The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 6

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 6

I stared directly into my father’s eyes.

At least in the fragmentary memories of Ryu Ji-ye that I could see, I had never seen his eyes this resolute and serious before.

It seemed like he was asking after making a truly big decision. If that was the case, I should give an equally serious answer.

I moistened my lips once and answered.

“…I didn’t even put the ‘Hong’ from Hongjin Group on my application form.”

In other words, I passed purely on my own abilities.

Father let out an even deeper sigh and fell into thought again, while I stood quietly waiting for his decision.

And after a moment.

“I don’t know why you had to be interested in something like broadcasting.”

“…”

“Sigh, but this is the first time you’ve said you want to do something. So go ahead and try it as far as you can.”

“…Really?”

This easily?

Father nodded with his face still deeply furrowed.

“Since you passed for now, give it a try. If, really if you truly have talent, then I can’t stop you. Let’s decide after you take the next audition. If you pass the second audition too, then I’ll give you permission.”

“Thank you!”

I answered with the brightest smile possible. Only then did father’s furrowed brow relax a little.

“Father really is… too soft when it comes to Ryu Ji-ye.”

I left Ryu Jae-geum’s words behind and spun around, heading to my room.

‘Now that I have permission too.’

I’ve cleared one hurdle. Now all that’s left is to safely pass the final audition.

‘I absolutely have to do well.’

Because the next audition will likely be my last chance to gain my family’s recognition.

Practice, practice, and more practice!

My steps toward my room were so light that this time there was no voice calling to stop me.

Then a blue window flickered in the center of my vision.

“Huh? What’s this?”

“Dopamine addiction?”

Oh, it disappeared.

‘What’s with that unsettling thing.’

***

Time passed and it was finally the day of the second audition.

The time limit for the second mission, which had felt generous, now had only one week left.

Honestly, dragging out one mission for nearly a month with nothing to do but practice had made me secretly anxious, but that would end today too.

With a refreshed feeling, I tried to look up at the building with the large UNET letters on it, but…

“Ugh…”

The sunlight was too bright, so I had no choice but to grab my closing eyes and stagger.

‘Damn these side effects…’

Why did this dopamine addiction thing or whatever activate on its own?

I was literally drowning in sleepiness like crazy.

Chapter. 2 Final Audition

Dopamine addiction was quite a useful function.

During the period it was active, my concentration and learning ability increased dramatically like someone truly pickled in dopamine, and I didn’t feel tired at all even staying up all night.

Even with my experience, I thought preparing for a suddenly scheduled audition on such a tight timeline might be a bit risky.

But since I wasn’t tired, my concentration didn’t drop, and I was even more passionate than usual, I got it done quickly.

At first I was delighted, wondering if there really was such a cheat-like trait…

“Sigh…”

The trait was only effective for exactly one week.

‘It’s not even a trial version.’

Dopamine addiction deactivated immediately after a week passed, and from then on I had to suffer from serious side effects.

The fatigue that had accumulated over a week came back as drowsiness and decreased concentration.

‘At least there’s no memory loss, so that’s fortunate…’

I was so shockingly tired that I almost couldn’t make it today, the actual audition day, because I overslept.

‘If it’s going to be like this, they should let me turn the trait activation on and off myself, why…’

Actually, I feel like I could die from sleepiness right now too.

The whole time I keep my eyes open, my vision gets blurry if I let my guard down… Do I look sane right now?

“Whew…”

Let me pull myself together.

I forced my eyes wide open and looked up at the massive building.

It has the UNET sign but it’s not a broadcasting station, it’s a studio owned by UNET.

‘I never thought I’d come here again as an audition participant.’

This was a place I used to come to often for performances or large group filming.

It’s also a place of bitter memories where I couldn’t even set foot for nearly 2 years.

‘Coming here like this does feel refreshing.’

The blue sky and the cars spread beneath it, and the studio.

It was a scene and exciting feeling I had experienced once before.

I stood there blankly watching the scenery for a moment, then headed into the filming studio with its doors wide open.

“People who just entered, please stand in the line on the right!”

“Participants who entered, please attach your number tags and stand in order!”

Cameras installed everywhere, staff members shouting to line up the numerous participants.

And audition participants filling the space between them.

Since entry times were different according to participant numbers, filming had already started and auditions were in full swing.

“Wow…”

I had expected there would be many participants since they were using this studio, but there were more people than I thought.

It looked like about 300 people roughly.

‘I guess they really are going to proceed like a public audition.’

I thought it would be about a hundred people at most like previous seasons.

Since the number of competition participants had decreased significantly, were they trying to scale up just the audition for individual participants to aim for promotional effects?

Although I had worked in the entertainment industry, this was my first time experiencing something like this, so I stopped and looked around for quite a while.

Then I suddenly realized the reality.

‘Is this the time for me to be excited about there being many people?’

All of these people are my rivals.

There are only two teams prepared for individual participants.

I don’t know how many people will be assigned per team, but I expected at most around twenty people would be selected.

20 out of 300 people, maybe even far fewer than that.

Moreover, all the participants here had already passed the document screening.

‘What kind of competition rate is this…’

It wouldn’t be easy unless you really stood out.

“Participants, attach your number tags and line up in order!”

At the staff’s shout, I attached the number tag I was holding to my chest and headed to the right line.

My number was 80.

The person currently on stage being judged was number 48.

They wouldn’t listen to full songs, so if I waited just a bit, my turn would come around soon.

***

“Oh my, Team Leader Ryu! How did you come all the way here?”

“Haha, I had to come. To check if the screens are running properly too.”

Ryu Jae-geum smiled warmly at the PD who had hurriedly come to greet him.

“We actually tested it earlier. It’s running fine without any problems.”

“Well, it seems that way even from a distance. But the scale is no joke this time either.”

Ryu Jae-geum answered as if he wasn’t particularly interested, but the reality was different.

His eyes moved restlessly, searching for someone among the trainees gathered on the lower floor.

Among the participants huddled together, the target he was looking for was naturally.

‘Where is Ji-ye.’

Hongjin Group had been providing equipment like stage screens as PPL since the beginning of UNET’s competition variety series.

So it wasn’t strange for Ryu Jae-geum, the successor of Hongjin Electronics, to visit the site to check on this.

The only problem was that his attention was currently focused elsewhere rather than on the equipment.

“Team Leader?”

“…Ah, sorry. It’s fascinating. It seems like there are more participants every year?”

“Oh, of course. The bigger it gets-“

The more opponents Ryu Ji-ye would have to fight against.

“Tsk.”

Ryu Jae-geum clicked his tongue in displeasure.

He had come under his father’s orders, but he hadn’t expected there to be this many participants.

Isn’t Ryu Ji-ye just going to get embarrassed and eliminated?

‘No, where is she?’

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