The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 201

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Has Debuted

Chapter 201

“Flora, please come down from the stage and U&Da will begin their rehearsal.”

“Thank you for your hard work!”

We energetically bowed and came down from the stage equipment.

The group rehearsal was over, and all that remained was the joint performance with U&Da and the cast group rehearsal.

“Phew, good work, everyone. Let’s go to the waiting room and rest a bit.”

“Yeah.”

During the rehearsal, we received only praise instead of criticism and showed what we had prepared without any mistakes.

So we had every reason to feel excited.

“Ah, I’m really tired.”

Min Ha-young couldn’t hold back and let out a comment.

Everyone knew it wasn’t about physical fatigue but a kind of irritation.

The target of that irritation was clear.

The other cast members sitting in the audience seats like royalty, giggling and chattering.

Namely, some members of May Rookie and Romance Story.

It was the same power struggle we experienced during Start Plan.

Even though rehearsal times were clearly set for each group and there was no need to watch, they deliberately watched while showing meaningless sneers and giggles.

Now all the members had adapted to such behavior and just accepted it, but during the competition, Min Ha-young and Seo Ra-eun, who were experiencing it for the first time, were quite shaken.

It made them think whether the stage we prepared was so lacking that they could laugh at it so leisurely.

Now that we’re the only ones among the cast who have debuted and are on the path to success, it just looks pathetic.

I was thinking we should just go back to the waiting room and do some monitoring instead of creating unnecessary trouble when—

“Why are you looking at us like that?”

Huh?

I turned my head at the familiar voice coming from behind.

Han Da-min was looking at them with an unpleasant expression.

“Unnie?”

She ignored my call, looked around, then spoke toward the members in the audience seats, specifically May Rookie.

“Where is your manager?”

“…What?”

“Where are May Rookie and Romance Story’s managers?”

“Huh? No, well…”

At her scolding tone, the May Rookie and Romance Story members seemed flustered, rambling incoherently as they stood up from their seats.

“Your company must have clearly taught you not to giggle and chatter while watching other singers’ rehearsals.”

Huh? Han Da-min is scolding other groups?

Han Da-min had so much experience that she usually didn’t care what other groups did.

If she was the type to get angry about such things, there would have been trouble during Start Plan already.

But suddenly acting like this probably means…

It’s because of that incident.

“Who laughs while watching another singer’s stage like that? We don’t even do that to junior singers, so why did trainees who haven’t even debuted act that way?”

A cold and menacing voice that the Flora members had never heard before.

Well, we let it slide thinking it’s better to keep things peaceful, but when you really think about it, it is outrageous.

From Han Da-min’s perspective, she was being disrespected by juniors who were far below her, whether as Flora or as her former group Rosetta, with only the common point of being Start Plan participants.

We even consider it polite not to watch other singers’ challenge filming sessions.

…Actually, it’s probably more because she’s become sensitive due to Song-i’s situation.

“No, we weren’t laughing or anything like that… We’re sorry.”

“We’re sorry.”

“Sorry for making you misunderstand…”

“We were just curious about Flora’s rehearsal…”

Eventually, the May Rookie and Romance Story members couldn’t withstand the cold atmosphere and their momentum was broken.

Unable to escape Han Da-min’s gaze and just reading the room, Min Ha-young also spoke up toward them.

“We’re also curious about May Rookie and Romance Story’s rehearsal. Should we sit here and watch how well you do?”

“Ha-young, don’t do that…”

Seo Ra-eun timidly stopped Min Ha-young.

“If you want to get angry, let’s do it backstage… There are too many eyes watching here…”

…Not telling her not to get angry, but to do it where no one can see?

Maybe the kids are worn out from Song-i’s mother’s situation. They seem slightly twisted somehow.

I hurriedly pushed the members toward the waiting room.

“Calm down. Let’s handle this by talking to their managers separately later. Let’s not worry about it and go rest in the waiting room.”

While soothing the members, I glanced at May Rookie and Romance Story.

Then they fled from the audience seats as if they had been waiting for the chance.

‘They’re still so young…’

Since finding out I’m from Hongjin Group, both the broadcasting station and agencies have noticeably changed their attitudes, but the other Start Plan members are still young, so their emotions seem to get the better of them.

We returned to the waiting room, rested briefly, then went back into rehearsal.

Whether it should be called fortunate, after Han Da-min got angry, May Rookie and Romance Story couldn’t even make eye contact with us throughout the rehearsal and kept avoiding us.

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The night before the concert.

“Everyone worked hard, see you tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

“Yes. Everyone worked hard.”

We returned to the dormitory late at night.

Being busy is definitely good.

Being so busy and hectic made all the minor worries besides the concert completely disappear.

During the many rehearsals, the stress from Song-i’s situation almost disappeared, and now I even felt refreshed.

Of course, on the way back to the dormitory, I heard news that Song-i’s mother contacted Kim Ja-in again, which stressed me out again.

Anyway, seeing how Kim Ja-in has been handling it well alone so far, it seems like we can proceed with the concert without problems.

“…Phew. Let’s sleep.”

After tomorrow’s concert ends, I should talk to Kim Ja-in about that matter again.

I was getting drowsy and gradually falling asleep when—

Knock knock-

“Princess!”

Without waiting for an answer, the door opened and the members rushed into the room.

“…What?”

“Hey! Let’s all sleep together! It’s about time we all slept together!”

“Huh?”

Regardless of my opinion, the members began settling down and lying down here and there in the room.

“Again?”

“What do you mean again? It’s been a while since we slept together, friends.”

I couldn’t help but let out a chuckle.

They’re doing this group thing again because there’s a concert coming up.

Our members had been like this since Start Plan.

Whenever there was an important day ahead or difficult situations, they would suddenly gather in one room and spend the night together.

It’s become a kind of established tradition during Flora’s short history.

Well, today is indeed a good day to sleep together for various reasons.

“Every time we all sleep together, I think how fortunate it is that our house is spacious.”

“Exactly. If it were an ordinary room, all five of us would have had to squeeze together.”

“Did you see? Our dormitory interior was revealed?”

“Huh? Where?”

“The company coordinated with an interior design company to reveal it? It was even on a broadcast. They said it’s incredibly spacious.”

“It is spacious. People must have been really surprised.”

“I heard FLORA’s dormitory is really luxurious.”

It’s definitely a dormitory worthy of that description.

For five rookies living together, it’s an incredibly spacious and high-end dormitory that’s almost at the level of top idols with 10 years of experience.

I didn’t check their reactions, but somehow it felt like a topic that would naturally lead to talk about Hong Jin and me.

“Come to think of it, didn’t we not make a single mistake during our SPLCON rehearsal?”

“Right. We really didn’t make even one mistake.”

“Mm-hmm! You’ve all grown so admirably!”

“Da-min unnie, why are you talking like a teacher!”

“Ha-young, when are you going to start speaking casually to me?”

“Should I? Honestly, when everyone else switched to casual speech before, I kind of regret not doing it too.”

“Why didn’t you back then?”

“I’m just not used to speaking casually!”

As expected, we’re most comfortable when it’s just us together.

In the dim room, our conversation continued for a long time in an atmosphere like the last night of a school trip, but gradually began to fade.

And finally, when no voices could be heard anymore.

“Are you sleeping, unnies?”

Song-i’s quiet voice, almost like talking to herself, echoed through the room.

“Mother’s not sleeping~”

“Nobody’s sleeping, right? But we’re probably too tired from rehearsal to have energy to talk!”

“For people with no energy, everyone was chattering way too much though?”

“Hehe, it just got quiet because it’s time to sleep!”

The members answered as if they had been waiting.

Everyone must have realized that it was finally time for that conversation to come up.

After another round of commotion died down, the room became quiet again.

After a brief silence, Song-i’s voice was heard.

“…I’m sorry.”

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