The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 128

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 128

She sent just one text saying she couldn’t do it, and now she’s barging into my house throwing a tantrum.

‘I know that though.’

If I don’t do this, my desperation won’t get through to her at all.

‘Where else can you find an all-rounder like Han Da-min…’

Even if she can’t debut with Flora, she’s a talent I absolutely must bring over.

Han Da-min isn’t someone who would be afraid of getting criticized.

If her future feels uncertain just because of that damn age issue, it would be much more profitable to bring her over even if it means calling for harsher contract conditions.

-Flora already has a solid core fanbase. At this level, age doesn’t matter at all.

Kim Ja-in said while setting Han Da-min’s contract conditions at the highest level.

-Honestly, in terms of skills, she’s the most consistent member in Flora. If the Flora members’ contracts go through as is, she’ll be the most useful member, so we need to raise it this much so she won’t feel wronged later.

Kim Ja-in said that while adding that Han Da-min was actually quite different from her own firm preferences.

Certainly, if the member who fits Kim Ja-in’s taste is me, then it’s not Han Da-min.

But despite that, the fact that she set Han Da-min’s contract conditions the highest meant that Kim Ja-in also acknowledged Han Da-min’s importance within Flora.

I said with an expression that looked hurt to death.

“Unnie, you don’t have to decide right now, so can’t you think about it once more slowly? Did you get a better offer from another entertainment agency?”

“No! There’s nothing like that, I don’t have any.”

Han Da-min bit her lips.

I know there are no separate offers that came to Han Da-min. I also know that she’s hesitating about re-debuting because she’s afraid of many things.

But if that’s the case, isn’t my proposal the last chance to re-enter this industry?

If she’s that scared of failure.

“Then let’s do this. Just one year including the trainee period.”

“…Huh?”

“Isn’t one year worth challenging? I’ll tell CEO Kim Ja-in. Change the conditions so that unnie gets a one-year contract followed by extension negotiations.”

“That’s!”

Han Da-min waved her hands dramatically. She looked very displeased.

“That won’t work! If I debut like that, it would be too much trouble for you guys! You’re seriously debuting while I’m thinking of quitting if things go wrong.”

“Haha…”

Han Da-min is serious and I’m desperate, but why is this situation making me laugh?

Han Da-min’s current lack of confidence looks just like my old self.

I placed my hand on the back of Han Da-min’s hand and rubbed it.

“That’s how confident I am. I wouldn’t even suggest it if I wasn’t certain. Though saying this makes me sound like a scammer.”

“…”

Han Da-min pressed her lips tightly together.

I said as calmly as possible.

“Should I write a contract saying there won’t be any more failures, that I’ll take responsibility for unnie’s life?”

I really have the confidence to take responsibility for your life.

If only you come to Flora.

“My life…”

Han Da-min was speechless.

She probably needs a lot of time to think about it.

Let me get up now.

“Anyway unnie, what I’m saying is…”

…Huh?

Suddenly Han Da-min hung her head low.

Then her shoulders started shaking greatly.

“Are you crying?”

Da-min. I hoped not, but why are you crying?

What did I say? I didn’t say anything worth crying over.

“Why are you cry…”

I was flustered and tried to say something but closed my mouth.

When Seo Ra-eun cried before, my words weren’t comforting at all.

The Choux Cream members said to give hugs at times like this, but Han Da-min and I aren’t close enough for that yet.

As I silently patted her back, Han Da-min seemed embarrassed and quickly avoided my gaze while saying.

“Thank you. Now I have somewhere to go.”

“Of course!”

What’s lacking that she’s worried about being a burden to the members?

How much did Han Da-min’s original group and company tear down her self-esteem by bringing up so many reasons?

“Unnie, I’ll wait for your call.”

With those final words, I really got up and left Han Da-min’s house.

The sniffling voice until the very moment I left.

As Han Da-min saw me off, I thought.

In the not-too-distant future, when that article comes out, Da-min will come to Flora without any problems.

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And a few days later, the major article I wanted was reported.

That UNET and SU had manipulated the victory and rankings from the planning stage of Start Plan.

Even that Start Plan itself was a program planned for May Rookie’s promotion, and that other participating teams’ entertainment agencies also knew this and participated.

Thankfully, it even mentioned that people who participated as individual trainees had no idea about this.

Thanks to that, in this situation where everyone was on the chopping block for manipulation and bribes, only our Flora and the First Year Members could be completely excluded.

Thanks to that, our Flora’s image began to rise significantly as we were compared to May Rookie.

Although it was revealed long ago that U&Da didn’t manipulate anything either, they couldn’t completely escape criticism despite doing nothing wrong because their entertainment agency knew about the manipulation.

And naturally, the fans of the Start Plan final round participating teams went crazy.

First of all, May Rookie’s fans were in complete emergency mode.

I’m not sure if it’s emergency mode or if saying the atmosphere was ruined is more accurate.

That tremendous momentum they had while fighting a firepower battle with our Flora’s fans until the finals completely went into a lull.

It became difficult to find May Rookie’s fans on SNS, and you could only find them somewhat on community sites.

However, that doesn’t mean the fandom disappeared.

They had done wrong so they had nothing to say, and it was more like they were restraining themselves because they’d get criticized no matter what they said.

As a result, May Rookie’s fandom expressed anger toward their entertainment agency SU.

I heard that funeral wreaths are currently set up in front of SU demanding artist protection.

Some people mocked them for setting up funeral wreaths over trainees who haven’t even debuted yet, but I understand the desire to send even that to protest since it’s still very important to fans who like May Rookie.

May Rookie’s situation became incredibly worse when SU completely admitted to the manipulation along with UNET in this article.

‘UNET is really amazing.’

It must have been hard to convince SU, so how did they make them admit it?

SU would know that there’s a world of difference between being guilty and officially admitting it.

From UNET’s perspective, it must have been an unprecedented decision to cut off SU in order to take Hong Jin.

‘Of course, even doing that, SU can’t completely antagonize UNET.’

How can a company focused on idols go against UNET’s words?

Hong Jin also only does advertising and investment in completely unrelated fields, so they could make demands without reading the room like this time.

Anyway, because of all this, May Rookie’s fandom entered defeated army mode without even having time to feel the joy of victory.

U&Da’s fans are said to be in an overturned state, using this opportunity to wage war against people who mock innocent U&Da or create all sorts of special features about them.

When not only U&Da but all the participating teams and their fandoms were in a state of emergency, the only ones at peace were our Flora’s fans.

Flora’s fans were spending calm and happy days as if receiving compensation for all the unfair criticism and heartache they had endured.

Flora, who had become the sole perfect victim and sacrifice.

The general public, who had only been aggressive until now, began defending and actually promoting Flora, while fans only needed to demand the disclosure of the real rankings.

Of course, they were waging war-like demands for the ranking disclosure, proportional to how wronged they felt.

Just as these contrasting reactions from fandoms and the general public continued.

UNET, who had been silently enduring all the criticism, announced the real rankings as I had demanded.

The revealed final winner of the final round was not May Rookie, but Flora.

That’s right, us.

And second place was U&Da.

May Rookie, who had masqueraded as the winner, was actually revealed to be in third place, meaning last place.

When chaos erupted again about having to give compensation to the switched winner and reassembling Flora for debut.

I sent a message to Han Da-min as if I had been waiting for this moment.

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