The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 57

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 57

“Ah! That’s right.”

As I bowed in greeting, Young Il-lin, who had been looking at us warmly, seemed to remember something and brought Ji-ah forward in front of me.

“Ji-ah is the same age as Ji-ye!”

“Yes! We’re friends. Ji-ye!”

Ji-ah extended her hand.

I took her hand and shook it once, then held out my mobile phone.

“If it’s okay with you, shall we exchange phone numbers?”

“Wow… Yes! I’d love to!”

My goodness, she’s cute too.

She was so charismatic on stage, but she’s younger than I thought and gets this happy just from exchanging phone numbers.

There’s quite a gap between her stage presence and real personality.

She’ll probably become quite popular after the broadcast airs.

I got Young Il-lin and Ji-ah’s phone numbers and called Young Il-lin to give her mine.

Then I said with an apologetic expression.

“It would have been nice if Ra-eun could have greeted you too. What a shame.”

Seo Ra-eun had been so nervous and poured out so much energy that she was almost exhausted after finishing her stage, so Han Da-min took her to the waiting room as soon as filming ended.

Young Il-lin let out a regretful sigh.

“Ah… I saw. Is Ra-eun okay?”

“Yes, yes, she’s fine. She’s just tired.”

“Oh my…”

Young Il-lin stopped mid-sentence and glanced behind her, then clapped her hands.

“Oh my! Ji-ye must be tired too, but we’ve been keeping you here too long.”

It seemed like the entertainment agency manager had signaled for them to come quickly.

“Not at all. Thank you.”

I gladly let them go.

I already had a good impression of this group, and it felt quite nice that they approached me first.

If possible, since we’d already started interacting, it would have been nice to greet the other team member, the I MEET U members too.

‘Over there… the atmosphere is not good right now.’

No, it’s completely bad.

They were Start Plan’s representative social butterflies who were always bouncing around and talking to everyone whenever they had a chance.

But now they were talking with staff members with pale faces, as if standing on the edge of a cliff about to collapse.

‘They were 5th place, so it’s natural…’

This round’s eliminated team was First Grade, but it was a precarious ranking where they could have been eliminated instead.

Far from elimination, they must be feeling a crisis wondering if this competition would even help with their debut.

They’re also a debut group that will debut soon, members composed of their entertainment agency’s top talents, but they’ve only been drinking bitter cups every round.

“Ji-ye, what are you doing here? Hurry to the waiting room and pack your things. They say we need to vacate the room quickly.”

Han Da-min, who had returned to the waiting room first, approached with her makeup half removed and pushed my back.

“Already? What about the other members?”

“They’re all changing clothes. Oh, Song-i left first~”

“Ah.”

I wanted to have a conversation with Song-i.

When will I get to talk to her if I go now? In the next round, we’ll be on different teams so we probably won’t meet much.

‘Should I force an opportunity to meet?’

Using the first broadcast as bait after all…

As I was pushed along by Han Da-min and pondering, I suddenly stopped and blinked at my blurring vision.

‘…Huh?’

Why am I suddenly feeling so tired?

Suddenly, extreme drowsiness washed over me.

‘No, this can’t be.’

I hurried to the waiting room with heavy steps that wouldn’t move easily.

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From then… uh, how many days passed? Three days?

Damn side effects.

“Heh heh… heh! Heeh…”

Empty laughter kept bursting out.

After laughing like that several times as if exhaling, extreme fatigue and drowsiness hit me again.

I had to lie down on the bed again, as if someone was pulling my hair from behind, being sucked in.

“Damn it.”

My language naturally became rough, but even that was slurred from sleepiness.

This is driving me crazy, really.

My eyes are closing like this, but how did I get home that day?

I remember the side effect warning appearing and rushing to the waiting room in case I collapsed on the floor and fell asleep.

After that, my memory is patchy. Anyway, I only remember staggering and walking with difficulty…

‘Ah, the driver came to pick me up.’

I slept continuously in the car from that day, so I’ve been sleeping for three straight days!

Damn side effects! I have things to do right now!

I haven’t even checked the profile reactions yet! I need to check the articles too! And the missions!

Ah, wait. I’m getting sleepy again.

…I’m dying of sleepiness, so let me sleep a bit more and then think.

So I slept for another six straight hours and woke up.

‘My back hurts too… and I’m starting to get a headache…’

Is this right, really?

But I’m getting sleepy again.

“Ugh, why is this happening, really.”

The side effects are as severe as the buff effects are tremendous.

It feels like it’s gotten worse than when I first experienced side effects.

But still, after suffering for three days, it’s gotten a little better.

On the first day, I slept the whole day, and on the second day, I could open my eyes briefly, but I was so drowsy like in a dream that thinking itself was impossible.

It’s hazy, but I think I remember all the family members rushing over and wailing while force-feeding me to death…

Well, my condition still isn’t great now, but at least I can think.

I had to do what I needed to do while I was even a little bit normal.

I pressed down hard on the headache that was trying to come on and turned on my mobile phone.

‘First, the most urgent thing.’

The reactions to my profile that went up 3 days ago.

It’s the most important thing, but I couldn’t even touch my mobile phone because I was sleeping.

“Haah…”

I let out a deep sigh and opened the SNS app.

As soon as I opened SNS, ‘Start Plan’ was prominently displayed in the real-time trends.

“Wow…”

It’s UNET’s flagship program and it was released, so it’s natural for it to be in real-time trends, but why is my heart beating like this?

I grabbed my pounding heart and touched Start Plan in the real-time trends.

For something that made it to the trending topics, it had surprisingly little substance.

Most of it was criticism of UNET for doing pointless things again.

Quite a few people had already chosen their favorites based on the released information.

It was embarrassing, but among them were quite a few grateful people who said they’d support me.

‘From the reactions, it seems like my identity hasn’t been discovered yet.’

The driver and Choi Gyo-young and Hong Jin’s side seemed to be blocking articles as much as possible in the direction of not mentioning it.

But I shouldn’t feel relieved just from looking here.

Blue Bird, called the essential SNS for fangirling, is where you can see the most fan reactions.

However…

‘There are separate places that go a bit deeper.’

The communities where rumors originate or where long and varied stories about stars are exchanged are elsewhere.

I scrolled down for a while, then closed SNS and immediately opened the internet.

‘That place is…’

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