The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 176

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“Please share Flora’s thoughts on winning 1st place!”

 

The Production Staff came up and handed the microphone to Han Da-min.

 

Han Da-min received the microphone and looked at the 1st place announcement screen for a moment before speaking.

 

“Thank you so much.”

 

Her calm greeting only made the Fans’ cheers grow louder.

 

“Huu…”

 

Seo Ra-eun and Min Ha-young finally burst into tears, while Choi Song-i stared intently at Han Da-min with an unreadable expression.

 

“There were days when I couldn’t even dare to expect a day like this would come.”

 

I too was just quietly watching Han Da-min.

 

It wasn’t only Han Da-min who couldn’t expect such a day.

 

There were times when they received criticism no matter what they did amidst various controversies.

 

Since they had disbanded once and then reunited by convincing each member one by one, most of Flora had considered winning 1st place, let alone standing on stage, as an impossible dream.

 

Who would have known?

 

That Flora, who was merely seen as a victim of Start Plan and almost became a group of memories, would proudly achieve 1st place with their debut song.

 

Han Da-min looked thoughtful, seeming like she might cry, then spoke calmly.

 

“We would like to thank once again CEO Kim Ja-in and the employees of Day Entertainment who gave us another chance, Ji-ye and the Members who first suggested we work together, and the Fans who stayed by our side and gave us the greatest comfort during difficult times.”

 

“Thank you!”

 

Since it was such an unexpected 1st place win, the acceptance speech ended with only Han Da-min speaking.

 

“Yes, congratulations once again to Flora on their 1st place. Countdown will return next week at this same time.”

 

“Everyone, goodbye~”

 

With the MCs’ farewell, the intro of “Blooming” echoed across the stage.

 

“Congratulations on 1st place.”

 

“Oh, thank you.”

 

Street Center was the first to congratulate us, and other Cast Members also offered their congratulations one by one as they left the stage.

 

And only Flora and the Audience remained at the venue.

 

“Congratulations!”

 

“Congratulations on 1st place!”

 

“Thank you!”

 

We responded loudly to the Fans’ shouts and formed our formation as if we had planned it.

 

We wouldn’t be performing “Blooming” on this stage anymore.

 

We wanted to show our stage to the Fans one last time.

 

…Even though we were wearing animal pajamas.

 

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After the live broadcast ended, the waiting room became a sea of tears.

 

When we returned to the waiting room, the Day Entertainment Employees including the Manager and Staff collectively cheered for Flora, and some even showed tears.

 

Especially Manager Seong Ji-soo’s eyes were bright red.

 

“Why are you crying, unnie…”

 

When Han Da-min noticed that Seong Ji-soo was crying, she finally burst into tears that she had been holding back, and seeing that, Seo Ra-eun and Min Ha-young began crying in earnest.

 

…Honestly, I’m a little too.

 

“Ah, stop it. I feel like I’m going to cry too….”

 

“Sniff, you’re already crying, Ryu Ji-ye….”

 

Seeing the members crying their hearts out naturally made me feel emotional too.

 

“You unnies, really. Stop crying. It’s not like our schedule is over.”

 

The seemingly endless flood of tears was finally calmed by Choi Song-i’s threat.

 

So, though we felt a bit sorry for the fans, the mini fan meeting started a little late.

 

At one side of the broadcasting station, I could see our fans gathered closely together.

 

“You waited a long time! We’re sorry.”

 

“Oh my, it’s so cold. We’re really sorry!”

 

As we hurriedly ran over to them, the fans waved their temporary light sticks and said good-naturedly.

 

“You’re late~”

 

“I thought I was going to freeze to death~”

 

“Oh no, what should we do. You were cold, weren’t you. We’re sorry.”

 

“Everyone, here are hand warmers.”

 

The members and I scattered hand warmers we had stuffed into our padded jacket pockets to the fans, doing our best to ask for forgiveness before finally receiving forgiveness from the playful fans.

 

After the brief commotion caused by FLORA’s tardiness passed, I was receiving the microphone to begin the proceedings.

 

The fans in the front row who had been taking pictures of us with their cameras suddenly started murmuring, then lowered their cameras and asked.

 

“But why are your faces so red?”

 

“It looks like you cried?”

 

“Girls, did you cry?”

 

Wow, how did they know.

 

We definitely came out after completely calming down our tears in case they’d worry.

 

I guess it still shows when you look closely.

 

I smiled sheepishly and nodded.

 

“We cried a little. All together.”

 

Then Min Ha-young pretended to cry.

 

“We really never even thought about first place. Everyone burst into tears as soon as we returned to the waiting room! Going ‘waaah!'”

 

“Everyone, thank you so much once again! For giving us such a gift at the end.”

 

Like that, the members began pouring out the first place acceptance speech they couldn’t say on stage earlier.

 

We all said our thoughts one by one and sang the first place celebration song about three times with the fans before we could finally proceed with the fan meeting.

 

The time given to us for the fan meeting was about 30 minutes.

 

Since it was a short time, it proceeded with communication and simple Q&A.

 

“Now, first. We just finished our last broadcast of album activities for the first time since our debut.”

 

“Yes.”

 

“How was this activity for everyone? Though we can already see what kind of mood you’re in from your faces.”

 

Han Da-min covered her face and laughed embarrassedly.

 

Since we’d already been caught having cried our hearts out, I wondered what more thoughts were needed.

 

Han Da-min pointed at me.

 

“Ji-ye first.”

 

This one’s for me first. Still, I had a prepared answer for this, so I picked up the microphone without hesitation.

 

“Ah, yes. First of all, I thought it felt like a dream.”

 

“Like a dream?”

 

“Yes, of course saying it feels like a dream is something I’ve said to everyone before, but rather than just achieving a dream or it being a moment I longed for…”

 

Of course it had that meaning too, but for me, having already debuted once in my past life, the meaning of “like a dream” was a bit different.

 

“Everything we’ve experienced since debuting feels like a dream. We had these vague goals we’d been picturing before our debut, you know.”

 

From showcases with fans to appearing on popular variety shows, even getting first place which we thought would be the hardest to achieve.

 

An environment where our efforts could be rewarded, hope that we no longer had to despair.

 

“Thanks to all of you, we were able to achieve all those goals without exception. And what makes me happiest is meeting all of you again.”

 

The fans made moved expressions at my words.

 

“What~ Why is Ryu Ji-ye saying such heart-fluttering things?”

 

For some reason, the members had also huddled together and were looking at me with the same expressions as the fans.

 

I smiled brightly at them and said,

 

“It was so wonderful being able to spend this entire promotion period together. Thank you.”

 

“Waaaah!”

 

Starting with me, each member began sharing their thoughts about the activities.

 

Various impressions came out – they were worried but relieved that the fans seemed to like us, it was amazing hearing our songs everywhere, dormitory life was fun, and so on.

 

When everyone had finished sharing their thoughts, ending with Song-i who went last, Min Ha-young, who had been quietly chatting with fans in the front row, spoke up.

 

“The fans are asking if we’re not cold?”

 

“Ah.”

 

I glanced down at my outfit.

 

Bear animal pajamas that you’d wear when sleeping indoors.

 

Come to think of it, we weren’t dressed to be worrying about the fans’ cold.

 

I fidgeted with my hand warmers and just said honestly,

 

“Actually, it is a little cold…”

 

“No way, we’re not cold at all! We’re so happy being with all of you!”

 

“…but seeing all of you, I’m not cold at all now.”

 

Da-min, the traitor.

 

Just moments ago she was making a fuss saying she felt like freezing to death, that we were too young to understand.

 

Breathing out visible puffs while saying such sweet lies.

 

When I also hastily tried to cover up my words, Song-i clicked her tongue and shook her head.

 

“Unnies, don’t lie. It’s too obvious.”

 

“Ooooh!!!”

 

At Song-i’s words, the fans erupted with “That’s right, that’s right!”

 

“Hey, no one responded to what I said, but when Song-i speaks, it’s all ‘Oh, our youngest did so well.'”

 

Even when Han Da-min spoke as if feeling left out, the fans just giggled.

 

“Princess!”

 

“Yes?”

 

Just then, one of the fans offered me hand warmers, so I briefly held their hand and shook it before shaking my head.

 

Click, click, the sound of camera shutters kept going off.

 

At the same time, voices calling out “Me too!” or shouting members’ names filled the air.

 

The atmosphere was warming up cheerfully despite the cold.

 

Han Da-min watched the situation with satisfaction before speaking.

 

“Is there anyone who has questions for us? Since we’ve met like this, let’s have a Q&A time.”

 

At Han Da-min’s words, one of the fans immediately shot up and raised her hand as if she had been waiting.

 

“Ahahaha.”

 

It was impossible not to notice her.

 

Han Da-min couldn’t help but laugh and reflexively pointed at her.

 

“There in the very back, it seems like you have something you’re really curious about. You shot right up. I can’t not ask you.”

 

“Really. Your expression looks so determined.”

 

When Min Ha-young mimicked the fan who had stood up, the fan laughed shyly but then asked loudly.

 

“When will our name be decided? If it’s still under discussion, I wanted to ask if you’re considering taking fan votes!”

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