The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 130
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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted
Episode 130
Only then did I realize.
‘This isn’t me.’
This body wasn’t Hong Yeo-eun’s or Ryu Ji-ye’s body either.
It was the body of a completely different person I didn’t know.
The mobile phone kept ringing endlessly. Even while going to die, I threw the phone away like someone having a seizure, and as if that became a signal, I started running.
And I threw my body out the window.
I convulsed from head to toe. My vision, spinning wildly in mid-air, looked up at the broken window where I had just been.
A pitch-black figure in the fierce wind was mocking me as I fell.
I closed my eyes in resignation and fell down, down below.
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My eyes snapped open.
“Ugh!”
My stopped breath came rushing back in roughly as if reopening.
I bolted upright from the bed, clearing my confused mind.
“Huff… gasp…”
Ah, thank goodness.
It was a dream after all.
It had been too vivid for a dream, so even though I knew better, I was swept up in anxiety wondering ‘what if, could it be.’
Since I already had experience entering someone else’s body.
I pressed my hand firmly against my still pounding heart and steadied my breathing.
‘What kind of dream was that.’
What an unusually strange nightmare.
When I was falling out the window, I really thought I was going to die and felt like my heart would fall out.
Most of all, the emotions I felt in that dream.
The unbearably heavy depression and frustration, and the helplessness that I couldn’t do anything with my own power.
In the dream, I wanted to die because I wanted to live.
I can’t understand what kind of emotion this is, but that’s how I was in the dream.
“…”
The lingering confusion was brief – after some time passed, the vivid contents that had been clear in my head like dreams I always had began to gradually fade.
My heart that felt like it would burst and my labored breathing also gradually calmed down.
The pitch-black vision also slowly regained its original colors.
I stared blankly at the window filled with sunlight until I properly came to my senses, then slowly got up.
“Ugh…”
This isn’t the time for me to be doing this.
As I stretched and rummaged around the bed looking for my mobile phone that I’d thrown somewhere.
Knock knock.
“Isn’t it time for Ryu Ji-ye to get up? Get up.”
Ryu Jae-geum’s irritated and somewhat urgent voice could be heard.
He’s about to leave for work soon, so what nagging is he planning to drag out this time.
“It’s chaos from the morning.”
When I muttered quietly, somehow he heard and the door opened right away as Ryu Jae-geum came inside.
“If you’re awake, you should say ‘Good morning, did you sleep well, brother,’ so what did you just say?”
“Why should I do that to you.”
Is it because Ryu Ji-ye’s memories are gradually becoming more specific?
These days, whenever I see Ryu Jae-geum, I unconsciously start grumbling like Ryu Ji-ye.
“Geez, that attitude. For someone who says she’s going to be an idol.”
Ryu Jae-geum brushed off my grumbling as if he was used to it and sat on the sofa.
“I came to tell you about the favor I asked, using my precious time before work. And you don’t even know to be grateful.”
“Oh, you got that already?”
Ryu Jae-geum clicked his tongue in disbelief.
Right after learning that Seo Ra-eun couldn’t be contacted by any of the members, I immediately asked Ryu Jae-geum and Kim Ja-in to look into the suspicious parts.
Since it was industry business, I thought CEO Kim Ja-in would have faster news than Ryu Jae-geum.
But for Ryu Jae-geum to find out first in just one day.
As expected, for this kind of thing, chaebols know better than industry people who work honestly in the light.
My insides felt twisted and frustrated.
I pressed my naturally furrowing brow and asked.
“The fact that you found out this quickly means my thoughts were right, doesn’t it?”
Ryu Jae-geum’s expression was also very unpleasant.
As if he had learned something very disgusting that he didn’t want to know.
“That guy… Ah, I’m not sure if it’s right to tell you this.”
“I’m the one who asked, so why watch your words with me. Tell me quickly and go to work.”
Ryu Jae-geum hesitated until the end as if it was awkward to tell his sister, then opened his mouth with difficulty.
“Do you remember a singer named Ji-hoon?”
“Ji-hoon?”
“Yeah, you know. The one who was a judge on Start Plan.”
Judge Ji-hoon…
As I tried to recall what kind of person he was, I frowned deeply.
Damn.
I felt my head go cold.
That bastard is famous for his many blunders with women.
“Why is that person’s name coming up here?”
“Aha, so you know about that guy’s rumors too. He’s really famous for liking women, right? My friend who works in entertainment told me.”
“I know…”
Of course I know. Ji-hoon’s severe womanizing had been the talk of the industry since I was Hong Yeo-eun.
Because of that, celebrities, both male and female, avoided him, and companies even told their trainees and rookies not to get close to him.
Even when a big expose broke out about it before and fans left, most of the industry’s reaction was just that what was bound to happen had happened – that’s how severe it was.
Nevertheless, the reason he continued to appear on major broadcasts was apparently because he had a prominent figure in the industry backing him, meaning he was well-sponsored.
‘If Ryu Jae-geum found out about this before Kim Ja-in, then that rumor must have been true too.’
“Really, having to discuss this kind of thing with you. What am I saying to a young kid.”
Ryu Jae-geum seemed to dislike even having this impure conversation with me, showing a face that looked like he was having reality checks in between, but he explained what he had learned step by step.
“From what I heard about Ji-hoon, his woman problems are so severe that his sponsors cut him off, and he’s desperately trying to connect with business circles somehow.”
Ji-hoon had scandals breaking out regularly, so he had the image of a frivolous man even among the general public.
He seemed so pathetic even to us complete strangers, and apparently the person who had been supporting him for a long time also abandoned Ji-hoon because of this.
“These days his image is so bad that it’s hard for him to approach directly, so he’s working as a broker connecting chaebols with celebrities.”
“So you’re saying Ji-hoon is trying to take Ra-eun unnie and do that?”
“That’s right.”
Ryu Jae-geum said matter-of-factly.
-There’s a FLORA member who suddenly lost contact, and I’m a bit worried. She might have received bad solicitations or threats. She’s a pretty and gentle kid, and FLORA didn’t even win, so their future is uncertain.
At my words, Ryu Jae-geum agreed without delay and looked into it.
As the second son of South Korea’s top company, he also gets to hear many stories.
There would naturally be trash that he has to keep around whether he wants to cut them off or not.
He said he heard about Seo Ra-eun from them.
“Apparently there was someone among those bastards who took a liking to Ra-eun. He just said ‘that girl seems pretty good’ once, but Ji-hoon stepped forward?”
“How did he step forward? Saying he’d bring Ra-eun unnie?”
“Well, that’s what he would have said. That he knows her well since he was a judge, and that Ra-eun would contact them directly soon – he boasted confidently. Though it seems she hasn’t come yet.”
Ryu Jae-geum said while fidgeting with his mobile phone.
“You might be right that Ra-eun is in some danger. She made such bold declarations, and she hasn’t even debuted yet so she has no power to fight back. I’m wondering if she’s being threatened to the point where it’s difficult for her to contact people around her.”
“That crazy bastard. Oppa, did you just listen to that?”
“Do you think I just listened? I clearly told the guy who was trying to mess with Ra-eun to cut it out. As you know, that’s about all I can do.”
Ryu Jae-geum said that, then checked the time and left the room.
Since I wasn’t directly involved, it seemed there were limits to what Ryu Jae-geum could do.
Still, he had done what he could by even telling them not to touch Seo Ra-eun, who would debut in the same group as me.
Anything more than that – extracting information from that trash or making him take responsibility – would be crossing the line for Hong Jin.
Since it was a friendship formed through business connections between companies, even Hong Jin couldn’t interfere in their affairs.
“Well, I understand that, but…”
I turned on my mobile phone and scrolled through my phone number list.
So Ji-hoon made such bold declarations and tried to throw Seo Ra-eun into a pit of hell.
Even by my estimation, even if that trash said he wouldn’t contact Seo Ra-eun, Ji-hoon ultimately wouldn’t let Seo Ra-eun go.
Because she’s young, pretty, and fragile.
In short, because she looks easy to handle, there’s a high possibility he’ll force through what he’s doing now, thinking he can connect her with other chaebols who would want her.
‘I’ve experienced it myself.’
I can’t leave a kid in that situation alone, and I don’t want to leave that bastard Ji-hoon alone either.
‘These days chaebol family power is being used really well.’
Tap tap tap tap-
Feeling irritated, I shook my crossed leg restlessly and found Han Da-min in my phone number list, pressing the call button.
-Hello?
“Unnie, let’s go to Ra-eun unnie’s house. I think we need to go right now.”
-Why, why, why! What happened? Is Ra-eun in danger?
I could hear Han Da-min’s very flustered voice.
-Why, unnie? What happened to Ra-eun unnie?
I could also hear Min Ha-young’s voice from the side, so they were probably practicing together at the company.
-Why are you being so unsettling…
Hearing Han Da-min’s trembling voice, I spoke as if to calm her down.
“Ah, no. It’s not that. I’m going to pick her up. Get ready. Ha-young can come along too.”
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