The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 188

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“Thank you for your hard work!”

“Everyone did great!”

In the end, our first practice session ended with us only receiving criticism.

“Seriously, we would have been in big trouble without Senior Lena.”

“Exactly.”

I hadn’t expected her to stay with us until the end of practice, but thanks to that, we were able to get the hang of it relatively quickly.

It was disappointing that we couldn’t sing properly until the very end, but there’s practice tomorrow too.

“FLORA members, you all worked so hard today!”

The U&DA members approached us with unsatisfied expressions to say goodbye.

It seemed like today’s practice wasn’t satisfactory for them either.

Well, they received a lot of criticism too, and even now Senior Lena was watching them from behind with a stern expression, so it was natural.

‘At least we only got criticized.’

U&DA received quite harsh treatment.

They kept habitually mixing vocal techniques into a song that should be sung straightforwardly, and in the end, they ended up getting scolded by Lena.

U&DA themselves seemed frustrated about why they couldn’t do the basic approach properly.

It seems like both we and they will have to focus solely on practice for a while after today.

“U&DA, you all worked hard too. See you at the next practice.”

We also said goodbye to U&DA, unable to hide our bitter feelings.

If we could, we’d want to stay here and practice a bit more, but unfortunately we had to return to the company.

“Let’s go, everyone. Say goodbye to Senior Lena and the staff.”

We left the practice room following Manager Ji-soo, leaving our regrets behind.

Inside the car heading back to the company.

Han Da-min, who had been silent for a while looking outside the window, casually said.

“Our jazz really is hopeless.”

“Exactly.”

“Right.”

The members answered without hesitation.

There are no plans for jazz genre to be included in our future albums.

“I realized it this time. We’re not cut out for it from our voices. That feeling just doesn’t come out at all.”

“What if we had chosen songs 1 or 2 like Ji-ye said? If they had asked us to bring out a jazz feeling with classical accompaniment, honestly I might have given up.”

“I was more nervous than when I was at SPRL earlier.”

The members’ frustration finally burst out.

Since it was in front of a senior and everyone was working hard together, we couldn’t show it, but everyone seemed really frustrated.

Since working with Day Entertainment, we had focused on showcasing our strengths even better and only received praise, so today’s events were even more shocking.

No matter what, who would have expected to be criticized throughout the entire practice?

Listening to the members’ complaints, I timidly said.

“But we gained something too. Senior Lena really is amazing.”

The members immediately responded as if enchanted again.

Honestly, singing was as difficult as at Start Plan, but we learned much more than back then.

She gave detailed advice on points to improve one by one, and every time we fully understood it, our singing noticeably improved.

What we learned today can definitely be used well for Flora’s next album activities too.

“Hmm, guys.”

Then Han Da-min glanced at Manager Ji-soo and spoke in a low voice.

“We felt we were lacking a lot today. So how about we do an all-nighter for the first time in a while…”

“No.”

Seong Ji-soo quickly cut off Han Da-min’s words.

She was probably going to say ‘Should we do an all-night practice session for the first time in a while?’

Manager Ji-soo looked at Han Da-min through the rearview mirror and shook her head firmly.

“We have practice tomorrow too, and there will be schedules provided by SPRL soon, so it would be troublesome if you overdo it from today just because practice didn’t go well.”

“Ah…”

“If you practice like you did during the competition days, you’ll collapse, right? Let’s take it easy today and go home.”

It’s disappointing, but Manager Ji-soo is right.

Right now we only practice and have leisurely wake-up times in the morning, so we can think about doing all-night practice.

But that’s only temporary.

Once SPRL starts managing our schedules, even this kind of leisure will disappear.

As it was during SPRL and as we experienced during debut activities, when that time comes, we won’t be able to recover our condition even if we want to.

“…You’re right. I was being impatient and thinking wrongly.”

Han Da-min said sheepishly. It can’t be helped. That’s just Da-min’s personality.

She’s the type who would be desperate to practice until she can get complete recognition from Rena for her lacking parts.

“Don’t think too hastily. Even if you think there’s not much time left until the concert, there are still 3 months.”

“That’s… true.”

Han Da-min was quiet for a moment, then asked.

“But is Senior Lena coming to tomorrow’s practice too? Will she keep coming until the concert?”

“She said she would unless something special comes up. Why? Is it a bit burdensome after all?”

“What? No, not at all, I was just curious.”

Far from being uncomfortable, Han Da-min’s mood actually improved.

I smiled and said to Manager Ji-soo.

“It’s not burdensome, she really wants Senior Lena to be there.”

“Huh?”

“Because Unnie Da-min is a fan of Senior Lena.”

“Da-min was a fan of Rena?”

“Haha…”

Han Da-min nodded and fidgeted with her mobile phone.

Her fandom was quite deep.

Even though I had never directly heard from Han Da-min that she was Rena’s fan, it was obvious enough just from her usual behavior.

Among her playlist of various genres, Rena was the artist who occupied the largest portion.

When Rena releases a new album, she even pre-orders it, and often recommends it to the members while excitedly praising it.

‘Plus, she suggested Rena’s song for this duet too.’

She suggested it saying it would suit my voice well, but wasn’t the bigger reason that she wanted to sing it herself?

Anyway, there’s no way getting direct feedback from such a Rena would be burdensome.

‘Rather good, actually.’

However, she probably wouldn’t want to end this meeting after being thoroughly criticized by Rena and only showing her shortcomings.

From what Manager Ji-soo is saying, fortunately it seems Han Da-min will have a chance to gain recognition from someone she respects before the concert.

‘By the way, if she’s attending practice until the concert…’

While we’re at it, couldn’t we also get some feedback on our duet?

It would be really disappointing if we couldn’t get it when our skills are improving so rapidly during this practice.

‘We’re also supposed to receive a song.’

We might end up meeting more often than expected.

I had that feeling.

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One month later.

“Hmm, girls. You’ve really memorized the choreography well, but when you all stand together, the details are all slightly different, making it look scattered. We need to match this up.”

Lee Si-ah naturally stopped the practice and called out the problematic members from both teams to start individual coaching.

To describe the current progress of the joint stage practice, it was proceeding quite rapidly.

Rena and Lee Si-ah were directly supervising the Members’ practice, and the Members were also doing their best in practice, making sure to fix any pointed-out issues by the next day.

It was flowing surprisingly smoothly.

‘And we’re becoming more serious about it as time goes on.’

Even up until the first joint practice, neither we nor U&DA had this kind of earnest atmosphere, right?

We didn’t have good feelings toward Start Plan, and above all, we each had important matters to attend to.

We had new content to prepare.

U&DA had debut preparations.

So there seemed to be an understanding that we’d only do the SPLCON stage to the extent that it wouldn’t strain our condition.

But somehow that became a distant story.

We had no choice. Rena’s criticisms were coming in hard, and to fix them, we inevitably had to practice and think like crazy.

“Should we just do a group training camp? It’s been a while.”

Meanwhile, Young Il-lin, U&DA’s leader who had just gotten thoroughly scolded by Rena again for lacking details, said jokingly.

It was a joke, but I was half-seriously wondering if we really should.

‘This Start Plan is just letting us sleep a little, isn’t it?’

Lately we’ve been practicing as if we’ve returned to Start Plan days, or even more grueling than that – is this right?

The atmosphere felt even more so with behind cameras for both us and U&DA set up everywhere.

But unfortunately, the practice intensity would only get more severe from now on, not less demanding than it is now.

Two months until SPLCON.

It was about time to start getting scheduled for promotional activities as well.

Rehearsals with other SPRL Cast Members besides U&DA were also planned.

After seeing the other SPRL Cast Members’ stage rehearsals, both we and the Staff would obviously get fired up saying we absolutely couldn’t lose.

“Haha. But it’s fun though…”

I decided to just think that the Start Plan competition never ended.

That seemed like the way to approach it with peace of mind.

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