The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 311

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A brief silence fell over the meeting room.

“Hmm….”

What should I say.

As I was choosing my response, the employee spoke first.

“Well, it’s not certain yet. They say that person hasn’t opened their mouth either. I’ll let you know again if anything gets confirmed. Good work on today’s filming.”

“Yes, understood. Thank you for your hard work.”

I let out a deep sigh and stood up from my seat. As the employee said, I couldn’t accuse the manager of being the culprit based on suspicion alone.

“Still, please take care of it either way.”

Whether they’re the culprit or not, please give my new personal manager a good scolding.

The members’ schedules were only shared with each personal manager individually, so if it leaked outside, it must have come through that manager. Even if it wasn’t intentional, revealing it to someone else deserves reprimand.

It felt awkward to directly ask with my own mouth to scold a new manager who’s a grown adult and even older than Ryu Ji-ye, so I spoke as vaguely as possible.

“Alright, go in and rest.”

I’m not sure if they understood, but the employee nodded and personally opened the meeting room door for me.

Still feeling displeased and in a bad mood, I didn’t go to the dormitory but stayed in the company lobby instead.

‘The members must have heard the news too.’

They would have heard that an assailant broke into the filming location, that person was the stalker who had been tormenting me for a while, and that staff members were having conversations with him at the police station.

They’d be waiting, worried about me. When I return to the dormitory, they’d come running across that wide dormitory corridor toward me, asking if I’m okay and worrying about me.

But I’m not okay at all right now.

Honestly, my head is too complicated and I’m feeling uncomfortable, so I don’t even want to smile and say I’m fine, even as empty words.

It felt like this mood wouldn’t lift at all until one incident was properly resolved.

Fortunately, there are no more schedules today, and considering the members who would be disturbed by that incident, we probably won’t practice either. I plan to wait here until my mind settles, or rather, until the staff who went to the police station finish all their conversations and return to tell me about it.

Since I’m in a bad mood, I’m not bored at all even without looking at my phone once. My mind was endlessly churning.

I sat still like a statue, staring intently into empty space.

The sunset that had been beautifully descending between the buildings had somehow changed to gloomy evening twilight, and it suddenly started raining.

And night fell.

The staff still hadn’t returned to the company.

Well, some had returned, but it seemed they sent the younger staff home first to let them get off work.

When I asked them why the staff still hadn’t returned, it was because that stalker bastard wasn’t cooperating smoothly with the investigation. His words kept changing this way and that, rambling incoherently, and his tone and attitude were so bad that several disputes arose with our staff, and he kept repeating the cycle of clamming up again.

I briefly wondered why our staff, who usually pursued extreme efficiency, were fighting there, raising their voices and wasting time, but I understand.

‘Their anger has really peaked.’

Were only the members suffering? No, the staff suffered too.

Working in three shifts to guard the dormitory, catching sasaengs to lecture them, suing them, handing them over to police, posting articles. This sounds easy to say, but it must have been hell for those doing it.

Not only did they make them work overtime like eating meals, but they broke into the broadcasting station twice, making them apologize to death to the production staff, and shattered Flora’s mental state right along with the comeback – Flora being the company’s hope and only artist.

They properly provoked the workaholic staff who already lose their minds and struggle all day when work goes wrong.

But even at the police station, they couldn’t get their act together and had a bad attitude.

So a fight ended up breaking out.

‘Yeah, that can happen.’

I sighed and asked the employee who returned to the company first.

“How much longer do you think it’ll take?”

“Well, when we left, there was no sign of it ending. It almost got to the point of physical fighting, so they told us to leave first….”

“Ah…. I see. Thank you for your hard work.”

“Yes, you too, Ji-ye.”

The staff headed to the office with expressions full of fatigue.

Looking at the time, it was already 10 PM.

I never thought it would take this long.

‘And physical fighting at that.’

If the atmosphere had heated up that much, it would be difficult to hear about the situation today.

“Tsk….”

I clicked my tongue in frustration and finally stood up.

Waiting longer would only make the members worry more, so let’s just go back.

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When I returned to the dormitory, as expected.

The members who had been gathered in the living room rushed toward me.

“Why are you just coming now! Filming ended ages ago!”

“Are you okay, Ji-ye? We were worried.”

“Hey, knowing your personality, I was startled thinking you might have followed them to the police station!”

I forced a smile at the members’ words that seemed like a mix of worry and scolding, and entered the living room.

“Nothing happened to me and I didn’t follow them to the police station.”

“Then why are you just coming now?”

“I waited at the company to hear the full story from the staff who went to the police station, but there was no news even after waiting until this time, so I came back.”

“And you didn’t answer your phone!”

“Phone?”

At Han Da-min’s words, I checked my phone and found it full of missed calls from the members.

Oh my….

I forgot I had put it on silent for filming.

My thoughts were too complicated, so I didn’t even think to look at my phone the entire time I was at the company.

“Sorry, I forgot.”

“There are things you should and shouldn’t forget!”

The members’ worry didn’t last long.

Only after getting thoroughly scolded about why I didn’t say in advance that I’d be late could I finally be freed from the members.

And the next day, I was finally able to hear the truth of the incident.

As expected, the photos that man sent me daily were fake.

Of course, some of them were actually taken by him in person.

Photos like those in front of the broadcasting station or agency that anyone could take.

Additionally, photos of purchasing perfume or going to places I privately visited were also confirmed to have been taken by him directly.

However, photos in front of the dormitory, inside, and of me sleeping were received from someone else.

And the person who passed that problematic information to the man was….

“How despicable.”

Song-i, who heard the whole story, muttered with a deeply furrowed brow.

To cut to the conclusion, my new personal manager wasn’t the culprit.

The one who received money from the stalker and sold my every move wasn’t my manager, but Song-i’s new personal manager.

The new managers apparently formed an atmosphere like company colleagues and were close enough to create separate gatherings and group messenger chats.

So they naturally came to share information. Even though the senior staff and artists worked so hard with strict and rigorous sasaeng control, they didn’t guard against each other at all.

Surely there couldn’t be anyone among our close colleagues doing the crazy thing of selling information to sasaengs, right?

…with such careless thinking.

If there was a fault with my personal manager, or rather all the new personal managers, it was trusting each other too much and breaking the prohibitions that seniors had strictly ordered. With the complacent thought that ‘colleagues are internal staff.’

Naturally, they all got chewed out like crazy.

After getting chewed out, they received disciplinary action.

Song-i’s personal manager will not only be fired but also face civil and criminal lawsuits worse than the sasaengs.

From Day Entertainment as well as from me personally.

I wonder if they know that Tiger Owner Grandfather of our Hong Jin Company has been grinding his teeth about this for a while.

Originally, this kind of internal problem should be handled and buried internally.

But our smart and quick-witted fans figured out that a personal manager was selling member information.

Thanks to that, CEO Kim Ja-in suffered for days before posting an apology and promising to prevent recurrence, finally escaping the fans’ resentment.

Security for us was already strict, but it became even tighter and more systematic.

Anyway, the stalker incident that had been slowly killing me, our members, and the company throughout the comeback activities.

You have completed a Sub Quest.

Would you like to receive your reward?

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It ended along with the Quest completion.

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