance trainer from Start Plan, looking down at me with a grin.

Oh, what a surprise.

Startled inside, I quickly stepped back, and she playfully pushed the members with her body as she entered the dormitory.

“Kids~ It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

“Teacher!”

“Have you all been well?”

Hm? Isn’t there quite a bit, no, a lot of time left until the first lesson? Why did she come so early today?

I was planning to chat with the members about recent events and warm up a bit before Lee Si-ah arrived.

Since Lee Si-ah always came exactly on time for lessons or a bit late, all the members looked at her with bewildered faces.

Then Lee Si-ah laughed cheerfully and waved her hand.

“Why are you so surprised! You’re making your teacher feel awkward, kids. I didn’t move up the lesson schedule, so don’t worry and do what you were doing. I came early because I have business with Ha-young.”

With Min Ha-young?

I reflexively looked at Min Ha-young and suddenly remembered.

Just like Da-min and I participated in the arrangement work with Yu-hwa, Min Ha-young had also decided to create the dance break part herself.

‘I heard that Lee Si-ah was helping her a lot.’

It seems she was helping properly, not just for the broadcast.

She must have come early to do a final check of the choreography with Min Ha-young according to the completed song.

“I still have some parts of the choreography that need modification. I’ll go to the practice room first. See you later during the lesson!”

Min Ha-young seemed to know Lee Si-ah would come early, nodding calmly and following Lee Si-ah.

“Let’s go! Ha-young!”

Lee Si-ah affectionately put her arm around Min Ha-young’s shoulder and disappeared into the practice room with her.

And the rest of us naturally settled on the sofa in the living room.

“Kids, how have you been?”

“Huh?”

As soon as we sat on the sofa, Han Da-min asked as if she had prepared for it, and Choi Song-i questioned back.

I could see Han Da-min’s intention and chuckled beside her.

“Unnie, we were in contact until this morning.”

“Ahem… That’s true, but.”

“Right. We talked every day through group messenger. Unnie is being camera-conscious.”

At Choi Song-i’s words, Han Da-min finally made an embarrassed face and pointed at the camera.

“Oh, no. The fans might be curious too.”

Without exaggeration, we Flora members really kept in touch every day.

Thanks to Min Ha-young and Han Da-min’s influence, our group messenger was incredibly active, and it was quite common for two or three of us to meet and hang out separately.

Even Min Ha-young, our team’s representative social butterfly, had already visited all the members’ homes except for Choi Song-i’s.

‘Is it because we don’t live together?’

Compared to my previous group Choux Cream or other idols, this was an incredible level of interaction.

Han Da-min awkwardly waved her hands as if telling us to speak quickly. Seo Ra-eun spoke with a smile on her lips.

“We’ve been well! Did everyone watch Countdown?”

“Of course we watched it! …Hehe.”

Han Da-min said with a silly laugh.

I was busy preparing various things with Kim Ja-in so I couldn’t watch it properly, but I think we all watched Countdown together through group messenger.

It seems embarrassing to pretend not to know and talk about it again.

“You guys looked really pretty. I was so surprised. I was like, are these the same people I know?”

“Ra-eun unnie looked really pretty though.”

At Choi Song-i’s words, Seo Ra-eun silently shook her head.

“Wasn’t I a bit awkward by myself? I couldn’t even make eye contact with the camera… Everyone except me did really well.”

“Hey, stop being modest. You were the prettiest!”

Seo Ra-eun waved her hands dismissively.

“More than me, Ji-ye and Song-i… came out really pretty.”

“Right. Those two stealing attention was no joke. Honestly, how many times did I rewatch the scenes with Ji-ye?”

Me? I widened my eyes and looked at Han Da-min at my name suddenly popping up, and Han Da-min playfully nudged me with her body.

“I’m not just saying this, but your expressions and gaze are so good. Didn’t Ji-ye get the best solo angle views this time too?”

“Right, unnie was first place. Unnie probably gained a lot of fans.”

Choi Song-i also subtly pressed down on me while speaking. I felt embarrassed for no reason and avoided the members’ gazes while speaking.

“Our challenge seemed to get good reactions too.”

“Haha, Ji-ye is embarrassed!”

…Anyway, the challenge videos we filmed with Dream Light and Ningadiru Fast Food during the Countdown recording also became an issue.

Actually, rather than an issue, they were chosen by the algorithm and recorded incredible view counts.

It was truly the influence worthy of the kings of algorithms.

Since it appeared on so many people’s shorts that anyone with even a slight interest in K-Pop seemed to have watched it, naturally tremendous attention poured in.

‘It was more positive than I thought.’

For unspecified viewers who weren’t fans, the reaction wasn’t bad at all.

Most importantly, Hong Jin’s recent article about proceeding with lawsuits against malicious comments had a big effect, and following that, our Flora fans launched a massive comment offensive that helped create a good atmosphere.

Anyway, thanks to that, I heard that people curious about Flora and fans increased rapidly.

Now the firepower differs so significantly from May Rookie.

‘Is this what noise marketing is?’

Actually, I’m surprised that everything is going so well according to plan.

I thought it wouldn’t be easy for us, individual trainees without even a group channel, to surpass May Rookie’s firepower.

When I first made the plan, the goal was just to maintain an even match with May Rookie and raise questions about their obvious victory.

Kim Ja-in said that even before the controversy about me being Hong Jin’s youngest daughter arose, our Flora fans had exceptionally superior so-called ‘combat power’ due to interference from other group fans.

Since the fandom that already had good firepower received great attention through the Hong Jin controversy, vote manipulation, challenge algorithms, etc., the fans who flowed in through this were completely assimilated into that atmosphere.

Now we’ve reached a level where we can compete with May Rookie in pure voting and win.

‘At this level.’

After the broadcast ends, it’s already on fire even without me doing anything separately, right?

While chatting briefly with the members, the first lesson time quickly approached.

We finished our conversation and headed straight to the practice room.

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“It’s been quite a while since we had lessons, right? Did you practice a bit during that time? You didn’t just play around without practicing, did you?”

“Yes!”

All the members answered confidently to Lee Si-ah, who asked suspiciously while rolling her eyes.

Since we practiced together almost like living in a training camp throughout the arrangement work, at least we wouldn’t get scolded by Lee Si-ah for lack of practice.

“As expected!”

Lee Si-ah nodded with a satisfied face.

“That’s so Flora-like! Right, you have to practice. The group friends from other agencies would have lived in practice rooms all day long. Right?”

“Yes, that’s right!”

That was exactly right.

Other trainees were practicing with good trainers in good practice rooms prepared by their agencies.

Even if we couldn’t do that much, we had to prepare enough not to fall behind in skills.

Still, there was no hindrance to our practice.

Money is really nice.

We could get a practice room whenever we wanted to practice.

“Okay, then I don’t need to worry. Warm up lightly and listen. The completed version of [Reversal], the song Flora will sing in the final round, has arrived.”

Lee Si-ah plugged the USB she brought into the laptop.

Soon, the intro of Reversal began flowing through speakers all around.

The members warmed up while listening to the song with serious faces.

I watched the members’ expressions with a nervous heart.

Since this was the first time showing them the final version, I was needlessly nervous.

Min Ha-young was already lightly dancing, having heard it during individual practice with Lee Si-ah earlier, while Seo Ra-eun and Choi Song-i were nodding their heads in constant admiration.

Actually, this was my first time hearing the song completed to the final touches, and indeed it feels really good no matter how many times I listen to it.

A considerably deep and dark rebellious song.

A hip-hop sound reminiscent of teenagers criticizing the social atmosphere of the 90s.

Lee Si-ah said while riding the rhythm.

“How is it? It seems like a song where bringing out the feeling will be most important, right? The arrangement was done so well. Let’s properly bring out our rebellious feeling.”

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