The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 192

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“I don’t think I’ve seen you on TV before. Are you talents too?”

“Unnie, why are you asking such embarrassing questions to the young misses? They brought so many cameras, of course they’re talents!”

“What are you talking about? We’re not talents either but we’re on TV.”

“But no, unnie. The young misses are so slim and pretty, they must be talents.”

“Dear, come a bit closer. Oh my! What good luck we have.”

“You came just when we’re having our night snack. Come here and have a bite each.”

The grandmothers were more skilled at broadcasting than we were. We were completely overwhelmed by their energy.

As we stood there awkwardly, the grandmothers finished talking among themselves and gestured for us to come over.

‘Come over?’

That’s a bit burdensome…

It seemed the grandmothers had become very accustomed to dealing with guests through meeting various people on broadcasts.

While I was grateful they welcomed us so naturally, it felt like they were closing the distance too quickly.

As I hesitated with an unnecessarily awkward feeling, Min Ha-young suddenly stepped forward and quickly went to sit among the grandmothers.

“Thank you! Actually, even before we came in here, there was such a delicious smell wafting around.”

“Really? There’s no fence here, so when we boil something, everyone knows.”

“Can I eat some?”

“Of course! How old are you? Looking at you up close, you seem even younger than our granddaughter.”

“How old is your granddaughter?”

Min Ha-young was naturally striking up conversation with the grandmothers.

“My granddaughter is thirty this year. She’s so tall and handsome and reliable, just recently she gave me spending money saying thank you for raising her…”

“Really? Wow, that’s cool. I haven’t even given my parents spending money yet.”

“Young miss, you don’t need to give any yet. Looking at you, you seem like you should still be receiving spending money.”

She was so natural that anyone watching would think she was the grandmother’s granddaughter.

As I stood there awkwardly, completely excluded from the conversation, the grandmothers gestured for Young Il-lin and me to come over too.

“Young misses, come and eat too. You should have come over earlier instead of just standing there!”

“Ah, no. I’m…”

“Oh my, unnie. Young ladies these days don’t eat this kind of thing much because they’re on diets.”

“Is that so? But this won’t make you gain weight.”

“No! I’ll eat! I’ll gratefully eat it!”

Young Il-lin quickly grabbed my hand and led me over.

“Hm?”

Min Ha-young looked at me and tilted her head.

It must have been really obvious.

“Phew.”

I took a small deep breath and mixed in among the grandmothers.

Then Min Ha-young quickly came to my side and handed me a steamed bun the grandmother had given her.

“Aren’t you going to eat? Because you’ll be eating a meal later?”

“No, I’ll just have a bite too.”

“Great!”

Min Ha-young immediately split the steamed bun in half and started eating it deliciously.

“Wow, it was a meat steamed bun. It’s so delicious!”

Even though Min Ha-young is quite sociable, wasn’t she also the type to be rather shy around strangers?

She was getting along with the grandmothers better than I had expected.

Maybe she’s the type who feels more comfortable with elderly people than with peers?

In this filming, Min Ha-young’s performance might stand out more than mine.

If that happened, it would really be a relief.

I ate steamed buns while moderately joining in on the small and cheerful conversation between Min Ha-young, Young Il-lin, and the grandmothers, then quietly spoke up when it was almost time to end.

“But I think we should get going now. The others are probably waiting for us.”

“Oh, that’s right. Gwang-cheon’s boy is having lunch right about now.”

“You even know what time Senior Gwang-cheon eats lunch?”

“Of course! That guy eats lunch exactly at this time and dinner at eight twenty. There’s nothing I don’t know in this village.”

The grandmother answered confidently. In the broadcast I had seen beforehand, she was called by the nickname Leader Grandmother.

As she said, she knew everything about the village so thoroughly that you could ask Leader Grandmother about anything you didn’t know in this village.

“Oh my! Then you came to get ingredients to cook rice with Gwang-cheon’s boy? You should have said so earlier! If you had, I wouldn’t have kept you here!”

“Oh, no. The conversation was so fun that I lost track of time and just kept staying.”

When I spoke urgently, Leader Grandmother looked at me with suspicious eyes and said.

“Really? But this young miss barely said anything proper.”

“Hey, unnie. Isn’t she a young miss who lives in that big city Seoul? All Seoul kids are sly, you know.”

“Haha, she’s just shy. Ji-ye is extremely shy around strangers. Actually, she’s having a lot of fun right now, even though she looks like this.”

Thankfully, Min Ha-young took my side.

I’m sorry. But I’m really bad at dealing with elderly people, so in my own way, I was really doing my best to be friendly.

I nodded vigorously to show that I sincerely agreed with Min Ha-young’s words, then quickly said.

“If it’s okay with you, could we take some vegetables?”

“You can take them! Just look around and take whatever you want to take, young miss.”

“But right now there’s only radish and spinach that’s ready to eat… Young misses, if you wait a bit, I’ll go home and bring some side dishes.”

“Oh, thank you so much!”

“Then wait a little.”

Ha, what would I have done without Ha-young and Young Il-lin really.

Thanks to the two of them getting along so well with the grandmothers, we were able to get ingredients and even side dishes.

“Ji-ye?”

“…Huh?”

“Are you okay?”

Min Ha-young asked worriedly. I nodded shamefully and Min Ha-young managed to smile with an uncomfortable expression.

And a little later, we safely returned to Kim Gwang-cheon’s house with radish and spinach, some side dishes, and even ice cream that the grandmothers bought for us in our mouths.

“Oh, you’re back?”

In the yard, I Meet You and May Rookie were preparing ingredients.

“What, why are you guys so late! Are you eating delicious things without us?”

Elisha from I Meet You pouted her lips and stood up abruptly, approaching us.

“We were just waiting for you guys, really!”

Just ordinary complaining. But I could glimpse the sincerity within it.

Come to think of it, Kim Gwang-cheon and Romance Story had gone somewhere, leaving only I Meet You and May Rookie.

I suspected the two teams were filming in such an awkward atmosphere that they weren’t even exchanging a single word.

‘I can understand that.’

Both groups had taken a big hit after that incident.

I Meet You didn’t do anything right either, having participated in Start Plan through their agency’s lobbying, but they had good reason to feel wronged since their group was facing a crisis of survival.

In contrast, May Rookie was going to debut anyway. Despite being the cause of all this controversy.

To I Meet You, May Rookie could only look like perpetrators who had thoroughly blocked their path forward.

I think it’s understandable that they’d feel resentful emotions beyond just awkwardness.

But…

‘This dynamic is a bit problematic though.’

I looked at the May Rookie members with a dubious expression.

The May Rookie members weren’t even glancing our way, talking among themselves and focusing on preparing ingredients.

Or rather, they seemed to be trying hard to focus. There’s no way they couldn’t hear us talking.

‘So this situation feels kind of…’

FLORA and U&DA are complete victims, and I Meet You is closer to us than to May Rookie, so it’s not strange that they’d side with us.

But this current dynamic makes it look like we’re ostracizing May Rookie, doesn’t it?

May Rookie had openly shown they disliked us even off camera, but if they act like this in front of cameras too…

And if this airs as is.

‘It might become troublesome.’

I peeled Min Ha-young off from right next to me and picked up some radish and spinach.

Then I headed toward May Rookie.

“Could you make a little room? I’ll help prepare ingredients too.”

May Rookie isn’t a group that was forced to participate in manipulation due to their agency’s tyranny.

They’re a group that knew about all the corruption but tried to use it to win easily.

But what can I do. We’re appearing on the same broadcast after all.

Just being caught on camera together would make people overanalyze every word and action.

There’s no need to create ridiculous public opinion like Flora members excitedly ostracizing May Rookie or all cast members excluding and bullying May Rookie.

During filming, I should at least pretend to interact with them.

With that thought, I sat next to May Rookie’s Ja-yeon and untied a bundle of spinach.

“Ah… Yes. Um, should I help?”

Then Ja-yeon also started reading the room and quietly cooperating with this fake interaction.

Anyway, I noticed this during Start Plan too, but she’s surprisingly quick to read situations.

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