The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 268

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The day after finishing the filming for ‘What’s the Situation Today?!’, when I went to the company, Kim Ja-in and the staff looked at Song-i and me with such pleased expressions, as if they were watching their child cross a valley doing backstroke after being left by the waterside.

I think they must have heard something separately from the production staff. Whether it was praise, or they arranged future casting schedules.

As soon as we entered the entrance, Kim Ja-in praised us so much that it was embarrassing, practically putting us on cloud nine, so we had to almost flee to the practice room.

And once again, we tackled our relentlessly continuous schedule as we always did.

Day after day, we continued with performances, interviews, photo shoots, and practice, truly living up to the behavior of trending idols.

Then another solo filming schedule came to me.

YouTube ‘2030’s ‘Can We Become Friends?’ filming.

YouTube ‘2030’ was a representative music channel in the YouTube world that dealt with young generation’s video reactions, thoughts on issues, and high-quality studio lives and talks by singers, where countless singers appeared to show off their live skills.

I was going to appear here alone.

‘U&Da appeared all together though.’

I don’t know why I’m going alone, but anyway I’m the main vocal. I’m heading to the studio with quite solid mental preparation.

A little later, the studio I arrived at was more cozy than I thought.

And the production staff surrounding the set was also a very small number of people.

Given the YouTube subscriber count and how large-scale the channel was, I naturally expected a production staff size no different from TV broadcasts, but about thirty young production staff members?

Even some of those seemed like external personnel.

Anyway, it was definitely the most uniquely comfortable and cozy atmosphere filming site among the schedules I had done.

“Oh my, welcome. Ji-ye.

As I followed the manager inside, the channel owner, the CEO, approached and greeted me as if he had been waiting.

“We’ve really been waiting for you. We really wanted to have you on, and we finally get to meet you. It’s an honor.”

He was quite polite and courteous. Just as I had heard from U&Da’s Young Il-lin.

-That place is really great ㅠ The production staff are super kind and fun! They react really well so you don’t have to be nervous at all ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Don’t worry and go do well!

She had excitedly poured out her filming review as soon as I sent a message that I was going to appear on 2030.

It seemed to have been quite a good experience, with most of the praise being that they were very polite and reacted well, making the filming comfortable.

I could already understand what Young Il-lin meant.

It wasn’t just simply that the CEO was kind, but that the entire venue had an artist-friendly atmosphere.

When we made eye contact, they naturally smiled and greeted, joined conversations and had harmonious talks.

Most of the staff seemed to have thoroughly researched Flora’s albums and content, knowing most of our inside jokes and anecdotes.

It felt surprisingly easy to communicate with the production staff I was meeting for the first time.

So even though we had only talked briefly, I quickly became comfortable and was naturally getting along with them.

“The filming is planned to be divided into three corners. First is reaction, second is talk, third is live.”

“Ah, yes.”

“The first filming will be very short. About 5 to 10 minutes? You don’t need to feel burdened about reacting enthusiastically, just watch and react as naturally as it comes. And the second is…”

The woman who introduced herself as the writer of this team explained today’s filming in detail, including the expected time.

Listening to it, the only thing I really needed to worry about was singing.

The talk was also conducted interview-style in a quiet atmosphere without the burden of having to be funny, and the reaction was just following the production staff’s lead.

I understood why the U&Da members who found variety shows burdensome liked this program.

I think I’m already starting to like it too.

And soon the filming began.

Inside the small and simple set, a table and chair that matched the set’s color.

One camera placed on the table, one vase with pretty flowers indicating our group name Flora, and Flora’s 【GISS】 album set up to be clearly visible to the camera.

I walked into the set that was just that and greeted toward the camera.

“Hello.”

“Waaaah!”

At just one greeting, the production staff burst into applause as if they had been waiting.

I laughed embarrassedly at the reactions pouring out enough to make me feel awkward already, and sat down.

The CEO, who had been checking other cameras filming from outside the set, approached and sat next to the writer, in the camera’s blind spot.

Then he said.

“Hello. Ryu Ji-ye.”

“Yes, hello.”

“Welcome to 2030. Do you happen to know what kind of program we are?”

“Of course I know. I especially make sure to watch the live videos of singers.”

The video quality has to be good. Even if I don’t subscribe, when looking for singers’ live videos, this channel’s live videos definitely catch the eye.

While watching those, I eventually saved the entire live playlist that the channel had created to my own playlist.

The CEO skillfully led several conversations and then brought up the video reaction topic.

“We received requests in advance from our channel viewers and Flora fans for videos they wanted Ji-ye to react to.”

“Yes.”

“We’re going to show you one of those videos, so please don’t feel too burdened and just enjoy it.”

“Yes, understood.”

I nodded with an expectant expression.

A video that viewers and fans wanted to show me, I wonder what it could be.

I had some rough guesses. Maybe Flora cover videos or famous YouTuber meme videos.

A laptop was placed on the table and the screen had a video ready to play with just pressing the play button.

“Should I play it?”

“Yes!”

At the CEO’s answer, I immediately pressed the spacebar to play the video.

Well, what kind of video was it that the production staff were collectively holding back laughter even before playing it.

The moment I watched the video with curiosity.

…?

If you listen closely

You can hear the sound of my heart

My happy voice

You will be able to hear it

“…”

I was truly in a state of not knowing what kind of reaction I should have.

The sound of 【Blooming】 coming through the headset, matched with a rough and weak trot singing style that couldn’t match a single note or beat.

But such a familiar voice and familiar face.

…Grandfather?

“No, this is…”

I eventually couldn’t figure out what reaction to have and just laughed.

A laugh close to a hollow laugh burst out.

In the video, that stern grandfather was singing 【Blooming】 on a platform to karaoke accompaniment.

Yes. Hong Jin’s CEO, Ryu Ji-ye’s grandfather.

And very excitedly too. The sound of clapping to the beat could be heard from around. People who might be executives were getting excited along with grandfather’s song.

From the atmosphere, it seemed like maybe a company event…

No, is it okay to just throw this at me to react to?

Of course, the fact that I was the daughter of Hong Jin’s owner was something everyone except spies would know, and there weren’t any mention-prohibition clauses or anything, so it wasn’t a big deal.

But this was my first time with such blatant filming like “Hong Jin’s CEO! Your family! Now! Give us a reaction!”

But…

It was kind of funny.

“What is this video? I’m seeing this for the first time. What is this?”

I spoke in a voice filled with laughter while unable to take my eyes off the video.

Grandfather singing our song with such an excited expression, as if he had drunk quite a bit.

Such a doting aspect of stern grandfather that I had never even dared to imagine.

I knew that grandfather was watching over my activities in various ways, but I didn’t know he was this proud.

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