The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 83

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 83

“Thank you!”

So-hae quietly withdrew her smile as she watched the trainees bow with overwhelmed faces.

But still, she couldn’t just let the visible mistakes slide.

“However.”

So-hae’s gaze turned toward Young-ju.

“It was a performance with quite high immersion. When trainee Young-ju was leading the stage alone, why was it? In the middle, there was a sudden snap.”

So-hae raised her hand to temple height and twisted it.

“I felt like my concentration was completely broken. The live performance was very shaky and your expression was honestly quite awkward.”

Ah… Young-ju nodded while desperately swallowing back a groan that was about to escape.

It was a problem she already knew about.

Only after standing on stage and singing in front of the judges did she realize it.

I still don’t have the ability to carry a stage alone.

Overestimating my skills – that was a huge mistake.

So-hae checked her expression and said,

“I think you probably put too much pressure on yourself from the burden. Your assigned part was very long, so you should have worked on pace control to maintain the same energy until the end.”

“Yes.”

“But from your initial entrance until the early part, it was very good. It was a very impactful entrance. If you can carry that feeling through to the end, I think you’ll be able to show us something great next time. I’ll look forward to it.”

“Thank you!”

Following So-hae, evaluations from the other judges continued.

Mainly U&Da’s stability, Seo Ra-eun’s rediscovery, Ryu Ji-ye’s dance skills that hadn’t been visible while overshadowed by the main dancers, and praise for Young-ju’s entrance scene were repeatedly mentioned.

“That concludes Flan-Shu’s performance!”

Flan-Shu came down from the stage in a daze after receiving evaluations that were nothing short of high praise.

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“Everyone worked so hard!”

“Great job!”

Excited encouragements were exchanged.

Even during practice, I had a vague feeling that this stage would definitely work.

The arrangement done by professionals was better than I had expected, and the members I worked with were people with such good stage sense that no words were needed.

Watching the series of processes go more smoothly than ever before, there were many moments when I worried it was all or nothing.

In reality, there were countless times when I realized that all of it was definitely ‘all.’

‘I was worried when Young-ju wavered though.’

Still, it was fortunate that no one was shaken by Young-ju’s mistake and we finished well, so the evaluation didn’t change significantly.

“Hey, Young-ju, why are you crying! You did well!”

At Young Il-lin’s voice, I turned to see Young-ju shedding tears.

“*sob* I’m sorry to you all…”

She seemed to be crying because the mistake was frustrating and she felt sorry.

‘Somehow there’s a crying member after every competition.’

Following the members who rushed over to Young-ju, I gave her a big hug, barely dried my sweat, and returned to the set studio.

“Hooray!”

Applause poured down on us as we returned to the set studio.

“You were so cool!”

“Wow, what are we supposed to do if you perform that well!”

Naturally, I Meet You had the loudest voices.

They cheered for us even more enthusiastically, as if to comfort Young-ju for her mistake.

Behind I Meet You, the first thing that caught my eye were the expressions of the Flora members belonging to other teams.

“Ra-eun and Ji-ye were really good. I was so surprised.”

“Let’s definitely watch the broadcast together later. Those two were incredible.”

They were genuinely happy as if the praise I heard was praise for themselves.

‘They really are good people.’

I smiled slightly and nodded, then sat down with the members.

Then the turns of other teams continued one after another.

The Cool Friends team made up of May Rookie, U&Da, and Romance Story.

Since the team composition was good, naturally they would do well – it was a group with quite high expectations.

-Since we pursue such different genres… I think it’ll be hard to narrow that gap.

-I was like, ‘What is this?’ Since everyone only talked about what they wanted to do, the same conversation kept going in circles. I was worried we’d just keep having meetings like this until the competition.

The war where no one could lose was unexpectedly happening over there.

Usually, most cases involve everyone compromising with each other through meetings to decide on a song…

The Cool Friends team had quite a few stubborn trainees.

First of all, the concept difference between May Rookie and U&Da was too big.

Moreover, they had to win the song they wanted to be able to freely present what they had prepared through their respective agencies.

The atmosphere made it even more impossible to compromise.

After confronting each other for a long time, it was ultimately U&Da who backed down.

-Listening to it, I think what May Rookie is saying makes sense too. Let’s go with Retro Night.

The face of the U&Da member saying this was pale with worry.

[Retro Night] is a song that reinterprets 70s retro style with a modern feel, and it’s very humorous with an extremely fast beat.

The comical concept of the song and the fast beat that promised high dance difficulty – there wasn’t a single thing that suited U&Da. It was an inconsiderate song selection.

Like the U&Da members on our team, U&Da isn’t actually a group that’s good at dancing.

They’re a team with top-level singing and showmanship.

For the first time, the set studio that had been cheerful in any situation froze over.

“…”

May Rookie had pushed through with a selfish song selection and got their way.

Since everyone on site knew about this process, the silence was natural.

The actual parties who selected the song had gone to prepare for the stage so they probably didn’t know, but thanks to that, only the May Rookie members from other teams turned pale as if sitting on a bed of thorns.

I swallowed a small bitter laugh.

The May Rookie members appearing in the video were the same people who had thrown half-threats at me about song selection during the 2nd round not long ago.

Even without watching, I could see how the Cool Friends team must have fallen apart like scattered beans.

Moreover.

‘Where on earth did Romance Story go?’

Something felt off from the start of the VCR.

Why are only May Rookie and U&Da appearing? There’s definitely a Romance Story member on the team too.

Even the interviews about the song selection war focused mainly on U&Da and May Rookie members.

They didn’t even show what song Romance Story suggested in the meeting.

No, even if Romance Story’s song selection was disappointing and got edited out, this is too much…

Shouldn’t they at least show which side Romance Story supported between May Rookie and U&Da’s song selections?

A complete edit-out.

I turned my gaze to check the expressions of the other Romance Story members.

Sure enough.

‘Their expressions don’t look good.’

It was natural.

If their team member didn’t even show a glimpse in the video, it would be stranger if their expressions were good.

Anyway, the VCR continued.

Ever since practice started, U&Da couldn’t keep up with the practice and cried in distress, arguments broke out—it was complete chaos.

U&Da was heartbroken by the overwhelming feeling of not being able to keep up, and eventually reached the point of avoiding practice with May Rookie.

Then May Rookie became frustrated with U&Da’s helplessness.

‘How bad must it have been.’

Just how badly did they try to take advantage that such scenes were included in this unfinished VCR that only we were watching?

Since Start Plan had been favorable toward May Rookie, this must have been edited down and filtered, yet it was surprisingly raw.

What was even more absurd was the fact that Romance Story members had only appeared briefly in passing shots up until now.

No one at the venue could relax their tense expressions.

Romance Story, who got completely edited out.

May Rookie, shown mainly in selfish moments.

U&Da, appearing mostly in crying scenes.

What kind of reaction could anyone have to such footage?

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