Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 101

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Episode 101
Mid-April, the first shoot day for .
“Yes, that’s good. How about we all smile this time?”
This day served as both the full group’s profile photography session and the first shoot.
As pre-announced, the performance that would best express the group’s identity included styling and makeup, with a team profile shoot scheduled before taking the stage.
All Evergreat members arrived at the profile photography set with natural dark brown hair.
The influence seemed strongest from their previous comeback with , where they’d worn a more natural and subdued hairstyle than in their earlier activities.
During the promotion, Hyun Jae-yi—who’d sported pale pink hair and dominated center stage—now wore her natural dark brown locks in two neat braids.
Go Hyun-seo, who’d been dyed deep burgundy red twice during that same promotion, followed suit. She’d covered the faded dye with a blue-black shade and cut her previously long hair into a chic shoulder-length bob.
Kang Su-ah, by contrast, had re-dyed her ash brown hair from previous promotions into a deep brown-black and pulled it into a high bun, while Ju Hye-rin, who’d similarly worn reddish-brown tones, had dyed her hair back to black and styled it in a high ponytail.
Seo Ji-on and Lee Han-byul let their long, natural dark hair flow loosely, with Lee Han-byul adding a hairband as an accent piece.
Neat yet not overly demure in feel.
That’s what the cameraman filming the broadcast profile behind-the-scenes thought.
The Evergreat members wore outfits that evoked a private school uniform aesthetic overall. Based on white jackets or cream cardigans, they wore deep blue accent colors with skirts or one-piece dresses.
The styling felt slightly different from , which the cameraman had been told was today’s stage.
Did they go for a more conservative look because it’s their first stage? But many idols from other teams had appeared at the shoot in loud, flashy styles.
“Yes, profile photography complete! Once you’re ready, we’ll start the rehearsal right away!”
The cameraman refocused on his camera at that call. Before evaluating whether an idol’s outfit matched their song, he had to do his job properly.
But the moment the lights went out and Evergreat’s rehearsal music record began to play.
The cameraman completely understood Evergreat’s styling and concept.
In short—it was far more intuitive than he’d expected.
***
The first recording of took quite a while to get started.
The main reason was that all seven groups had to go through profile photography and rehearsal.
While the final stage order hadn’t been decided, profile shoots and rehearsals proceeded in reverse debut order. I’d heard that Ashcode, being the second team, had arrived pretty early too.
We didn’t arrive at dawn, but we did come in quite early.
Since Ashcode and Bellier before them were both second-year groups like us—we couldn’t afford to arrive too late either.
The bigger problem was that V-Net had been strict about controlling access outside the waiting room in the middle. Apparently it was to avoid running into other groups and getting concept spoiled.
“I’m totally relaxed now. This wait is killing me…….”
“Getting relaxed is better though, right?”
“Then they should’ve just filmed first and done photos after…….”
“Right?”
Kang Su-ah was starting to complain as her patience wore thin, but since I felt the same way, I just let it slide.
Han Jeong-yeon happened to overhear, but apparently the staff had originally considered banning electronic devices with communication capabilities from the waiting room to prevent spoilers. The panicked production team shot that idea down immediately. It didn’t go that far.
If they’d confiscated our phones too on top of this……the PD wouldn’t have been able to handle it.
We arrived in the morning and after eating lunch, we finally got the signal to enter.
Rehearsals had been done in reverse debut order, but entrance was in forward debut order, with seating first-come first-served—though seats could be swapped with persuasion.
The set layout I’d seen during rehearsal was a circular stage with hemispherical seating divided into sections around it.
“The seats don’t seem to have any special advantage.”
“Just visibility, maybe……? But would V-Net really stop at just that?”
“I don’t think they would.”
“You think so too, right?”
Go Hyun-seo and Hyun Jae-yi’s conversation, trying to decipher V-Net’s intentions with serious expressions, was honestly a bit funny.
I figured they’d just mechanically borrowed the seat-stealing rules from the original survival show without much thought. Even if there were no special advantages to the seats……
“Evergreat everyone, before we enter, let’s gather once more and go over it. What did we decide to do when we enter?”
“Greet people well!”
“Bow deeply to everyone we see and give our greetings.”
“Right, don’t just brush past people casually even if you know them. No jokes before greeting—greet first, then we can fool around after. That’s the flow.”
Before leaving the waiting room, I emphasized greetings to the members one last time.
Greetings are truly important above all else. Greet well and people think, ‘Oh, these kids have good manners.’
After confirming the greeting protocol one final time, we finally entered the set where ‘s first shoot was about to begin.
***
Four teams were already seated in the set.
First, Rain Kids, who’d entered first.
A five-member girl group in their sixth year, one of them was a DJ on , the show we’d appeared on at our debut.
Next was Liliiel, a seven-member girl group in their fifth year. We hadn’t become particularly close, but we’d done a collaboration with one of their members at last year’s year-end performance.
Then came Daylight, a nine-member girl group in their fourth year.
I’ll skip them. Maybe because they’re a survival group, but nobody seems nervous at all—which is honestly the wildest thing.
I wondered who’d take the most demanding center seat, and it turned out to be them. I have no idea how much nerve they’ve got.
Next was Pale Heart, a five-member girl group in their fourth year. Similarly, we weren’t particularly close, but we’d collaborated with one of their members at the year-end stage.
Then came our turn—Evergreat’s entrance.
The route went through the circular stage and into the audience section prepared in front of it……So where to sit was definitely going to matter.
The center seats relative to the stage were taken by Daylight. I’d thought that would be the most demanding spot.
“We decided to sit in the middle, what do we do?”
…And we’d been planning to sit in that demanding position.
We were supposed to be the ones to decide who chose it.
Should I have coordinated with Han Jeong-yeon beforehand? But we didn’t know the set layout, so how could we coordinate……
“Right. Daylight’s seniors took theirs first. Should we sit next to them?”
Lucky—or whatever you’d call it. The seats directly beside Daylight were empty.
Pale Heart and Liliiel were seated at either end, and Rain Kids sat next to Pale Heart.
After brief deliberation and agreement, we entered the set confidently.
I could feel the gaze of the other members, who’d been chatting animatedly among themselves, shift toward the stage.
“We’ll greet you first. Two, three.”
“Hello, we’re Evergreat! Thank you for having us!”
First came the group greeting from the stage. Speaking loudly with deep bows, we made a half-circle from left to right as planned, greeting everyone as we went between the stage and audience.
The Going Around Greeting Service, if you will……Something like that.
“Wow, it’s so nice to see you! Do you remember me?”
“Of course. You’re Hyun-ji from Rain Kids, right?”
“See, I told you you’d remember! Nice to see you all! Let’s get closer this time!”
We met Hyun-ji from Rain Kids, the DJ from , whom it felt like ages since we’d last seen.
“Hello, seniors.”
“Wow…….”
“Stop it, seriously. Seriously!”
“Ji-on, that concept is really not it…….”
“This isn’t our concept though. We’re sincere.”
“Ugh, Seo Ji-on really got consumed by the concept…….”
For reasons I didn’t quite understand, Han Jeong-yeon tried to pull at her own hair before being stopped by Yeo Eun-jae. We exchanged greetings with Daylight, including Yeo Eun-jae who was pretty startled herself, though not quite as much as Han Jeong-yeon.
With the other two groups, we kept the greeting awkward and brief. We’d gradually grow closer or compete with them.
After that, without much hesitation, we chose the seat immediately to the right of Daylight.
I’d imagined that these guys would be sitting in the most demanding, pressure-filled spot, but never thought they actually would be.
“Well then, we’ll do our best…….”
“I win.”
“Huh? Ah, Seo Ji-on, that’s cheating.”
“Haha! Don’t let your guard down.”
“Your concept is really weird…….”
“What’s weird about a junior greeting a senior earnestly?”
I responded to Han Jeong-yeon’s request for a handshake with scissors, and got an immediate reaction.
It’s actually nice having her right next to me—makes it easy to tease Han Jeong-yeon.
Looking at the audience so far, Evergreat’s styling was the least flashy.
Rain Kids, whose main genre is street hip-hop, went for rebellious, individualistic styling, while Liliiel, with their pure concept, wore moderately flashy and fashionable outfits.
Daylight, who regularly wears elaborate dress-style outfits anyway, made no effort today—they showed up in deliberately lavish burgundy gowns.
Pale Heart, matching their representative hit’s strong beat, also went for flashy styling, creating quite a contrast with us.
I think this was the right call……but still, maybe we should’ve paid a bit more attention to the outfits.
Yet the styling team’s experts said after watching the stage rehearsal that this was definitely solid.
Honestly, I wasn’t entirely oblivious to the fact that the outfits were a bit plain.
It’s a device to maximize the stage effect, so we’ll just have to show them directly.
***
After us, Ashcode and Bellier entered, and we were given a short break during filming.
Though even calling it break time, it was only about ten minutes of rest.
Perhaps because we were a bit tense, the break felt surprisingly refreshing.
Ashcode members sat in the previously empty seat to our left.
From the looks of it, they seemed to have chosen the side where they knew someone……but honestly, there wasn’t much we could do for them anyway.
Still, our youngest members seemed to have loosened up chatting with Ashcode’s youngest members. Good for us, good for them—nothing bad about it.
As the break was ending, Hyun Jae-yi, who’d been talking with Jo Eun-bin, suddenly spoke to me.
“Unnie, this is crazy. You know who the MC is this time?”
“How would I know? Why, do you? We’ll find out soon enough anyway…….”
I answered Hyun Jae-yi’s question and turned my head slightly.
The moment I recognized who was in the corner of my vision, I understood why Hyun Jae-yi had made such a fuss.
“Ji Cheong-yeon from Noxia!”
There stood Ji Cheong-yeon—the legendary former girl group member from Noxia, a famous PN girl group, who’d recently been in hiatus and keeping a low profile, the epitome of the ice-cold beauty.
Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten by My Own Hand
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: May 27, 2026
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