The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 243

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Has Debuted

Chapter 243

Even after finishing the music video and the first filming of 【Welcome to the Garden】, we’re still living our usual busy daily lives.

Various shoots have been lined up one after another, and we’re also learning new choreography for our comeback preparations.

In the meantime, our fandom name was also decided as ‘Garden’.

Since our name is Final Bloom, the name was chosen based on fans’ opinions, meaning that fans are the sanctuary that allows us to bloom.

Originally, we wanted to turn on a live broadcast and announce it directly, but our schedule was too busy, so the company informed the fans through an official announcement.

And we spent our time densely preparing music show VCRs for the comeback and various preliminary interviews.

We also started an SNS countdown for fans, just like we did during 【Bloom】.

After finishing most of our preparations like that, one day.

I met someone who was both welcome and missed after a long time.

“Have you been well all this time?”

A warm and gentle voice asked about my well-being.

Ji Yu-hwa.

A person who was a Choux Cream member with me when I was Hong Yeo-eun, and served as Flora’s mentor on Start Plan.

Today, I was appearing on Yu-hwa’s YouTube channel content, 【Yu-hwa’s Gentle Music Room】, to promote our comeback album.

Surprisingly, Ji Yu-hwa’s side contacted us for casting first, even before we requested it.

“I’ve been well. Have you been well too, sunbae?”

“Of course.”

Yu-hwa smiled warmly and poured tea into my teacup.

“I was just thinking you seemed to be doing well in your activities, so I’ve been watching with great satisfaction as your mentor.”

“Oh my, thank you. Really, in so many ways, and for calling us first today too.”

“Of course I had to call you. People have been requesting Flora, especially Ji-ye, to be cast a lot.”

“Me?”

Yu-hwa nodded.

“I don’t know why, but the image of Ji-ye being my student seems particularly strong. All of Flora were my students, but why is that?”

That’s because I had many scenes of being particularly attached to Yu-hwa or talking with her.

Moreover, on the last day, I even cried because I didn’t want to part ways…

My actions of wanting to be with Yu-hwa even a little bit accumulated, so people who didn’t watch Start Plan and only saw brief short-form videos sometimes thought Yu-hwa was my personal mentor.

The fans probably requested it when we announced our comeback.

“First, to explain for those who don’t know about our relationship, we made many memories as mentor and student on an audition show called Start Plan.”

“That’s right. You really helped us so much. You were kind and taught us everything in detail, so we learned a lot.”

“Oh my, you speak so beautifully, but actually I didn’t do that much. Da-min did everything and I just added a little touch, but everyone thanks me for it. Haha.”

“That’s really not true. We really… Every time you came, you brought us delicious things too.”

“Ah, right. That’s what happened! Usually on shows like this, the kids don’t eat well because they need to look good on broadcast. Even if they eat, it all disappears when they practice anyway.”

For us, it was more about choosing practice over meals.

I nodded silently with a smile.

“So every time I went, I brought something they could eat easily. Anyway.”

Yu-hwa seemed embarrassed by my praise and clapped her hands to change the subject.

“These students of mine debuted wonderfully and are now returning with a new album.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“I’m really looking forward to it too, but let’s save the talk about the new album for later and talk about other things first, shall we?”

“Yes!”

I took a sip of tea. Meanwhile, Yu-hwa took out Flora’s first album 【Bloom】 from under the table.

“We haven’t had a chance to have a long conversation like this since debut. But I’ve personally wanted to talk about 【Bloom】 since then. It’s an album I personally love so much. Most importantly, it’s your debut album.”

By the way, that album with the handwritten autograph was bought by Yu-hwa herself.

When we tried to give her one separately, she said she already had one and asked us to sign the album she bought herself.

Not only that, but our songs were also included in the playlist she uploaded to her SNS, which made all the members very grateful.

“How did you feel when you debuted? I want to hear your feelings, not the other members’. I think you must have felt different from the other members.”

Unlike the members who thought of it as their last chance and challenged themselves to debut again, everything was my first time and I had an image of being quite successful until debut.

Of course, I was briefly caught up in the parachute controversy, but that was only briefly difficult and ended quickly thanks to my prior preparation.

She seems to think I felt something different from the members.

But naturally, I…

“Since my situation at debut was different from the members’, I sometimes get questions like that, but I actually don’t think it was different.”

“Not different?”

“Yes, of course the members had things I couldn’t even imagine, suffered a lot emotionally, and put in much more effort and time than me.”

Actually, I put in similar effort and time too.

“But I also did my best from Start Plan and even before participating in Start Plan, so I was genuinely moved and so happy. I was overwhelmed.”

“Sometimes there are people who say things like that. That Ji-ye debuted as a hobby.”

“Ah, yes yes. I’ve seen that too.”

I said with a small laugh.

Without exaggeration, I heard that more than congratulations on my debut.

Despite showing such desperate appearances so many times during Start Plan and after debut, people still said I was doing it as a hobby.

It’s probably half-joking because I’m a chaebol, but when asked directly like this, it becomes quite difficult to answer.

Yu-hwa probably didn’t ask with that intention though.

“But I know. When we worked together as mentor and student. All Flora members were like that, but among them, I think Ji-ye really worked the hardest.”

Yu-hwa said, placing her hand on my shoulder.

“You really never wasted a single moment. You never skipped practice or showed a tired expression, you were passionate, truly the kind of trainee that made teaching worthwhile.”

…And when I receive compliments, I become just as uncomfortable reacting as when people say I do music as a hobby.

As I smiled awkwardly, Yu-hwa grinned and said.

“So whenever I see those kinds of comments, I feel bad. You’re a member who really works hard.”

“Haha, thank you for saying that.”

“Did I make you too embarrassed?”

“A, a little?”

Yu-hwa giggled and nodded, saying she understood.

“Then moving on to another topic, there was something that became a huge topic recently.”

“Ah.”

As I looked at her with an expression asking if she meant the special clip, the special clip of Han Da-min and me immediately started playing on the monitor across from the studio.

“Wow.”

Yu-hwa started pouring out exclamations as soon as it began and immediately became focused.

“I subscribe to Flora’s official channel, so I watched it as soon as it came out. Even watching it again, the presence is amazing.”

“Oh, thank you.”

“When did my students become so cool? Of course you were cool during Start Plan too, but I watched it feeling like I was seeing new artists, thinking ‘Wow, amazing, how do they dance like that?'”

“Actually, when we were practicing that, we suffered quite a bit too. We had to fill the entire song with dance from start to finish, and we thought that to properly capture the song’s unique feeling, we had to start by perfectly mastering the dance.”

“Right. To dance to that level, to make it completely your own as they say, you would have had to master all the dance moves and receive detailed feedback on every detail.”

“That’s right. Even though we arranged it in genres we each dance well in, I remember it being incredibly difficult to master.”

“Come to think of it, you guys did the arrangement too, right?”

“Yes, although we received a lot of help. Da-min unnie especially worked hard.”

Yu-hwa knew more about us than I expected.

I was quite surprised that she asked about details she wouldn’t have known unless she had been properly following and watching us.

After talking a bit more about the behind-the-scenes stories of the special clip, Yu-hwa said.

“Then at this point, we have our main corner that we prepared, the live performance, right?”

“Yes! That’s right!”

I straightened my posture with a face full of anticipation.

This show is basically conducted through talk, but it shows various live stages like seasoning throughout.

The first corner among them was a duet live performance with Yu-hwa, the host.

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