Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 39

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Episode 39
[Music City Evergreat why are they so good lmaooo]
Lots of groups covering Netgibup but these guys are number one in my heart ngl everyone sings so cleanly
[App visuals today are insane]
Everyone rolled a six lol Seo Ji-on’s beret what is that
[Did Evergreat do an Arrangement for Luck?]
Sorry I’m tone-deaf but it sounds different idk if it’s an arrangement or not
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– Not like they changed anything but it feels like they filled in more instruments?
– It was already band-style but now it’s fully packed with that band sound, love it
[Pinkfruit sorry but did App really Live Sing the cover song today???]
My family and I were fighting about whether it was live or not, they were going on about how there’s no rookie who lives like that, and here she is lol
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– It’s Live Singing
– You could even hear her breathing lololol the mic gets quieter if you move away.. it’s definitely live
– Lolololol original poster your family doesn’t know anything, these days if you follow kpop even a little how do you not know about Evergreat’s live singing
└ Fuck) dude they’re muggle lol im gonna beat them
【Evergreat tore up Tokyo #shorts】
– Jae-yi really tore it up on Netgibup this timeeee Hyeon Jae-yi looks like she was born to be an idol…
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– Evergreat’s commitment is insane, they did a cover with handheld mics and live at a stadium in Japan for the first time lmao even the youngest members sing well so I’m even more hyped for 1-2 years from now
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└ Such a different level from that group that lip-syncs even their own title tracks ^^
└ What lol stop stirring the pot in my comment section
Lov🔒 @lov_1ov_S2
Hey guys if my bias at the overseas concert seemed like she looked at my camera and ac’d with me, is that an illusion?
(A hastily shot preview. Ji-on is looking at the camera, smiling softly and waving slightly.)
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Jjyuu(status:app_max)🔒 @_jjyuu__
s i’m losing it it’s seriously ac
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“…The pre-order sales volume already exceeded 100,000?”
“That’s right!”
……Where on earth did this volume come from?
It seemed like the right time to resume monitoring, which I’d nearly quit due to stress.
Lee Soo-bin, seeing my expression was quite confused, smiled slightly and explained the details.
To sum it up, the performance at the awards show and the Music City stage apparently hit much bigger than expected, domestically and internationally alike.
From general public interest to deeper levels of interest spread evenly across the board, and combined with the recent album inflation phenomenon shaking up the female idol market, the pre-order sales for the new album already exceeded 100,000 copies just days before the comeback. That’s what she said.
Well, the tight Fan Sign schedule that Music Prove set up also seemed to play a part. It’s decent marketing strategy, isn’t it.
“Feels good to have put in the work, right?”
“Um…, yes. Really, it does.”
I hadn’t expected such a reaction to come all at once like this.
According to the team leader, we’ve accumulated quite a bit of content for a rookie group, and Kang Soo-ah’s Universe attention-grabbing antics had gone viral unexpectedly, creating fans who became interested through that….
Now that I think about it, Kang Soo-ah had drawn attention before with her variety show character. There was a comment that while we thought she was a natural-born singer, she also has the soul of a variety personality.
Well, it’s good.
A core fanbase building steadily means the possibility of winning a Rookie Award is gradually going up.
More than that, now I’m starting to understand the mystery.
[▷ Hidden Quest condition achieved!]
[▷ You have been assigned a Hidden Quest!]
[▷ Hidden Quest: Achieve First Place on a Music Broadcast.]
[Period: Until the final week of 2ND SINGLE activities (Week 3)]
Why did this random quest pop up….
Maybe the condition for the Hidden Quest was ‘Initial Sales of 100,000 copies’ or ‘Pre-order sales exceeding 100,000’, something like that?
The system threw the quest at me so suddenly after saying I’d achieved the condition that I nearly went to hell trying to grab the system by the throat. In other words, I nearly rushed at it determined to die and take it with me….
The moment Lee Soo-bin left my studio to inform the other members, I nearly slid backward off my chair and collapsed.
Ah…. Damn it, life.
Even if things were this uncertain, living is so damn exhausting….
Initial sales of 100,000 copies, good. For our group’s metrics, it’s very positive momentum.
But when we go up against those big-time boy groups that sell millions of albums each, do we have a real shot?
No. The method Ashcode uses—exploiting the cable broadcast scoring loopholes? That’s only possible when the weight class difference is moderate enough….
From the start, I (and all of us on the dedicated team—the team leader, Yoon-ju, and others) didn’t plan to aim for First Place on a Music Broadcast from this comeback.
It’d be nice if we did, but we don’t have a realistic chance. That was the stance, you see.
Life really is damn, nothing goes your way.
At this rate I might as well experiment and see what happens if the quest fails….
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July passed in a rush.
The comeback date is July 6th. After various promotions and three weeks of activities end, the very next Saturday we have the filming of , which moved about half of QBS’s year-end awards show into summer.
“At this rate you’re gonna collapse, noona.”
“Says who. I’m fine.”
“No, well, your complexion definitely doesn’t look fine…. Fine, I got it.”
I left Go Hyun-seo’s nagging behind and headed to my studio within the company, leaving the members in the practice room.
Somehow I feel like I have no time to rest before and after the comeback….
After witnessing Go Hyun-seo pull all-nighters to finish work following the Japan trip, she stopped commenting on my schedule.
It seems like she’s finally starting to understand that there’s a lot to do, but putting it off doesn’t mean someone else will do it.
Right, if I put it off, there’s no one but me to actually do the work anyway.
For a mid-size girl group, song quality is the most important thing, and the fact that we can pull off Title Tracks and B-side Tracks at this level from a tiny company like Music Prove without an A&R team is entirely thanks to the hard work of me and Shim Yoo-jeong.
I can manage it because I’ve done time as a commercial composer, but honestly, if I’d just been placed here with no memory, this schedule and quality level would’ve been impossible.
Which means me or Shim Yoo-jeong needs to be involved for the year-end stage and special stage arrangements to be properly done….
While I was working on an intro for the awards show, the special stage arrangement sketch for the Title Track that I’d assigned to Shim Yoo-jeong came back via KakaoTalk.
– Shim Yoo-jeong: [File: Do_It_Now_Awards_Arrangement_Sketch.mp3]
– Shim Yoo-jeong: How’s this vibe?
– Shim Yoo-jeong: sorry you worked on this as a summer song from the start
– Shim Yoo-jeong: so i don’t think we need to touch it more than this
– Shim Yoo-jeong: just this much? only the dance break like we said
ok i’ll listen and get back to you right away –
right now i gotta jump into collab stage practice in a bit –
the intro arrangement seems good? –
– Shim Yoo-jeong: yeah
– Shim Yoo-jeong: it’s fine
– Shim Yoo-jeong: don’t think we need to touch it
thanks –
i’ll hit you up again later –
– Shim Yoo-jeong: ok
Didn’t I once describe Shim Yoo-jeong as a master of leaving messages unread.
Yet even someone like Shim Yoo-jeong checks work KakaoTalk messages consistently. I appreciated it so much I removed the school name and student ID from her contact name.
Shim Yoo-jeong isn’t really the type to care about things like that…. But I remember Kang Soo-ah being incredibly upset about it.
Work-wise she’s quick and responsive so I’m not worried about messages not getting checked, but I wish she’d reply to personal messages a bit faster too, I guess….
– Shim Yoo-jeong: anything else you need done?
– Shim Yoo-jeong: nothing to do since break started
– Shim Yoo-jeong: if there’s more to arrange just send it over you’re crazy busy anyway
Wow, that’s kind of touching.
This person genuinely caring for others like that….
…Wait, does that mean I look that busy right now?
“Ji-on, we gotta go!”
“Oh, yes! One second!”
i really appreciate it but i gotta head out now –
I hesitated for a moment, then sent a quick reply to Shim Yoo-jeong and answered loudly at my manager’s voice.
can’t think of anything else right now thx –
And finally, I played the sketch audio Shim Yoo-jeong sent, and quickly listened to the Dance Break section she’d asked about.
Ah, yeah. There’s definitely a good reason why working with this noona goes so smoothly.
just checked the dance break quickly and it looks good to finalize –
i’ll let you know after practice but i think we’ll probably go with this as is! –
“Ji-on!”
“Coming now!”
It was really time to go.
At my manager’s raised voice, I grabbed just my phone and rushed out of the studio.
With one day left until the final episode aired, we began preparing the special stage for QBS Year-end Awards Show Summer.
Overall, the preparation was progressing smoothly.
If there was one problem….
“We’re going to PN, right? …Actually, it’s a bit hard to ask them to come here either.”
It was that we had to do it together with Ashcode….
A broadcast network having them do a collaborative stage just because they debuted the same year.
What era is this idea from….
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Jo Eun-bin, who unofficially served as the effective leader of Ashcode, sat tense in the conference room, staring hard at the meeting table.
“…QBS said to use Backing Track, whether it’s lip-sync or Live Singing doesn’t matter. What do you think would be better? We’d like to go with Live Singing if possible, so we thought we should hear Ashcode’s opinion.”
“For a special cover stage, how about we go with Backing Track lip-sync and focus more on matching the performance. As I mentioned in the email, Live Singing is a bit risky for both sides.”
“Haha, honestly we don’t mind…. Then should we go with Backing Track lip-sync and just match the performance?”
These ten minutes sitting in the conference room with the producer and manager, discussing opinions on the collaborative stage, felt unbearably long!
I’d said of course I’d attend since they needed a member for the meeting, but I hadn’t expected the Evergreat member who came would lead the meeting this actively.
Ashcode, which couldn’t use smartphones in a deliberately retro way that didn’t fit the times, didn’t know how the internet worked these days or how other groups operated.
Members who could barely use the tablet PC provided to them to access Universe, and even Jo Eun-bin, who knew a bit more but had nearly cut off internet use recently to reduce mental damage, had no way of understanding what kind of group Evergreat was.
Whether in Japan or whenever she got involved with Evergreat, both she and the group activities felt mysteriously embarrassing.
If someone were watching this scene right now, wouldn’t they say that Evergreat stood in stark contrast to them, who just did what the company told them to do?
For some reason, unable to lift her head and keeping her gaze down the whole time, the meeting soon ended.
“Um, Noah?”
“Oh, yes!”
The leader of Evergreat, who had spoken opinions with a cold and firm expression the whole meeting, called out to Jo Eun-bin.
She lifted her head in surprise and saw Evergreat’s leader looking at her with a softer expression than before.
‘She’s beautiful….’
Jo Eun-bin found herself thinking that.
With features that looked so cold, to smile warmly and give off that kind of feeling…. She seemed quite skilled at managing her expression.
“I’m Seo Ji-on. We’re doing Choreography practice today, and tomorrow right after our Music Broadcast we’ll do Backing Track recording at our company. Then we’ll come back to PN to do Choreography practice again.”
“Okay. Should I pass that along to the other members?”
“Oh, would you mind relaying the schedule? I mentioned it to my manager too, but if you tell them once more we can save practice time, yeah?”
Ji-on, Seo Ji-on. Evergreat’s leader. Jo Eun-bin consciously memorized the name of the person before her and nodded eagerly.
“Then shall we head to practice? I’d appreciate if you could show us the way.”
Seo Ji-on spoke with a smile. Jo Eun-bin, tense for some reason, turned her steps toward the practice room.
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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