The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 251

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“That building was really, really scary. It’s still scary even looking at it now.”

“Don’t you think they made it less scary with some kind of post-processing? In reality, it looked much more like something would actually jump out at you.”

“Right. When Ha-young went inside that building, she clung to Ji-ye because she was scared.”

The abandoned building that serves as the main element of the music video story.

In the music video, it appears surprisingly beautified.

In reality, it’s truly a place that would belong in a horror movie. But seeing it through the music video, even though it’s eerie, it looked like an old, pretty building with deep history and stories.

‘How much post-processing did they do.’

As expected of master of emotions Jang Jak-so’s work, the visual aesthetics are incredible from the start.

Rather than pushing forward with unconditionally flashy and grand scale, there were many more static yet immersive directing choices.

The members in the music video cheerfully entered the building and began exploring and playing around various places.

A very joyful, picture-perfect moment. The members in the music video seemed as close-knit as we are in reality.

Laughing, chatting, and playing pranks on each other, unaware of the fate that awaited them.

Meanwhile, the book that had been in Song-i’s arms at first was now carelessly placed on the table.

And shortly after.

G-I-S-S

Neither your name

Nor a word between us

An afterimage that grew only in your silence

When the song reached the chorus, the screen suddenly switched to show the book on the table.

Then a hand appeared over the open book and closed it shut.

At the same time, the world became dark.

G-I-S-S, I spelled you quietly

Without sound, without sugar

In the music video, the members who had been scattered around laughing happily suddenly looked up at the shadowed sky with surprised expressions.

And sensing something eerie, they hurriedly turned around and began retracing their steps through the corridor.

Along with this, the song entered the second verse and began progressing more dramatically and quickly.

The members’ footsteps seemed urgent for some reason, and at that moment, one unidentified shadow followed them.

The shadow kept following the members around.

“Ugh, seriously! It startles me every time I watch. Why do they put this kind of directing in a music video…”

It’s just a shadow, and it appears and disappears so quickly and faintly that only observant people would notice it, so it’s not even that scary. But Min Ha-young is the first to spot it and gets startled every single time she watches.

“Tsk tsk.”

I clicked my tongue while looking at Min Ha-young pathetically.

Of course, she couldn’t hear me since she was wearing earphones.

Meanwhile, the music video began developing even more dramatically.

The members ran somewhere without noticing the shadow.

The members who had been scattered around playing gathered in one place.

The members looked at each other with anxious faces, then entered the room they had first come into and began searching for something.

Your gaze that quietly seeped in

like falling stardust

But soon the members realized that something that should definitely be here was gone.

The members’ complexions, which had maintained composure despite their anxiety, rapidly turned pale and they began speaking incoherently.

At that moment, all the members looked toward the door with surprised faces.

And shortly after, the scene changed.

A dark corridor, a dark building where only moonlight shone through broken windows.

‘Ah, from here they’re going without CG.’

I only noticed this on the second viewing.

Until just now, it had looked like a still-living building that retained its antiquated elegance despite being old.

But now that it’s dark night, it looks exactly like the old abandoned house we saw in person at the venue.

All the windows were broken or missing, most doors were broken or gone, and instead of the colorful wallpaper, there was only peeling paint and torn, discolored wallpaper.

As if awakening from a fairy tale-like fantasy, the dreamlike filter had disappeared and it began rapidly returning to reality.

Then the scene switched to show the members running in terror.

From the way they occasionally looked back, they seemed to be chased by someone, and naturally it was that shadow that had been watching us.

In the music video, all the members scattered and fled, but starting with Han Da-min, they began getting caught by the shadow and disappearing one by one.

‘Seeing it like this, I think I understand why they filmed the self-content that way.’

I didn’t realize it during filming, but seeing the finished product, it’s exactly like what we filmed for our self-content.

Inside the building where everyone had disappeared one by one. The atmosphere became quiet as the song ended.

The heavy fog lifted and moonlight began entering inside.

The shadow left alone in the middle of the corridor.

The camera slowly approached the shadow and soon captured someone’s feet.

And as the screen gradually moved up, a school uniform became visible.

The face wasn’t shown.

‘I wonder who that is.’

It’s definitely not me. During filming, we all scattered and filmed separately, and we didn’t ask each other what everyone was filming.

The person in the school uniform walked into the room with the open door and stood in front of the table.

And put down the book they had been holding.

It was the book that had disappeared earlier.

The person whose face couldn’t be seen quietly looked down at the book, then pulled out a chair and sat down.

And when they opened the book, inside were drawings of the content from the book Song-i had been reading during “Blooming.”

Medieval fantasy-style drawings of Han Da-min and me, Seo Ra-eun’s folk paintings, and so on.

The screen began slowly moving away from the book.

It showed the silhouette hidden in darkness continuously turning pages of the book despite there being no way to read anything in a place without any lighting, then moved further away to show the entire building.

The music video ended with the final shot of the completely collapsed abandoned building, unlike when they had entered.

When I took out my earphones, Min Ha-young, who had similarly finished watching, immediately poured out exclamations.

“Wow… It’s really good. Even watching it again. No matter how many times I watch it.”

The emotions that hit when listening along with the music video seem bigger than with “Blooming.”

When just listening to the song, it feels like continuously running forward without hesitation, but when listening with the music video, it carves an emotion that’s bound to be memorable.

Honestly speaking, the song itself might have less impact than “Blooming,” but when watched together with the music video, it comes across as a much better work.

I’m not the only one who feels this way.

Scrolling down to check the comments, there are plenty of comments from fans who felt the same way as me.

“Wow! Girls, look at the view count going up.”

“The response is really good, isn’t it?”

As the members said, all our hard work and efforts are starting to pay off with a hot response from the beginning.

The metrics for the music video, uploaded less than 10 minutes ago, are incomparably better than during “Blooming.”

Probably when the choreography is revealed and the challenge starts, the response will rise even more than now.

Unless there are major problems, we probably don’t need to worry about performance this time either.

…Or do we? Should I be worried?

“Ah, right…”

It’s still too early to let my guard down.

We haven’t been on music shows yet, and most importantly, I have a mission.

The system’s mission to break through the ceiling with this song.

‘I did prepare in the standard way though.’

Is this really something that can be accomplished with just Flora and Day Entertainment’s capital power, Kim Ja-in’s know-how, and the staff’s skills?

‘If I have to complete this kind of mission, shouldn’t they bring someone who’s already breathed the air above the ceiling instead of me?’

I was just a failed idol who had never broken through the ceiling either, so I don’t know how it can be done.

Does the System really think I can pull this off?

But as far as I know, to achieve clear results not only domestically but also overseas, no company can accomplish that with just what they have.

Know-how, skills, and even songs. To be honest, I think timing and luck are more important than all of that.

Domestically, we have capital and information, so it’s possible to control those things, but overseas is still a vast ocean for Day Entertainment.

‘Ah, thinking about it is making my chest feel stuffy again.’

The time has come when I need to start seriously thinking about it.

What exactly is this ‘big opportunity’ that the Mission Window said would be given to us?

I scrolled down on my phone to check the music video comments, then got up and left the practice room.

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