The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 71

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 71

“Hello. My name is Seo Ra-eun. I’m twenty-one years old….”

“Oh! Ra-eun, you’re twenty-one too? You’re the same age as us!”

Young Il-lin and Young-ju excitedly rushed over to Seo Ra-eun.

“So the three of us are the same age, and Ji-ye and Ji-ah are the same age?”

“What~ We were friends all along~”

Seo Ra-eun didn’t know what to do with herself amidst the extroverts’ festivities.

“Ra-eun, I saw you audition in episode 1! How did you think to sing a musical song there?”

“You’re really a genius, aren’t you? Ah! We’re friends now, so we can speak casually, right?”

“Huh? Yes….”

Seo Ra-eun’s face turned bright red as if it might explode.

I should save her before she actually explodes.

“Now I’ll introduce myself.”

When I raised my hand and spoke, the voices that had been tormenting Seo Ra-eun finally died down.

“Ah, right! Let’s hear Ji-ye’s introduction~”

Young Il-lin said that and sat down immediately with Young-ju.

“Hello. I’m Ryu Ji-ye from FLORA. I love singing. Please take care of me from now on.”

“Yes! Please take care of us too! Ji-ye, can we speak casually to you too?”

“Yes, of course.”

The atmosphere was very harmonious. Just as the members finished their introductions, a card was suddenly thrust among them.

“Huh, what is it. What’s this?”

Leader Young Il-lin hesitantly took the card and spread it out so the members could see it.

“Woooow!!!”

They had just received a mission card, but the members who read it started cheering again.

…Why? Is just the start of a mission itself that exciting?

“Everyone, we need to decide on a team name! What team name do you want?”

“Anyone with ideas~”

“Me~”

With one mission and one word, they were giggling and having so much fun while somehow managing to proceed with the broadcast smoothly.

The members began sharing their opinions about the team name.

“How about combining one letter from each group name? U&DA, I MEET U, FLORA, so Flan-Shu~”

“It sounds like bread and it’s cute? Or how about something like this? Since we only have people strong in vocals, Sweet Singer~”

Since it was a team temporarily formed for competition, there weren’t any particularly grand team names, and they were all names everyone came up with playfully and lightly.

“I think Flan-Shu sounds good!”

“Oh, you too Ji-ye? I also think Flan-Shu is the best among the suggestions. …There isn’t another team with the same combination as us, right?”

Since it was a group name we’d only use this once, I also just supported one of the suggested opinions.

There are probably teams with more serious names than ours among the other teams, right?

Eventually, with majority agreement, our team name was decided as ‘Flan-Shu.’

Not bad for a team name decided within 30 minutes of receiving the mission.

“Then our team name is Flan-Shu! Everyone clap!”

“Woooow!”

Young Il-lin, who had been excitedly encouraging applause from the members, submitted the team name to the production staff and said,

“Now, we need to decide what song our Flan-Shu will perform in the competition. Does everyone have something they’ve thought of?”

“Me!”

“Me too.”

Again, everyone including me raised their hands.

We came to prepare for competition, so of course we had done song selection.

“Wow!”

At the members’ tremendous enthusiasm, Young Il-lin smiled like a kindergarten teacher with a chick class and pointed to Young-ju.

“Then let’s have time for everyone to appeal what song they want to do, starting with Young-ju!”

However, the meeting that seemed like it would proceed as smoothly as deciding the team name in that harmonious atmosphere began to stumble at the song selection meeting.

“Hmm, jazz style…. But I’ve never really done jazz well.”

“Really? Don’t you learn it at your company?”

At Young Il-lin’s question, Young-ju spoke in a shrinking voice.

“I did learn it, but I didn’t focus on it…. Jazz is a bit difficult.”

Young Il-lin had brought a jazz-style pop song.

She probably brought a song in the genre that U&DA could showcase best while other team members could reasonably follow along.

But genres with such distinct colors are hard to readily agree to unless you’re someone who’s always done them.

Moreover.

‘Would they want to do it….’

Especially I MEET U had slipped up doing something jazz-like in the first round, hadn’t they?

They probably wouldn’t want to look at jazz for a while.

Then Seo Ra-eun gently tapped my thigh.

“Yes?”

She stared at me silently and blinked.

Ah, is she asking if I’m okay with it?

I’m…. Actually, I don’t really like jazz either.

When I shook my head slightly, Seo Ra-eun smiled softly and nodded. Then she said to Young Il-lin,

“This song seems a bit difficult for us too.”

“Ra-eun and, uh… Ji-ye too?”

Young Il-lin asked back in confusion.

“We’ve never learned jazz, so we don’t have confidence we’d do well.”

“Ah, I see.”

Young Il-lin immediately understood Seo Ra-eun’s words.

She seemed to belatedly realize that while Young-ju from I MEET U was one thing, we were individual trainees selected from among ordinary people.

Young Il-lin smiled awkwardly and said,

“Sorry, I didn’t think that far. You’re both so good that I naturally thought you came from companies just like us.”

Then she obediently erased her song selection from the candidate list.

She had brought a song she wanted to do, but she didn’t seem to have any intention of pushing it through.

By the way, why is Seo Ra-eun being so proactive in looking out for me today?

Is she feeling a sense of responsibility to take care of me as a younger teammate?

How admirable.

When Young Il-lin withdrew her opinion, Ji-ah from the same U&DA automatically became quiet too.

“I’m fine. I, I did bring a song selection, but mine is also somewhat jazz-style, an unfamiliar genre…. Just skip me.”

It’s also U&DA’s concept, and it’s the genre they’re most confident in, so it couldn’t be helped.

Indeed, if U&DA, who had maintained a mature concept consistently until now, did a lively and spirited stage to match other teams’ concepts, their charm would likely be greatly diminished.

Ah, but trying to pass it over like this, Ji-ah seems quite disappointed.

I stretched my hand out to Ji-ah and gently pressed her arm.

Ji-ah looked at me with wide eyes.

“What did you want to do? Tell us.”

At my words, the other members stopped talking and looked at Ji-ah.

“Ah, I was….”

“Right, Ji-ah. Tell us. You thought about it and brought something!”

Young-ju said with an ‘oops’ expression.

“Well….”

Ji-ah huddled close to Young Il-lin and spoke in a slightly withdrawn manner.

“There’s a song called [Dolce] by Calidus.”

…Huh?

“Calidus’s Dolce? What kind of song is that? Do Ra-eun and Ji-ye know it?”

Young-ju tilted her head and asked.

I nodded vigorously with sparkling eyes.

“Yes, I know it!”

I could understand why she didn’t know it.

Both the singer Calidus and the song Dolce weren’t very well known, not just domestically but overseas as well.

A singer who doesn’t even do live performances and only releases music tracks.

Their songs are only uploaded on NeTube and a music streaming site called SoundLicker.

So while not mainstream, it was a typical niche artist that many people knew through word of mouth.

But why do I know about this kind of artist?

Because.

“I brought that song too.”

“You too, Ji-ye?”

“Yes.”

Because I also chose that song.

It wasn’t a song I knew originally, but I found it while searching through all the music streaming sites trying to select a song that would suit all the team members.

I fell in love with it the moment I heard it, thinking “this is it,” but I never expected another member to choose this song.

It’s not easy to choose readily, and it’s a song that’s hard to even find in the first place, so I was really surprised.

“Really? Ji-ye, you brought this song too?”

Ji-ah also asked with a surprised face, her eyes wide open.

I nodded and showed her my song selection card.

“Yeah, really.”

After confirming my card, Ji-ah made an expression as if she had gained a thousand troops and ten thousand horses.

I felt the same way.

Even though I brought it, I wasn’t confident about pushing for such an unfamiliar song and genre.

But since two people chose the same song, the possibility has doubled.

“What kind of song is it that you’re acting like this?”

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