Became The Leader of a Girl Group Destined To Fail - Chapter 111

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Chapter 111.

After finishing the third week of music broadcasts.
Our album promotion had come to an end.
Total album sales exceeded 500,000 copies, and we claimed first place four times.
Our digital chart rankings were still trading places with Burnash for the top spot.
Of course, we had to concede the music broadcast first place to Burnash.
They achieved several times better results than us in album sales, so it was unavoidable.
I wasn’t particularly frustrated about it.
The members felt the same way.
We were all simply grateful for the achievements we’d accomplished.

PUBBLE
Ryu Bora
Voice Message

Ryu Bora
Hey Everblues

Did you sleep well? We just finished our promotions and are resting

We’ll see each other again soon anyway, so I’ll be there soon

Ryu Bora
I really like you all

Everyone continued sending messages to fans through PUBBLE.
Thanking them for loving us.
Telling them we truly love them too.

PUBBLE
Ju-hong♥
Our Everblues!! Did you sleep well?

Sigh, it’s so sad that we won’t see you on music broadcasts for a while

But I have good news!!

Smooch♥
(selfie photo)

Now I can come to the public broadcast more often (๑˃̶͈̀∇˂̶͈́)و⁾⁾˚*

Should I call myself Hyo-noona Ju-hong or Hyo-dongsaeng Ju-hong!

Smooch♥
Hehehehe you want me to call you Hyo-noona?!

Same age. How old. Are you. Grandma, if you tease. I won’t.

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Yes, noona (•ɞ•)

PUBBLE
Subscribe before it’s too late
Sad that our activities are ending?

I’m really sad too

Just thinking about not seeing Everblues makes me tear up

Subscribe before it’s too late
Who just asked me to speak with soul? Come out hahahaha

I’m seriously 100% soul

If I seem soulless, it’s because I already gave it all to Everblues

Subscribe before it’s too late
Who just teased me? Come here and let me give you a kiss

PUBBLE
Debut Mom^^
What am I doing, you ask?

I’m preparing meals for the members hehe

Since our activities just wrapped up, I’m making food for the first time in a while

Debut Mom^^
Make sure to eat breakfast

I want to prepare it… how many servings should I make?

Debut Mom^^
Right hehe I’ll prepare just 2 servings, come eat quickly

Debut Mom^^
You know our house password, right?

I felt the same way. Though next time, I was determined to win no matter what.
Ideally, there wouldn’t be any overlap at all.
For a rookie girl group to achieve this level of success was truly extraordinary.
But.
Now we had to throw ourselves into yet another competition.

“We barely escaped and now another survival show? What on earth did I do in my past life to deserve this?!”

Yeon Ju-hong slumped over the dining table, groaning.

“At least we only have to participate in one. Yun Chung has to do two.”

Seo Baek-young began bringing out dishes one by one to the table.
During our busiest period, the housekeeper who helped with all the chores had prepared our meals, but now that our activities were winding down, she wanted to cook for us herself at least once.
Thanks to that, we were all bustling about since morning.
Yeon Ju-hong and I handled the cleaning.
Seo Baek-young and Ryu Bora prepared breakfast.
Kim Geum got to rest as a patient’s privilege.

“Sister, the OST reaction was really good, wasn’t it?”

Ryu Bora said as she brought out the side dishes together.

“Yeah. It’s pretty decent.”

That was true.
The OST had been pre-released the day before yesterday.
The ranking was quite respectable. 14th place.
The problem was.

[
【Release a solo song!】
Reward: 500 points per song]

This wasn’t showing a success mark.
I even glared at my phone,

[
Baek Nok-ha
: The OST was released but why isn’t the mission showing as complete?]
[
Baek Nok-ha
: Can’t you at least tell me if it succeeded or failed?]

I’d even lodged a fairly polite protest with Cotton Ball Entity, but the mission window remained unchanged.
That wasn’t all.
Since the current total album sales were 500,000 copies, I should have received an additional 120 points.
Also, since I’d achieved first place four times, I should have received an additional 200 points.
I’d completed several smaller missions in between as well.
The points I should currently have totaled 1,250 points.
It was enough to purchase a Sung-dae Shield item.
But the points displayed on the screen were different.

[Current Points: 380 points]

It had stopped here.

[
Baek Nok-ha
: Hey, about the settlement…]
[
Baek Nok-ha
: You’re worse than a shady entertainment company, Cotton Ball Entity.]
[
Baek Nok-ha
: Are you an entertainment company? Why won’t you settle accounts with me?]

In my past life, I cried so much when I didn’t receive settlements early in my debut.
And now I’m repeating it here.
I thought a major entertainment company would have no issues with settlements, but I wasn’t receiving them from an unexpected source.
It was absolutely ridiculous.
Even when I sent messages to Cotton Ball Entity through the chat window.
All I got back was,

[Currently unavailable. Please wait a moment!]

That was the only response.
Listen.
Time is critical on my end.
I keep hearing metallic sounds in my throat.
I can feel myself on the verge of losing it.
Fortunately, I got through the album activities safely, but now I have to enter two survival shows.
Dropping out mid-survival due to vocal nodules?
Dear My Diva is fine.
It’s my solo activity.
But Top of Idol is not an option.
It wasn’t just because the group would struggle without their main vocalist.
Shin Yu-hwa is there.
Currently, Shin Yu-hwa has good public popularity and an image of being ‘cheerful and bright’.
His skills are solid, his face is kind—he’s exactly the type Koreans love, a ‘first-meeting free pass’ kind of guy.
Jet A, the group Shin Yu-hwa belongs to, has an ambiguous position.
It’s entirely for Shin Yu-hwa, by Shin Yu-hwa, and of Shin Yu-hwa.
It’s not unpopular, but the group entirely depends on Shin Yu-hwa.
If you ask why I’m so worried about Shin Yu-hwa,

[Rookie girl group StillBlue caught up in dating rumors… Jo Hee-on♥Shin Yu-hwa]
[Shin Yu-hwa’s agency denies it as baseless, claiming Jo Hee-on’s one-sided pursuit…]
[Jet A’s Shin Yu-hwa apologizes for worrying fans… but maintains he is the victim]
[Colors denies Jo Hee-on♥Shin Yu-hwa dating rumors, but remains silent on Shin Yu-hwa’s agency response]

That’s the kind of person he is.
Jo Hee-on was a member of a newly debuted girl group, while Shin Yu-hwa was a popular member of an established boy group.
Naturally, the public sided with Shin Yu-hwa.
If it had been just an ordinary dating rumor, we might have somehow endured and moved past it.
But when photos of him with Jo Hee-on surfaced, Shin Yu-hwa made the worst possible response.
He threw her under the bus.
He claimed he had never given her any encouragement, and that she had simply followed him around of her own accord.
With paparazzi photos already out, he couldn’t deny they’d been together, yet he had to deny the dating rumors.
So he made the worst choice possible.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
There was more to come.

[Hi-Hi-Ho’s Pia confesses her feelings on Jo Hee-on♥Shin Yu-hwa dating rumors… Is she Shin Yu-hwa’s real girlfriend?]
[Hi-Hi-Ho’s Pia denies Jo Hee-on♥Shin Yu-hwa, claims I’m the real girlfriend]
[Hi-Hi-Ho’s Pia confesses stress from Jet A’s Shin Yu-hwa stalking, culprit is StillBlue’s Jo Hee-on]

He had actually been juggling two relationships.
Ironically, the other victim was someone connected to Yun Chung.
Hi-Hi-Ho.
This girl group, whose name alone was laughable, was originally supposed to have Yun Chung as a member.
But Yun Chung couldn’t endure being in the debut lineup and dropped out.
Of course, her chronic stage fright was the primary reason…
But the members of that group weren’t entirely blameless either.

‘Are you really a parasite? Do you want to debut so badly that you’d leech off us?’

It was the members of Hi-Hi-Ho who completely shattered Yun Chung, who was already falling apart.
I understand their feelings, but their methods were entirely wrong.
Yun Chung could be resented.
But does that justify tormenting a child?
Hurling abuse and ostracizing her until she left—nothing could justify that.
Anyway.
So Jo Hee-on became someone who stalked Shin Yu-hwa, who wasn’t even a stalker himself and already had a partner.
In reality, it was nothing like stalking at all.
They’d only gone on a few dates, yet somehow it became that.
Of course, if someone asked what kind of dates a rookie could have gone on, I’d have nothing to say.
I don’t particularly want to say Jo Hee-on did well.
But still, no one could deny how despicable Shin Yu-hwa was in this story.
So I could never let my guard down.
The silver lining was that Jo Hee-on, the victim from my past life, was no longer in StillBlue.
But I still couldn’t feel at ease.
Shin Yu-hwa could approach the other members.
And back when I was Baek Nok-ha, I’d seen that dating rumor article too.
No matter how I looked at it, it wasn’t Jo Hee-on stalking Shin Yu-hwa—it was Shin Yu-hwa stalking Jo Hee-on.
Some responses did point out this fact, but it was quickly buried because Shin Yu-hwa’s public image was too pristine.
Plus, with the principle of striking first, Shin Yu-hwa had blown it open first, so public opinion had already solidified.
I had to be careful.
That bastard might stalk our girls again.
No matter how much we rejected him from our side, if he decided to pursue from his, it would be like stepping in shit.
Suddenly, I felt angry.
Why were there so many villains I had to fight off?
I felt sorry for Yun Chung from my past life.
How did she, someone with such a fragile heart, endure in this situation?
She probably couldn’t even get close to the members.
How did she bear it?
Does she feel even a little comforted when she looks at me now?
The more I thought about it, the less I understood.
Normally, I don’t question things when I need to act.
I don’t entertain unnecessary thoughts.
But my thoughts about the real Yun Chung—I couldn’t erase them.
What was in her heart when she entrusted me with her soul and asked me to fulfill her dreams?
Whenever I recalled that heart, I found myself standing up again.
Against the relentless anxiety and anger that kept crashing down, thinking of Yun Chung made even this seem trivial.
Because I could feel how immense her desperation was.
The more I followed the footprints her life had left behind, the more I felt that urgency.

“Yun Chung, aren’t you going to eat?! I grilled bacon and Vienna sausages for the first time in ages.”
“And I made steamed eggs too.”
“You even made kimchi stew? Seo Baek-young, are you a new member?”

The members all spoke in unison, showering Seo Baek-young with praise.
That’s right.
I’m not sure about anything else….
But one thing was certain—my heart was being comforted right now.
It doesn’t matter if there are many villains.
We’ll just defeat them one by one.
Even if I can’t be a hero, I can be someone’s leader.
So,

[~Yun Chung’s Personal Little Mission~
Achieve 1st place in the final rankings of 【Top of Idol】

Reward: 1000 Points]

Let’s go, everyone.

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