The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 45

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 45

The members who had been struggling with the burden of song selection looked at the Production Staff with welcoming expressions, or more precisely, at the envelope in the Writer’s hands.

Right, what kind of gift could that be?

As the members said, we haven’t done anything deserving of a gift.

If it’s a benefit from Round 1, we already received that during the group song filming, right?

As the members crowded around with faces that said they were dying of curiosity, the Writer smiled awkwardly and quickly handed the envelope to leader Han Da-min.

“I was going to give this to you as soon as we entered the practice room, but everyone seemed to have a lot on their minds, so the delivery was delayed.”

“What is this?”

Han Da-min asked while flipping the envelope back and forth.

Then the Writer smiled brightly.

“Do you remember being asked a question during the group song rehearsal?”

“A question?”

“Huh? What… Does anyone remember being asked a question?”

“Sorry, I don’t remember…”

The members looked at the Writer with confused faces.

During rehearsal, the behind-the-scenes camera did occasionally approach to ask if we had eaten or practiced a lot, but that probably wasn’t the question the Writer was referring to.

“Oh, don’t worry about it. It’s natural that you don’t remember. We asked it in passing.”

Did we forget something we shouldn’t have forgotten?

As we exchanged worried glances, the Writer reassured us.

“We asked which group you were most concerned about after Round 1.”

“Ah!”

Min Ha-young shouted as if she just remembered.

Unlike Min Ha-young, it took me a while to recall that question.

I had been so focused on filming at the time that I let all the questions go in one ear and out the other.

“We were asked that question? Why can’t I remember it?”

To Choi Song-i, who seemed to have no memory of it at all, I said I was the same, then looked back at the Writer.

“We asked this question to all teams. You’ve been selected as the number one group that Start Plan contestants are most concerned about.”

“Whoa! Us?”

Us? Really? The members’ surprised voices echoed throughout the practice room, showing how shocked we were.

The Writer smiled softly and brought her index finger to her lips as if there was more to say.

The members quickly quieted down.

“Yes, three out of six teams chose you. Congratulations.”

“Wow…”

Three out of six teams said we were the most concerning to them. This was proof that our Round 1 stage was very successful.

The members gave silent applause. The bad mood from earlier seemed to have disappeared as they looked dazed and happy.

“So, the special reward given only to you for showing the most concerning stage is right there.”

The Writer pointed to the pink envelope in Han Da-min’s hands and nodded as if telling her to open it.

“Unnie. Hurry, hurry!”

Min Ha-young shook Han Da-min’s arm with an excited face. Han Da-min opened the envelope without hiding her smile.

[Song Candidate Selection Right]

Huh? Ooh? Something that looks really good at first glance came out?

When we looked at the Production Staff as if asking what this was, the Writer began to explain the reward in detail.

“You can now designate song candidates for FLORA to your opposing team. Please write five songs you’d like them to perform on the enclosed blank paper. Then our Production Staff will deliver it to May Rookie.”

“What! We can do that?”

“Isn’t this reward too strong? Oh my, what should we do. Thank you so much~”

Han Da-min spoke slyly while bowing repeatedly to the Production Staff with a grinning face.

Then she turned around to look at the excited members and asked.

“What should we do? What do we want to do? Everyone must have thought about what song we should perform.”

“Of course! Can we just say anything? Regardless of concept.”

“Where do we even have a concept~ Say everything you’ve been thinking about.”

That’s right. Your eyes should sparkle like this. As expected, the members’ reactions were different when it came to our song.

“Since we did something pure last time, shouldn’t we do something that can really show our skills this time?”

“Like Ha-young said, let’s do something we’re confident in this time. Even if a week is short, everyone has skills, so I don’t think there’s anything we can’t do.”

“How about a dreamy feeling that doesn’t change too much from the concept we showed last time?”

Hmm? Seeing Ha-young speak so specifically, she must have something she wants to do?

“What song do you want to do, Ha-young?”

“Me! I…”

As if she had wanted to be asked, Min Ha-young started to answer loudly but hesitated and spoke in a small voice again.

“I have something I want to do, but it’s not something we have to do. Don’t other members have songs they want to do too?”

“What song is it?”

“Do you know a song called [Simulation] by Payfun?”

Ah, of course I know it! I nodded vigorously.

It’s a song that became a huge topic on YouTube about two years ago.

The house-style dreamy yet trendy song itself is very good, but more than the song itself, it became famous for the difficulty and uniqueness of the choreography, and its addictiveness.

Maybe because it’s a K-pop song that’s entirely in English, it apparently became popular overseas.

In Korea, it couldn’t shine at first, but became popular in reverse after becoming famous overseas.

Payfun used this song as an opportunity to focus more on overseas activities rather than domestic ones.

I raised my eyebrows and kept nodding.

“That sounds really good?”

Both the choreography and song are very unique, and honestly, it’s not really at a level that can be sung live, so we’d probably need to arrange and modify it appropriately.

I have plenty of arrangement ideas. Ha-young, who recommended this song, probably already thought of changes to the choreography too. If I discuss it with Han Da-min, we can make good use of it.

“I think it could work too. But isn’t the choreography for this song really difficult…?”

We only have a week…

At Seo Ra-eun’s worried words, Han Da-min shook her head.

“I think we just need opinions on whether the song and concept are okay. We can adjust the choreography difficulty through discussion.”

“The song is good! The concept too.”

“Then should we write Simulation here?”

“Yes.”

I nodded to Han Da-min who was holding up the card.

When I agreed, Choi Song-i, who had been quiet, also agreed, and Seo Ra-eun whispered a small “yes” while unable to hide her worry.

Of course, whether we can do this song depends on May Rookie’s choice. But even if this song doesn’t work out, since the concept is good, we can put similar songs as candidates.

With house genre and dreaminess, viewers who became interested in our team after Round 1 would be able to feel it as different yet without any sense of incongruity.

‘In that case, I should.’

“I want to write a song called [Purple Jungle].”

“Purple Jungle? By Aria sunbaenim?”

“Yes yes. Like Ha-young said, I think the house genre is good.”

Purple Jungle is also house genre like Simulation, and it’s a song that would suit a cool summer boutique.

Then the other members also filled the candidate pool with house genre songs that everyone knew, with various beats but easy to arrange.

With this, no matter which of the five songs sent to May Rookie gets chosen, the concept is confirmed.

“So this is decided, right? We’ll deliver it like this?”

And just as Han Da-min was about to put the fully filled paper back into the envelope.

“I have a suggestion.”

I slightly raised my hand while looking at the members.

“A suggestion?”

We had spent a lot of time choosing as many as five song candidates for ourselves.

In this situation, I suddenly had a thought.

Do we really have to decide the opposing team’s song ourselves?

I took the envelope from Han Da-min’s hand and pulled out the paper again as I spoke.

“Can’t we just ask May Rookie about it?”

Of course, it’s the rule that we decide the opposing team’s song.

But we just happened to get a way to communicate with May Rookie, right?

Couldn’t we at least ask for hints about what kind of song they’d like to receive?

We now have one more method besides just wracking our brains and worrying among ourselves.

“Ask May Rookie?”

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