Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 100

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Episode 100
“Let’s lock in a concept for the Pod-Arc interviews, starting now.”
“What kind of concept?”
Before our first meeting with the Pod-Arc production team, I gathered the members and said this.
“Let’s position Evergreat’s Pod-Arc concept somewhere between justified confidence and arrogance.”
“Sorry?”
Go Hyun-seo was the first to look confused.
Naive kid. It’s hard to believe she’s been through a survival show, her question is so innocent.
“You experienced it during D-Golfeu, so you should know. Broadcasts always have a direction the producers want, and our actions get edited to match that direction.”
“That’s… I know that. That’s what people call evil editing, right?”
“Right, you get it. What I’m saying is we should feed them the editing material ourselves beforehand.”
“I’m sorry, I’m not quite following…”
“No need to apologize. Just be overflowing with confidence. Avoid being excessively humble or treading carefully to dodge editing points. Show enough confidence in our skills instead.”
“Ah…”
Go Hyun-seo nodded slowly, understanding at last.
Until the For the CROWN production team called us for preliminary interviews at Music Proof, I kept drilling the overall group concept into the members’ heads.
If the producers create the cutting points and sketch the overall picture, we control the picture’s direction ourselves.
Can you draw without a pen? The ink color changes depending on which pen you pick up. In short, it’s turning the tables.
V-Net pursues sensational content. The higher the buzz, the better the ratings and controversy — they’re a purely commercial broadcaster that loves that kind of thing.
Evergreat, already connected with multiple teams in the survival show, would be perfect prey. We just can’t get eaten.
Of course, I don’t think they’ll outright throw us into the evil editing trap. Lately, when they run survival shows with already-debuted groups, they don’t evil-edit as much as they do with trainees.
But since people can control their image if they choose to, I think that’s always best.
We’re too entangled to avoid reactions entirely. But becoming a boring group with zero buzz is worse than leaning hard into confidence as a keyword for the survival show.
Even more so if we want first place.
Kang Su-ah and Hyun Jae-yi are fine. They’re already overflowing with justified confidence, and while Hyun Jae-yi is quick to read the room, Kang Su-ah doesn’t cross the line either.
The unexpected problem is Go Hyun-seo, who’s usually pretty humble and reserved — but that’s manageable. If Hyun-seo doesn’t speak up, I’ll do it for her.
“Teams around our level, Bellier or ASHCODE might get brought up as rivals. Should we bite? What do you all think?”
“Can I share my opinion?”
“Yeah, go ahead, Jae-yi.”
“Honestly, since it’s V-Net, they’ll definitely try to link you with Hyun-seo and Daylite, and me with ASHCODE. I think they’re gonna push the rivalry angle hard.”
“I agree. So, how should we handle it? We could just move past it by saying everyone’s a rival, or we could cheerfully say we’re definitely gonna win.”
“What if you and Han Jeong-yeon kind of trash-talk each other a bit?”
“…Sorry?”
What’s she saying thirty minutes before the interview…
I got the gist, though. The other members look shocked, staring at me and Hyun Jae-yi, but I did understand what she meant.
“You want us to pre-write some back-and-forth trash talk since you’re close?”
“Oh, yeah! You and Han Jeong-yeon being close is pretty well-known already. Honestly, I don’t think it’s great that Hyun-seo’s D-Golfeu image keeps getting brought up.”
“I agree. But why me? Aren’t you the one close to Daylite’s maknae?”
“Then I can handle the ASHCODE side similarly. If one person’s calling out two teams, the picture gets messy.”
“What’s your plan? You’re not even that close with their members.”
“I’ll just do a deal trade with Jo Eun-bin. We seemed close enough on the outside anyway. And honestly, I’d rather not put that kind of pressure on the maknaes.”
“Deal trade?”
“It’s gamer slang… You don’t play games?”
“I don’t. But that’s not the point.”
The direction Hyun Jae-yi suggested actually aligned with my overall vision.
Overflowing with confidence but genuinely skilled and good-natured — not unlikeable. That’s the image we need as a team.
Even so…
“Fine. I get what you’re saying, but from now on, try to speak more carefully.”
“Oh.”
Looking at the youngest members staring wide-eyed at Hyun Jae-yi, you can see how important precise words are.
And if she speaks this way on camera, she’ll get chopped up and edited apart.
Though Hyun Jae-yi does watch her tongue once filming starts.
“Anyway. I’m calling Han Jeong-yeon right now. You call Jo Eun-bin and confirm with her. Since it involves her company, they might say no — just figure out what’s doable and come back with a plan.”
“I’m basically a PR expert too. Why do you think I was a trainee so long?”
“Stop clowning and go already.”
“…Yes.”
Either way, every second counts right now.
***
[Wow, didn’t expect to get the trash talk proposal first.]
“Trash talk is putting it strong. Just light back-and-forth, nothing rough. When’s your interview?”
[Tomorrow, I think?]
“Think? Be specific.”
[Tomorrow. Actually, my members were already talking about what to do if we get entangled with you guys.]
Han Jeong-yeon’s voice came through the phone, light and easy.
Is this what survival show veterans are like…
[You adjust the intensity as you see fit. I’ll match it back.]
“This is ridiculous… You called me to confirm this?”
[Well, we can’t know what questions we’ll actually get once we’re in there anyway. Maybe it’s best we just know we agreed to trash talk and adjust the intensity on the fly?]
“That makes sense, but do we really need to call it ‘trash talk’?”
[It’s not that weird a term. Happens all the time in sports.]
“Since when do you like sports…”
[Well, I do have one thing I enjoy. Esports. Great to watch from home.]
Watching people better at games than me make money grinding it out is so fun. You know what’s been nice about time reverting? One of the best things is that my favorite player is still active. Still in their prime, even.
Han Jeong-yeon babbled on nonstop. I couldn’t figure out why her energy was so high.
“You seem like you’re in a good mood?”
[Well, yeah. I’m doing great. I renewed my contract, things are going way better than before. Back then, I’d have been unemployed at this point in time.]
“That’s not what I meant — I’m saying the survival show itself doesn’t look great to me, but you seem to like it.”
[Our team isn’t scared of the survival show.]
Makes sense for a team that voted unanimously to participate in Pod-Arc as a formality…
Maybe it’s because they were formed through a survival show, but it’s genuinely scary how they show zero fear toward survival shows.
[This is gonna be fun, the trash talk.]
“Again, is it even trash talk? It’s not that serious…”
[It basically is, though? Ah, I’m so excited.]
“…Do people usually call you dopamine-addicted?”
[Oh, Ju-eun literally told me that yesterday.]
“I knew it.”
This dopamine-addicted idol is something else…
Why would the word “trash talk” even exist in idol culture? Why is she so thrilled about it?
“This won’t do. Do half of what you’re thinking right now.”
[Don’t you trust me? I’m Han Jeong-yeon. We share secrets.]
“That’s exactly why I don’t trust you.”
[You’re mean.]
“You’re the one looking excited about burst dopamine. If you hadn’t been like that in the first place, I wouldn’t be this strict about it.”
[But…]
“Don’t try to be cute now…”
[Should I add formal politeness?]
“Don’t you dare…”
[Haha!]
Han Jeong-yeon’s bright laughter came through the phone.
Yeah, I should probably avoid getting Han Jeong-yeon too excited ever again…
A Regression User idol who loves dopamine this much — I can’t even imagine what she’ll do.
***
After the meeting ended, the first mission we were given for For the CROWN — the one we’d perform on our first shoot — was a “180-Second Self-Introduction” stage.
We were told we could choose any song, but since it should represent the team’s identity, they recommended performing one of our own tracks if possible.
“Should we pick one of our four title tracks?”
“Honestly, I think Awesome is something we can’t skip when it comes to our team identity. I still remember how I felt the first time I heard it.”
“Why… Because of what Hyun-seo said to me that day?”
“Oh, did something happen that day?”
“What are you…”
“No, I mean. It was really shocking to me, so I remember it. Like, how can a song feel so perfectly made for our team! That’s what I thought.”
Kang Su-ah’s praise today is unusually generous?
I don’t know why it’s so generous, but since Kang Su-ah isn’t the type to give empty compliments, I just took it as praise.
“But honestly, for a first stage like this, it’s smarter to choose a well-known song and cement our image.”
“Hmm, yeah… That makes sense, doesn’t it? This is hard. Honestly, I think they all fit Evergreat.”
“Of course. How much do you think I deliberated before showing you those songs? I didn’t want to get rejected.”
“What? Haha!”
You’re laughing? Does it sound like a joke?
When I played the new song Bloom for them, I actually kept revising it right up until the deadline before I showed it to the members and staff.
Kang Su-ah laughed for a while. She really did think I was joking…
Once she stopped laughing, Kang Su-ah gave me her opinion quite seriously.
“Remember our concept?”
“What, the survival show concept?”
“Yeah, that. Justified confidence? What if we matched that?”
“Good idea. But I’m not sure what would fit that.”
“I think Colorful works perfectly.”
“Why, the lyrics?”
“Yeah. Plus the sound composition — the whole vibe is confident. And Jae-yi and Hyun-seo handle most of the Performance parts.”
Colorful…
Evergreat doesn’t have many tracks, so we can’t really afford to be picky right now.
Still, Colorful is…
“Good call. I was thinking Colorful too.”
It’s the song that fits this situation best.
It was made to solidify our spot for the Rookie Award anyway. It’s more than enough to showcase our charm in a competition setting.
Rewriting Top Girl Group Scenarios with My Own Hand
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
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: May 27, 2026
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