The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 14

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 14

“Yes.”

“The production staff is on the 3rd floor, so only come up if there’s an emergency or something you need to discuss with the production staff. As soon as all members arrive, please start with the assignment Yu-hwa gave you.”

“Yes.”

The production staff thoroughly explained the rules to follow, camera positions, and even blind spots before disappearing.

Following her instructions, I roughly dropped off my luggage at the dormitory and headed straight to the conference room.

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And.

“…Is there anyone who wants to do this part?”

Warning signals were going off in my mind.

At Han Da-min’s question, who had temporarily taken on the leader role, the members just kept their mouths tightly shut and only watched each other’s reactions.

‘Ah…’

My vision blurred slightly before returning to normal.

‘It finally came.’

It had to come.

The inevitable battle of wits that couldn’t be avoided when individual trainees were gathered together.

-We’ll start full-scale practice from tomorrow. If there are any parts you want to do separately, we’ll prioritize volunteers when deciding, so discuss it among the members once. Of course, just volunteering doesn’t guarantee you’ll get it. Haha! Oh, right. Think about a group name too.

During the last meeting, Yu-hwa said that and cheerfully exited.

And when we were left alone again, silence returned to F Team, which had been getting a somewhat relaxed atmosphere.

And now the same silence and awkwardness from that time was flowing.

Well, I understand.

If it were a debut group trainee team, they would already know each other’s abilities well before coming here and positions would be implicitly decided.

As such, part competition among team members could usually be avoided.

But we became a team after meeting here for the first time.

A situation where we don’t properly know each other’s abilities and only know what we ourselves are good at.

It would be strange if there wasn’t part competition in a survival show I came on to save myself.

To put it coldly, this team is ultimately just for the competition and will disband when the broadcast ends.

The possibility of debuting as this team itself?

‘It’s slim unless we win.’

We’ll either return to being slightly famous ordinary people or contact agencies to debut in other groups.

So it’s inevitable that the atmosphere gets tense over one part.

Looking back, this would also be one process of becoming a team.

But even so, with everyone having faces full of greed and keeping their mouths shut like this.

‘We won’t make any progress like this.’

This situation could be consumed as entertainment or a topic of conversation, but if it goes on so long that we can’t even proceed with the meeting, it’s hard to get a good reaction.

It’s already a team that’s hard to readily support since it’ll disband after the broadcast ends.

“Girls? Say something.”

Eventually Han Da-min spoke up once more, but again there was no response.

Han Da-min nodded as if she expected this and closed her mouth again.

She seemed to be thinking about what to do with this situation too.

“…Hmm.”

Should I try something for now?

I lightly moistened my parched lips and opened the status window of Seo Ra-eun sitting across from me.

Oh, the other stats are decent but her appearance stat is a whopping A.

During introductions, she heard a lot about being pretty.

Since she’s called a hard worker, if stat increases through practice are possible, we could expect steady growth during the competition.

‘But what’s that warning message?’

Pressure about performance? Does it mean trauma will occur if this competition’s results aren’t good?

The meaningful message was curious, but now isn’t the situation to dig into this.

Anyway, her skills are decent but not stats she can confidently put forward, while her appearance is a whopping A. Then.

I raised my hand and spoke.

“I have an opinion. How about Ra-eun unnie does the intro part?”

“Ra-eun?”

The members all looked at Seo Ra-eun at once. Seo Ra-eun’s eyes shook violently.

“…Me?”

She looked like she never expected her name to be called first in this strange silence.

I nodded and said.

“Somehow I feel like unnie would bring out the intro part the best.”

Let those confident in dance parts and vocal parts fight among themselves.

Let’s decide on parts that are good and everyone acknowledges but likely have low competition first.

It was a part I coveted too since it comes first and has high attention, but well, this much is fine.

But Seo Ra-eun’s expression was subtle.

“…Why?”

Why?

I checked Seo Ra-eun’s status window once more.

There’s no particular special reason.

We need to break this silence quickly to make progress, and Seo Ra-eun’s appearance stat is the highest except for mine.

Originally, the intro is about momentum.

For a pure concept’s intro and final parts, having the prettiest person do it has the best impact.

Plus she does dance and vocals decently well, so she could probably handle the intro without difficulty, and the atmosphere she gives off matches the song concept well.

I smiled an innocent smile that seemed to have no greed and said.

“Unnie is so purely pretty. Your image matches this song well and I think you’d sing the intro part well.”

“Uh…Me?”

Seo Ra-eun looked at the members in confusion.

‘She seems a bit intimidated too.’

Does she naturally think her skills are the worst even though we don’t know each other’s abilities well yet?

I felt it from when we first introduced ourselves, but she seems to lack confidence tremendously.

“No, everyone’s pretty but…”

“But I’d also like Ra-eun to do it?”

Han Da-min spoke up. Seo Ra-eun’s eyes became as round as they could possibly get.

“I heard your song during auditions. Personally, I think your vocal tone would suit the intro part well too. And like Ji-ye said, we need to grab attention right from the start.”

Han Da-min didn’t stop at encouraging Seo Ra-eun but even stepped forward to persuade the members who were still keeping their mouths shut and only watching reactions.

“Actually, that’s right. We’re a team now, so our team getting attention comes first.”

‘Ah…’

Right, I’m not the only one with group activity experience.

That’s fortunate. She’d been lost in thought and seemed to be having the same concerns as me.

We are a team before we are competitors.

So we shouldn’t reveal our greed through silence.

The members’ expressions began to gradually change.

I don’t know if they were persuaded or just reluctantly accepted because she’s a much senior member.

Anyway, the more Han Da-min persuaded, the more the greed that filled the members’ eyes – Min Ha-young’s and Choi Song-i’s – seemed to subside even a little.

Right, we were a team of greedy individuals thrown together on the spot, so a process of coordination and compromise was absolutely necessary.

She listens quite well. I smiled with satisfaction and looked at Seo Ra-eun.

“So, we don’t know each other’s abilities well yet, but I think Ra-eun unnie would do great with the intro part. That’s my opinion, but what do the other members think?”

Seo Ra-eun was still reading the room, only fidgeting with her fingers.

Then she finally managed to say one thing.

“Are there… others who want to do it?”

Oh my, you need to be more ambitious. Show some confidence too.

She asked while looking at Min Ha-young and Choi Song-i.

Even if Min Ha-young didn’t, Choi Song-i had seemed quite eager to do it earlier.

“I’m fine with it. I agree.”

Min Ha-young shrugged her shoulders as she answered and looked at Choi Song-i.

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