Became The Leader of a Girl Group Destined To Fail - Chapter 151

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Chapter 151.

StillBlue’s teaser outfits perfectly summarized. Jungri

Wednesday features Kim Geum
: High-teen preppy look, girl’s punk look, fusion hanbok, Kim Geum’s everyday casual style (actual clothes she wears regularly)
Thursday features Yeon Ju-hong
: High-teen preppy look, rococo-inspired dress, fairy look, pajamas
Friday features Seo Baek-young
: High-teen preppy look, mannish suit look, cyberpunk look, sporty look
Saturday features Ryu Bora.
: Teen preppy look, awards ceremony dress(?) look, traditional hanbok (princess mama style), classic horror movie parody look (white one-piece dress… and even small clothes included ㅠㅠㅋㅋㅋ)
Sunday features Yun Chung.
: High-teen preppy look, rider look, Y2K retro look, animal pajamas + animal headband

It looks like the teasers contain the members’ personal tastes plus the casual looks that fans usually wear lol
Personally, Yeon Ju-hong’s and Ryu Bora’s were the most fun to watch
Yeon Yeon-hong has a Kiraki-ra vibe, and Ryu Bo-ra is funnyㅠㅠㅋㅋㅋ It felt like she was wearing clothes from her filmography again.
The unified concept seems to be the preppy look?
Our girls’ single is coming out, please look forward to it
Could this be a spoiler for the next album?

Did anyone else notice?
There are sports-related items in all the members’ designs?
Of course, they appear very subtly
ex) volleyball, bamboo sword for kendo, etc..

What the hell kind of concept is this that something like that comes out lol
It’s strange if it’s a spoiler and strange if it’s not
StillBlue’s world is impossible to predict..
Meanwhile, Ryu Bora’s teaser outfit

A hand axe with a cute pink ribbon appeared as a prop
Ms. Ryu Bora..
✿๑*✲Hand Axeﾟ*⋆✿
Decorating it like this doesn’t make the hand axe any less terrifying..

The other members also hid weapons from the previous album in the composition and slipped them in a bit, haha.
Just because you stick cute stickers on a flamethrower doesn’t make it cute, you crazy bastards.

And so.
Every single day, the members’ teasers went up.
The members’ teasers followed a similar pattern.
Four concept photos with paper doll designs, each featuring a different concept.
In the teaser videos, the members were cut out by different hands and pasted into a diary.
The members each occupied one space in the diary grid according to their teaser release dates.
Then a question arose among the fans.

‘Why did it start from Wednesday? What about Monday and Tuesday?’

Could it be that those garbage days—Monday and Tuesday—were just thrown away?
Such questions swirled among Ever Blue fans.
That question was answered when Monday arrived.
Behind-the-scenes cuts and photos of the members were uploaded to the EVEL & StillBlue Exchange Diary.
The photo that garnered the most attention was one Seo Baek-young took of the members sleeping exhausted in the Practice Room.
The sight of four of them huddled together, even draping their legs over each other as they slept.
Made the fans feel both adorable affection and heartfelt sympathy at once.

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Damn, our girls are struggling through garbage days like this too, so who am I to complain!!!!! Off to work with vigor
Sigh… hang in there through Monday with StillBlue..
Kids, please practice while you sleep. Auntie, my heart is torn.
Oh, so Monday is the day of the five

Wednesday through Sunday are each member’s individual days
Monday is the five members’ group day
Then what about Tuesday

The thrilling anticipation transformed into joy after twenty-four hours had passed.
A notification appeared on the StillBlue app.

COLORFUL
The day Ever Blue & StillBlue went on a date!♥

‘A date?’

Prism Homma fell into confusion the moment the notification popped up.
But her hands moved faster than her thoughts.
When she tapped the Tuesday section of the diary, a photo and an entry appeared.
The moment Prism Homma saw the photo, she immediately understood what “date” meant.
The first photo was a group shot of StillBlue taken in front of a subway station advertisement billboard.
It was a billboard that fans had crowdfunded and installed to announce the comeback—a place that had become famous on social media as a verification shot hotspot for a while.
The members stood together making peace signs, bundled up in hats and masks.
Whether they’d gone at a time when there were no people around, there wasn’t a single person in sight.

COLORFUL
We came here too_verification shot

Beyond that were photos that appeared to be taken inside a car showing a bus advertisement billboard, billboards at different subway stations, and a photo of all the members holding Ryu Bora’s birthday cafe cups.
The diary was filled with verification shots that StillBlue had either deliberately sought out or happened to encounter.

COLORFUL
Let’s keep dating often in the future! ( ღ’ᴗ’ღ )

With this message as the finale.
The entire week’s plan had come to a close.
The lingering happiness that Ever Blue would feel seemed far from over.

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Today was the finals recording day for “Dear My Diva.”
I wanted to wrap things up before officially starting our activities.
“Dear My Diva” operated on a system where winners would exit the show.
Cast members who didn’t win could continue challenging under the title of “challenger.”
Of course, you could exit without winning, but….
It just looked better to exit honorably after winning.
To be honest, I wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.
I’d already broken through the terrestrial broadcast barrier, and I’d secured a decent level of public recognition through “Falling Petals,” which was my original goal anyway.
I’d fulfilled every reason I came on this show.
Now all that’s left is the escape.
I’d prepared like my life depended on it.
After confirming all the costumes that way.
The moment I stepped out the door with the members’ cheers behind me.

Ding!

Da-hwin

Senior

A message came from Da-hwin.

Da-hwin

That part I mentioned last time.

Are you really okay??ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

I’m so sorryㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Da-hwin, who had always been respectful, became even more deferential after discovering I was Baek Nok-ha.
In fact, I once asked her why she’d been so courteous even before I revealed my identity.
She said that after experiencing regression once, she couldn’t know when or where she might encounter another celebrity who’d gone through the same thing, so she found herself acting that way without realizing it.
Hearing that made me suddenly afraid too.
If I wasn’t the only one who regressed, how many competitors could there possibly be?
I’d have to grab Cotton Ball Entity by the collar and ask about it later.
I sighed and sent a reply.

Da-hwin

Don’t apologize

Moment was the one who manipulated it

You didn’t manipulate anything

Ah.
What’s this about manipulation now?
It’s nothing special.
Or is it something special?

Da-hwin

But if they tamper with the audience member list

they’re taking a whopping 50 percent of the total score…

Then…

Wouldn’t it be too dangerous…?ㅠㅠ

Moment went all out trying to manipulate the scores.
The scoring method for the finals of Dear My Diva is as follows.
Audience score: 500 points.
Judges Panel score: 500 points.
The part Moment tampered with was the audience score.
More precisely, the audience member list.
Normally, audience members are selected evenly so they don’t lean toward any one performer’s fans.
Especially Dear My Diva has always selected audience members from the general public.
That’s only natural. It has to be fair.
But somehow, that unlucky Oh PD made some kind of agreement with them.
Out of 500 audience members, they planted 300 of their own people.
Actually, I wasn’t surprised that Moment had a hand in the manipulation.
What surprised me was that Da-hwin found out about it.
When Da-hwin was so stressed about Dear My Diva that she couldn’t even sleep, the Manager gave her a subtle hint.
That she shouldn’t ruin her stage performance due to poor condition.
In every way, it’s a hopeless Entertainment Company.

Da-hwin

Not 500 points, but 300 points

I need to stake something on 200 points.

And if Moment has even a shred of common sense,

they wouldn’t have had all 300 people vote for you.

If they lack that much sense, it’d be unfortunate…

Currently, there are three finalists in total.
Besides Da-hwin and me, there’s one more.
Based on my intuition.
I’d say about 250 out of the 300 people voted for Da-hwin.
And out of the remaining 50, about 30 probably voted for the other finalist.
Maybe around 20 votes went to me.
They wouldn’t want it to look too obvious if the votes were too concentrated.
I can only hope the remaining 200 votes are distributed fairly…
But honestly.
I didn’t really care.
I don’t need a championship given by the Broadcasting Station.
What I need is a championship given by the public.
Of course, Moment would want to give the “champion” title to Enliven.
Even if it’s fake.
Why?
Because Enliven still has low recognition.
They’re trying to boost their awareness by giving them such a title.
They’ll stir up attention by saying our girl beat “that” Yun Chung, our girl is superior, things like that.
Regardless of whether the public acknowledges it or not.
But me?
This isn’t the time to build recognition.
I’ve already built enough recognition.
The fact that they’re targeting me in the first place
is proof that my recognition has reached a certain level, isn’t it?
Which means at this point, whatever I do will attract attention.

“Chung, I’m heading out.”

Then I’ll simply have to prove it through skill.
If they want to accumulate recognition, let them try.
But I need to make them realize that the recognition they’ve gathered… could become poison.
At first, I wondered if I should feel sorry for Da-hwin.
But soon I shook my head.
No.
In fact, making Moment realize the truth at this stage is likely better for Da-hwin in the long run.
After all, the reason she regressed in the first place was to prevent bulk purchasing, not to win “Dear My Diva”.

Da-hwin

Da-hwin

That’s fine.

Have you found any evidence or leads regarding the bulk purchasing?

This is far more important.
For the fate of both groups.

Da-hwin

I keep looking for an opportunity, but it’s not working out.

This is harder than I thought.

Hmm.
I’ll need to try a different approach.
Well, I understand for now.

“Yes, let’s depart.”

Let me go win this championship for real.

“Yun Chung, aren’t you nervous even though it’s the finals?”

I felt the Manager glance at me through the rearview mirror.

“Well, it feels pretty much like usual, I’d say.”
“Really? I guess… you don’t look nervous at all. You’re like someone going to pick up a trophy they’ve already claimed.”

Ah.
I laughed it off with a chuckle.
Wasn’t that only natural?
I am Baek Nok-ha.
I had never lost in a solo competition from the start.

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