The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 325

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An unknown Korean star.

That was all Dominic knew about that woman.

No, he had learned the group name by now, but he still erased her individual name from his head as soon as he heard it.

In fact, for Dominic, that was already remembering quite a lot for a singer he wasn’t interested in.

“….”

His conversation with Shelly abruptly stopped. Shelly also stopped talking to Dominic and was looking at the stage with a surprised expression.

“Wow, she’s really popular. Who is she?”

“K-pop.”

“Ah, that’s K-pop? My daughter really loves it.”

Dominic chuckled. Seeing how she spoke of K-pop like it was a group or singer’s name rather than a genre, Shelly seemed to know even less about K-pop than Dominic did.

What was the big deal? He considered showing off by correcting what she knew, then decided against it.

What great bragging right would it be to know slightly more about K-pop than Shelly?

He might even get teased instead.

Instead of correcting Shelly’s words, Dominic watched the stage with her.

He still wasn’t interested. However.

‘She’s much more popular than I thought.’

When Flora appeared, during their performance too, but even standing alone on stage, the cheers were still surprisingly loud.

Was it just his imagination that it felt even louder than during the group performance?

‘Why? This is worth analyzing.’

Of course, the reason the cheers were particularly loud when Ryu Ji-ye appeared was because when everyone thought it was over, Ryu Ji-ye made an unexpected surprise appearance on another singer’s stage.

The audience was also cheering louder with supportive hearts.

But Dominic, who couldn’t know the hearts of K-pop fans, observed Ryu Ji-ye to analyze what about her made fans go wild.

Ryu Ji-ye appeared wearing a pastel-toned dress.

With a bright smile, she raised both arms to greet the audience as if announcing the start of the show.

And immediately started singing.

His first impression of hearing live a song he’d only heard as a recording was that the singing didn’t really reach his ears.

That didn’t mean she sang poorly.

It meant something else caught his eye more than the singing.

Usually, even when watching music videos that rivaled movies, even when watching dancing on stage, only the singing would reach Dominic’s ears.

But strangely with Ryu Ji-ye, her face was what he saw first.

More precisely, her rich expressions.

Star quality. Dominic hadn’t seen a singer fill the stage with such dynamic expressions and gestures in a very long time.

Of course, he didn’t think singers who sing should also do perfect facial expression acting.

If they were singers who only sang.

But if someone wanted to perform on stage with songs, they needed star quality to succeed.

Though there was the prerequisite that skill had to support them first to gain recognition for that star quality.

In that sense, Ryu Ji-ye seen again from a producer’s perspective was….

Expressions changing by the second according to the lyrics, lovely and coquettish gestures, and the cheers that poured out the moment she made eye contact with the camera at the right timing.

She was someone who knew her own charm and how to guide the atmosphere.

And she also had professional-level tone and skills that didn’t make that confidence look ridiculous.

‘The live performance is better.’

Dominic couldn’t take his eyes off Ryu Ji-ye.

She definitely had a charm that made it hard to look away.

Since her expressions kept changing, it kept him from getting bored while watching and helped him stay immersed.

Ryu Ji-ye, who had been singing in place, slowly began descending the stairs.

She entered between the dancers who had split to both sides and naturally led the dancers toward the front of the stage while dancing.

“Ooh!”

She seemed to be dancing with slightly less intensity to focus on singing. But even so, choreography that matched perfectly with the dancers, unwavering live vocals.

Most of all, outstanding presence that made only her clearly visible despite having so many dancers.

The charisma she showed on stage was a type Dominic had never seen before.

Rather than being overwhelmingly good, it was a fresh type of talent he’d never seen.

At least among the industry Dominic was involved in, among the stages he could see.

Dominic couldn’t easily look away from that novelty.

Even when Kael reappeared.

Only when he realized he was caught up in the stage and moving to the rhythm did Dominic finally begin to take interest in Ryu Ji-ye.

A fresh yet bold song of youth.

Vocalization that burst out refreshingly as they faced each other with excited expressions matching the song.

Voices that stretched out cleanly in straight lines without any special techniques.

Watching them energetically sweep across the stage made even the viewer’s mood want to improve.

The stage of just over 2 minutes became a concert hall where everyone swayed and enjoyed the performance.

Dominic, who had forgotten about evaluation and was just watching the performance, pointed at them with a gesture like a baseball player who hit a home run.

“This is it. This is a rock star!”

Not a boring song, not a song where only the singer was excited, not a stage with no substance despite being full of expenses.

A stage everyone could enjoy.

Two rising stars with not many years of experience were pulling this off.

‘This would be good to hear at a concert too.’

It was a freshness like returning to Dominic’s twenties, those days when different music and new chords poured out day after day.

Dominic, who had been smiling and moving to the rhythm like other audience members who stood up to enjoy it, paused for a moment.

He wondered if he was enjoying himself too excessively without dignity.

Then he soon admitted that he had been absorbed in something new, forgetting even his external image.

K-pop fans who knew K-pop well would know this was one of Cael Arden’s songs that had a lot of K-pop feel mixed in, but the progression method itself was unfamiliar to Dominic.

And vocals that matched so well with this unfamiliar thing, choreography that solely brought the song to life.

Dominic liked the way Ryu Ji-ye brought the stage to life.

Looking at the singer on stage, unable to take his eyes away, thinking it was good.

Dominic, it stimulated his own fan heart.

That alone was enough.

When the two people’s stage was about to end, Dominic lightly gestured toward behind his shoulder.

The man standing behind him perceptively nodded, looked around, then disappeared somewhere.

He probably went to find Flora’s representatives who would be in the audience seats or backstage.

If she had shaken Dominic’s heart, she could surely shake the hearts of and be loved by far more people than now.

If she was that kind of person.

‘Even if she’s a K-pop singer I don’t know well, she’s worth investing in.’

Cael Arden and Ryu Ji-ye’s stage came to an end.

With the fans’ cheers, the lights dimmed and the host naturally took over the proceedings.

“That’s enough. I’ve seen everything now.”

“You’re leaving already?”

“What else is there to see?”

Dominic turned around without regret and left the hall.

The awards ceremony still had a long way to go, but he had already received awards and properly gotten to know this person called Ryu Ji-ye, so he judged he had already seen everything worth seeing.

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“Good work. This way.”

After finishing the performance, I headed down from the stage.

As soon as Cael Arden came down, he returned to his waiting room with his staff without even saying good work.

There had been sound issues during Flora’s performance rehearsal too, and it seemed there were problems with his audio during the performance.

He looked quite displeased, so I didn’t bother to stop him for greetings.

I hurried to the waiting room following Seong Ji-soo’s guidance.

I had to quickly change clothes and return to where the members were.

It was when I arrived at the waiting room, changed outfits, and was getting my makeup done.

“Ji-ye has another meeting scheduled.”

“Huh? Why?”

A slightly fed-up voice slipped out.

Is it Kael Arden again?

When I asked with a tone that said “again?”, Seong Ji-soo giggled and shook her head as if she understood how tired I was of him, then said.

“Do you know Dominic Sterling? He’s a famous producer and suddenly a video meeting with our team got scheduled.”

An unexpected name came up.

“Dominic Sterling?”

I heard he attended the awards ceremony, but why would that person want me?

Then Seong Ji-soo shrugged her shoulders and said.

“Anyway, he wants to talk about song-related matters, but it seems he wants to have a conversation with you first. Not right now, but when we return to Korea. Our staff members will ask a bit more about what the content is and let you know additionally.”

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