The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 352

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted
Chapter 352
Several weeks had passed since then.
At first, the choreography—which rivaled a full-body workout that left me unable to move from muscle soreness—gradually became familiar through repetition, and now it felt effortless.
Of course, performing this choreography while singing live was an entirely different beast.
‘No matter how hard we try, pulling off this choreography with a live vocal performance seems impossible.’
The problem was that our company and the Members kept stubbornly insisting on doing something that seemed impossible no matter what—sheer determination and grit.
Including me…. I don’t even understand why I’m throwing myself into this with such determination, but that’s just how it is.
Practice after practice, meeting after meeting, the days blurred together in chaos until suddenly it was the day of the Title Track Music Video shoot.
We stood in a brightly lit location for the first time in ages—not an abandoned building.
“What’s with this outfit at my age!”
Han Da-min’s face flushed red as she shouted in front of the behind-the-scenes camera.
The Members giggled at the sight of her.
“Why not? You can pull it off.”
“Unnie, you look fine. It suits you well.”
“No, it doesn’t suit me….”
Han Da-min spoke in a sheepish voice, smiling awkwardly.
There was good reason for the embarrassment—we were all wearing school uniforms.
The concept was youth in their teens, so we’d put on school uniforms.
But with a veteran rookie among us and everyone else in their twenties except for one, the school uniforms inevitably looked out of place.
We’d all even dyed our hair black for this concept.
“But you did ‘Honey Honey Baby’ without any shame, so why are you embarrassed about the school uniform?”
“That unnie is weird. She probably loses all her shyness when Gaden is around.”
“Isn’t it usually the opposite? Shouldn’t she be more embarrassed in front of the Fans?”
“Well, you see, I’d call that my professional sense.”
Han Da-min drawled her words smoothly as she spoke.
Anyway, we were now at a school bathed in sunlight, dressed in school uniforms.
It was the same location as the previous Music Video shoot.
But whereas before we’d filmed briefly during daylight and spent the entire day doing eerie night shoots, this time we were filming only under bright sunlight.
For the first time in a while, we were doing a bright and joyful Music Video shoot, free from the eerie concept.
Jang Jak-so directed the Music Video again this time, but there wasn’t really a story to speak of.
Just us having fun together—playing, running, laughing.
That’s all we needed to do, apparently.
“But why is there no story this time? You always did scary stuff, running and jumping and escaping.”
“Isn’t this part of the story too? The school is the same, after all.”
“Even if we don’t know, it seems like it’ll connect.”
From my perspective, it’s a hundred percent connected to the existing story in some way.
Given that the school is the same as the previous Music Video and the director is Jang Jak-so, there’s a strong chance the content we’re filming and the Music Video story will be woven together in unexpected ways.
‘I’m looking forward to it.’
How it will all be edited and connected this time.
A few moments later, filming began.
As expected, Song-i went first.
A scene of Song-i drawing pictures alone on the blackboard was filmed.
The pictures Song-i drew were five female students.
Since Song-i had actually drawn them, they looked somewhat like stick figures with circles for heads, but judging by the hairstyles, they clearly represented our five Members.
Just as Song-i was carefully coloring the hair of the last figure.
The Members and I burst through the back door noisily and rushed into the classroom toward Song-i.
“You were here?”
“What were you doing here? Drawing?”
“Is this us?”
“Wow! You really can’t draw!”
Hahaha, hahaha….
There was no script for the entrance scene. We were simply told to burst in through the back door energetically and speak to Song-i in a friendly manner.
When you assign ad-libbed dialogue to us, whose broadcast sense stats are pathetically low, this is what happens.
With nothing particular to say, we just kept repeating lines like “don’t say you can’t draw,” “you drew it well, is this me?,” “haha,” and the director wouldn’t call cut.
We must be doing this right, aren’t we?
Jang Jak-so watched us fumble through our forced dialogue for quite a while before finally calling cut.
And immediately after, we moved on to the next scene.
There wasn’t much of a story to speak of, but if I had to summarize it, Song-i was the protagonist.
Song-i and we were inseparable best friends who spent the entire day together from class time through after school.
The next scenes involved us secretly passing notes to each other during class.
Scenes of us chatting happily in the school courtyard.
Scenes of us playing at the basketball court near school, and so on—all bright and joyful moments.
And that was the extent of the story.
It seemed there was no intention to tackle anything more profound or deep this time, so we filmed only scenes of us playing all day, and spent the rest of the time focused on choreography filming.
In school uniforms on the playground.
In casual clothes at the basketball court.
In school sports uniforms at the auditorium.
After finishing choreography filming at various locations, a golden sunset was already painting the sky.
“The sunset is so beautiful….”
Completely exhausted, we sat side by side on the asphalt ground and gazed at the sunset.
Even the choreography we’d grown accustomed to becomes tiring when you perform it with full energy multiple times while changing clothes and getting makeup and hair touch-ups.
We stared blankly at the sunset before pulling ourselves up.
Fortunately, unlike the previous music video shoots that took several days, this one started in the morning and ended before sunset, which was a relief.
Now if I could just rest a bit and head back to the Dormitory… but I can’t.
There’s album track recording left on today’s schedule.
We had confirmed album tracks while practicing choreography.
When overseas content came in from our United States promotions, the schedule became even tighter than during our previous comeback preparations due to the need to make a quick comeback.
And we also have to re-record our unit song.
Oh right, the song I worked on with Jeon Ye-jin fortunately passed without issues and will be included on this album.
It was a natural result, given how well the song turned out.
Han Da-min had called Jeon Ye-jin with the news, and apparently she’d been so overjoyed that she cried.
She’d genuinely viewed having her name included in this album as a real opportunity.
We rested for a while watching the sunset fade, then headed to the recording studio.
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No matter how I thought about it, scheduling the recording session for today felt like a mistake.
Just look at the state of the Members.
Everyone except those actually in the recording booth was half-asleep.
If they fell fully asleep like that, their voices would be completely shot. What kind of recording could we even do?
But there was nothing we could do about it—we’d really had an exhausting day.
It wasn’t just the choreography filming that was draining; we’d spent the entire day doing energetic acting scenes, and it had completely drained our energy.
“Everyone! You can’t sleep! Wake up! Drink some water!”
“We’re recording. Focus, people!”
The Manager and Staff kept shouting and clapping their hands every five minutes, trying to wake the exhausted Members.
No matter how I thought about it, today’s recording seemed like pushing too hard.
I blinked my drowsy eyes while glancing at the behind-the-scenes camera angle that was still brightly recording.
Would we look pitiful yet endearing to the Fans like this?
I swallowed a small sigh, moistened my throat with water, and scanned the lyric sheet.
At least the songs we were recording today were unit tracks and compositions that Jeon Ye-jin and I had written, so they were somewhat easier.
The real question was whether my throat, which had gotten hoarse from dozing off earlier, would recover.
“Alright, Ra-eun, good work. You’re done.”
“Yes.”
Seo Ra-eun’s turn was finished. Next was mine.
“Ji-ye, is your throat warmed up? It needs to be. Everyone else is asleep.”
“It’s a bit stiff, but it’s fine.”
I warmed up my throat as I headed into the recording booth.
Despite being tired and drowsy, my vocal condition was fortunately not too bad.
I placed the lyric sheet on the stand and put on the headphones.
“Once you’re ready, I’ll start right away.”
I nodded at the sound coming through the headphones, and immediately the melody right before my part came through.
My voice flowing through the headphones sounded decent enough.
Maybe if I do about five more takes, I’ll get a properly polished version?

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