The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 21

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 21

Since her emotions show so clearly in her eyes, it actually has a good impact, I suppose.

Using that day’s mistake as an excuse, all the members took turns teasing her, and before we knew it, she had become our team’s number one target for jokes.

Although the members are being mischievous, Min Ha-young’s image must have gotten quite bad from that incident, so I think treating her this way is actually better.

“But either way, being tired is the same, you know.”

Choi Song-i muttered quietly.

Rather, the one maintaining cynicism was the youngest, Song-i.

This kid was somehow like a cat.

“Wow, now even Song-i is teasing me.”

“I never teased you. I was just stating facts.”

She spoke matter-of-factly as if fed up, while actually leaning completely against Min Ha-young.

Min Ha-young bickering with Choi Song-i with a bright red face, and the members watching that scene happily.

…What is this? This strange longing.

The members are different, but for some reason, being with these members keeps reminding me of my old group.

Watching Min Ha-young collapse sideways under Choi Song-i’s weight, a laugh burst out of me.

I just like this kind of atmosphere.

We’ve definitely gotten much closer since that incident.

You don’t know how anxious I was when I saw the initial awkward atmosphere and fight gauge.

Is this team really going to be okay?

I was worried that participating in the competition might actually block my path to debut.

But like most conflicts, time solved it.

‘I don’t know how the editing will turn out though.’

Anyway, the team atmosphere has been very harmonious these days.

“Everyone, since this is our last day at the dormitory, let’s practice until we’re perfect today, even if we get tired.”

“Yes!”

Han Da-min has also gotten used to her leader role.

Oh, and the status window too. I confirmed that stat increases are possible through practice.

The higher the stats, the harder it seems to raise them through practice, as there was no change in my status window.

Ding!

Min Ha-young’s vocal grade, which was significantly lower compared to other members, had somehow risen one level from D to D+.

Now that I know stats can be raised sufficiently through effort without using the cash shop, I plan to practice like crazy to raise my vocal grade to A as well.

“Everyone warmed up? Let’s start practice now.”

At Han Da-min’s words, all members took their positions. And just as we were about to start practice.

Knock knock.

“F Team, girls, have you started practice?”

“Oh…”

The members looked flustered as they watched someone open the door and come in.

“Writer?”

It was Son Yeo-jin, Start Plan’s main writer.

Why is she here suddenly? We hadn’t seen her during the dormitory stay except for the first day.

Writer Son Yeo-jin looked around the practice room, then smiled and gestured to us.

“You haven’t started practice yet, right? Then can you come out for a moment? There’s something additional we need to film.”

“Ah, yes…”

Huh, additional filming.

Such an honor?

We followed Writer Son Yeo-jin out of the practice room as if enchanted.

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The conference room on the training camp first floor.

We carefully opened the door and entered, looking around cautiously.

A white table as pristine as the white space, and a 24-inch monitor set up at the front.

And several cards were placed face-down in the middle of the table.

What could those be.

The members reflexively reached toward the cards but stopped and looked around nervously.

Are we allowed to touch these?

Writer Son Yeo-jin had just shoved us in here without saying anything, so we still didn’t know what we were here for.

We only received word that Team E and F Team would film the same content separately.

“Should we sit down first?”

At Han Da-min’s words, the members went “ah” and each sat in the nearest chair.

We spent several minutes just looking around nervously like that.

“Hmm, why isn’t anyone touching this? Isn’t it there for us to look at?”

Just as Choi Song-i couldn’t contain her curiosity and reached for the cards.

With a click sound, the monitor at the front turned on.

“Oh.”

Choi Song-i’s hand quickly went under the table.

“The screen turned on. Everyone.”

“What what?”

“What, scary!”

A monitor suddenly turning on in the quiet space. Seo Ra-eun and Min Ha-young hugged each other, making a fuss about being scared. Then black text appeared on the screen.

[Please decide on a team name using the cards as reference]

“Ah.”

“Oh, that’s right…”

Ah, right.

Only then did we realize we had forgotten something important.

“We completely forgot about it.”

We had gotten so used to being called ‘F Team’ that we completely forgot we needed to decide on a separate name.

There were times when we occasionally wondered ‘did we decide to just call ourselves F Team?’ but we forgot about that too every time we started practice.

In the end, we were just F Team until today.

I wondered why neither the mentors nor the production staff urged us, but it seems they planned to corner us like this if we didn’t decide among ourselves.

“So we just need to decide on a group name from now on?”

Han Da-min said while flipping through the face-down cards.

“Does anyone have something they’ve thought of?”

“…”

As if we would have thought of anything.

Everyone kept their mouths shut tight.

If we had names in mind, wouldn’t we have suggested deciding on a group name first?

“Hmm…”

The members’ faces became more serious.

Our name that we’ll have to carry throughout the broadcast. Everyone seems to want to decide on a pretty name with good meaning.

Watching such members, I reached for the cards.

“Should we look at this first?”

Sorry. Actually, I’m not particularly interested in names.

I would have just accepted it without any thought if we had gone to the end as F Team.

‘It’s not like it’s a name we’ll use for life anyway.’

Even if it seems pessimistic, that’s how I think.

If we don’t win, or even if we do win, individual trainees will end up as a project group anyway, right? A group that will disband after a short period of activity.

Is there really a need to spend so much time deciding when it’s such a waste of time…?

Rather, if we put too much meaning into deciding it, it’ll be more painful when we have to end it later.

“Alright, girls. Flip all the cards over. What does it say?”

The members started flipping over the cards.

Challenge, moon, flower, first, sun, and so on – the keywords written on the cards were diverse.

There were quite a lot of cards, and except for a few universally usable keywords, they all seemed to have keywords related to the members’ images.

For example, Min Ha-young had dance, passion, struggle. Choi Song-i had cat, and Seo Ra-eun had gentleness, and so on.

“Red! Anyone can see this belongs to Da-min unnie.”

The members also seemed to notice the keywords that represented them and excitedly started sorting the cards.

“Princess. This one is Ji-ye’s.”

Han Da-min handed me the card with ‘princess’ written on it.

Huh, why is she giving this to me?

“Why am I the princess?”

Then Han Da-min grinned and said,

“I’ve been calling you princess. Because you’re pretty.”

…When?

Just then, Choi Song-i pressed a card firmly against my arm from the side.

When I took it and checked, it said ‘winter.’

Why this one too? When I looked at Choi Song-i, she said in a blunt tone,

“Unnie seems cold when you don’t smile. Put them together and you’re a winter princess.”

Then she chuckled and walked away.

“Here.”

Min Ha-young also held out a card to me.

It had ‘T’ written on it.

When I stared at Min Ha-young, she said,

“You’re a T.”

“…”

“Puhaha!”

Han Da-min, why are you laughing? I guess everyone has felt a lot about me without me knowing? How much could they have observed me?

Seriously.

Still, seeing everyone joke around and treat me casually isn’t bad.

Thinking that, I halfheartedly picked up the top two cards and flipped them over.

“Uh…”

And I froze the moment I saw the keywords written on the cards.

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