Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 24

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Episode 24
From late June last year through late January this year—roughly a year and a month—I watched this System and occasionally found myself thinking such things.
It’s not like raising a digital pet or anything. Does it want to play puppet master with a person?
Objectives, missions, quests, events…. Different terminology, but ultimately the System’s goal is to move me around however it likes, isn’t it?
When this thought occurred to me, the first thing that came to mind was a game series I’d loved as a kid—Pokémon.
You’re given the goal of becoming a League Champion, you follow the story scenario, experience various events, and through those events the player character grows and eventually achieves the goal.
Isn’t my current situation strikingly similar to a playable character in a game?
The only difference is that a playable character is controlled by a game player who watches every situation in the game, while I’m actually alive and have my own will.
And then there’s this… Profile window.
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PROFILE
Name: Seo Ji-on
Age: 21
Affiliation: EVERGREET
HP ♥♥♥♡♡
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VOCAL Lv.67
DANCE Lv.49
SPECIAL – Composition/Producing Lv.54
Instrument: Guitar Lv.81
Instrument: Piano Lv.79
Instrument: Bass Lv.55
Trait – Tuning (A): Discord becomes harmony. A keen sense that catches irregularities faster than anyone else and smoothly corrects them without a trace, coupled with swift problem-solving ability.
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Doesn’t it resemble a game to a suspicious degree?
The expression HP, levels, traits….
The changed affiliation and age, along with the steadily rising levels from practice, feel oddly unsettling.
No matter how much reality mirrors level-grinding—practice, practice, and more practice—can actual performance really be converted into a numerical value called a level?
Once you start pointing out the strange aspects of the situation, they multiply endlessly. Artificially constructed memories, this “System” that’s oddly similar to those in web novels….
Honestly, questioning it like this gives me no real power to resolve anything. Taken to its extreme—even if “this world is a game!” were the truth, there’s probably nothing I could actually do about it.
And yet I can’t just blindly trust the System, not when it has a history of threatening a person’s life from the very beginning.
But I can’t write it off as harmful either, since it hasn’t hurt me so far. What it’s given me, I’ve put to pretty good use.
What am I supposed to do with this?
After the holiday break, I won’t have time to stare blankly into space and think deeply for a while, so I need to sort things out before the Lunar New Year holiday ends if I can.
I boldly said I’d pick apart everything, but the only thing I can actually be certain of is that “the System has a reason for making me an idol,” and everything else is just speculation.
……
Somehow my energy’s draining away.
After spending all of yesterday, the first day of the holiday, digging through System functions, there wasn’t much else to do. Just thinking, thinking, and more thinking….
The thought that something abnormal has already happened, so what’s the point of thinking? And yet the thought that I need to think to understand how things work when clues appear…. Enough doubts to fill a hundred-minute debate show.
“I haven’t even done anything yet and my head hurts, what the hell….”
As my thoughts spiraled, a headache crept in gradually. This is exactly why overthinking is bad….
I even banged my head against the bedpost once, but my thoughts wouldn’t stop—they just kept multiplying endlessly. I felt such a sense of crisis, as if I was about to be consumed, an uncontrollable flood of thoughts.
I took a deep breath and clapped once, as hard as I could. The loudest sound I could manage—my palms stung and the noise filled my ears with nothing but the sound.
The pain was secondary; the loud sound in my ears didn’t jolt me awake exactly, but it did sever the circuit of my runaway thoughts. Only then did I feel my heart racing far too fast.
I was a heavy thinker even before the Regression, so this was a method I often used when my thoughts would spiral too deeply.
In my studio alone, this happened fairly often, but recently my surroundings were so loud I’d had no reason to use it. The racing heartbeat, the uncomfortable breathlessness—it’s been a while since I felt these.
I know myself reasonably well.
Damned sensitive, damned finicky, with a temperament that’s hard to view favorably, so the type of person who’d end up with no one around if I lived thoughtlessly.
As a result, I naturally developed the habit of thinking a lot from childhood, and by the time I was older, I’d learned how to cut off thoughts when my head ached from overthinking.
So I know what to do in times like this.
Cut it all off and just sleep. Like turning off a computer.
Usually I relied on sleep aids (I only used them when truly necessary, following all precautions!) but at the dormitory…, there’s no way they’d have any.
During Lunar New Year break, late in the evening…. Any pharmacy that was open would be closed by now, and from experience, with my head this overheated, I can’t sleep naturally.
That’s when the System notification, which had been quiet for months, suddenly rang out.
[▷ Special Quest: A Sleepless Night♪]
[You, feeling down for no particular reason! Clear your mind with a light song and fall asleep peacefully.]
[▷ Quest: Sing any song (※Just one verse is fine)]
[▷ Reward: Sweet Dream Fatigue Recovery Potion (※Guaranteed 8 hours of sound sleep! No side effects!! Just lets you sleep soundly!!!)]
“……Ha.”
I’m genuinely speechless.
A hollow laugh escaped on its own. What the hell is that?
In fiction, the System is often a being with good intentions backing the protagonist, but this clearly isn’t that type.
If it were well-intentioned toward me, it wouldn’t make me an idol. I can’t even assume something like “well-intentioned” or “for my sake” in the first place.
Thinking back to the first day of the Regression, something intelligent is definitely behind all this, but the way it’s so blatantly advertising its usefulness is damn suspicious.
Speaking plainly, it’s damn annoying.
But I didn’t bother to resist and push back. The benefit of getting sleep and resetting my mental state outweighed what I’d gain from a power struggle with it.
Though it was pretty hilarious how it just accepted our title no matter how carelessly I sang it and handed over the reward anyway.
The item’s effect was damn good.
Thanks to it, I slept soundly for eleven hours and woke up mentally refreshed, but my mood itself was oddly bad—I’ve now experienced every flavor of this absurd life. Life really is dynamic….
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“I’m home…, Ahhh! You scared me!!! Why are you here already?!”
“Please, don’t use your vocal projection on me like that…. My ears are literally ringing.”
“That’s because someone didn’t listen to my heartfelt request to let me know when certain people came back to the dormitory early! How was I supposed to know you’d be here already?!”
“Then what’s the point of ‘I’m home’?”
“Just a habit…? Anyway!”
That evening, my same-age friend—the only one in the group—still boasted an impressive vocal volume even after her break.
Can’t I just listen to Kang Su-ah’s voice at like 75% volume? I was alone for just two days and the noisy dormitory already feels strange….
“You didn’t make up with them? Still, you took entrance exams and they even paid for your college tuition, so I thought you could make peace….”
“No, it’s just a wall. Those people won’t listen even if I talk to them, so why should I strain my voice? I’m in a critical period for vocal care anyway.”
“…I was just saying it because if you’re uncomfortable with family, your heart becomes uncomfortable too…. I’m not taking your parents’ side or anything….”
Of course I knew she meant no harm, but Kang Su-ah being uncharacteristically cautious and adding on extra words made me laugh for a long time.
“Ah, haha, that’s so funny…. Of course I get it. You forgot you asked me to hand over my phone?”
“…Wow, no way. That was less than a year ago, so why does it feel like a million years have passed?”
This was about an incident that happened when Kang Su-ah, who hadn’t been my roommate long, overheard one of my calls by chance and learned the situation roughly. When I explained everything, she insisted on being angry on my behalf and told me to hand over my phone.
At the time, Kang Su-ah left behind the statement for the ages: “When fighting with adults, you have to become a stubborn mule yourself!” I genuinely think it’s a blessing that time hasn’t made that moment disappear.
“Anyway…. I thought it would get better if I didn’t see them….”
“They’re not the kind of people you can forget just because you don’t see them. I’m just trying to achieve financial independence as quickly as possible.”
“That’s great! Becoming a superstar and reaching a position where you have nothing to regret!”
At that, I just laughed happily for a long while.
Kang Su-ah is thoughtless and bright, but she’s perceptive. She knows what mood I’m in, what I dislike, what topics I prefer and which ones I want to avoid, and she adjusts herself accordingly.
Both before and now, I think she’s a really good friend.
Seeing me look a bit down, she brings up superstar talk and even passionately belts out recent number-one Billboard chart songs—where else in the world would you find a friend like that?
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The moment the Lunar New Year break ended, a page on the calendar turned.
What this means is: the month of our official debut has finally arrived.
“Looking at it this way, this shot is really pretty, isn’t it?”
“Right? The leftover shots came out pretty too, but the one we shot last turned out the best.”
I heard the music video and teaser shooting schedule was quite tight, but thankfully it finished on time.
After watching the finalized music video, Team Lead Lee Su-bin was extremely proud, and I heard that the music video planning was done by both the team lead and Yoon Ju, while the production work was essentially handled by the team lead alone.
Team Lead Su-bin is the best. Please work with us for a long time….
It’s really unfortunate to tie down someone this capable to Music Proof, but…, if we work hard and grow well, we’ll become an accomplishment for the team lead.
With the new year, the newly developed team finally renamed Management Team 3 handled an overwhelming amount of work.
Yoon Ju says she prefers it now to times without work, but looking at the dark circles under her eyes, it seems like that’s not entirely true….
We really have to succeed. We need to succeed big enough that our team members can receive sufficient bonuses on top of their performance pay….
【EVERGREET First Single ‘4EVER Lucky Clover’ TEASER】
And so on February 3rd, the debut teaser finally dropped, and EVERGREET’s full debut schedule officially began.
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“Team Lead, can we upload the selfies we took now?”
“Yeah, it’s fine now.”
“Wow, finally!”
Lee Han-byul asked the question, but Hyun Jae-yi’s reaction seems the best?
It seems the one month of not being able to upload selfies on Tweible because of hair dye was pretty frustrating.
“I won’t monitor and control everything. Especially you older ones—you’re legally adults anyway. But…, when you write posts on Uverse and reply to fans’ comments, you really need to double-check each time that it’s okay to write like that. Got it?”
“Yes!”
The team lead’s eyes waver like she’s watching a child set out on a river.
I wonder if she’s worrying too much, but I fully understand her concern. None of them are the type to post thoughtlessly, but there’s always the possibility of a one-in-a-million mistake.
With the debut teaser announcement, EVERGREET officially opened the fan communication platform Uverse.
After the debut group was announced, we could post brief messages and photos on Tweible, but having a system to communicate with fans in real-time like this was a first, and the feeling was quite strange.
The fact that people enthusiastically liked me for no particular reason felt grateful, amazing, and surreal all at once.
After opening Uverse, I even struggled with writing short posts.
Refining the first post over and over, I ended up with such an overly formal and stiff tone that Hyun Jae-yi laughed for quite a while….
For the record, I just abandoned that and rewrote it. Hyun Jae-yi giggled until tears came to her eyes, telling me that’s not how you write, and besides, even I could see something was wrong with it….
It’s not like I don’t understand the concept of fan service from idols. I have some experience working in the industry, so I definitely understand it, but….
“It’s really hard…. I write something, but when I look at it thinking of uploading it, it feels incredibly rude.”
“Why is this language unnie so bad at reading the room? Su-ah unnie wrote something with real sense! I thought that unnie was on her second go-around as an idol.”
That’s roughly correct. She just doesn’t remember it….
Even originally, Kang Su-ah was someone mentioned on various sites as having a good attitude toward fans in a complimentary, fox-like way. That personality goes nowhere.
“Unnie, you’re really strange. You pick photos to upload like a real professional idol does, real efficiently….”
“Right, I’m starting to find myself strange too. How come everything I come up with feels off….”
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JION
Hello everyone, I’m Jion ㅎㅎ This is my first time greeting you directly, so I’m quite nervous!
I’ll show you good sides and growth going forward, so I’d appreciate your expectations! See you often 🥰
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In the end, I was the last among the members to post on Uverse after it opened.
Hyun Jae-yi laughed about that too, but…, this is the best I can do.
And I mean that seriously….
Rewriting a Top Girl Group Scenario with My Own Hands
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
Production Date
: January 5, 2026
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: ACESMEDIA
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