The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 296

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Song-i was filming at a set studio prepared separately near the abandoned factory.

A space completely surrounded by chroma key. What was there was a well-organized room, a desk, and a single book.

Song-i was looking at the book with a mysterious expression.

Certainly, someone who has been acting in various places since childhood is different.

She reads the book, turning page by page with a face that looks somewhat sad, bitter, yet also resigned as if there was no choice. Just from seeing that one scene, it felt like I could understand part of the story.

“Cut!”

Jang Jak-so stopped filming with satisfaction. And immediately.

“Let’s move on to the next scene while maintaining this feeling!”

He resumed filming.

‘Crazy.’

My mouth fell open without realizing it.

The filming continued very naturally. Rest time? Without any of that nonsense, just like that.

And our lovely and precious youngest member Choi Song-i accepted this again without saying a word.

‘Has it been going on like this the whole time?’

My gaze naturally turned toward Jang Jak-so. Of course, my gaze was closer to glaring at him with eyes that had grown cold beyond cold.

Then I looked at Choi Song-i again.

‘She speaks up just fine to her unnies.’

Since it’s a face I see every day, I can tell right away. She’s very tired right now.

But why can’t she say a single word about wanting to rest because it’s hard, and instead keeps filming.

My gaze shifted again, this time toward the manager.

Not Manager Seong Ji-soo who had been with us since debut, but a new manager.

Work got busier and individual activities increased day by day, so naturally the number of managers increased, and it seems he couldn’t properly catch Song-i’s condition.

It’s not the manager’s fault…

No, it is the manager’s fault, this is.

Song-i is originally a child who has few expressions making it hard to tell if she’s struggling or not, but when you see filming continue without rest like this, even if she doesn’t look tired, her condition will naturally worsen, so he should cut in and suggest taking a break.

And Jang Jak-so too!

Even if you’re oblivious, you’re too oblivious. If the kid doesn’t say she’s struggling, does that mean you don’t know she’s struggling?

At the very least, look at your staff’s faces.

They’re as worn out as we are! Read the expression that says ‘Again, just like this?’!

I know he has a strong ego and, to put it badly, a self-centered way of thinking, enough to boldly tell us who commissioned the work that he would change this worldview’s story. But does that mean you won’t even care about the actor’s condition?

“Phew…”

Since he’s someone I brought personally, I’ll accommodate his opinions as much as possible, but I can’t help but get angry about this.

In the end, I opened my mouth instead.

“Director Jang Jak-so.”

Jang Jak-so, who had been excitedly checking camera angles, paused and looked at me.

“Yes? Oh, Ji-ye, you came?”

“Yes.”

It seems he was so focused that he didn’t even know I had arrived.

But the eyes that had been filled with madness from being obsessed with filming seemed to calm down a bit.

It must be because my expression was excessively cold.

“First, please have this while you work.”

I handed the beverage I bought to Jang Jak-so and said without any trace of a smile.

“How about taking a short break? Song-i looks tired and the staff are working hard too.”

“Ah…”

At my words, our new manager who had been standing behind rushed over to Song-i, fidgeting belatedly.

It looks like he’s finally going to ask Song-i if she’s okay.

‘Oh my.’

I said while forcing my lips to curve upward.

“I’d like you to take some rest too, Director. You must be tired from going back and forth.”

That’s right. Just for today, Jang Jak-so would have been the most tired.

Probably because he has a personality that can’t delegate his work to others, he went back and forth between the abandoned factory and this place without rest to film.

Jang Jak-so accepted the beverage I offered while looking flustered and said.

“Ah, was I being too inconsiderate? I heard that the Flora members weren’t in good condition today, so I tried to finish as quickly as possible, but it seems I lacked consideration instead.”

“Let’s take it slowly. Nice and easy.”

Jang Jak-so knows. My position at Day Entertainment and how strong my influence is on set.

He immediately nodded and shouted.

“We’ll take about a 30-minute break! Please drink something and have some snacks!”

Hearing the story, it didn’t seem like Jang Jak-so did anything terribly wrong. It’s just that his way of showing consideration was different.

Rather, it seems he hurried the filming thinking to finish quickly and let us go home since we looked tired.

‘Yes, that thought is quite thoughtful, but…’

We’re at a level where we need to sleep the moment we get a chance, our stamina is rock bottom, so if we proceed like this, we’ll have to lie sick for a day or two.

It would interfere with practice.

“Hah…”

I can hear Song-i’s sigh from far away. She was holding the beverage I brought, wrapped in the new manager’s hands as she came out of the set.

Look at that. How tired must the kid have been to sigh like that.

At that moment, Song-i’s eyes met mine exactly and widened.

I immediately changed my expression, smiled brightly, and waved at her.

“Hi Song-i. I came to see how you’re doing.”

“…You came to see me?”

“Yeah. I brought drinks too. Since you’re filming all alone. Isn’t it hard?”

At that moment.

Ding!

You have completed the mission.

Would you like to receive your reward?

[Y/N]

…Already?

I looked into Song-i’s eyes.

Song-i was just approaching me with an expression showing no particular emotion.

But the mission is already complete?

‘Even if she’s known for not showing expression changes…’

No, even if she’s a child with a personality that’s hard to understand no matter how well you know her.

Was she that happy to see me… ah, looking closely, she does seem happy to see me. For some reason, she also looks relieved.

“How was it?”

“Just, I was filming the same as usual.”

“It’s not hard?”

“Of course it’s hard.”

Her blunt way of speaking is the same as always, but the way she’s sticking close to me is kind of cute.

“What about the other unnies?”

“They haven’t finished filming yet. I finished first so I rushed right over. But everyone should be done soon?”

“I’ll be the last one to finish.”

“Will you be able to practice after finishing?”

“…”

Song-i suddenly became silent. Rather, she was looking at me with even more sulky eyes.

Looking at her eyes full of the expression ‘Do you think I’ll be able to?’, I couldn’t help but laugh.

Just looking at her, it’s clear that today she’ll definitely say she can’t practice as soon as she gets off work and go in to rest.

‘Not a chance.’

Thanks to Song-i, I got a nice buff.

I grinned and patted Song-i’s back as I stood up.

“Then cheer up, Song-i. When it looks like all the other unnies are done, I’ll bring them all together.”

“…You’re leaving already? Right after arriving?”

She looks really disappointed, but even so, she doesn’t tell me to stay longer and just makes a gesture telling me to go without saying much.

I pretended not to notice her feelings and left the set studio, got back in the car, and immediately opened the system window – Group Management System.

And I immediately applied the [Cheer Up!] buff I just received to all members.

Unfortunately, the problem is that buffs applied through the Group Management System don’t apply to me.

‘Well, I can just endure through sheer stubbornness.’

Anyway, this is the first time I’ve seen this buff, so I wonder how it will be applied?

To check that, it would be best to look at Min Ha-young’s condition, who seemed the most tired, rather than Song-i who’s hard to distinguish.

I headed back to the abandoned factory.

And there.

“Woah….”

I was able to find Min Ha-young running around energetically during filming.

“What’s this? Is it because it suddenly got a bit cooler? This feels doable now?”

I don’t know why, but it seems like a cool breeze is blowing around her….

Anyway, what’s certain is that the [Cheer Up!] buff seems to be exactly the kind of buff I thought it was.

I let out a sigh of relief.

Yeah, well, at this rate….

‘We’ll definitely be able to practice until dawn even after today’s filming ends.’

Of course, only if I can endure it. Just me, without the buff.

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