The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 285

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As expected… The moment I played the song, Cael Arden’s expression hardened.

It must have been completely different from the song he had in mind.

I pretended not to notice his expression and asked.

“How is it?”

“Hmm… To be honest, I’m not sure.”

Then, thinking he was being rude, he shrugged his shoulders and added.

“Of course, I’m talking about my personal taste.”

I nodded obediently.

“Right, it’s your taste. I really like it though. I made this song after all.”

“You make songs like this too. That’s unexpected.”

Cael Arden must have thought I only made serious and elegant dance songs.

Actually, I didn’t know I could make a song like this either.

“Well, it’s exciting. If you play this at a club or something, people would probably dance excitedly to it.”

“Mm.”

“It would suit concerts well too.”

I didn’t want to watch Cael Arden forcing compliments anymore, so I just cut him off and asked.

“So will you do the featuring? Don’t feel too pressured. If you can’t do it, I’ll think of it as just that.”

“There’s no pressure or anything. It’s not particularly difficult work. I just need to sing a verse or two, right?”

I smiled silently.

It’s more than a verse or two. But since he doesn’t seem like he’ll refuse anyway, let’s not mention it.

“So you’ll do it? You’re agreeing more easily than I thought?”

“Does it look like I agreed easily? Since you guys participated in my album, I’m doing it for you too.”

Cael Arden said that and listened to the song once more. Then he still frowned as if he didn’t like it and finished his meal.

“But Flora wasn’t this kind of concept. Why did you make a song like this?”

“Because we have a concert soon. We need at least one song that’s fun to party to.”

“You’re not going to tell me to appear in the music video too, are you?”

I burst out laughing.

“Hey, no way!”

Sorry, but we only need vocals to naturally connect the bridge section, and only we will appear in the music video.

The fans would prefer that too, right?

Of course, if Cael Arden appeared, it would definitely create buzz.

But let’s make the song we created to enjoy with fans something that only fans would like.

At my decisively quick refusal, Cael Arden clicked his tongue, told me to do whatever I want, and finished his meal.

Still, was the conversation somewhat enjoyable? I thought he got up too quickly, but when we came outside, it was already late at night.

I felt like we wrapped up well just before food coma and late fatigue would hit.

“Cael Arden!”

“Ji-ye!”

The restaurant was still crowded with fans, paparazzi, and people who came to see us.

We safely exited the restaurant with the restaurant staff’s consideration, greeted the fans, and headed to our respective cars.

“See you tomorrow.”

“Yeah, take good care of your condition.”

It was a better meeting than expected. I thought meeting him would come with tremendous stress.

But it wasn’t entirely like that. Both the recording and the conversation we had as fellow creators during the meal were surprisingly fulfilling.

‘Of course, deliberately taking me to a restaurant where crowds would gather was utterly rude.’

Sitting in the car, I clicked my tongue for no reason and looked outside the window.

I was worried about what would happen if people rushed over and knocked on the windows as soon as I got in the car. Fortunately, despite the crowds, order was somewhat maintained.

I waved lightly at them and left the venue, heading to the studio.

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In the studio was Han Da-min, looking more relaxed and leisurely than yesterday.

“Oh, you’re here? I saw the news about you. Photos were posted everywhere, Ji-ye. Did you eat together on purpose?”

Han Da-min asked with a giggle. She must have seen the photos too.

I nodded and put my bag down on the sofa at the back of the studio.

“He suddenly asked me to eat together, and since I had something to ask him, I followed along, but he took me to a place with tons of people.”

As soon as she heard my words, Han Da-min let out a deep sigh.

“Why does he do that? I can’t understand it. His head is full of calculations and thoughts of using people.”

“I agree. If he was going to do that anyway, he should have just honestly said from the beginning, ‘Let’s attract people’s attention and indirectly show that we’re going to do something together!'”

“If you look closely, or even if you don’t look closely, it seems like he only thinks of us as some kind of show-off tool.”

“It’s okay though. The food was delicious and I achieved what I wanted too.”

“What you wanted?”

I nodded at Han Da-min and played the song we had worked on using the laptop that was already set up.

Then I moved the playback bar all the way to the bridge section.

“Unnie, this part here. How about we let Cael Arden handle it?”

“This part? Hmm, it’s definitely a part I thought was flowing too monotonously. I was even thinking of adding rap to it.”

“I want to add rap too, keep the beat as is, but make it slightly refreshing.”

“It’s not bad, but would Cael Arden want to do it?”

I nodded right away.

Surprisingly, Cael Arden said he would do this. He even said he’d do the rap too.

I asked thinking if he refused, there was nothing I could do, but I never thought he’d agree to do it without a single refusal.

“So how about we ask Cael Arden to do this part with rap and a short vocal? What do you think, unnie?”

Of course, the most important thing is Han Da-min’s opinion, since she made this song together with me.

If Han Da-min dislikes getting featuring from another singer and would rather fill the song with our members like Min Ha-young who can rap, I’m naturally planning to accept her opinion.

“I don’t think it’s bad? Hmm… But I still can’t imagine how Cael Arden would connect the bridge. How are you planning to arrange the song?”

“Wait a moment. Like this.”

I immediately started modifying the bridge section of the song.

I lowered the key, made space for rap and singing, and completely removed the melody from that part.

In other words, I completely emptied the bridge, leaving only the beat and bass with the key slightly lowered.

“Like this, we’ll leave it to Cael Arden for now.”

“…”

“Huh?”

“You’re leaving it to him like this?”

Han Da-min looked at me with an expression that said she couldn’t understand what I was talking about.

We’re asking for featuring, but we’re just leaving it to Cael Arden with nothing like this? In other words, doesn’t this mean we’re leaving everything from melody to rap and song lyrics to Cael Arden?

“This is a bit… Isn’t it too rude?”

Han Da-min asked with a worried face.

We should be grateful just for Cael Arden doing the featuring, but we’re so casually assigning him additional work.

I guarantee that what Cael Arden agreed to was featuring on the song, not taking on all these detailed tasks.

Han Da-min looked at me with an expression asking if this was okay, and I nodded confidently.

“It’s not rude. For Cael Arden, giving it to him like this would actually be more comfortable.”

I felt this after having a meal with Cael Arden today and having a brief conversation with him.

He somehow became more known and shifted his activity direction toward acting rather than singing, but he was actually someone who thought of his identity as a singer more importantly.

He liked making and singing songs, and really enjoyed conversations about music, the singer industry, song trends, and market situations. Especially when it came to music production work, he showed quite passionate discussion.

As an actor, he’s famous for having no stubbornness and doing whatever work is given to him, but as a singer, he’s someone with a very strong ego.

But he definitely had a reluctant face when listening to this song.

He even openly said it wasn’t his taste.

I guarantee that if we write the melody and lyrics ourselves and request Cael Arden to sing it as is, he would either go back on his word and refuse, or obviously show that he’s reluctantly singing a song that doesn’t suit him.

In this case, wouldn’t it be much better to let Cael Arden work on the bridge section, which isn’t even decided yet, in his own style?

From our conversation at the restaurant, Cael Arden himself was someone who found joy in personally working on each song he sang with his own voice.

And listeners would also want to feel Cael Arden’s unique style in his part, since it’s a collaboration between Cael Arden and Flora anyway.

After hearing my words, Han Da-min thought for a moment, then soon nodded her head.

“That does make sense. Alright, I understand. I’ll talk to the staff about it.”

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