The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 12

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 12

Her ears turning bright red from being unaccustomed to receiving people’s attention also contributed to that image.

How did she manage to raise her hand second while being so embarrassed?

She opened and closed her mouth for a long time with trembling eyes before finally managing to speak.

“I-I’m twenty-one years old and my name is Seo Ra-eun. Please take care of me.”

Then she quickly sat down. Since the person introducing herself was so flustered, the members’ reactions became even bigger.

“Wow! Please take care of us!”

“Unnie, you’re so pretty!”

“Y-yes, ah… no… well…”

Seo Ra-eun frantically waved her hands and shook her head. Her face had turned so red it looked like it might burst at any moment.

I stared at Seo Ra-eun’s fidgeting hands and said.

“Then I’ll go next.”

My introduction was just ordinary.

“My name is Ryu Ji-ye. I’m twenty years old. Since we’re on the same team now, I hope we can help each other and get along well. Please take care of me.”

After that, the remaining two members took turns introducing themselves.

The girl sitting next to me is Min Ha-young. Twenty years old, the same age as Ryu Ji-ye.

“My specialty is dance. I’m confident!”

Despite speaking confidently with quite a booming voice, she busily looked around nervously before quickly sitting down.

Well, she must be really good at dancing to speak so confidently. I should find a chance to open her status window later.

And the last member with the most youthful face, I feel like I’ve seen her somewhere before too.

When the members’ gazes turned to her, she spoke with an innocent expression.

“I’m Choi Song-i. I’m seventeen years old.”

…The end?

“…Please take care of me!”

“You’re seventeen!”

Han Da-min and Min Ha-young hurriedly gave big reactions.

Just as Choi Song-i was bowing her head and about to sit back down.

“Excuse me.”

Seo Ra-eun timidly raised her hand.

“Haven’t you been on TV?”

“Ah… Yes, Forsythia Kindergarten. Thank you.”

“Oh, yes.”

As if she didn’t particularly want to talk about it, Choi Song-i spoke quickly and sat down.

Thanks to that, Seo Ra-eun who had asked the question awkwardly scratched the back of her neck. Her face showed deep regret for asking.

If it’s TV’s ‘Forsythia Kindergarten’, is she talking about a children’s program? I have scattered memories of watching it when I was young. I guess it’s still running.

Then Min Ha-young spoke with a curious expression.

“I saw you on ‘Children’s Report’.”

Oh, she appeared on that show?

‘Children’s Report’ is an observational variety show where celebrities watch their children’s daily lives and learn about their children’s circumstances and thoughts that they couldn’t know due to being busy.

I don’t particularly enjoy watching such programs, but I know about it because it circulated so much on YouTube Shorts when it was airing.

Seeing that she appeared on that show, her parents must be famous people, so she frequently appeared on broadcasts like children’s programs from a young age.

But this one also didn’t seem to particularly want to mention her past career, just like Han Da-min.

Well, I introduced myself too, but how annoying would it be if only Hongjin Group stories came up endlessly instead of about me.

Anyway, everyone safely finished their introductions.

“Nice to meet you all and please take care of me.”

“Yes, please take care of us.”

“…”

“…”

And the conference room was enveloped in silence again.

Just introductions weren’t enough to dispel the awkward atmosphere.

Well… Should I at least ask if they’ve eaten?

While I was seriously contemplating.

Knock knock.

Someone knocked and opened the conference room door, peeking their face through the gap.

“Hello~”

Huh?

I couldn’t help but freeze.

To the extent that I couldn’t manage my expression even knowing the cameras were clearly on.

“Huh? Wow!”

“Uh… Ah! No! Wow! Hello!”

At her appearance, the members covered their mouths and jumped up. Then they started bouncing around as if going crazy.

The person who smiled brightly at the much bigger reaction than expected and eventually entered the waiting room completely was.

“You all waited a long time, right? Sorry. Instead, here, I thought you’d all be nervous so I bought some snacks to eat while we talk.”

Elegantly styled brown hair, gentle yet determined eyes, and a mature, friendly way of speaking.

Despite her hairstyle, outfit, and even the atmosphere she gave off being different, she was someone I could recognize immediately.

She seated the members and spoke in a warm voice.

“I think you all already know me, but let me introduce myself properly. Hello. I’m Yu-hwa, a member of Sierra who will be F Team’s mentor from now on.”

Yu-hwa.

Ji Yu-hwa.

I desperately suppressed the emotions that seemed ready to burst out uncontrollably.

She was someone who had been a member of the same group as me.

‘I knew some of them were still active, but…’

Right after becoming Ryu Ji-ye, I had searched for information about the other members including me, Hong Yeo-eun.

Three out of seven members had debuted in different groups or continued entertainment activities in other ways.

Ji Yu-hwa was the same.

In this changed world, Ji Yu-hwa was doing idol activities with others and was doing much better than we had in the past.

Seeing that, I felt secretly relieved but also bitter that the talent that could achieve such success couldn’t bloom in our previous life.

‘I never thought I’d meet her here.’

Fate is truly frightening.

Unaware of my emotions, Yu-hwa still smiled brightly and said.

“I heard earlier that you’ve already introduced yourselves to each other? Oh, can I speak more casually from now on?”

“Yes!”

“Of course!”

The members answered with the most gentle voices in the world.

“Then I’ll do that. Since we’ve gathered like this, shall we start with what we need to do first?”

Clap!

Yu-hwa clapped her hands to focus the members’ attention.

“Let’s decide on the song we’ll perform on stage first.”

***

“Ji-ye, what song do you like?”

I snapped back to attention at Han Da-min’s awkward question.

“Ah, ah.”

A flustered voice flowed out without me realizing it.

Why do I keep acting like this? Showing that I can’t concentrate.

Due to suddenly encountering Yu-hwa, I was so surprised that I kept looking at her thoughtlessly.

This isn’t the time for this.

Yu-hwa seemed to notice my gaze and smiled mischievously while tilting her head.

“Why have you been looking at me like that since earlier~ It’s embarrassing.”

“Ah, I’m sorry. I’m really a fan of yours, sunbae… I was staring without even realizing it.”

“Oh my, really? I’m grateful, but let’s focus on this for now.”

“I’m sorry. Sorry to the members too.”

I pretended to be embarrassed and bowed to the members before focusing on the whiteboard with the song candidates written on it.

‘As expected, there are many performance-focused songs listed.’

[Blueberry], which was said to have the most difficult and intense choreography during Sierra’s activities.

[Close], a track from their second album with a fast beat that seemed easy to arrange.

And Sierra’s representative hit song [Rising]. A dance track with a strong J-ROCK feel and school club concept.

The group called ‘Sierra’ that Yu-hwa currently belongs to is a group that didn’t exist when I was Hong Yeo-eun.

So these songs originally didn’t exist either, but that doesn’t mean I’ve never heard them.

‘I listened to all of Yu-hwa’s group songs, after all.’

What was that damn affection about. Even while feeling my heart being gnawed at by the fact that my precious member had become part of another group, I stubbornly listened to everything and managed to give a ‘good’ review.

Anyway.

Since this would be the group’s first performance shown to viewers, all the members had selected difficult songs that could showcase everyone’s skills well.

‘Not bad.’

I don’t know what their skills are like yet, except for Han Da-min whose status window I’ve checked.

But if they made it through that high competition rate as individual trainees, they must all be above basic level.

The members must have selected these songs considering their own and other members’ abilities. However.

‘It’s weak.’

Of course, the songs themselves aren’t weak at all…

But when lined up alongside other groups with strong skills and, more importantly, solid agency support, would we be able to make a definite impact with these songs?

“Hmm…”

No matter how I think about it. With songs like these, there’s bound to be at least one group with an overlapping concept.

‘Then a concept that wouldn’t overlap in the competition…’

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————