Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 108

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Episode 108
Before we moved to the Broadcasting Waiting Room, Go Hyun-seo asked me a question while looking at the Cue Sheet.
“By the way, unnie, about our stage order…”
“Yeah?”
“How did we end up going last like this…?”
“Oh, that.”
Evergreat’s stage order today was dead last among seven teams.
As to how we landed such a plum position…
“I won first place at Jenga.”
“…Huh?”
“Technically, Yeo Eun-jae and I teamed up, and I went out as our representative and played Jenga—I came in first. Since teams that switched songs were supposed to have adjacent stage slots, that’s how it ended up.”
It sounds like a lie, but it’s true.
When we all gathered for the broadcast teaser shoot, the production team made us play a mini-game to decide our order.
They said just choosing directly wouldn’t be fun enough…
There were several prepared mini-games to choose from, and what was written on the slip that Liliiel’s Leader pulled was Jenga.
It was kind of a tournament format—first I beat Liliiel’s Leader, then I faced off against Pale Heart’s Leader in the finals and won the Ending Stage slot.
It’s a bit amusing, but we got the order we wanted, so in the end it’s a decent result.
So the Cue Sheet that was decided like this was…
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1-1. Liliiel
1-2. Ashcode
2-1. Pale Heart
2-2. Rain Kids
3. Bellier
4-1. Daylight
4-2. Evergreat
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This is what we ended up with.
Bellier, unfortunately, didn’t get picked by any of the other teams as expected, so they ended up as filler.
I don’t know what song they’ll be doing, but a slot sandwiched in the middle—not at the beginning or anything—doesn’t seem like the best position to appeal to the audience.
After Evergreat and Daylight mutually selected each other as co-first place, Rain Kids, in third, picked Pale Heart, and Liliiel, in fourth, picked Ashcode.
And honestly, those two teams really struggled at Jenga…
Rain Kids’ Leader toppled the Jenga tower on the third turn, and their face looked like a raccoon that had just washed cotton candy—even the staff there had trouble holding back their laughter.
After a baton pass with Pale Heart’s Leader, though, I won against Jo Eun-bin and took the second slot.
We got to waltz into the final slot with ease.
When I asked Yeo Eun-jae if she wanted to do the Ending Stage, she said she didn’t mind, so I quickly claimed the Ending Stage for us.
Which is to say…
“But you know, I’m really curious what kind of song the Liliiel sunbaes will do.”
“Yeah, me too…”
For now, all we need to do is stay in the waiting room and react well.
It’s not exactly a full rest, but I decided to enjoy this quiet moment for a bit.
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With pure and refreshing as their main Concept, Liliiel employed a strategy targeting mass appeal, and selected “And” from Ashcode’s second mini album.
In truth, Liliiel didn’t have many options.
Both Ashcode and Bellier, the teams they could have chosen, were rookies, and Bellier, which had shifted its direction toward performance-focused material, didn’t seem to fit well with Liliiel’s overall concept.
While they were pushing an apocalypse worldview and the title track wasn’t particularly catchy, among the three rookie-level teams, Ashcode had the most songs.
Evergreat and Bellier started at mid-sized agencies, so almost all their albums are singles. They don’t have many tracks in absolute terms.
But Ashcode’s debut album and comeback album were both mini albums. There were plenty of B-sides to choose from.
‘That’s not a bad strategy…’
To put it nicely, Liliiel is the team that stands out most in terms of Concept by pushing the pure image; to put it not so nicely, they’re a team with no other striking advantages to speak of.
Being able to choose a song that maximizes their greatest strength when covering would be a favorable move for them.
“Oh, I get it.”
“Get what?”
“‘And’—it’s a pun mixing ‘End,’ like to finish, with the word, right?”
Ju Hye-rin, who had been watching the stage intently, spoke with sparkling eyes.
End or And
Let’s move on to the next
A song choice that doesn’t stray too far from Liliiel’s existing image, yet still lets the strengths of a cover come through.
Who picked this? It’s quite a smart selection, don’t you think?
Although the Arrangement was a bit lackluster…
Meanwhile, Ashcode, having swapped songs, had more to work with.
Liliiel doesn’t have a mega hit, but they’ve consistently released songs that appeal to the public.
‘This side also thought it through well.’
The Liliiel song Ashcode picked was “Sweetie,” which you could call Liliiel’s first major public appeal track.
Call me Sweetie, boy
Others absolutely no way
Only you my Sweetie
It’s an easy-listening, lovely song with a comfortable vocal range, an addictive hook, and an overall soothing feel.
It was a good choice to hide their weaker vocals while showcasing their stage control.
Not overcommitting to the Concept even on the competition stage was also a smart approach.
The public and idol fans perceive Ashcode as a conceptual Idol.
When they show a stage with this light, breezy atmosphere like this, people unconsciously think, “Oh, that’s unexpected?” and their evaluation naturally goes up.
“Hye-jin is cute…”
“It’s fine, Han-byul, you’re cute too.”
“Uh, uhh… Thank you…?”
You could see Lee Han-byul flustered by the sudden compliment to herself after commenting on her friend being cute.
It was an entertaining stage in many ways.
Now that I think about it, Ashcode might have done better with this direction in terms of capturing mainstream appeal.
I’m curious about the production direction. Most of the members suit cute, light songs so well, which makes me wonder even more…
Between stages, there were small gaps of time.
Part of it was the set changeover, and during that time they conducted interviews with the members.
Ashcode’s members looked quite bright. Maybe it was a good crowd reaction, or maybe they knew they did pretty well.
Somehow, my mind felt a bit at ease.
Pushing someone beyond reason just to gain something—that method really doesn’t suit me.
I’ve come to realize that having a conscience in a Regressor’s life makes things more inconvenient, but then again, being born human without a conscience—isn’t that even more of a problem?
Looking at an idol I might have thrown into the abyss in another life, those thoughts come to me.
…Well, I can probably justify it by saying that PN was the one who dragged Evergreat down through Reverse Viral or Publicity Play in my first life.
But I don’t want to justify it that far. In the first place, thinking that the members would do something like a Reverse Viral—that’s just foolish…
Wow, my condition’s really bad if I’m spinning off into thoughts like this.
A self-diagnosis of my current state, full of random thoughts today, yields a rather serious conclusion.
Maybe I really shouldn’t have enrolled back in university.
Is it the survival show that’s draining my stamina…?
No, before that—maybe it’s my parents who are the problem…? Here I am, making good money, independent, living my own life, and yet my parents are so hung up on me living freely that they came to my company demanding I get a college diploma. That’s definitely the main problem…
I’m not sure what the exact problem is, but one thing I certainly felt was that my condition is definitely not all right.
***
‘This is really getting tough…’
Kim Ye-jin, a former high school student now in college, an Evergreat fan and devoted One-pick Fan, thought this.
The newly minted adult had little experience attending group performances like this. If her older sister hadn’t taken her to the VMA last winter, she wouldn’t have any at all.
The only other thing she’d been to was a Music Broadcast Pre-recording. But even then, being from the provinces, Kim Ye-jin had only gone twice—once last spring and once this spring.
That spring’s Music Broadcast was really fun. First, there was the joy of seeing Seo Ji-on and Kang Su-ah, who had just become college freshmen and were feeling the pressure of university life, spending their pre-recorded broadcast shift complaining to fans about how hard it was to attend school. And second, Evergreat still performed incredibly well, and thanks to that, Kim Ye-jin managed to enjoy even the demanding schedule of early morning pre-recording and then heading to school.
But this kind of competition was different.
Having to watch stages from Idols she had no particular interest in, standing the whole time… And her phone was banned, filming was banned, the waiting time just kept getting longer while they changed the set…
Ashcode’s stage, continuously entwined with Evergreat, brought a shift in atmosphere and was pretty fun. And Rain Kids’ stage, with their solid skills, got the crowd excited too.
But except for those teams… it hadn’t been fun so far.
Bellier, the team that performed right before, was the most boring… or so Kim Ye-jin thought.
They weren’t picked by anyone, so they didn’t swap songs and instead covered Rain Kids’ most famous title track, but while the dancing was decent, the singing was kind of lackluster.
For someone like Kim Ye-jin, for whom live vocals matter, they weren’t a particularly appealing team.
‘Two teams left, so it should be Evergreat’s turn soon…’
The competition format was two teams swapping songs to perform, she’d been told.
So the next team to appear had to be either doing Evergreat’s song or actually be Evergreat!
Kim Ye-jin stared at the stage with what little patience she had left.
“Next to take the stage is an Idol who captivates fandoms with bold Concepts and excels equally at dreamy, gentle public appeal—Daylight.”
Ah, not Evergreat…
At the announcement from Ji Cheong-yeon, who was emceeing, Kim Ye-jin couldn’t help but look disappointed.
But Daylight was a group she knew—Evergreat’s close friends. Plus, they’d probably be doing an Evergreat song, so wouldn’t it still be fun?
With that thought, she turned her attention to the stage, and all the lights went out as they finished setting up.
And the moment the music started.
‘Wait, is this Fear?!’
Kim Ye-jin’s eyes widened in an instant.
Daylight had brought Evergreat’s latest song to this stage!
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario with These Hands
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
Production Date
: May 29, 2026
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