Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 25

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Episode 25
Lover @E_L0vr
Wow seriously how dark lol Jae-yi said Ji-on took 3 hours writing this ㅠㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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Lover @E_L0vr
An idol asking people to expect a lot from the fandom lol first time seeing this (photo)
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LuckyTwo Joo @l1117uck
She’s just the authority on feel-good photos
(Full-body shot of Ji-on taken at night at Seo Jung Arts University in her school jacket)
(Four-cut photo taken together with Han-byul and Ji-on)
(Selfie of Ji-on taken in the studio wearing round metal-frame glasses)
(Mirror selfie with Hyun-seo taken on a snowy night wearing a scarf)
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LuckyTwo Joo @l1117uck
But what she wrote on Univers when uploading the first photo: “I’d be grateful if you could have expectations”
Only the fans who are already super hyped see it but
Please stop making me laugh
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[What’s Evergreat Ji-on’s personality like?]
In the Seo Jung vlog she’s got insane cool-girl energy, but looking at her Univers posts she seems really rigid and proper
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– Her teammate said in the vlog comments that she rewrote it multiple times and it took 3 hours ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ saw it in the vlog ㅇㅇ
– The vlog is probably her real personality, maybe she’s just unfamiliar with fans as a rookie? ㅋㅋㅋ
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The day after opening Univers and releasing the album teaser, Evergreat’s official account posted a Promotion Calendar.
The promotion schedule written neatly in sequence on the classroom blackboard in softly falling sunlight.
Many fans thought the handwriting had been converted to graphics, but in fact it was a calendar drawn entirely by hand by Kim Yoon-joo, line by line.
You might call it a stroke of inspiration. The idea sprung from Kim Yoon-joo’s comment, “What if we just drew it on the blackboard? …It wouldn’t look pretty, would it…,” uttered while she was spacing out in a meeting where decent ideas simply weren’t materializing.
After confirming the final result, Kim Yoon-joo felt an odd sense of efficacy in the Chalk Lettering skill she’d honed as her class secretary during her school days. A specialty she thought she’d never use again after high school graduation!
After that, it followed the schedule. Concept Film, the first Music Video Teaser, Concept Photo, Track List and Highlight Medley, and a final teaser to build anticipation.
The Concept Film was released over three days, two members per day, in reverse order of age.
Thirty-second vertical one-take videos—nothing particularly extraordinary, but perfect content for the general public to watch casually and move on through YouTube Shorts.
Lee Han-byul studying quietly by the window seat in a corner of the classroom, then looking at the camera and opening her eyes wide as if startled, breaking into a soft smile,
Ju Hye-rin in the school gymnasium in athletic pants and a hoodie, lightly dribbling a basketball, then looking disappointed as the ball she throws bounces off the rim,
Hyun Jae-yi in front of the classroom blackboard smiling brightly, spouting absurd class president campaign promises, then caught red-handed when asked if she ran as a joke,
Go Hyun-seo in full uniform with an expressionless face, reading the student representative speech.
Kim Yoon-joo’s idea notebook had “Face Showcase” written in bold in that section.
Keep the school vibes, do it as Shorts, get as many views as possible!
Let it flow through the algorithm so people stumble upon it thinking, “Who’s this?”!
But the Concept Film released on the final day featuring the older-line members had a slightly different creative intent.
Kang Su-ah playing an untuned old piano in the school auditorium, humming along, then smiling prettily as if concluding here,
Seo Ji-on sitting in a classroom chair as the sun sets, playing an Acoustic Guitar and singing, then meeting the camera’s gaze and laughing awkwardly, saying she didn’t realize anyone was there.
The song the two performed was the highlight of the debut single’s title track, “Lucky Days.”
Before the official teaser and Highlight Medley were released, they spoiled the title in the Concept Film in a fresh way.
The kind of life-adjacent romance you’d imagine as a high school student seeing a piano in a music room or auditorium—let’s visualize that. And if we could also show off skill at the same time, that would be really great!
This Concept Film was completed, starting from such thoughts of Kim Yoon-joo’s.
Because of that, Kang Su-ah and Seo Ji-on had to perform an acoustic live at the shooting location, but that didn’t become a major problem. After all, this entire project was built on trusting and pushing forward these two people’s musical abilities!
The Concept Film, designed to showcase both their musical skill and their visuals, received the favorable response the management team expected, and even generated more buzz than anticipated.
Unlike planning companies that prefer uniform high stats across all dimensions even without standout traits, quite a few K-pop veterans had been craving idols who were “just plainly good at singing,” and that’s what they got.
Even in internet K-pop veteran communities known for being fastidious and harsh on rookies, soft praise became the mainstream reaction, so the image of “skilled rookie” seemed to spread quite successfully.
Naturally, mentions and interest in Evergreat on SNS and internet communities began to spike dramatically.
Core fans who’d been slowly appearing since the Proof Rookies era grew in number, and K-pop listeners who weren’t quite diehard fans but had interest increased as well.
Competing on skill—even in this era, it’s entirely possible.
All you need to do is rack your brains to get that skill out there!
Kim Yoon-joo’s confident assertion that if the members have solid skills and are promoted properly, the buzz would naturally follow turned out to be right.
“……Hmm.”
Ji-on lightly searched the community for the team name and member names, then closed the internet window on her mobile phone. She’d checked just the reactions to the teaser and Concept Film.
In fact, after the Track List was released, the internet had become quite a mess.
The fact that “Awesome” was produced entirely by Ji-on was already known, though only fans understood it—few expected that she’d participate in the composition, Lyric Writing, and Arrangement of the title track itself.
Even in earlier generations that valued skill, Self-Producing appeals had divided opinion.
In the current era where companies and producers plan everything and idols perform accordingly in a completely standardized format, a girl group’s Self-Producing of a title track was quite a considerable provocation, and the fact that it was a recently attention-grabbing skilled rookie’s debut track made it an even larger piece of kindling.
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[The Indie Prestigious House’s persistence from debut: Self-Producing, Singer-Songwriter girl group Evergreat] HOT!
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[Comments: 611]
– Indie Prestigious House’s persistence lol just say they don’t have money to buy songs
– But that’s what an artist is ㅋㅋ nowadays everyone just calls themselves an artist but if you want to call an idol an artist then you’ve gotta do at least this much
– Evergreat has a member who can produce so they ran the article about skill but seriously the comments are all messed up… why is everyone so twisted;
└ fr if people can’t bash someone they can’t even talk
– Like… these viral campaigns are usually so obviously rigged that when you dig into it everyone just had a tiny spoon stir… gives major skill inflation
└ One is a member’s solo work and the title had a different composer participate, only doing Arrangement according to the article…
└ The article has the track list in the body too so at least look at that before commenting, mine just inflated further;
– From the music video teaser the budget was clearly x-level low but trying to play the skill card ㅋㅋ
└ Real question but what does low-budget have to do with skill? The person who commented seems to think that because money-heavy companies have no skill, calling someone skilled is a viral campaign to ask about the low budget?
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ reply fact-bomb is insane
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Fueled by the major provocation Music Proof’s promotional team had stirred up, internet communities began to burn with intensity. It wasn’t intentional, but the timing was really impeccable.
The reason it’s easy to tear into an interesting-looking rookie is that there’s a small fandom to defend them.
So internet communities have a particularly strong tendency to casually pile on rookies. Especially for girl groups that still depend more on mainstream appeal than fandom firepower—even more so for those from mid-sized companies.
In the days following the Track List release, light but sharp commentary flew back and forth across internet communities.
And Ji-on checked the reactions carefully just once on the day they dropped, then quickly moved past them afterward. She’d mentally prepared, but it was simply exhausting.
The most tiring part of working in entertainment is being forced to witness an avalanche of negative commentary while checking reactions.
Particularly as an idol who takes the stage and appears in media, you have to check the public reaction to some degree, but the negative feedback you encounter in doing so exhausts you tremendously.
‘But I can’t just skip monitoring entirely either……. It’s difficult.’
This is why Seo Ji-on never wanted to become a player in the media.
When she only composed, she could manage to avoid it reasonably well, but as an idol directly communicating with fans, she couldn’t pull that off!
Every frame and every second analyzed for what expression she was making, edited maliciously at the slightest irritation—she hadn’t wanted to step directly into that world.
To be honest, that feeling hasn’t changed even now.
It’s really difficult. Is there a way to watch without getting too exhausted……?
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“What did you see that you’ve been sighing at your phone?”
“You startled me—when did you get home?”
“Just now. Is everyone sleeping?”
“Yeah, Jae-yi’s asleep too so don’t turn on the lights.”
I didn’t even hear the front door open. I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest…….
Go Hyun-seo has this habit of appearing suddenly without a sound, scaring people. I’ve told her several times to make some noise when she moves around, but she doesn’t seem inclined to listen…….
“You must be exhausted—go wash up and sleep. …Since I saw you come in, I’m heading to bed first.”
“You waited the whole time?”
“You had a personal schedule and came back late, so of course I had to check…….”
“If anything came up, Joo-young and the company would call you, so just sleep.”
By “Joo-young,” she means Park Joo-young, our recently hired road manager for the team. She’s tall with a sturdy build, but her personality is so easy-going that all the members seemed to get close to her right away.
Unlike the other members who don’t have any particular schedules yet, Go Hyun-seo has recently been getting some personal schedule offers. Most of them were web variety shows grouping DragonGirlfriend members together, and when I asked if it wasn’t inconvenient, she said, “Now that I’m debuting, there’s nothing inconvenient about it.” Cool girl…….
“I just find it easier on my mind this way. I’ve got an early schedule tomorrow too, so go to bed soon.”
“…Then why were you sighing earlier?”
“Nothing serious, just saw some internet comments. I looked them over roughly and forgot about them, so don’t worry.”
“……Okay, you should just get some sleep.”
“Now we’re gonna drop the formal speech?”
“I’m not that rude.”
“We promised not to use language we couldn’t use on broadcast even in everyday life, right?”
“…No, anyway. I don’t just do whatever I want.”
“I was joking, on both counts. But the word choice now is better.”
“……. This is seriously annoying so you should just go to sleep. It’s not like I stayed up all this time to tease you…….”
When I laugh silently, Go Hyun-seo leaves with an annoyed expression, closing the door gently since everyone else is sleeping.
Not slamming it hard or anything, just easing it shut—really, it’s because of this that I keep teasing her. She’s like a well-behaved youth (now an adult though).
Anyway, what I said was half-joking, but it’s probably time to let them speak more casually.
Honestly, I prefer casual, comfortable speech between us rather than formal language, so I’ve hinted several times that they should speak informally, but they’ve all kept using formal speech until now. Such respectful kids…….
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“Alright, so that’s how……we’ve ended up with a new maknae joining with just four days until debut. Should we give a round of applause to start?”
“Hello, seniors! I’m the new maknae joining as a visual specialist! I’m! Kim! Ju! Ri!”
Of course, that’s not real—it’s a web variety show concept.
Kim Ju-ri is a senior in the entertainment industry with similar age and debut experience to our maknaes…….
The YouTube web variety show “Juri’s Here”—a channel gaining buzz for its fresh and fun concepts and Ju-ri’s witty role-playing—is where we’re appearing in the new idol debut group episode.
Lee Su-bin, the team director, had a personal connection with the writer in charge, so she casually brought it up, and Ju-ri apparently said it would be way too fun and just straight-up asked her to become the maknae for the idol debut group. And all this happened this morning, on the actual shooting day…….
Successful channels all have their reasons.
The issue, if there is one, is that all our team members are still rookies who haven’t even debuted, so we’re probably not used to this kind of high-energy comedy sketch…….
“Wow! Ju-ri, great to see you! Wow, so you’re the visual specialist—your fashion sense is really something else? Anyway, I’m Su-ah, and I’m the oldest. Twenty-one~”
And yet.
I’d forgotten. Our unofficial departmental nickname for her: beautiful loose cannon—Seo Jung Arts University comedian, queen of ad-libs, Kang Su-ah…….
The maknaes, startled by the enormous energy, could only clap; me, trying to figure out how to keep up; and Go Hyun-seo seeming like she wasn’t adjusting well—meanwhile Kang Su-ah matched Ju-ri’s energy perfectly and gradually loosened up the team’s tension.
Soon after, Hyun Jae-yi’s mouth loosened too and she worked hard with Kang Su-ah to fill the opening segment.
Thank goodness we have entertainment-oriented members on our team…….
After the opening wound down, it came time for self-introductions. I briefly introduced my name, age, and the Position I’m taking on, and added that I’m serving as the Leader.
“Oh, so Ju-ri—our team promised each other something, and I think I should be the one to explain?”
“Yes, unnie!”
“One: speak prettily. Two: ……don’t use formal speech and speak comfortably with each other. Let’s just stick to these two, yeah?”
“…What?”
“We promised. Right, Hyun-seo?”
Go Hyun-seo’s expression watching my brazen, composed smile was really worth seeing.
If speaking informally just feels uncomfortable, let’s just make it a variety show concept from the start.
Our team’s a horizontal structure—that’s the variety show concept.
Of course, it’s not something agreed with the members beforehand, but honestly, doesn’t it sound fun?
You all picked this leader—you deal with her.
This unnie believes you’ll all be fully capable of handling a bit of casual speech during a variety show shoot.
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario with My Own Hands
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: January 5, 2026
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