Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 26

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Chapter 26
Jjyuu (Status: Offline)🔒 @_jjyuu__
· 4 hours ago
hurry finish work pleeease
work never ends
“It’s finally over, damn it…….”
Twitter handle: Two-Ju. Naver handle: Jjyuu.
A young office worker in her early career, a devoted fan of Evergrit and especially Ji-on, simply collapsed face-down at her desk.
Why on earth did her company have to be this swamped right now? The pile of work was absolutely mountainous.
Because of this, instead of taking a personal day to attend Evergrit’s Debut Showcase, the office worker found herself unlucky enough to still be at the company well past 10 p.m. on the day before—without a moment’s rest.
And on top of everything, content was pouring out because it was right before the debut!
The girls were uploading to Universe all the time!! And now previews of appearances were starting to drop!!!
The pre-release and preview of , the immersive job experience YouTube content that’s trending lately, would have dropped at 7 p.m. today.
Even though it’s just a pre-release, there’s a certain charm to watching content like this in real time!
But what can you do—to support your fandom, you need to earn money.
Do you know how much money K-pop fandom activity costs…….
Now approaching a decade of K-pop fandom experience, she knew all too well how much it cost.
And more than anything, she knew far too well that if it didn’t cost a lot of money, that was an even bigger emergency…….
From her experience, an idol fan had to spend a lot of money for both the fandom and the idol to remain stable and enduring. As long as an idol was a business model, it wasn’t easy if there was no revenue.
So she chose to work like a dog, earn a lot of money, and spend freely on her fandom activities. That’s how the office worker survived, and that’s how her idol survived…….
The office worker quickly left the company and boarded the subway heading home.
On the relatively empty late-evening subway, she pulled out her smartphone and was greeted by countless notifications that had accumulated while she was working.
Official Evergrit Twitter alerts, direct messages from her fandom friend on Twitter, and so on…….
– Lup : y
– Lup : you haven’t seen it yet right
– Lup : don’t watch on the subway
– Lup : watch it when you get home ok
– Lup : i watched it on the subway on my way home from work
– Lup : i almost burst out laughing like a madwoman ㅜㅜㅜ
…What on earth did they upload?
Filled with curiosity, she opened the official Twitter account and was greeted by a suspicious-looking preview thumbnail.
The office worker suddenly wanted to get home faster.
Even though she was already heading there, even faster!
***
[Creator: Ju-ri, you have to become an idol]
[Creator: A girl group]
[Creator: Maknae of a rookie girl group debut team haha]
[Ju-ri: ?]
[Congratulations Kim Ju-ri on your idol debut]
“Pfft, what is this?”
The moment she hit play on the pre-release video, the banter between the creator and Ju-ri made the office worker burst out laughing.
The moment she got home, she resisted the urge to watch the preview immediately and rushed through a shower and everything else, then finally lay sprawled on her bed to watch the preview.
The office worker quickly dragged the YouTube progress bar all the way back to the beginning.
She could feel a thick air of comedy approaching!
The subtitles from what she’d just watched reappeared, and as comedian Kim Ju-ri’s dazed expression flashed by, suddenly a grandiose orchestra swelled to fill the background.
[BGM: Verdi – Requiem: Dies Irae]
Bam! Bam!! Bam!!! Bam!!!!
Verdi’s Requiem, once a frequent editing meme!
The scenes cut frantically and dramatically in sync with the unnecessarily grandiose music that made her laugh despite herself.
It was a preview of some of the hardships (?) the channel owner was about to face!
[Ju-ri: Ahhhhh (roughly meaning “I’m dying”)]
[???: Ju-ri, you’re late!! You need to get in faster! (meaning “I won’t go easy on you”)]
[Ju-ri: Is lunch really all this……?]
[???: Well, it’s right before debut, so……?]
[Ju-ri: Just eat this and then practice and work out again……?!]
[Ju-ri the Foodie in Maximum Life Crisis!]
Wait……, this is actually funny……?
Though the office worker’s laugh threshold wasn’t particularly low, she couldn’t help but snicker throughout the video.
She’d worried it might not be funny, but it looked like she could set that concern aside.
In about a minute and thirty seconds, the production team had crammed in every possible gag and hilarious moment.
The voice of someone exhausted from recording in the studio, calling for infinite retakes (presumably Ji-on), Kang Soo-a’s limp form in the corner of the gym in contrast to Hye-rin still full of energy after a fast hour on the treadmill, and more…….
The scenes were familiar to fans who’d seen much of Evergrit’s pre-debut behind-the-scenes content, but for the general public who only knew “rookie idol” they made for delightfully unexpected comedy.
And the production team of wielded the background music and cutting with surgical precision to pull off a perfectly executed B-grade comedy video!
There’s a reason people say the editing is so absurd it makes you laugh. This team had captured that sensibility flawlessly and brought out each moment beautifully.
The (in the office worker’s opinion) cherry on top was the final fifteen seconds that played like a credits scene.
[Ji-on (Leader): Oh right, Ju-ri. There’s something our team promised each other before]
[Ji-on (Leader): Not using formal speech with each other and just talking comfortably.]
[Go Hyun-seo: …What?]
[Is that originally a team rule?]
[Ji-on: Oh no, not that. It’s just a concept?]
[???]
[Ji-on: Hmm~….]
[Ji-on: I feel like I’ve distanced myself from the girls lately. (laughing)]
[A practice room rife with concept-acting—only the cunning survive!]
[Full-on immersive job experience variety show Ju-ri Came idol edition]
[Full episode premieres February 25 at 6 p.m.!]
So my favorite is the leader who just casually acts casual with the members without checking with them first?
Wow, please stop making me laugh…….
The office worker quickly scrolled through the YouTube comments.
Most viewers had the kind of delighted reactions you’d expect to a seemingly carelessly edited preview, and honestly, the office worker felt the same way.
Popular variety shows really do have their reasons…….
After laughing for a while, she regained her senses and opened her Twitter app to do a light check of her timeline.
The small but precious Evergrit fan timeline was, as expected, filled with cuts from the preview.
Even among a handful—or rather, a pinch—of fan accounts, a follower-300 office worker like her had become somewhat of a name.
She hadn’t created the account aiming to become well-known from the start, just a simple fandom account!
But among fan accounts with limited followers, consistent, faithful clip backups and enthusiastic posts created an environment where subscribers naturally gravitated.
Lucky Two-Ju @l1117uck
the leader who just casually does casual speak as a concept in a variety show bc she felt distant from the members these days actually exists
ji-on please stop making me laugh ㅜ
(Cut from Ju-ri Came pre-release video)
The office worker, as usual, cut out her favorite part and posted it to her account.
Reactions came in quickly—not a massive following, but retweets and likes gradually trickled in.
‘When the girls debut, the account will probably grow more, right? It’d be nice to have more people to talk to in fandom chat…….’
The office worker scrolled through her timeline lightly and then sprawled across the bed.
Anyway, she was really looking forward to tomorrow’s Debut Showcase!
***
“Hey everyone, good news!”
At Lee Su-bin’s bright voice, the members who’d been busy with their various tasks turned their heads.
“I just checked—the Debut Album pre-orders have crossed 10,000 units. That’s not easy for a rookie girl group from a mid-sized company, you know?”
…That’s decent.
If things go like this, we should be able to clear the abstract mission of a “successful debut” without much trouble.
In an era when top boy groups’ albums sell hundreds of thousands of copies, and top-tier girl groups sell in the hundreds of thousands, album sales are still a difficult metric for a rookie girl group from a mid-sized company.
It does happen occasionally that a rookie female idol sells 200,000 or 300,000 copies of her debut album, but that’s only for those with solid fanbases from survival shows or major labels.
For small-company girl groups like us with no foundation and no capital, breaking 10,000 in initial sales is considered pretty decent.
The definition of decent and successful is a bit different, but still, surpassing 10,000 in pre-orders is encouraging news. At the very least, initial sales aren’t a disaster, and it means a fanbase willing to buy 10,000 copies has formed.
I’m not quite grasping the scale of things, but I naturally joined in the applause with the other members.
Well, when you see articles about top boy groups selling hundreds of thousands, encountering a relatively small number like 10,000 gives you no sense of scale. I understand.
“Today’s fan Showcase will have fans who bought the album through pre-orders. Don’t be too nervous and just enjoy it.”
“Yes!”
I could hear the spirit in the members’ voices. The team leader ended with those words and said to rest for a bit before heading out of the Waiting Room.
Only then did I notice my heart was pounding more than necessary.
To be honest, I’m quite nervous.
It’s not like I’ve never been on stage before, but an amateur band and an idol are definitely different things.
“Nervous?”
“Of course. Not everyone is as naturally talented on stage as you from the start.”
“Haha! No, seriously, it doesn’t suit you!”
Apparently Kang Soo-a noticed and started poking me unnecessarily.
What do you mean it doesn’t suit me……. I slightly furrowed my brow and asked her back.
“What doesn’t? That I’m nervous?”
“Yeah. Really doesn’t suit you.”
“What do you take me for exactly……?”
“Doraemon?”
“What?”
“Like, ‘I’m nervous~’ and boom~ you’d pull out a solution for everything.”
“Ugh, you seriously need to stop hanging with Hye-rin. When you two are together, I really can’t handle it.”
“But I don’t wanna~? Why would I stop~?”
“Please, just stop.”
“How much will you give me~?”
“Goodness…….”
Seriously, I can’t handle this…….
I deliberately ignored Kang Soo-a, who was having a blast laughing, and did a final check of the press conference questions.
Whether I paid attention or not, Kang Soo-a kept at it for a while until Go Hyun-seo finally came over and dragged her away. Perfect timing, really…….
“Easy on it, or you’ll mess up Ji-on’s makeup.”
“Aw, I was just trying to loosen her up…….”
“…Were you nervous? Sister?”
Go Hyun-seo asked with a look of surprise, tilting her head.
What did these kids think of me? Isn’t this a situation where anyone would obviously be nervous?
“A little? The media Showcase has lots of questions to prepare for, and this is also my first time standing on a stage this size.”
“But you performed in the band club…….”
“An amateur club where everyone laughs off mistakes is different from performing as a professional singer. This is work…….”
“That’s true though.”
Seeing her embarrassed smile, as if she’d never thought of it that way, Go Hyun-seo clearly hadn’t considered that I’d be nervous in the first place.
“Anyway, I said just talk comfortably with me.”
“I’m more comfortable this way, honestly? Using informal speech with you would be more uncomfortable.”
“But you use informal speech with Soo-a just fine…….”
[There’s a difference. Soo-a and Ji-on are kind of……, different.]
Go Hyun-seo just shrugged, but I still didn’t understand.
Looking at Hye-rin in the corner desperately trying not to make a sound while laughing hard, it seems only I’m missing something. What on earth……?
“We should probably head over soon. Everyone, let’s move.”
“Okaaay~”
In the end, I never understood what Go Hyun-seo meant.
I had to move to the media Showcase at the manager’s word.
A strange floating feeling came over me.
So I really am becoming an idol…….
Rewriting the top girl group scenario with my own hand
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
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: January 5, 2026
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