The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 219

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Has Debuted

Chapter 219

“Ah, Father?”

“Father-in-law?”

“Grand…father? Just now…”

“You praised Ji-ye?”

The family members are looking at Grandfather with disbelieving faces, even trembling as they stare at him.

Is it really that amazing that Grandfather praised me?

Looking at this family, it’s like a sitcom.

Besides, ‘you must have something you’re good at’ isn’t even really praise, is it?

Is there some family-specific way of praising that I don’t know about?

Still, well, certainly.

He’s never given Ji-ye even that much praise before.

Forget praise, this is the first time since middle school that she wasn’t kicked out after the first words.

Come to think of it, it is a situation worth being surprised about.

“Grandfather? Just now, you praised me…”

When I also looked at Grandfather in surprise, a perfect family sitcom was completed.

Grandfather nodded with a stern expression and frowned as if not particularly pleased.

“At least you’re taking interest in something like that and doing it consistently. It’s better than being completely useless.”

“Yes…”

What am I supposed to say in response to words like this?

As I couldn’t quite figure it out and was just reading the room, Grandfather cleared his throat and opened his mouth again.

“Don’t get too involved with people from that industry. There are dirty people mixed in, so you should only hang out with your members.”

“Yes? Yes.”

For someone who used to frown just looking at Ji-ye, he seems quite interested.

Judging by how the nagging is pouring out as if he’d been waiting.

Well, there are a lot of trash people in this industry, and many with slightly twisted mindsets.

When I nodded as if agreeing, for some reason Grandfather frowned even more and began continuing with even deeper nagging.

It was literally a nagging bombardment that perfectly fit the expression “nagging pouring out.”

When I glanced at eldest brother Ryu Jin-woo, Jin-woo lightly cleared his throat and said to Grandfather.

“Grandfather, Ji-ye will handle things well on her own now. She seems to have matured a bit too.”

“What do you mean she’s matured? You’re just assuming she’s matured because you can’t see her.”

“Grandfather.”

“Still, I’m allowing her activities because she’s getting by without causing trouble there. The company and members must have had quite a hard time dealing with that personality.”

“…”

“For us, it’s good that we have one less burden.”

Ah, I thought it was praise, but he was happy about having one less burden.

But from then, 30 minutes.

Grandfather, who I thought would just say a few unpleasant words and be done, had really been pouring out nagging for 30 minutes straight without rest.

This is nagging. This is really ‘minor’ nagging.

“There’s no one who doesn’t know you’re a Hong Jin person now. You hid it before, but now it’s all revealed. Wherever you go, act humbly. Don’t be impudent.”

“Yes.”

“Your problem is that you always think the family will solve things when you cause trouble. Now that you’ve become a proper member of society, solve your own problems yourself. I hope there won’t be any more headaches for Hong Jin because of your problems.”

“Yes, I’ll be careful on my own.”

At my words, Grandfather paused for a moment, then slightly raised the corner of his mouth and pointed at me with his finger.

Then he said to Father.

“Still, she’s learned how to answer properly in society. How long are you planning to maintain the leave of absence? Don’t even think about dropping out and study properly.”

To receive this kind of praise for this level of response, just how much of a crazy troublemaker did they think I was…

Ah. I am a crazy troublemaker, right.

Since he had kicked Ji-ye out after hearing only her first words every year, Grandfather must have accumulated nagging, and the conversation finally ended only after he said everything he had been holding back.

“…Anyway, I talked a bit long, but everyone seems to be doing well without any problems. Especially Jin-woo and Jae-geum. I received the performance reports.”

“Thank you.”

Ryu Jin-woo and Ryu Jae-geum bowed with tense expressions.

Both of them had noticeably improved performance over the past 6 months.

I suspect it’s the result of being able to focus on work without having to clean up after and manage the person of interest, Ji-ye.

Like that, Grandfather gave praise to all the family members unlike with me, then headed to where the meal was prepared.

“…What? Why are we eating here?”

I was very confused.

Why had this huge dining table been moved to the center of the living room while I wasn’t looking?

This vast house has a proper dining room, yet they forcibly brought a dining table into the living room packed with furniture…

“Why did you set it up like this? It’s even roughly crammed in. It looks terrible.”

Then Ryu Jae-geum answered irritably.

“I don’t know. I gave up on this house’s interior design long ago.”

“Haha, Ji-ye, you didn’t know because you haven’t been home. It’s been like this for a while.”

Ryu Jin-woo said with a troubled smile.

Both Ryu Jae-geum and Ryu Jin-woo seemed quite displeased that the house’s interior had changed to this state.

“With how many guests visit this house daily, to have this kind of…”

“Everyone who comes is startled. We ordered a separate dining table for entertaining in the dining room, but it arrives next month.”

“So why? Whose work is this?”

“This? Mother and Grandfather.”

“It’s because of you, man!”

“What did I do? Why are you blaming me when I wasn’t even home? Looking for a fight? Want to fight?”

“That’s not it.”

Jin-woo, conscious of Grandfather, quietly hushed Jae-geum and Ji-ye, then said.

“Every time Grandfather comes home, he watches only your videos all day.”

“…Grandfather does?”

“I don’t know. He suddenly started doing that? Wait a bit and see for yourself. What Grandfather and our parents are doing.”

Jae-geum headed to his chair with disgust. And shortly after, when all the family members gathered and sat in the living room with its haphazardly arranged furniture, the prepared dishes were brought in.

As expected, seasoned ribs considering Grandfather’s taste, and various Korean dishes filled the dining table.

“Let’s eat.”

Grandfather picked up a piece of ribs to eat and naturally turned on the TV, what?

“Grandfather watches TV while eating?”

“Hey, don’t be surprised yet.”

Jae-geum whispered and pointed to the TV screen.

At that moment, Grandfather asked Mother.

“Which episode did we watch up to last time?”

“I think you watched up to the beginning of episode 6 then~”

“Jin-woo, play it from there again. I don’t know how to do it.”

“Father, it’s your company’s product…”

“That kid will have to hear the same thing from Jin-woo when he gets senile later, then he won’t say such things.”

Grandfather grumbled and began watching the broadcast with his characteristic deep forehead wrinkles.

“What is this? Why is he watching that now?”

That’s right. What Grandfather was watching was Start Plan.

“Why is he watching Start Plan now of all times?”

“Grandfather is busy. He just received reports about you and hadn’t watched it properly, so when I showed it to him when he was bored, he only watches that.”

“You can’t leave here until that show ends now. Just watch.”

What kind of talk is that?

‘Ah, I don’t really like Start Plan…’

There are memories, but since it’s a program that ended badly, I don’t particularly want to watch it again.

I ate my meal reluctantly while pretending to watch TV together. Then soon I heard Grandfather’s voice sounding displeased.

“Look at that. Is that the kind of expression you should show in front of an interviewer? Really, now.”

“…Interviewer?”

“Grandfather, it’s a mentor. Not an interviewer.”

“Hey, why is that so important that you have to correct Grandfather’s words like that?”

On the TV, the Flora members were shown standing in front of Yu-hwa, who had been Flora’s mentor during Start Plan.

It seemed like they were getting scolded by Yu-hwa for quite a while…

Certainly, we weren’t good at managing our expressions. It was a scene where we kept making mistakes at the same parts during practice and were getting frustrated with each other.

‘But isn’t that level of reaction natural…’

I mean, we couldn’t exactly smile in that situation.

It was such a serious situation that even the viewers would have felt frustrated, too serious to just say “It’s okay, let’s do better.”

Then Grandfather spoke up.

“Hey, you kids are really frustrating. Even if you apologize behind the cameras, you should at least glare and show some anger in front of them so our fellow citizens, no, the viewers would like it.”

“…”

“You’re saying we lacked showmanship, right? Father.”

“That’s right, they said it was edited and manipulated, but there’s nothing special about it!”

Ah, it seemed he was quite absorbed in Start Plan.

It was like a sitcom.

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