The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 27

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 27

That too, well, in a way it’s a method for Seo Ra-eun to endure her trauma.

Thinking rationally, that’s correct. If I were Yu-hwa, I would have said the same thing for a better stage and higher scores.

However.

Ding!

I saw it. How hard Seo Ra-eun worked. She did her best as much as she seized the opportunity, and she was desperate.

I didn’t want to crush the expectations of someone so desperate.

After pondering for a long while, I let out a small breath and reached out my hand to Seo Ra-eun.

“Unnie, could you talk with me for a moment?”

***

“Haah…”

In front of the waiting room, Yu-hwa stopped with her hand on the door handle and let out a deep sigh.

‘Did I become a mentor for nothing?’

She didn’t want to say harsh things to kids who were working hard.

But now looking back, she wondered if she should have said those harsh things anyway.

‘Should I have at least said it during the final consultation?’

She had been somewhat complacent. Honestly speaking, mentors only briefly visit to check the members’ progress and give feedback.

Seo Ra-eun did well in all other parts with only the intro part being flawed, so she thought surely she could fix just that one thing.

She also didn’t want to throw discord among members who were harmonizing well by suggesting changing parts or whatever.

As a result, right before the most important main competition, she ended up throwing the biggest boulder into the lake.

“Haah…”

It would have been better if she had said it in a place with just herself and FLORA.

Right now, even those cameras filming her every sigh felt unbearably resentful.

‘They’ll reluctantly agree to change parts…’

The atmosphere inside the waiting room must be incredibly gloomy.

“Sigh. My heart really feels heavy.”

Yu-hwa, who had been fiddling with the door handle with a bitter expression, finally steeled her resolve.

And she opened the door forcefully.

However, what she saw was a scene completely different from her expectations.

“Ah! Sunbae-nim! You’re here?”

The FLORA members, who belatedly noticed her presence, greeted Yu-hwa in quiet voices.

“Oh, yes…”

But why are they all whispering?

Yu-hwa entered the waiting room with a puzzled expression.

‘What’s this?’

The waiting room was still quiet, but strangely there was a hopeful atmosphere flowing among the members.

‘Did they make the choice easier than expected?’

Maybe Seo Ra-eun willingly gave up her part more readily than expected.

That was the most likely possibility. They had given her time to think, but the answer was already there.

She, as the mentor, had recommended that changing parts would be best, and it was also a situation that could be resolved by simply switching parts.

Only the wound Seo Ra-eun would receive and the members’ uncomfortable feelings would remain.

But those are emotions that would be forgotten if the results were good. Because everyone knows it’s a conclusion reached through careful consideration for good results.

For that reason, when she came back to the waiting room, she expected to see FLORA looking like defeated soldiers…

Their expressions were brighter than expected.

The members approached her with awkward but smiling faces, and there were no signs of anyone crying.

“So… did you decide?”

Yu-hwa struggled to bring up the topic while looking around at the members. Now that she looked, three members had approached her.

Seo Ra-eun and Ryu Ji-ye were nowhere to be seen.

‘Did the two of them decide to switch parts?’

Thinking vaguely, as she sat on the sofa, leader Han Da-min nodded with a somehow relieved face.

“We want Ra-eun to keep doing the intro part as it is.”

“…As it is?”

“Yes.”

Seriously?

When Yu-hwa asked back in confusion, the members simultaneously pointed somewhere.

Yu-hwa’s gaze and the camera’s lens capturing them both turned toward that place at the same time.

“…Huh.”

Yu-hwa stared at that spot blankly, then turned her head again to look at Han Da-min.

“What are those two doing?”

Seo Ra-eun and Ryu Ji-ye were sitting facing each other in the corner of the waiting room, holding each other’s hands and muttering something.

“Are they doing some kind of prayer for safety?”

The two people with their hands neatly clasped together. Seo Ra-eun had her eyes tightly shut, and Ryu Ji-ye was looking at her while constantly saying something.

No matter how she looked at it, it only seemed like they were praying to get through the intro part safely.

“Prayer for safety? Haha!”

But Han Da-min grinned and shook her head.

“She says she’s doing emotional immersion.”

“Emotional immersion?”

“Yes. That thing actors do when they’re acting…”

What’s that.

Yu-hwa tilted her head and got up from the sofa, approaching them with curious eyes.

Start Plan’s camera also followed behind her with quiet steps.

Yu-hwa sat on a sofa at a distance that wouldn’t disturb the two and watched them.

Finally, Ryu Ji-ye’s small voice could be heard.

“Ah.”

Only then could Yu-hwa understand what the two were doing.

***

“The cameras and judges don’t matter at all. We’re just standing on stage right now. This isn’t an evaluation, and you don’t have to do well. Unnie is just so excited and happy to be able to showcase what she prepared hard for on the stage she dreamed of.”

At my words, Seo Ra-eun, with her eyes closed, smiled gently and nodded.

“You don’t need to look good to anyone. The audience enjoys as much as I enjoy. Because dancing and singing itself is fun. I just need to have fun.”

The reason I’m holding Seo Ra-eun’s hands like this?

Because comfort and encouragement would have absolutely no effect on Seo Ra-eun right now.

What Seo Ra-eun needs isn’t comfort, but magic she can practically use right now – mind control.

I learned this when I got a small role in a movie before.

I watched a veteran actor, a senior, do mind control like this to bring up the emotions of the actor playing the lead role.

The method is simpler than expected.

About the role the lead actor is playing, about the situation the character is in, about what emotions they would experience.

Someone else recites with the same emotions beside them.

Even if it makes third parties cringe, it would be quite effective for the person involved.

The lead actor who couldn’t grasp the emotions quickly caught on to the senior’s recitation and wailed as if the world had ended as soon as filming started.

30 minutes ago, seeing the uncontrollably gloomy atmosphere of the waiting room, I thought.

What would be the way to lift Seo Ra-eun up without meddling too much with her, and without committing the mistake of directly touching her trauma?

What can I do?

If comfort and encouragement don’t work, then let me just brainwash Seo Ra-eun instead.

Let me rationalize that I’m a selfish person who just needs to enjoy myself whether I make mistakes or ruin the stage.

‘If I can’t eliminate the desire to escape, let me change the target of that escape.’

I can’t let her run away from the stage, so instead let her escape from the reality of having to be evaluated.

If burden and pressure are the problem, then shouldn’t she just ignore the evaluations, the members, and the public’s gaze and focus solely on herself and her goals?

So for 30 minutes, I repeated words that might be written in countless mass-produced self-help books, drilling them into Seo Ra-eun.

To help her focus, I even deliberately imitated that veteran actor and spoke informally.

Honestly, even while doing it, I wasn’t sure if it would work. But.

I glanced over to check Seo Ra-eun’s condition.

Surprisingly, this actually had an effect.

As I continued, something called motivation appeared in Seo Ra-eun’s emotional state, which had been filled with nothing but negative words.

Just like how even a self-help book that simply writes down obvious things about working hard can inspire passion after reading it.

I turned my head to check the time.

Mentor Yu-hwa had arrived too, and it was about time to wrap things up.

What should I say to her as a final word?

Looking at Seo Ra-eun’s face, which seemed to have calmed down and become more comfortable, I gently rubbed her hand.

And whispered in a small voice.

“Unnie, get your emotions under control and have confidence.”

“….”

“It’ll be okay because the members are here.”

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