The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 32

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 32

“I dare to tell all of you that your efforts were worthwhile. And….”

After that, Lee Si-ah gave specific analysis and praise about Han Da-min and Min Ha-young’s dance technique before wrapping up her evaluation.

The last judge to hold the microphone was Simple Play’s leader So-hae.

When So-hae took the microphone, the members who had been secretly relieved by Lee Si-ah’s evaluation tensed up again.

She was the only person who had watched the stage expressionlessly even when everyone else was enjoying the situation.

She was also one of the judges who didn’t get swept up in the atmosphere and had sharply pointed out issues with the previous stages.

If anyone was going to criticize today’s stage, it would be So-hae.

“Somehow everyone ended up in a praising mood.”

However, as soon as So-hae took the microphone, she smiled and narrowed her eyes.

“Since they’ve talked about the direction and choreography, I thought I’d talk about the vocals.”

“Wow, the vocals were really insane.”

Ji-hoon kept nodding his head as if he knew what So-hae was going to say before she even said anything.

He had given a standing ovation earlier, so our stage must have been quite impressive to him.

So-hae glanced at Ji-hoon once but obediently nodded and said,

“First, anyone who watched the stage would naturally know about the stability and vocalization.”

“To exaggerate a bit, it echoed powerfully throughout the venue.”

“That’s right. At some point, I couldn’t tell if this was a concert or a competition stage. Performing such stable live vocals while doing choreography that requires constant jumping is difficult even for friends who have already debuted.”

I agreed with this internally several times.

When I first learned Horizon’s choreography, I seriously worried if I had chosen the wrong song.

I thought the choreography would be easy since it was a pure song with simple rhythm….

The choreography was really easy, but it was choreography where your feet never stayed on the ground.

‘Constantly spinning, jumping, changing positions….’

I chose this song hoping our faces would be captured steadily on camera without shaking, but as soon as I saw the choreography, I thought, wouldn’t this make the plan fail?

-When I watched the live video, it didn’t seem this difficult….

I remembered Han Da-min muttering in a puzzled voice.

It turned out the choreography wasn’t easy—Sierra’s members were just good at making it not look difficult.

So we practiced to death again.

As a result, we grew to the point where we could show unwavering smiles whenever captured on camera while performing this choreography.

Anyway, the point is that our live performance skills had to be stable because we practiced to death.

“It wasn’t an evaluation—at some point I just watched blankly. How can they be this good? I thought. At the same time, emotions surged up. I’m neither a mentor nor a trainer, but they performed so well that I felt grateful and proud.”

We screamed and practiced to match each other. The judges probably knew about this through the production staff.

That’s why the judges felt our desperation in our stable live performance.

They had all poured themselves into practice with such desperation before.

That’s why they were giving us overflowing praise.

“It’s been a really long time since I felt these emotions, and I really enjoyed watching. You worked hard.”

“Thank you!”

At So-hae’s praise, the members bowed their heads with excited voices.

‘Thank goodness.’

Honestly, I had been very worried. No matter how well we did, could Individual Trainees compete with a debut group from a company?

Would we receive unfair evaluations?

Could we do well with the intro part? Even if not the intro part, could we perform without mistakes, and so on.

But the best result created by effort becomes a drama.

‘At least this time, I don’t need to worry.’

“You worked hard.”

“Thank you!”

We energetically bowed and came down from the stage.

Relief finally appeared on the members’ faces.

“Really….”

Min Ha-young exhaled and plopped down in a squat.

“I think I have indigestion. My stomach hurts.”

“You were really nervous.”

I sat beside Min Ha-young as if I couldn’t help it and rubbed her back.

How much pressure must she have felt to have a stomachache when she hadn’t even eaten anything.

I don’t know how fortunate it was that the evaluation was full of praise and the response was good.

Actually, when we were on stage, the trainees’ whispers and mockery came through louder than expected, so I was worried about the members’ condition.

They might have thought we couldn’t hear them, but we heard everything.

Han Da-min had already experienced this, but the other members wouldn’t be used to being openly mocked.

Even so, they managed to keep their mentality together and successfully finish the stage.

They must have worked very hard, so it was understandable that Min Ha-young’s legs gave out.

“My heart is beating so fast.”

Min Ha-young said, almost clinging to me.

From her trembling voice, I could tell how hard she had tried not to show her nervousness.

“Can you stand up? Want to grab my shoulder and get up?”

I was trying to comfort the tearful Min Ha-young and help her stand when I suddenly heard sniffling from behind.

“Sniff… don’t cry….”

I turned around in surprise.

Seo Ra-eun was crying loudly as she approached to comfort Min Ha-young.

“If you cry… I’ll cry too….”

“….”

You’re crying more than her, so why are you blaming Ha-young.

Earlier, thanks to the buff, she was just excited and thrilled.

I looked at her incredulously and put my hand on Seo Ra-eun’s back too.

Still, I should say what needs to be said.

“You were really the best, unnie.”

It was okay thanks to the buff, but Seo Ra-eun had received the most criticism and suffered from great pressure enough to cry like this.

Just the fact that she overcame it well and safely finished the stage made me feel proud.

Then Seo Ra-eun started crying even louder.

Oh my. The stage is still being filmed!

“Unnie, shh shh!”

When I urgently covered Seo Ra-eun’s mouth, she pushed my hand away saying she understood and covered her own mouth tightly.

Then she hugged Min Ha-young and sobbed quietly.

“…Girls, should we go now? I think we should go.”

Han Da-min approached with an awkward smile.

Her eyes were about to turn red—she was clearly moved to tears but they seemed to have retreated after seeing Seo Ra-eun and Min Ha-young’s wailing.

Actually, I felt the same way.

Han Da-min made eye contact with me, chuckled, then separated and took Seo Ra-eun away.

“We can’t keep doing this here. We need to go back to the set studio quickly. Girls.”

“Sniff…yes….”

I followed Han Da-min and helped Min Ha-young stand up.

Min Ha-young clung heavily to me again, but perhaps because she heard Han Da-min’s scolding, she managed to walk along fairly well without support.

“Why are you even crying.”

And Choi Song-i watched us pathetically and kept pushing Min Ha-young’s back.

After barely wiping off our sweat and returning to the set studio, NM Entertainment’s trainee U&DA’s stage was in full swing.

“They’re really skilled. They look experienced.”

Han Da-min said as soon as she sat down.

U&DA. The group that Rena, known as South Korea’s top solo artist, handpicked and raised one by one.

As such, their singing skills and stage presence were exceptional.

Should I say they had a very mature and seasoned image? It didn’t feel like a trainee performance.

As a group focused more on vocals than dance, they simply rode light waves while holding stand microphones and singing, yet that alone made the stage feel anything but boring.

The reason for this was not only their skills but also because they brought a song that perfectly matched their image.

It was quite different from I Meet You, who had done a sexy concept like dressing cute, round-faced kids in ill-fitting clothes.

U&DA sang well, bringing out the unique sexiness and stickiness of this song as if it were their own.

Personally, it was my favorite stage among all the ones I’d seen so far.

Next was Romance Story, trainees from a small entertainment company I’d never heard of.

It was when their stage was about halfway through.

“Haah…”

A judge’s sigh reached me, piercing through the stage sound system.

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