The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 90

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 90

No, I was feeling so good about getting 1st place today, so why give me this kind of mission now? You could at least give me some time to enjoy it.

What kind of controversy are they talking about?

What comes to mind right now is obviously the recent worry about Ryu Ji-ye’s identity being revealed and suspicions of collusion with Start Plan.

‘This has the highest possibility.’

Other than that, I haven’t done anything particularly controversial.

Hmm, ah, since Start Plan is currently airing, maybe there’s a problem with the editing…

Timing-wise, Start Plan episode 2 would have aired during the training camp, but I haven’t checked the reactions to it yet.

I thought Ryu Jae-geum or Choi Gyo-young would naturally let me know if there were any problems with public opinion, so I wasn’t too worried about it.

‘It would have been nice if they told me specifically what kind of controversy it is.’

Is hoping for that much being too greedy?

Even while being dragged along by Seo Ra-eun’s hand, I anxiously scanned through the mission window until the end.

Then I noticed an unfamiliar sentence that caught my eye.

‘Popularity Chart?’

I roughly know what the Group Management System does since I read the explanation when I looked around the Cash Shop before.

But the Popularity Chart is something I’m really seeing for the first time?

I wanted to know more details about what this was, but unfortunately there were no additional tooltips or guides.

It seemed like I’d only be able to find out the details after actually receiving the reward and unlocking it.

“Ji-ye?”

While I was briefly lost in thought, Seo Ra-eun must have felt something was strange about me and carefully tapped my arm.

“Are you very tired?”

I immediately closed the system window and shook my head at Seo Ra-eun.

“I guess I was a bit tired. I’ll walk properly now.”

When I came to my senses and looked straight ahead, we were already in front of the Western restaurant that Han Da-min and Seo Ra-eun had talked about.

‘It must have been hard to bring me along.’

Seo Ra-eun must have thought I was acting this way because I was tired, and had stubbornly supported me all the way here without showing any signs of difficulty.

‘Such a kind person, really.’

I chuckled and headed into the restaurant with her.

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Han Da-min and Seo Ra-eun said they chose a quiet restaurant with decent reviews rather than a famous or trendy place.

As the two said, this place had quite a peaceful atmosphere.

It was quiet, relaxed, and charming, which was really nice…

“Oh my, oh my, what brings you here!”

…or so I thought, but naturally the restaurant owner didn’t think the same way.

“Such a famous talent at our restaurant! My goodness!”

As soon as the owner recognized us, or more precisely Choi Song-i, their face lit up and they quickly guided us to the VIP room.

Goodness, we just wanted to quietly eat and leave.

“Song-i! I’ve been watching your show well. This is the first time a celebrity has come to our restaurant, so if it’s okay, could you give me an autograph later? I’d like to hang it in the restaurant.”

It looks like we’ll be under the owner’s gaze the entire time we’re here.

“Ah, yes.”

Song-i seemed used to this kind of thing and answered nonchalantly, scribbling her signature on the paper the owner brought.

When she thoughtfully added ‘P.S. May your business prosper’ at the end and handed it to the owner, the owner received the signed paper with a moved expression and gave all five of us ade as a service.

“Song-i!”

Min Ha-young and Seo Ra-eun looked at Choi Song-i with respectful eyes.

“She’s a celebrity. There was a real celebrity right in front of me. I had forgotten about it for a while.”

“So cool, Song-i…”

“What do you mean. They just know me because of the broadcast.”

Choi Song-i grumbled indifferently and brought over the menu.

“Unnies, choose your menu.”

At Choi Song-i’s words, the members all stuck their heads into the menu at once.

“Wow, look at the photos. This looks really delicious.”

“Should we order this? What about you, Ra-eun?”

“I’ll have, uh, risotto? Let’s order everything together and share!”

“Good! Then should we order pizza too? What about Ji-ye and Song-i?”

“Salad pasta.”

“Gambas.”

Since it was right after the competition, everyone seemed quite hungry.

Everyone excitedly chose various menu items and placed their orders.

And soon the food came out.

“Come to think of it, none of us are on a diet?”

“That’s a good thing. Actually, our members need to gain some weight. Everyone’s too skinny.”

“Even so, today we should think of it as a cheat day and eat.”

Click, click, Han Da-min enthusiastically took photos of the food, then put down her mobile phone and raised her ade high.

“Anyway, guys! You all really worked hard getting through the 3rd round competition!”

All the members followed her and raised their ades. And we all toasted together.

“It was really hard fighting fiercely with the members!”

“Good work!”

“Let’s work even harder in the future!”

And we all took a sip of ade and raised our glasses high once more.

We still had one more thing to toast to.

“Also, congratulations to our Flora on our first 1st place!”

“Yeeeah!”

“Congratulations!”

Clink! The sound of glass cups clinking rang out cheerfully, and the members took another sip of ade and picked at the food like eating drinking snacks.

“Isn’t it really amazing? When we first started, I never even thought about 1st place.”

“Right. Me too. 1st place is such a difficult ranking.”

Seo Ra-eun said while filling Choi Song-i and Han Da-min’s empty plates with pasta.

Han Da-min nodded vigorously.

“Hey, how could I think about 1st place. I couldn’t even do it when I debuted. It was too far-fetched.”

Then she stirred her ade with the straw silently for quite a while.

Then she suddenly said.

“To be honest, even when I participated in the individual audition, I wasn’t thinking about aiming for 1st place or re-debuting.”

“Huh, really? Why?”

“I thought unnie would naturally be aiming for re-debut. You were the best among the trainees who participated back then.”

I nodded to show I agreed with Min Ha-young’s words.

Watching episode 1, she was practically flying on stage?

She stood out the most and her skills were beyond words.

Even if I had watched the broadcast without knowing the audition results, I would have definitely thought Han Da-min would pass.

But she wasn’t aiming for re-debut after showing such an amazing stage?

“Hey, I’m getting older. All the individual participants were so pretty and talented. So I thought maybe I could stand out and try NeTube… Actually, that’s why I participated.”

“Ah, but you ended up being too good, so you passed and eventually got 1st place. Right, unnie?”

At Min Ha-young’s words, Han Da-min smiled broadly.

“That’s right! Thanks to having such great members, I even got to experience 1st place!”

Then, as if changing the subject, she placed pieces of steak on mine and Seo Ra-eun’s plates.

“It’s all thanks to you two getting first place in the stage evaluation~”

“Oh, no. It wasn’t me, it was Ji-ye who….”

“Why are you giving me credit for Ra-eun unnie’s work? We all did well together.”

I quickly put the piece of steak in my mouth as I spoke.

Ah, the food here is really good.

Then Seo Ra-eun, as if she’d been waiting for this, placed another piece of meat on my plate.

“Let’s keep doing well together. If we keep receiving high rankings like this, maybe if we’re really lucky, even if we can’t win, we might all be able to debut together!”

“That’s right! They say the winner is already decided, but I really hope there’s an entertainment agency that would propose to debut us with these exact members. Is the possibility too low?”

“Still, if we survive until the end, you never know!”

As this touching and exciting, hopeful atmosphere continued with warm feelings all around.

A sulky voice spoke to Han Da-min.

“Da-min unnie, who has such great members, seemed to find the Red Sun members even cuter though.”

It was our cute youngest member Choi Song-i, who had tried gambas for the first time in her life today.

“…Huh?”

Han Da-min looked at Choi Song-i in confusion.

Choi Song-i finally put down the baguette topped with gambas.

“Do you find the Red Sun members cute? They were calling you ‘unnie, unnie’ and acting all aegyo. Do you prefer younger siblings who act cute?”

It was adorable jealousy.

“Ah, you…. I like our Song-i and our members more.”

The corners of Han Da-min’s mouth kept twitching as she answered.

How nice.

I chuckled and put the meat from my plate, which had somehow gotten full again, into my mouth.

That’s when Choi Song-i’s gaze turned to me this time.

Huh, me? I didn’t do anything wrong though.

I mean, I had fun hanging out with the Flan-Shu members too, but that didn’t appear in the VCR.

Choi Song-i opened her mouth.

“Unnie, is it true that you got a casting offer from MN?”

This time it wasn’t a jealous question like she asked Han Da-min, but seemed purely curious.

“…Huh? How do you know about that?”

Since the offer was made publicly in the waiting room where everyone could see, I wasn’t planning to hide it anyway.

But how did she know about that? I glanced around at the members.

Then Min Ha-young spoke up.

“Right. I heard that news too and really wanted to ask about it. Is it true?”

Huh?

“Actually, me too. Director Kim Ja-in came personally, right? She’s a really famous person. She’s the one who directly cast Senior Lena and worked as her manager for 10 years.”

Huh huh?

Han Da-min too?

No, it seemed like all the members already knew.

…How on earth?

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