The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 189

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Since I still thought we were in the middle of a competition, this hardship didn’t feel too difficult.

As we continued like this, the days of receiving criticism from Rena gradually decreased and the days of receiving praise began to increase.

We were slowly becoming perfect.

“Mm, good. At this level, you could go on stage right now!”

Rena said in an excited voice and then checked the time.

“Oh my, girls. It’s already past 12 o’clock. Let’s start wrapping up and go home now.”

“Yes!”

Even though practice was finally over, the members weren’t particularly excited.

Both U&DA and FLORA knew that once this practice ended, other dawn practices and work would be waiting.

“Good work everyone!”

I packed up with the members and headed to the parking lot, whispering to Han Da-min.

“Unnie, how about we just leave our arrangement to someone else?”

“The duet?”

“Yeah.”

I really didn’t want to do this if I could help it. Managing our condition is harder than I thought.

Not just me, but Han Da-min too.

She has the personality where she has to obsessively do everything perfectly, even if it means overexerting herself.

A schedule of working on duet song arrangements and concept ideas at night and practicing all day during the day. Even if we’re fine now, we don’t know when we might collapse from exhaustion.

Since we’ve come this far, it would be nice if we two could finish the arrangement work as we’ve been doing, but seeing our increasingly busy schedule, I concluded that this was impossible.

While I’m greedy about creating the arrangement perfectly to our taste by hand, fortunately this is something we can entrust to professionals who are more skilled than us.

It seemed better to focus on concert preparation for now.

“What do you think?”

“Ah, um…”

Han Da-min had an expression that showed she wasn’t really convinced.

The way she wasn’t making eye contact with me – does she really want us to do it until the end?

But this time, greed alone won’t be enough.

“By the time we work on it, we’re tired and our minds don’t work well. At this rate, we won’t make progress until the concert ends.”

“You’re right… It’s a bit disappointing though.”

Han Da-min reluctantly nodded. Then she hesitated for a moment before speaking.

“Instead, I’ll bring the arranger. Is that okay?”

“If it’s someone trustworthy.”

“More than trustworthy – it’s someone who perfectly understands my taste.”

Han Da-min said confidently. Seeing how the corners of her mouth turned up just from talking about this person, they must be someone she’s close with.

“I’ll contact them first and let you know too.”

“Good. Let’s do that. Thanks for listening. I know you wanted to do the arrangement yourself…”

“No. I’m the one who should thank you for stopping me. We were overexerting ourselves, weren’t we.”

Han Da-min wrapped her arm around my shoulder, shook me, then let go.

I nodded and turned my head to look at Song-i.

While I had relieved myself of one worry like this, I wonder how Song-i is doing.

“…”

Song-i was quiet. As always, she just stared at her mobile phone with no expression.

She looked a little tired, and other than that, I couldn’t read any emotions.

I was most worried about Song-i these days.

‘I guess her mother’s situation still hasn’t been resolved.’

Since it’s a family matter, I’ve just been watching from the sidelines until now, but is it really okay to leave it like this?

Song-i originally didn’t show much expression, but now it’s a bit different.

“This is really serious, Teacher Lee Si-ah said if I don’t get my arm angles right by tomorrow, she won’t let it slide…”

“Teacher Si-ah is really scary when she scolds. Unnie, would you like to do extra practice with me today? Ji-ye said she would.”

“Yeah, I want to do it too. I think I can only fix it if I practice with you guys.”

Song-i puts on a sulky expression as if she’s not interested in anything, but she’s actually the one who cares most about the members.

For example, right now.

If it were the original Song-i, when three members said they were doing extra practice, no matter how tired she was, she would have insisted on joining the practice saying ‘Why didn’t you ask me?’

She’s a kid who absolutely can’t stand seeing the members do something without her.

But that Song-i is now just staring at her mobile phone as if she can’t even hear the members’ conversation.

Of course, she might not have heard or it might not be a big deal…

But she’s been like this constantly lately, so I’m taking it quite seriously.

“Hmm, what should we do about that kid?”

Han Da-min whispered while glancing back at Song-i.

“She’s not the type to just sit still when the kids are practicing together, normally.”

Then she pointed at Min Ha-young with her thumb.

“Look at Ha-young. She’s talking that loudly on purpose so Song-i can hear.”

That’s right. Actually, all the members have noticed Song-i’s strange state.

We’ve even had meetings among ourselves excluding Song-i.

Song-i seems to be having a really hard time with her mother’s situation, so what can we do to help?

No one gave her any hints and we know she’s trying not to show it, but we’ve been watching Song-i’s mood for quite a while now.

I whispered to Han Da-min.

“Unnie, you said you’d try talking to Song-i separately last time. Did you try?”

“I did try having a separate conversation with her. She said straight up that she’d appreciate it if we didn’t worry about it.”

“Ah… So she said not to worry about it?”

“Yeah. The situation isn’t good, but she said if the members step in because of that, it would give her mother ammunition.”

“Ammunition?”

What kind of ammunition?

When I looked at her with a face that said I didn’t understand, Han Da-min let out a deep sigh.

“Ammunition. Ammunition to oppose FLORA activities.”

“…Whew.”

I let out a big breath.

Don’t get angry. Hold it in.

I do know that Song-i’s Mother doesn’t look favorably on FLORA activities, and thinks of it as some kind of experiential learning that she can make her quit anytime.

Honestly, having debuted already, I feel rage rising every time I hear this kind of talk.

Han Da-min smiled bitterly.

“What can I do? When Song-i says that, it would be strange to force myself to interfere.”

“But unnie.”

“Yeah?”

“I can’t leave Song-i like that.”

I suppressed my anger and spoke as calmly as possible.

I couldn’t keep waiting anxiously forever for Song-i’s situation to resolve safely.

Especially if it was related to Flora’s activities.

“Didn’t you see how she was when talking with her mother? What if she suddenly says she wants to quit? I’ll try talking to Song-i.”

“You will? Then please do. And tell me what she says too.”

“Okay.”

Han Da-min was about to turn her head but stopped, let out a laugh, and said.

“Good. Having comfortable conversations like this with you.”

I grinned at her words too.

When did it start? When did we become comfortable exchanging conversations about work, members, and even ordinary daily life?

It was probably because we spent many days working on songs together.

At some point, we became able to talk about anything and discuss everything freely.

“Don’t try to have that conversation too hastily. Especially not today. Seeing how she won’t say a word, today isn’t the right day.”

“Got it.”

Ding!

Just as we were wrapping up our conversation.

A familiar name I hadn’t seen in a while appeared on my phone.

[Choi Gyo-young Reporter]

I hadn’t asked him for anything in particular, so what was this about?

Puzzled, I checked the message he sent.

Choi Gyo-young Reporter

Breaking news – ‘Countryside Living’, SPLCON cast members scheduled to appear on YouTube channel 2030’s ‘Can We Be Friends?’ segment!

Countryside Living will have one or two members from each group appear, and I’ve been told there’s a high possibility Ji-ye will appear on 2030!

How have you been? ㅎㅎ I went to the broadcasting station today and heard this, so I’m passing it along first. It’s not confirmed yet, but they say it’s almost confirmed.

‘Oh.’

A reporter is indeed a reporter.

He brought news about variety shows the SPLCON cast members would appear on faster than anyone else.

It seems the agency hasn’t received the proposal yet.

‘Hmm, so they’re sending us to this level of variety shows.’

The shows we appear on might change, but if it’s variety shows of this caliber, that’s not bad.

Countryside Living, as you can tell from the name, is a program where celebrities go down to the countryside and spend a day helping village elders with their work.

Just looking at the plot, it’s just a healing variety show that every broadcasting company has, and honestly, the viewership ratings aren’t that great either.

However, with frequent idol casting, gentle entertainment, and visual beauty, the YouTube view counts are quite high.

And YouTube 2030.

It’s a channel that grew by making reaction videos to new songs by singers in their twenties and thirties their main content, but since last year, they’ve been directly casting singers to conduct high-quality studio live performances and talks, becoming a popular channel truly called the music channel of the YouTube industry.

These days, most singers who make comebacks end up going through there.

But.

I had expected public broadcast promotions, but they’re considering me appearing on 2030 alone.

What kind of bolt from the blue is this.

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