The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 271

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We passed through the corridor decorated with mood lighting and arrived at the waiting room where Cael Arden and Lyla Bale were.

Coming this far, honestly I started getting more nervous than the members.

‘At least the members have buffs attached to them…’

I was about to face them without any buffs.

For now, I could tell the situation wasn’t particularly exciting or hopeful.

I wondered what kind of reaction Cael Arden and Lyla Bale would show when we entered this place.

Whether we’d be able to have a proper conversation.

Whether our kids might get hurt from meeting them.

I thought maybe I was being too prejudiced and wary for a first meeting, but I couldn’t help worrying.

However, there was no way my nervousness would transfer to the members and Manager Seong Ji-soo.

Seong Ji-soo knocked on the waiting room door without hesitation, as if she wasn’t nervous at all.

“Excuse me.”

After a moment, the waiting room door opened and their Korean staff member greeted us with a light bow.

“Hello.”

“Hello. This is Flora.”

“Ah, please come in. Haha. Just a moment.”

The Korean staff member made us wait at the door and went back inside.

“…”

What is this?

We stood there speechlessly, just staring blankly into the waiting room.

Because I couldn’t understand the situation.

So right now they made us ‘wait’ and went to get permission for whether we could be let in?

Even though we’re fellow performers collaborating together.

For a moment, I wondered if Cael Arden and Lyla Bale were veteran singers, or popular enough to make us wait.

No, putting everything else aside, does it make sense for one side to unilaterally make the other performers wait when they’re not even in a senior-junior relationship?

‘Like they’re music show PDs.’

Are we really being subjected to a power play right now?

This is pretty absurd…

But we couldn’t voice any complaints.

Honestly, we were being watched so intimidatingly that it was scary.

Their bodyguards, staff, and everyone else stared at us expressionlessly.

As if they’d cancel the schedule immediately if we said anything.

‘This is a bit…’

But sadly, all I could do was just wait quietly.

‘What could I possibly do…’

This was a schedule planned long ago, the set studio was already built, and we had worked hard practicing repeatedly with the company’s high expectations for a collaboration with overseas stars.

In this situation, could I just cancel the schedule because I felt bad and my pride was hurt?

Having failed once as a working adult, even as a third-generation chaebol I couldn’t act however I pleased.

Besides, it wouldn’t be proper etiquette. Even if I wanted to sigh, I, Flora, would maintain courtesy to the end.

Since we’re meeting for business anyway, let’s not ruin things just because our feelings are hurt.

So we took one deep sigh, exchanged glances once, tried to compose ourselves and just waited.

After a while, the Korean staff member who had gone inside came out and gestured toward the interior with a business-like smile.

“You waited a long time, didn’t you? Sorry. There was a brief meeting inside, so we unintentionally made you wait. Please come in.”

“…”

What internal meeting? We could hear them chatting when we knocked on the waiting room door.

Sigh, let’s endure this.

“Haha…”

We forced out awkward laughter and followed the Korean staff member inside.

The staff members’ gazes continued pouring down on us.

Really, what a damn bad first impression, I thought as we reached the end of the waiting room.

Cael Arden and Lyla Bale sat on the waiting room sofa and turned their gazes toward us.

How should we greet them?

In my annoyed state, I was thinking whether I should say “Hi, hello” or “Annyeonghaseyo” when.

“Oh my god~~~ So nice to meet you! I’ve been dying to see you!”

Lyla Bale approached aggressively, spouting English like crazy and grabbing Han Da-min’s hands with both of hers, shaking them vigorously.

“To actually get to see you, what luck! I didn’t know you were a K-pop group. As soon as I heard you were here, I immediately said I wanted to work together! I’m really a fan! I even keep up with YouTube…”

She literally poured out English. It was like a machine gun, so even I only understood about half.

But I understood one thing. Lyla Bale, this person is incredibly favorable toward us.

The members and I exchanged glances with a different meaning than before.

Huh, this is a bit different from what we expected?

We definitely thought they’d treat us with a looking-down attitude.

So we hadn’t even decided how to greet them, but they’re welcoming us this warmly?

The staff making us wait wasn’t something these people intended, but really just a thoughtless action?

‘…Or maybe it was something the staff did on their own?’

Otherwise, there’s no way they’d welcome us like this… Or maybe, hmm, it wasn’t Lyla Bale but Cael Arden who’s still sitting and quietly watching us.

Anyway, Lyla wasn’t just being polite but really knew Flora, as she started listing the music videos she’d seen, songs she’d heard, and even stage and clip videos.

She didn’t seem to realize that our main language was Korean, so she was spouting various things in crazy fast English, making it hard to understand.

From what I could gather, she had been a fan who liked K-pop for a while.

She first learned about us through Min Ha-young’s special clip that became a big topic even in Korea through algorithms.

After being greatly impressed by that, she next watched my and Han Da-min’s special clip, then the Payfun simulation stage video we did on Start Plan.

All three were stages and videos made targeting overseas audiences, and she became our fan following the standard overseas Flora route.

Of course, listening to it, she wasn’t a huge fan but seemed to be a group among the K-pop groups she liked.

Our collaboration with them seemed to have happened largely thanks to Lyla’s request.

Cael Arden was looking at Lyla, who was excited, very curiously as if he was seeing us for the first time.

After finishing the intense greeting with Lyla, we also greeted Cael Arden.

“Hello.”

“Hi…”

Then Cael Arden stood up with a business-like smile and said something along the lines of thanking us for coming.

Even though he had been indifferent just moments ago.

It seems difficult to openly ignore a group that his partner Lyla likes this much.

We had a brief small talk with them and returned to the waiting room right away.

It was a short meeting considering we had waited and everything, but thanks to Lyla, the members’ mood seemed much better.

‘They said we’d do a brief rehearsal and go straight into filming.’

Anyway, the misunderstanding was cleared and the members’ mood improved, so what remained was.

‘Let’s do well.’

Just making the most of this opportunity that would (probably) be a big event for us.

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The rehearsal began.

For not having prior rehearsals due to each performer’s schedule, we had to do quite a lot of rehearsals.

The first of these was a collaboration between Lyla Bale, me, and Seo Ra-eun.

Lyla Bale recently released a new song.

Like a rising star who’s been rapidly emerging recently, her new song was quickly catching on and achieving stable results.

At a time when her new song was starting to exert influence in Korea as well.

We decided to sing Lyla Bale’s new song 【Blush】 with her.

The pink set studio was created for us.

I stood in front of the microphone and cleared my throat.

This was the first and last rehearsal, but I planned to sing my best.

Since we’re singing with the original artist, I think it’s inevitable that we’ll be compared to her when today’s filming is uploaded later.

But at the very least, I absolutely don’t want to hear that I ruined the song…!

‘Let’s do well.’

As I was composing myself one last time, Cael Arden, who hadn’t been visible during preparations, quietly slipped behind the cameras and watched us—or more precisely, watched Lyra.

I guess he came to cheer her on. Though he’s still treating us like we’re invisible.

I forcibly held back the bitter laugh that was about to escape and steadied my breathing.

And shortly after.

“We’ll begin the rehearsal.”

The rehearsal started with the Production Staff’s announcement.

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