The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 274

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Cael Arden didn’t have high expectations for the group he was about to see.

He was simply watching the monitor with drowsy eyes filled with his usual boredom and indifference.

The girl group on the monitor looked exactly like his preconceived notions about K-pop idol groups.

Outfits so flashy they looked cheap instead, childish hairstyles covered in flowers, pale and light-toned makeup. It was a style that was hard to praise, even before considering personal taste.

He thought their casual clothes from before looked much better – this wasn’t cool at all.

Sure enough, the staff members were already giggling at the five members who had gone up on stage. Their voices bordered on mockery.

Cael Arden found it distasteful how they voiced their inner thoughts and laughed about it, so he continued watching the women on the monitor with somewhat cooled interest.

While some people might like that sort of thing, at least Cael Arden wasn’t into songs, stages, and singers made for standing on stage with bright smiles doing rhythmic movements.

‘If this is prejudice and discrimination, I’ll admit it.’

Just as he was honestly acknowledging his inner thoughts, Flora’s stage finally began.

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To be honest, Flora’s stage also wasn’t Cael Arden’s taste.

He watched their performance from start to finish without any reaction whatsoever, regardless of whether the surrounding staff members exclaimed in admiration or poured out reviews saying it was better than expected or that they didn’t think much of it.

He just wasn’t particularly moved. Flora’s choreography and live performance skills that Lyla Bale had so enthusiastically promoted weren’t Cael Arden’s interests either.

He wasn’t someone who listened to songs with his eyes to begin with. He was even less interested in dancing. He’d be indifferent even if a professional-level dancer performed right in front of him.

No matter how amazing Flora’s choreography, expressions, and gestures were, or how much response they drew, Cael Arden only thought that it was fortunate the fans were enjoying it.

However.

‘As expected.’

Those vocals. Those vocals were good. The vocal colors they sang with perfectly matched Cael Arden’s taste.

He had felt it during their previous collaboration, and he felt it now too. Even though they were singing a song that didn’t match his taste at all, only the vocals clearly caught Cael Arden’s ear.

His interest was focused solely on Flora’s vocals.

The intro part was natural and the transitions were perfect too. Powerful vocals, each with distinctive tones, smooth transitions and emotional delivery.

Even though the parts changed multiple times with five members taking turns singing, the song flowed without any awkwardness. The story of the song continued. This allowed even Cael Arden, who had no interest in visual performances, to become immersed in their performance.

And the rap. It was a truly unexpected part.

First, he was surprised that their song had a rap part, surprised that it was genuinely rap-like, and his interest was piqued by how well they performed it.

It wasn’t a song that could accommodate rap. In fact, it was rap that was forced in, but since they had the skills, even putting rap in this type of song sounded plausible.

And then the bridge and highlight.

Cael Arden’s gaze turned toward Ryu Ji-ye.

Dancing like that while handling the live performance without showing any signs of strain.

She was the member who had particularly caught his eye that day too. Was it because it was the first time he heard her vocals when he had no expectations at all?

Even the picky Cael Arden had been deeply impressed by her singing voice.

He heard she was the team’s main vocal, and she was definitely the most skilled among the five.

“What’s with that expression? You’re evaluating again, aren’t you? You know that’s a really bad occupational hazard, right?”

When one of the staff members naturally sat beside him and spoke, Cael Arden shrugged his shoulders.

“So what? It’s not like they can hear me directly.”

“Even if you don’t say it out loud, it shows on your face. They’d feel bad about being looked down on, you know? Even if their staff saw. Cael Arden, who doesn’t even have any hit songs, evaluating singers from another country.”

A staff member who had been with him for quite a while said with a frivolous laugh. Cael Arden gave a bland chuckle and casually draped his arm over the back of the sofa.

“And this time it’s not about occupational hazards or anything like that. I’m also gradually preparing for my next album.”

The staff member who had been giggling stopped abruptly, erasing the smile from his lips as he looked at him.

“What do you mean by that? Are you being serious right now?”

“Yeah.”

Then, as if realizing his explanation was insufficient, he added after a while.

“K-pop is trending these days.”

At his words, the staff member burst out laughing.

“So you’re jumping on the bandwagon too?”

Cael Arden shrugged his shoulders once again. His consideration of collaborating with K-pop singers was simply due to his company’s advice.

Even before coming to Korea, the company had been making a fuss about this visit to Korea being an opportunity of sorts.

K-pop is currently an issue in the American entertainment industry. People who are into it are almost crazy about it, and there have been small changes in the entertainment world.

Singers who didn’t dance suddenly releasing dance songs, filming challenge videos that only K-pop singers used to do, saying they like K-pop when they don’t mean it, and suddenly collaborating with K-pop singers out of nowhere.

While it wasn’t quite a social phenomenon, he could definitely feel that the influence of this unfamiliar genre had been growing recently.

However, it was still a genre that only those in the know knew about, while those who didn’t know had no interest, and especially one that had no connection to him whatsoever.

It would have remained a genre he’d have no connection with in the future if a trusted company employee hadn’t brought up the topic of K-pop.

Cael Arden had listened positively to his company employee’s words that K-pop’s popularity these days was extraordinary and that every singer who collaborated with them hit it big, and he seriously considered the suggestion that a collaboration wouldn’t be bad.

It was then that he came to visit Korea for movie promotion schedules.

When the production company suggested that Cael appear on a singing channel for movie promotion, he requested they bring the most popular singer. He wanted to properly see what kind of genre K-pop was through the most popular singer first.

The production company said that among currently active singers, the most popular was Flora, and at those words, Lyla Bale showed an absolutely crazy reaction. She jumped around excitedly, insisting they must bring Flora.

That reaction confirmed Flora as his collaboration partner, and he even got invited to their fan meeting to listen to their songs while he was at it.

The K-pop idol Flora that he got to see through all that effort was…

“Not bad. Contact the company about it. I think it would be good if we could work with them.”

“Oh…”

The staff member looked at Cael with a face that showed he hadn’t expected this at all, then soon nodded and took out his mobile phone.

Cael turned his head again to watch Flora on the monitor. They had just finished their first song and were having a brief interaction with the audience.

His gaze naturally turned toward Ryu Ji-ye. In fact, he had been watching only Ryu Ji-ye since she was dancing and singing earlier.

‘To be precise, not them but her.’

The main vocal. He really liked her voice and vocal style.

He thought it would be really nice to make the song he was currently working on into a duet and sing it together with Ryu Ji-ye.

According to Lyla’s stories, she was also the most popular member. There was no need to work with multiple people – wouldn’t it be fine to just collaborate with the one most popular member?

Cael thought about it so leisurely.

‘There’s no way she’d refuse.’

Who would refuse? When none other than Cael Arden was proposing a collaboration to K-pop singers who were so desperate to break into Hollywood.

He heard that for this collaboration too, Flora’s side had agreed without a word of objection and accommodated most conditions to Cael and Lyla’s preferences.

‘From Flora’s, no, from Ryu Ji-ye’s perspective, there’d be no reason to refuse a collaboration with someone of my caliber.’

In his mind, he was already thinking about how to divide the song he was working on to sing with Ryu Ji-ye.

Without knowing how many calculated buffs were crammed into her inventory.

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