The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 58

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 58

In the past, I had asked our few fans where they could find stories about us.

Since we were such failures, as far as I knew, there shouldn’t be anywhere that mentioned us, yet strangely there were YouTubers who quickly picked up news about us.

While I could understand it for major entertainment company idols, it would be hard to get our news that quickly, so how?

Surprisingly, they would scrape even our live broadcasts that barely anyone watched, small fan meetings without reviews, street busking, and posts on our official cafe.

And then.

[Are Failed Idols Hopeless? Sucream’s Reason for Begging Fans]

[The Final Moments of Failed Idols Driven to the Streets]

They would spread ridiculous malicious content with titles like these, which made me curious.

Where exactly did those people get news about failed idols that only fans could know about and that no one else cared about?

So when I asked the fans, they initially said they didn’t know either.

But when I mentioned the community site name that was listed as the source of those YouTuber videos, they turned pale and told me not to look it up.

That’s when I realized.

There was a separate place where various artists were mentioned more explicitly than the blue bird, which was supposedly essential SNS for fangirling.

A place where issues and viral content spread constantly and all kinds of reactions were posted.

‘Back then I recklessly went in and it was quite tough.’

An idol who failed because their agency couldn’t do their job.

A failed idol who wouldn’t rise no matter what.

A failed idol so miserable they had to do street performances because no one would book them.

Since I saw us being mocked like this whenever they felt like it, it was natural to feel that way.

So it was a site I tried not to visit, but since it was clearly used by quite a lot of K-pop fans, I would check it once whenever we released a new song.

The people who would spread news and mock us even for street performances wouldn’t even react to news of new songs, which hurt every time.

‘Now might be a good time to check it out.’

Competition program trainees were always a main topic of conversation on this community in the past, so I was thinking of checking it once.

Since the mainstream reaction was generally to criticize everything, I wouldn’t need to look too carefully.

There were two things I wanted to check.

First.

Was Ryu Ji-ye’s profile mentioned?

Second.

Was there anyone who noticed Ryu Ji-ye’s identity and raised suspicions?

‘No articles have appeared yet, but…’

This type of news gets picked up from here by YouTubers and reporters alike.

“Ugh.”

I pressed down on my brow that reflexively furrowed just from seeing the logo and opened the site.

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During the three days I had spent in a daze, the reaction to the released Start Plan trainee profiles was explosive.

Articles pouring out about UNET’s new flagship program, YouTubers posting review previews expressing concerns and interest.

It was natural for those interested in and anticipating the new competition program to eagerly await the announced profile release.

When the profiles were released, as expected, the first to receive attention were the trainees from major entertainment company SU Entertainment.

As expected, the reaction wasn’t good.

They were literally a group that would do well just by debuting.

To fans already supporting them, it would only look like their agency was full of confidence and doing pointless things.

And it was actually true.

What would SU and May Rookie gain from participating in a competition program, even going so far as to check other groups, besides showing off their skills?

Anyway, unlike SU fans who had quite negative reactions, the reactions from other agency fans and people interested in survival programs themselves weren’t bad.

The mainstream opinion was that they liked the overall visuals and cast list.

‘Of course, given the community’s nature, there’s too much mockery…’

Especially stories about Han Da-min aiming for re-debut and Min Ha-young, the legend of evil editing, dominated the discussion.

‘I can just skip over this stuff.’

This was just mockery that didn’t need or deserve attention.

‘For now, the trend seems to be May Rookie or U&Da.’

Still, I could occasionally see posts about other teams or individual trainees.

I clicked on a related post.

When people shared personal impressions about individual trainees like this, thankfully my name was always mentioned.

Probably because I was a completely new face with decent visuals, so they wanted to keep an eye on me.

“Ugh.”

I quickly scrolled past the comments that were becoming filled with rumors and closed the site.

After roughly looking around, there were no posts questioning my identity at all.

Most importantly.

‘Mission Window’

Just from the profile, I had left an impression on nearly three thousand people, whether good or bad.

Wouldn’t this be considered drawing a reasonably good reaction?

They said the group song footage would also be released tonight, so more people would see me then.

So for now, I’ll put my anxiety aside and…

Go to sleep.

“Ah, this is driving me crazy…”

I felt the side effect drowsiness washing over me again, dropped my phone, and closed my eyes once more.

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