Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 32

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Episode 32
JION
Hey Everies, it’s Jion.
Like I mentioned during yesterday’s live, I’m really happy to have found more ways to call you all besides just “fans”
You all always call me with such warm and affectionate names, right? I may not be quite there yet, but I wanted to do the same for you too haha
Thank you so much for always loving me, Everies
See you all in a bit!
(A selfie taken with the members after the first live performance)
(Two more selfies taken by Jion alone afterward)
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‘Can someone like me, who’s been a fan of major label idols, really like an idol from a small company…?’
Lim Jisu, who had somehow ended up here at Evergreat’s radio live broadcast taping, found herself thinking this.
It wasn’t a problem with the members. It was a problem with the company and its planning power, the problem of capital!
How many female idols from small entertainment companies do event after event and then vanish without a trace…!
No, wait. Still, maybe this place will be okay.
In the roughly twenty-four hours that Lim Jisu had come to understand Evergreat, the group seemed to operate based on the members’ abilities rather than the company itself.
The company wasn’t completely failing at its job (at least not yet), and the debut single’s initial sales were pretty decent, but….
From Lim Jisu’s perspective, having watched her senior walk the path of stardom from debut with major label P&N, one of the big three entertainment companies, she couldn’t help but worry whether this haphazard way of things was really sustainable.
It’s not that small companies won’t work. It’s just that…, a company needs money and good instincts, or it won’t make it….
“Oh oh, here come the girls.”
“Bibi, the girls are coming out!”
Of course, if she said such things, the two women next to Lim Jisu would scold her for worrying over nothing—but!
Nyeong and Ori, these two, had made it through all their radio and off-schedule appearances despite the semester starting.
They’d just come from running through the radio session and even a cable music broadcast recording and live broadcast all in one day!
When asked where they found such stamina, she only got answers like “If you love them, anything’s possible”—K-pop fans who were utterly mad.
Lim Jisu lifted her head at her friends’ words and looked at the Evergreat members.
It was only then that she realized the members were taller than she’d expected.
The sight of Evergreat’s members in person was a revelation. She’d thought they photographed well enough on camera with good visuals, but they were actually the type who didn’t photograph well at all!
Lim Jisu found herself unable to tear her eyes away, especially from the older members Seo Jion and Kang Sua. She’d thought soft-looking beauties like Kang Sua weren’t her type, but this was visuals that shattered her entire preference…. Those soft, flowing eye lines and lips were a whole new world of enchanting beauty!
Seo Jion too—or rather, even more surprising because she was actually her type. Can neatness and glamour coexist in the same word? She was neat and clean, yet cold-seeming, and somehow glamorous at the same time.
Those fine, sharp facial lines and gaze, the warm, affectionate smile that softened her cold first impression—it was insane visuals that hit Lim Jisu’s taste dead-on.
Wait, did our eyes just meet…?
Perhaps because she’d been staring so hard, Jion, while greeting the fans, turned her gaze toward her. Still wearing that warm smile for the fans.
Could it have been three seconds? Maybe it was less, but the moment their eyes met felt stretched out impossibly long.
“…Coming to my first off with my bias and actually making eye contact—what are the odds here?”
“Don’t know the percentage, but I’m calling it a strong signal to become a fan.”
The radio booth had by now finished its live preparations, and Evergreat began to sing their title track.
A weighty, playful bass bounced through the intro, and soon Seo Jion, taking the opening part, began to sing.
I’m telling you beforehand
I don’t believe in such things
Even though you say it like that
Look, my heart’s already moved
“Bibi, her heart’s totally moved?”
“Shh, I’m confused right now too because I got my heart stolen by a woman I only met yesterday….”
Unable to actually cause a commotion during the live, Ori switched to silent mode and giggled delightedly. Even so, Ori didn’t stop taking pictures of her bias, Go Hyunseo!
So becoming a fan, having a bias….
Is it really supposed to hit you this suddenly…?
She knew the otaku concept of being “hit by lightning”—a sudden change of heart—but had never actually felt it before. The wide-eyed boy with the frozen expression from way back was too long ago, and her senior, who’d developed her interest into fandom gradually like a drizzle soaking clothes, meant Lim Jisu had no way of knowing what this felt like.
But today, she felt like she finally understood what that phrase truly meant.
Somehow the song had moved into the chorus of the second verse. The last part of the second verse was handled by Jion.
I can make it for you whatever you want
Won’t you believe in me?
And then the sweeping dance break.
It was a bit short for current trends, but it had that familiar third-generation flavor.
Believe in me, she said….
It struck her as too sweet flirtation.
No, seriously, listen.
I didn’t choose to become a fan, but she’s over there deliberately coaxing me into it—how am I supposed to handle this….
***
In truth, just before debut, Team Lead Lee Subin had expressed some concern about mine and Kim Yunjoo’s opinion that we should do live vocals on every music broadcast.
She’d worried that rookies still unfamiliar with managing their condition despite erratic sleep schedules might strain their voices and be mocked for a poor live performance.
‘Well…, she does have a point….’
This didn’t happen in this timeline, but in my previous life there actually was a time I died getting torn apart for not being able to do even one live. So Team Lead Lee Subin’s concern had merit.
And yet….
– Live reaction’s good. You guys sing well.
– Wow!
After finishing yesterday’s live, I’d taken a brief moment to stop by the practice room with the younger members, and I’d shown Ju Hyerin and Lee Hanbyul a few positive comments I’d found online.
From their debut, Evergreat had all their members, down to the seventeen-year-old youngest, do live vocals—a bold and skilled rookie group that had gained quite a bit of recognition and favor among K-pop enthusiasts and the general public alike. And those younger members were growing well, nourished by such praise.
When I wrote the title track, the biggest thing I considered was each member’s vocal range and color. Since Ju Hyerin had good volume and Lee Hanbyul had excellent emotion and tone, playing to their strengths meant they wouldn’t make major mistakes in a live performance.
Ju Hyerin handled the first verse chorus, and Lee Hanbyul took the bridge and outro—and both have been performing the live beautifully so far! Public reception’s been good too.
I took the intro, which could be tense or off-key; Kang Sua got the parts that need vocal skill but keep things interesting; and the younger members got the parts they could do best.
That’s how important a first impression was. The first impression of a skilled rookie doing live vocals.
“‘s idol of the day—meet Evergreat, rookies who debuted just a week ago! Welcome!”
“We’ll greet you. One, two, three.”
“Hello, we’re Evergreat!”
The greeting echoed loudly through the radio studio.
Rookies look prettiest when they act like rookies. It was something I’d emphasized to the members and something they all agreed on.
The senior idol DJ of watched them warmly and continued.
“We heard your title track live performance first and started the broadcast, and the skill level doesn’t match a group that debuted just a week ago! But seeing that powerful greeting, I’m reminded again—oh, these are rookies! Now, would you each introduce yourselves?”
Yeah, in moments like this.
Not only the senior idol but the staff seemed to be looking at us quite fondly, so it seemed to be working.
With no capital and no experience, possessing only skill and visuals as rookies—how could we leave a positive impression on the music industry?
I’d thought about it for a considerable time, and it wasn’t just me, but Kim Yunjoo and the other members (especially Hyunji currently) who’d been thinking about this since the pre-debut period.
Our final conclusion was simple.
Let’s act like rookies. Even if it’s clumsy, do everything with effort.
Everything you do for the first time is clumsy anyway. And in the idol world, the image direction depends heavily on how you package that clumsiness.
You might be clumsy interacting with fans. You might be clumsy on stage. You might make mistakes with live vocals or choreography on stage.
But not even attempting those “idol-like behaviors” doesn’t look particularly good.
What Kim Yunjoo meant by “a few mistakes are okay” was this.
Just do it. Mistakes born from absolute lack of experience can sometimes become a point of endearment rather than something the public merely tolerates.
Fundamentally possessing skill and visuals, that kind of “gap moe” becomes a factor in fandom, or so Kim Yunjoo said….
So first, the important thing was leaving the definite impression of “wow, those guys are really good!” That’s the point—already skilled, but subtly rough around the edges.
Kim Yunjoo insisted that “rookies who can do live vocals are rare in the idol scene these days,” so we’d definitely gain recognition once we started doing the broadcast rounds.
She also mentioned that music broadcast lives themselves are a certain level of viral buzz within the idol world, and in reality, as complete rookies, we’ve been getting quite a bit of attention—probably partly because we did live vocals throughout the music broadcasts.
This way, we’ve used multiple means to leave a strong impression among K-pop fans with our debut activities.
“…The title vocal mix challenge has been pretty hot online lately. When I first heard it, I thought, wow, is this really a challenge?! in the most literal sense.”
“Honestly, we didn’t believe it at first either. Could we really do that?! That kind of feeling? But then Sua Unnie told us to just trust Jion Unnie.”
“Yae couldn’t believe it! What about you, Hyunseo?”
“I couldn’t quite believe it either. So Jion Unnie said to me, don’t you guys pick up new choreography on the spot every time?”
“So for Jion, the difficulty of learning new choreography on the spot is higher than the difficulty of naturally mixing a song you’ve never heard before with Lucky Days?”
“Ahaha…. We definitely had prepared challenges too. The challenge we did with Senior Layla, we prepared the day before, and the challenge we did with Daylight—we did that one completely on the spot.”
That new vocal challenge with Daylight was also part of the recognition and promotion strategy.
Originally, we were supposed to do it first with Layla, a more experienced vocal-focused solo idol, but…, somehow we ended up doing it with Daylight first.
To be honest, this challenge is tough even for the person arranging it, but the person singing it is subtly challenging too. Even Yeo Eunjae, who’s considered a decent vocalist, was a bit confused.
Because it’s a debut, we wanted something unusual to grab attention, but next time, maybe I’ll lower the difficulty even if it’s harder for me. The Aurora one was a bit easier because it was a song people already knew….
Well, in any case, the buzz we got was worth the challenge.
Starting out as a rookie with nothing, seeing the group “Evergreat” get mentioned in K-pop communities and seeing challenges uploaded to major YouTube K-pop channel shorts shows it’s a fairly successful strategy.
The goal of this debut activity strategy is for people interested in K-pop in general to perceive “Evergreat” as a skilled group with the image of “vocal experts” who handle full handheld mic lives with all members from debut and can even tackle demanding vocal challenges.
Before long, the radio talk had shifted from challenges to our group’s vocals. I didn’t miss the moment and read from the prepared script.
“…So, we prepared something for this appearance on .”
“What could it be~? Since you’re mentioning it right after talking about vocal challenges, could it be….”
The senior idol DJ looked at me and smiled sweetly.
This is all content already written in the script…. So the rumor that she likes music is true.
“A medley of our group’s title tracks by Hyunji, the DJ, and our senior group Rain Kids. The three of us in vocal positions—me, Sua, and Hanbyul—prepared this, and we’d appreciate it if you enjoyed it.”
“Wow, this doesn’t sound like empty talk—I’m really looking forward to this?”
The moment my part finished, I gave the guitar the staff handed me a quick check.
“Then shall we listen right now? Evergreat’s Jion, Sua, and Hanbyul singing a Rain Kids medley.”
To be honest, isn’t a radio show that reaches diverse audiences, but it’s the only radio appearance scheduled for our group.
So when we get a chance like this, we should give it everything we’ve got.
With what we do best, with what will appeal the most.
My hand rewrites the top girl group scenario
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
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: January 5, 2026
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