Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 107

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Episode 107
May was a month full of festivals.
As the weather grew warmer, the schedules of idols only seemed to multiply.
‘And I’ve been waiting for a time like this……!’
Im Ji-su, who had taken a leave of absence from university, had lived industriously for exactly one month. Earning money through part-time work, pursuing hobbies, self-improvement…….
She’d wake up, catch an idol at a live broadcast in the morning, go straight to her part-time job for lunch, and study TOEIC in the evening—that was the life she’d been living.
But that routine didn’t last even a month.
In April, when she received her first paycheck, a cheap boss at the restaurant failed to pay her for the required weekly day off. (She’d quit in fury and reported him to the labor department. She didn’t get the money back, but she hoped he’d get what was coming to him.)
After quitting that job, wouldn’t you know it—Evergreat announced they were entering an idol survival show.
Why weren’t they preparing for a comeback through a physical album release in April or May instead of rushing into this show? The mystery that had consumed her and fellow fans’ complaints during the Bloom activity finally found its answer!
The first live audience taping was set for mid-May, before even the first episode would air.
But since the survival show heavily reflected in-person voting, and given that Evergreat was a master of the stage, she felt compelled to attend.
…Which meant that until now, on the cusp of the taping, she hadn’t bothered finding a new part-time job.
Im Ji-su deliberated seriously. Was she a worthless person?
And she’d come to her conclusion: she wasn’t worthless—the cheap boss who wouldn’t pay the weekly day-off benefit was.
If he’d just paid the weekly day-off benefit properly, Im Ji-su would still be working at that restaurant!
She couldn’t make excuses for abandoning TOEIC studies on the sly, though…….
Still, her parents hadn’t started nagging her about it yet, so she figured it was fine. (Or rather, she wanted to think it was fine.)
Anyway, Im Ji-su had come to see idols again. It was an extraordinary offline fan devotion spree—she was finally pouring out all the offline fandom she’d been unable to satisfy as a minor.
And besides…….
‘How could I not attend when Ji Cheong-yeon is the MC?’
That’s right. Her older friend Ji Cheong-yeon had taken on her first schedule in a while: hosting Pod K.
It wasn’t that Im Ji-su still loved Ji Cheong-yeon to the point of obsession or anything, but the fact that her older friend—who had paused her activities—was now hosting this survival show featuring her current favorite group was one of the driving forces behind this offline devotion.
Ji Cheong-yeon had logged out but hadn’t deactivated her account, so wouldn’t she be able to post photos again for the first time in ages?
‘Wow, but if I do well today, could I get a two-shot with Ji Cheong-yeon and Seo Ji-on?’
The thought alone made her heart flutter a little!
From Im Ji-su’s all-knowing otaku perspective, they looked quite different, but she could certainly understand why people made that comparison.

What they had in common was that distinctive cool, reserved beauty. Their facial features weren’t quite alike enough to call them very similar, but they shared that icy, detached aura that characterized cold beauties.
The way those faces could break into genuine smiles, combined with their sociable and pleasant personalities, meant there were surprisingly many reasons Seo Ji-on reminded people of Ji Cheong-yeon.
The chance to see a photo together of her old and current favorite……. Unless she’d been a serious anti-fan, she absolutely had to go.
Fortunately, Im Ji-su had won the lottery for the Pod K first round audience taping. It stood in stark contrast to her fellow fans Kim Si-hyun and Park Ji-yeon, whose bias groups had been eliminated early and who couldn’t attend the event even if they wanted to.
It was also fortunate that V-Net’s security was lax (whether on purpose to boost program promotion or just genuinely careless, she couldn’t say) and she could slip a camera into the venue.
Before turning off her phone, she’d informed the group chat of this fact, and they’d erupted. They kept telling her to photograph each of their biases…….
Im Ji-su adjusted the settings of the camera she’d smuggled in and thought to herself:
She couldn’t wait to see Evergreat.
***
“Ugh, not again……. Hye-rin, can you pass me some tissues?”
“Huh? Why? Well, here……. Wait? Unnie, is your nose bleeding again?”
“Yeah……, thanks anyway.”
At least she hadn’t changed into the costume yet.
The base of the costume was white, and if blood had gotten on it, it would’ve been a disaster.
“Ji-on, what’s wrong? Don’t tell me it’s happened again?”
“Yeah……. I don’t want this either.”
“Unnie, you’re really okay, right? It’s not that I don’t trust you, but…….”
The other members, having just finished their stage rehearsal and receiving hair and makeup, turned around one by one to look back.
“Don’t worry about it and just do what you need to do. It’ll stop in a bit anyway.”
Though they hesitated slightly at her words, they each went off to do their own thing.
Her physical condition had seemed off lately, and starting about a week ago, nosebleeds had become a daily occurrence.
She supposed it was from overwork and fatigue……. But one thing was certain: her body’s condition was on the verge of complete collapse.
A nosebleed or two would be annoying, but when they start happening this frequently, there’s nothing else to say but “here we go again.”
Even in her first life, she’d experienced frequent nosebleeds and found them bothersome; whenever her condition seemed to dip, this happened.
She’d thought she was managing her condition well……. But apparently, that wasn’t the case.
Sometimes when she thought about it, she wondered if she’d become too dependent on the mysterious System’s items.
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Shop
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Fatigue Recovery Potion (E) – A fatigue recovery potion that produces an effect roughly equivalent to three hours of sleep
※Overuse may reduce effectiveness
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The Roulette had lost its effectiveness, so recently she’d been buying Fatigue Recovery Potions from the Shop on a regular basis, but these had their own side effects…….
Using them was better than not using them for maintaining her physical condition, but now it seemed she’d reached a point where even they couldn’t cover the deficit.
To resolve this problem, she fundamentally needed long-term rest…….
Pod K hadn’t even begun airing yet (the first episode aired in a few days), and there were still roughly two months until the finale.
And beyond that, she had other schedules too. After today’s competition, there were several offline events lined up, including university festivals.
These days, university festivals were basically a metric of popularity, so it was right to be grateful when invitations came in.
And once Pod K ended, she’d need to make a comeback sometime in the second half of the year. She had to keep working on the mini-album she’d originally planned…….
Wait, when she thought about it like this, why did she have so much to do? Why was life like this…….
At this point, it was too late for Evergreat to shift their group concept away from Self-Producing; they’d long been known as a self-producing idol group.
It had become a selling point, and now it was her own capability too, so there was no reason not to use it.
Besides, she didn’t believe this company had the ability to source songs…….
If Team Lead Lee Su-bin put in the legwork, maybe something could be arranged, but honestly, even if she did, there was no guarantee they’d get quality tracks. It would be truly difficult to source songs that fit the concept the way they did now.
The representative’s stance from the start was that singers needed to be self-sufficient with their music……. so how could they source good songs? It only works if the company is desperate for it.
Unless we transferred to a decent idol-focused entertainment company, Self-Producing was all we could do going forward.
Anyway. So if there was a problem…….
“Unnie, you almost fell during the rehearsal earlier, didn’t you.”
“…You saw that?”
“I’m not telling Hyun-seo.”
“Thank you so much…….”
The fact that her body wouldn’t respond as she commanded without realizing it…….
After washing up and returning from the bathroom, Hyun Jae-yi approached and whispered to her.
During rehearsal, there’d been a move where she had to kneel on one knee, and apparently Hyun Jae-yi had seen her sway slightly at that moment.
“I think you’ll be fine in the broadcast waiting room? If you don’t think you’ll be okay, you could tell the writer in advance and maybe just wait here and only join for the stage and filming parts.”
“Being tired isn’t something that just started today; I’m fine.”
“You always saying you’re fine is seriously irritating, you know? But you actually do seem okay, so I can’t really say much…….”
Hyun Jae-yi pouted her lips as she spoke, and I responded with a smile.
Now that I thought about it, since I’d never been seriously ill here, the members’ distrust in my health was somewhat lessened.
Whether that was fortunate or not, the fact that I could move more freely without getting called out was definitely a good thing.
Yeah, if the problem were only poor conditioning and fatigue, how lucky could that be.
It was infinitely better than suddenly coming down with the flu as things warmed up and being bedridden.
Looking at it positively, at least nothing like the incident from my first official live performance had happened.
Hopefully nothing like that would happen in the future…….
***
After changing into costume and having our hair and makeup done, we all moved to the broadcast waiting room.
From here on, every action I took could end up on air later, so I had to be careful. The members had been forewarned about this.
“I wonder what song the Daylight girls will perform……. I’m curious.”
“I actually asked Eun-jae when we went to film the concept teaser, but she said she didn’t want to tell us.”
“What…….”
“So I didn’t tell her either.”
Go Hyun-seo burst into laughter despite herself, and the heavy air that had hung under the weight of the camera’s gaze instantly lightened.
Recently, we’d done a concept teaser shoot gathering the leaders of all the groups appearing on Pod K, and when I casually asked Yeo Eun-jae, she outright refused to tell me.
So I simply didn’t tell her either. What goes around comes around, after all.
The TV in the center of the waiting room was broadcasting the stage we would be performing on.
With dim stage lighting and a sharp spotlight, MC Ji Cheong-yeon appeared in a clean black suit and shoes to thunderous applause.
“Seize the crown and bear its weight. Pod K welcomes all the guests who’ve come to see the first competition. I’m your MC, Ji Cheong-yeon. Pleased to meet you.”
At last, the first competition had begun.
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario With My Own Hands
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: May 29, 2026
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