The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 73

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 73

Ah, you figured it out. Why I brought this song.

As I smiled back at her, Seo Ra-eun soon looked at Young Il-lin and said.

“I also like the song Ji-ye and Ji-ah brought. What do you think, Il-lin?”

“Me?”

At Seo Ra-eun’s question, Young Il-lin also looked at her younger sister Ji-ah’s round, bright eyes.

Then she chuckled and readily nodded her head.

“Well, since everyone likes it, let’s go with Calidus’s Dolce for our song! It seems like we’ll need a lot of arrangement work though. Do Ji-ah and Ji-ye have anything in mind?”

The preparation for Round 3 was proceeding smoothly.

***

Day 3 of Round 3 training camp.

“One, two! Spin around, team switch! Let’s get the timing right!”

“Yes!”

Stage preparation was progressing smoothly as expected.

The arrangement, which was expected to be the most difficult, was fortunately taken care of by MN Entertainment, U&Da’s agency.

It was a company that had done amazing arrangements every round, so I tried pushing a bit and asking for various things, and thankfully they all worked out.

-Yes, yes. Ah, this much is nothing. Let’s do it. It’ll only take a day or two to touch it up.

I was naturally amazed by the professional who noted down everything the members requested as if it was nothing.

I had been worried about whether I’d have to do it myself if they said these detailed modifications were difficult, or if we’d have to change the song entirely, so this was really fortunate.

The choreography was also willingly taken on by MN and I Meet You’s agency, True Entertainment.

Therefore, we were in a situation where we could focus solely on practice without any worries.

Clap, clap, clap!

“Feet! Turn!”

Screech!

“Good job! Hey! Ra-eun, Il-lin, you’re half a beat late again! You need to turn faster!”

And Ji-ah from U&Da and I started being called the Ji Sisters.

Ji-ye, Ji-ah.

Since we chose the same song and were the same age, we stuck together a lot, so the production staff gave us the nickname Ji Sisters.

We’d probably be paired as same-age friends on the broadcast too.

“Beat! The beat doesn’t match! Ra-eun, no, why is Ji-ye doing this too! Beat! Arm angles!”

For a group temporarily formed by lottery draw, our chemistry was pretty decent.

Plus, all the members had very good skills, so they learned quickly.

Thanks to that, things were generally going smoothly, but.

“Beat~! Ra-eun! Beat!”

There was one problem.

“Haah… Stop. Let’s pause for a moment.”

Lee Si-ah, who was in charge of dance training for the Flan-Shu team in Round 3, sighed deeply and stopped the music.

Then she looked at us with cold eyes.

“Don’t you guys look at each other?”

“…”

The members froze at her cold words.

“Are you just going to look at yourselves in the mirror without matching each other? Kids. Right now, the beat and everything else is completely off.”

There was only one thing to say to her tone.

“We’re sorry…”

Then Lee Si-ah frowned deeply and swept her sweat-soaked bangs back as she sat on a chair.

Then she said.

“Ugh, that damn challenge. Why did they have to give that mission when I’m teaching.”

Right, Lee Si-ah wasn’t just angry at us.

She was annoyed at us for not matching the beat, arm and leg angles, and up-down heights, but she seemed more angry at the production staff.

“The kids are in this state because they don’t give them time to practice.”

Ugh… The members’ heads hung even lower. Even though she wasn’t talking to us, we couldn’t help but feel self-conscious.

Why were we really so terribly out of sync?

The reason was, as Lee Si-ah said, that we really didn’t have enough time to practice.

On the first day of training camp, we finished choosing our team name and song, then had time to practice lightly and get to know each other.

And on the second day.

The production staff caught us as we naturally headed to the practice room right after waking up in the morning and handed us a mission card.

“What does this mean?”

At my question, the members answered as if I was asking something obvious.

“They’re telling us to film videos to upload on TapTap, right? NeTube Shorts or something.”

“Ah.”

I thought what was bound to come had finally arrived.

TapTap was a short-form video platform where you could create and upload short videos.

It was often used as a promotional tool for idols, dramas, movies, variety shows, and so on.

I had only watched celebrities’ TapTap videos on NeTube, but had never tried making them myself.

‘Our team didn’t even have a channel.’

With NeTube barely being managed properly, there was no way we’d have a TapTap channel.

Anyway, short-form videos were quite foreign to me.

Still, since it was a mission given by the production staff, I was working hard on it with the mindset of learning current idol trends, but…

‘It’s harder than I thought.’

Simply filming videos wasn’t difficult, but creating content that would be pretty and truly serve as self-PR was very challenging.

Even U&Da and I Meet You, who supposedly received TapTap filming education from their companies, were agonizing over filming each video multiple times.

That day, we had to spend the entire day just filming self-PR videos.

So what this means is…

We completely wasted our practice time on the first day with stage meetings and the second day with short-form filming.

‘Haah…’

We still hadn’t even finished them.

This was currently Flan-Shu’s biggest problem.

It was natural for Lee Si-ah, who came to teach trainees, to be displeased with our appearance as if we hadn’t practiced choreography at all.

Fortunately, she seemed to have heard from the production staff beforehand that we didn’t have practice time due to short-form filming, but…

Even so, how could trainees who greeted their teacher unprepared look good?

Lee Si-ah, who was at a loss for words, sighed heavily while looking at the air and then glanced at us.

“Kids, if you’re this bad, the disappointment is huge. I came here with such high expectations because I heard you were the best trainees.”

Anyway, all we could say was.

“We’re sorry…”

Just this one thing.

Looking at us who couldn’t even lift our heads, Lee Si-ah made a complicated expression and said.

“Flan-Shu team, perfectly master what you learned today by tomorrow. There’s nothing for me to see today. I can’t evaluate anything when you haven’t prepared. Right?”

“…”

“If you don’t master it properly by tomorrow, I won’t take charge of Flan-Shu.”

Lee Si-ah made that threat and left the practice room.

“…”

In the practice room where silence fell, we looked at each other wordlessly.

Everyone matched opinions with their eyes.

‘Let’s just focus on practice today.’

I heard there were three dance trainers in total, and each one chose the trainee team they wanted to work with.

If that was true, this was really an embarrassing situation.

“Well, let’s film our PR video during our free time after practice from now on.”

The members nodded weakly at Young Il-lin’s words.

Then they quietly got into formation. It seemed like practice wouldn’t end until late.

***

It was almost 4 AM.

“Ugh, ah….”

“Whoa….”

As soon as practice ended, the members collapsed onto the floor.

Everyone was drenched in sweat, quite a sight to see.

Getting this sweaty to the point where we couldn’t even maintain appearances hadn’t happened since right before our debut.

As expected, practicing with the Debut Group Trainees made our training much more intense than usual.

As I lay there panting while staring at the fluorescent lights on the ceiling, one of the members next to me suddenly sat up.

It was Young Il-lin.

“Phew, everyone worked hard today.”

Even she, who always maintained high energy, had a hoarse voice and seemed slightly subdued.

“You’re all exhausted. Let’s go wash up and rest quickly.”

“Yes….”

Even after answering, it took a while before members started getting up one by one and leaving the practice room.

That left only Seo Ra-eun and me in the practice room.

“Are you okay, unnie?”

“…Huh?”

Seo Ra-eun, who was lying there in a daze and looked like she might just sleep in the practice room, looked at me a beat late.

Then she slowly sat up and massaged her ankle.

“My ankle hurts a little.”

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