The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 313

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If we show everything like this, what on earth will be left?

…we had prepared enough songs to make you think that.

Of course, thinking about our real solo concert coming up soon, it’s just one hour of showing only the songs from our albums with already-revealed choreography, without any arrangement whatsoever.

Even just that took quite a while to practice properly and complete.

Since it would only be broadcast live on a small stage, adjusting the choreography to be captured well by cameras was also difficult work.

I hope the fans will see our sincerity and be pleased enough to forgive our lacking comeback activities this time.

With such thoughts, I headed to the small hall that would serve as both rehearsal and performance venue.

Finding a hall to broadcast the live stage from was very easy.

A small stage similar in size to the practice room in our company building, where multiple cameras could be positioned, yet a place where we could perform immediately even with a last-minute reservation.

CEO Kim Ja-in and the staff, who came from large corporations and had only worked at big venues, were certain that even the smallest halls couldn’t be reserved and used immediately.

So I quickly suggested this place.

It was none other than the concert hall that Choux Cream frequently used during Hong Yeo-eun’s time.

For failed idols, it’s not easy to book concert halls or schedule and hold large-scale performances in advance…

So it was a good place to book impromptu performances when company circumstances allowed, or when fans wanted them.

Anyway, it’s a space with many such memories, but who would have thought I’d come back here as a different person, having succeeded.

‘Even though it’s the same stage, it’s so different.’

It was definitely the same concert hall, but seeing the beautifully decorated stage brought such new emotions that I almost let out a hollow laugh.

During the Choux Cream days, we performed without even the concept of decorating the stage, just finding meaning in performing at all.

A bit of bitterness passed by fleetingly and soon disappeared.

‘Let’s not think about it.’

Things that have already passed, a disbanded team.

What’s the point of thinking about it now.

Let’s just think about today’s live performance. The moment I thought that, the members approached me.

“It really is exactly the size of our practice room.”

“No, it’s much smaller than the practice room.”

“I didn’t know it would be this small. We’ll need to narrow our movements more.”

Our members, who had become more accustomed to big stages, began seriously looking at the stage and discussing.

“See? I told you we shouldn’t have dancers.”

I said smugly.

When we first prepared for this live performance, there was an opinion to have dancers join and properly construct the stage, but I strongly opposed it.

From experience, if dancers stood here and danced properly, the stage would collapse. No, before that, there wouldn’t even be room for more than five people to stand.

To make an analogy, it’s about the size of a school auditorium platform?

It’s not bad for five people to perform, so just us members standing would be fine.

“Maybe we should have done it in a bigger practice room instead? Why did we rent an even smaller concert hall.”

Han Da-min muttered quietly, but I just shrugged my shoulders.

It’s not that I hadn’t thought about that, but still, it’s content we named ‘mini concert’ among ourselves…

Even if it’s small, doing it on stage rather than in a practice room makes for prettier visuals, right?

Anyway.

After the members and staff who actually saw the stage discussed a few modifications, rehearsal began immediately.

From 1st album 【Flowering】 to 3rd album 【Revenge】.

We had to move while paying a bit more attention to cameras than during practice, and there were some problems with equipment and sound conditions, but the first rehearsal ended reasonably well.

“Ah, this is driving me crazy. What kind of karaoke room sound system is this? Let’s just tear out the one at the company and bring it here. This won’t work.”

“Isn’t the lighting too dark? We need to get more equipment. Please contact places where we can get immediate supply.”

Only we ended well.

The staff were in chaos. Seriously terrible sound system, dim lighting where you couldn’t even see faces properly.

“…”

I’m… a bit sorry about this.

I didn’t think that far ahead.

‘Maybe the nostalgia filter was a bit too strong…’

During the Choux Cream days, I had never even thought about whether the sound was bad or the lighting was dim.

I just remembered it as ordinary sound and lighting.

But after experiencing big stages and good sound equipment to our heart’s content, it was definitely, seriously terrible.

Enough to make me feel sorry for recommending this concert hall.

The staff began getting busy.

“We should have checked this in advance! What did you do after just making a reservation!”

“S-sorry…”

The responsible parties were getting severely scolded, and thanks to that, I who recommended this place had to stand there feeling like I was on pins and needles.

Fortunately, there were places nearby where we could urgently rent equipment, so the youngest members of each team hurriedly ran there and procured what we needed.

And the second rehearsal began in a slightly improved environment.

The second rehearsal also ended reasonably well.

Except for the members making occasional slip-ups while being conscious of the cameras, and despite getting more lighting equipment, it was still dark so the lighting team’s youngest member had to run somewhere once more.

Finally, after three rehearsals, the staff regained their composure, saying they had achieved perfect sound and lighting.

I also finally escaped from being on pins and needles.

After the unintentionally rushed rehearsal ended, the sun was already setting.

We had a light meal and immediately got our costumes, hair, and makeup ready.

The time was 8 PM.

It was almost time to start the live broadcast.

The members who had gone up on stage early finally began looking at each other with excited faces.

Our fans who would come in thinking it was an ordinary communication live broadcast, not knowing what we were doing or what we had prepared.

It seemed like they were finally starting to smile at the thought of putting on a surprise performance for them.

I too was finally able to smile comfortably.

‘I thought the surprise would be ruined because of me.’

I was worried we might end up not being able to perform, and felt sorry for the staff running around here and there.

So I felt like I was sitting on pins and needles throughout the rehearsal, but it was really fortunate.

And shortly after, the staff standing behind the cameras gave us a signal.

Three, two, one.

Start.

With that, the live broadcast began.

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-?

-What?

-Is this an error?

-Did it start???

-?

The fans’ chat room visible through the huge monitor was full of question marks.

Naturally.

We didn’t start performing immediately when the live broadcast began.

The darkened stage just looked black like a screen error.

As with all live broadcasts, no matter how much you announce it, it takes some time for the notification that the broadcast has started to appear and for people to come in.

It’s a performance prepared for fans, but it would be terrible if we started right when we turned on the live stream and most people missed the first song.

Just when the number of question marks was increasing infinitely and fans were about to conclude it was an error and refresh.

The lighting on stage brightened and the song began immediately.

An elegant and classic intro flowed out.

The first song was 【Flowering】, the title track from the 1st mini album [The first flowering].

Even though the performance had started, the barrage of question marks in the chat continued for quite a while.

The fans’ bewilderment at never having thought the live broadcast would be a surprise performance could be felt clearly even in the chat room.

Soon after, chats from fans who realized the situation began appearing.

Did they like our surprise?

Even without asking, I could tell enough from the reactions in the chat.

‘Thank goodness.’

The things we prepared out of guilt weren’t in vain.

I smiled brightly and continued the performance more joyfully than ever before.

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【Bloom】 followed by 【Famous Paintings】.

Only after singing the two songs with revealed choreography in succession did we stop performing and line up straight.

Then, with shameless faces as if asking ‘Did we do something?’, we grinned and greeted everyone as we always do.

“We’ll greet you! Hello!”

“This is Flora!”

A quick glance at the chat showed it was filled with tear emojis and waves of emotion.

The surprise was a huge success.

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