The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 299

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Since declaring a break from choreography practice, the Members had been silent.

Why?

Obviously because they were looking at their phones…

Even though it hadn’t been released yet so there wasn’t much to see, they kept checking SNS constantly and someone was replaying the music video countless times.

Not just the Members, but our Company Staff too.

It happens every comeback so it’s not particularly strange.

Everyone is serious about the new album, so they care excessively about external reactions and the quality of the upcoming album.

An hour passed like that, then two hours, then several more hours.

Before we knew it, there were exactly 40 minutes left until the music video release and music source launch.

We gathered back in the center of the Practice Room.

As always, it was time for the live broadcast before the release.

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As soon as the live broadcast started, the viewer count began increasing as if they had been waiting.

“Oh my. Everyone must have been waiting.”

“Were you waiting and then went ‘Oh! They’re here!’ when you came in? The notification probably hasn’t even gone out yet.”

“We really missed you all too!”

Many Viewers had already entered, but there would still be a slight delay before most Fans came in.

We chatted with the Fans who came in early about whether they had eaten or today’s weather, killing time simply before saying energetically.

“It looks like many people have come in now, so let’s give our formal greeting! Hello!”

“This is Flora!”

“What day is today!”

“The day our music video comes out!”

“Music source release day!”

“Comeback day!”

The Members raised their hands high like kindergarteners and spoke excitedly.

Seeing people who had been staring at their phones like crazy just moments ago now smiling brightly and giggling as if nothing had happened, I thought our kids have really become proper celebrities.

“Finally, the day we’ve been waiting and waiting for. Especially our Garden fans must have waited so long.”

“Did you miss us a lot!”

Min Ha-young pretended to pass the microphone toward the camera.

Then countless messages saying they missed us and various emoticons flooded up, responding to her question.

“We really missed you all too. How about we each talk about what we’ve been up to during this time?”

“Actually, Garden fans probably already know all about what we’ve been up to.”

“That’s true too.”

The Members laughed awkwardly.

We had been so active in the United States that it was confusing whether this was actually a break period or an active period.

Especially me.

Fans probably could have seen me every other day through American broadcasts, interviews, etc.

Because I participated in every possible activity I could do with Cael Arden.

“Still, shall we talk about it once? One by one, how has everyone been? Should I start first?”

Han Da-min raised her hand and spoke.

“As you all know, I mainly worked on Music Production. Through a really good opportunity, I got to work with someone famous and amazing who I had only known of before.”

“And the song our Da-min unnie made even made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart!”

“Waaaah!!!”

At my words, the Members cheered loudly. The Chat Room also celebrated noisily, making Han Da-min smile shyly and fidget with the back of her neck.

“Thank you…”

The Cael Arden song that Han Da-min created and we sang together gradually gained reaction while we were active, then soared once after I mentioned it on a famous show, and again after we performed together on Stage, ultimately achieving success.

After making it onto the Billboard chart, Our Staff Members said Korea had literally gone crazy.

Han Da-min’s name had been a hot topic for quite a while.

And the Stage we all performed together was the same.

Our return Home was treated like a triumphant homecoming, and our activities in the United States were covered very extensively in Korea.

At that time, I remember Han Da-min was overjoyed, saying she participated in Cael Arden’s Directing and conversed with and got acquainted with all kinds of famous Producers whose names you’d recognize just by hearing them.

“And for this 【Revenge】 album’s B-side track, ah, the pre-released song, Ji-ye and I went through a lot of hardship making it together.”

Han Da-min and I simultaneously looked at each other and nodded, putting many meanings into our eye contact.

“We scrapped it so many times. We worked really hard to make it a Flora-like song that wouldn’t overlap with the album tracks, but it just wouldn’t work out.”

“Since we both kept getting stuck, we were like ‘Whatever, forget it! Let’s just make a song we can jump around to excitedly at concerts!’ and the song we made like that got approved right away, which was surprising. Haha. Anyway, that’s how I was, what about our Ha-young?”

Han Da-min pointed to Min Ha-young who was at the very edge.

“I’m similar. Unnie and Ji-ye were busy with Music Production Work and I was busy making Choreography… But actually, rather than it being hard, it was exciting and fun for me.”

That was right.

Min Ha-young participated in choreography for our title song and the pre-released song, meaning the song Da-min and I made, and I could see she was having a lot of fun throughout.

The previous choreographies had elegant and refined aspects after all. Of course, you couldn’t say they were easy, but since we had to create choreography that matched easy-listening, regardless of passion, she didn’t look extremely excited.

But this time, her energy was different from the start.

We kept the elegance but threw away the refinement and cranked up the difficulty to the max, filling it with Min Ha-young-style choreography.

This time, Min Ha-young’s opinions were incorporated more than ever into the choreographies, and thanks to that, the difficulty rose to what seemed like an insane level (contributing to the Members getting more haggard day by day), but we managed to pull it off anyway…

Min Ha-young had a lot of fun.

“Everyone, really, this 【Revenge】 choreography is the most difficult and beautiful ever. Wow! You’ll think ‘Flora can do this kind of thing too?’ Please look forward to it!”

“Good. Ha-young spent time creating choreography, and Song-i?”

At Han Da-min’s question, Song-i spoke.

“I just had a good time as usual this time too.”

After saying that, perhaps thinking her answer lacked sincerity, she added more.

“We were in the United States for a while and it was fun. I was worried because the unnies looked like they were having a hard time. I went around to many places, met various people, and appeared on broadcasts too.”

Then Han Da-min put her hand on Choi Song-i’s shoulder and said.

“Everyone, we learned when we went to the United States. Cuteness works everywhere you go.”

“Right.”

All the Members agreed and said.

“Song-i was really considered cute wherever she went. At Broadcasting Stations or even just going to eat ice cream.”

Song-i nodded with a displeased Expression.

“They treated me like a little kid. Everyone did.”

“…Aren’t you a little kid?”

At my question, Song-i immediately answered.

“No.”

Then the Members giggled and roughly agreed with Song-i’s words.

“Right. Our Song-i is an adult.”

“But everyone really did find her cute. Now, what about Ra-eun?”

“I think I really practiced hard, both in Korea and the United States. Building up stamina.”

“Right. Ra-eun stayed until the end with Ha-young almost every day to Practice, and went to the gym with Da-min unnie.”

“And there’s one more unnie.”

Min Ha-young said with a giggle.

“Everyone, Ra-eun unnie is really weird! She keeps looking up Ji-ye videos and stuff! She’s become a total fan.”

What is this about? I’ve been away from the Members more often during our time in the United States, so this is the first I’m hearing of this.

The Members all seemed to agree, nodding their heads.

“She seemed like she became a fan of Ji-ye. Why is that?”

At Han Da-min’s question, Seo Ra-eun’s face turned red as she rambled incoherently, then said in a small voice.

“You looked cool. Seeing you perform well on Stage with amazing singers by yourself. I thought ‘How can she be so good?’ so I looked up all your interviews and watched all your stages. Because I wanted to learn from you.”

“Yes, she became a fan of Ji-ye.”

Han Da-min said with a chuckle. But if that’s what it means, Ra-eun didn’t become a fan of me – she’s always been like that.

After any Stage ends, she watches other Members’ solo angle videos multiple times, and when we appear on variety shows, she keeps watching those too, trying to learn and learn more.

And finally, Han Da-min’s gaze turned to me.

“Then lastly, Ji-ye. You probably have a lot to talk about. How was this break period? This break period that wasn’t really a break period?”

For now, I just smiled at her without saying anything.

Just like Han Da-min said, I had so, so much to say!

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