Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 44

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Episode 44
Late July, Gocheok Dome.
“I’m already dying.”
“Already?”
“Figure skaters don’t do standing jumps…….”
“Oh man, you’ve lost all your stamina since you quit being an idol.”
“No, it’s not that my stamina’s gone—it’s more that being in an environment with this many people and these flashy lights hitting the stage just drains my energy so fast. I basically grew up super strong on the ice rink.”
“Pretty specific complaints. Then just don’t come…….”
“No, no! You managed to snag tickets—why wouldn’t I show up?! I have to see Hye-rin!”
Park Ji-yeon flared up at Kim Si-hyun and Im Ji-su’s half-joke, half-serious remarks.
Park Ji-yeon, an ardent EVERGREET fan and a well-known Home Master, insisted to the other two throughout the VCR segment that she absolutely couldn’t miss this schedule, even if her stamina was flagging.
“Which turn is EVERGREET?”
“They’ll be out in a bit.”
The next group was a male idol team doing a cover stage. Around this point, a few Home Masters started sneaking out their cameras to snap photos.
The three of them did their best to shield those people from the security team’s line of sight.
Of course—we all brought cameras too!!
If it went all the way to data-selling, who knows, but mutual aid between ordinary Home Masters is about trust. When my bias performs, I’ll have a camera ready, so when your bias performs, you’ve got to protect me the way I protected you! That kind of thing.
Call someone out here without mercy? Then mutual destruction, no hesitation.
It was only possible to act this way because the whole scene ran on nothing but mutual trust! If I call you out, you’ll call me out too…….
“This team’s pretty decent.”
“Yeah, among the new boy groups lately, RuBLet seems to be the best.”
“Is this RuBLet? I’ve got some RuBLet fan mutuals—should I snap a few?”
Security was quiet today anyway, and bringing in cameras was easy. Besides, she had to check the camera settings by shooting some test shots.
Im Ji-su quietly pulled out her camera and shot some standout members. She had a mutual whose favorite member was in the group, but honestly she couldn’t remember his face well enough to shoot him specifically…….
‘When your aesthetic matches with the Home Masters, that’s lucky enough in itself…….’
So thought Im Ji-su, who had started bringing her own camera back during her time as a fan of Goo-in, precisely because her aesthetic didn’t align with those Home Masters.
Slightly lighter in construction than the year-end broadcast, was a two-part concert.
The controversial New Rookie Collaboration stage was the opening of part two, coming after EVERGREET’s main performance.
It’s not like she had any moral objection to putting rookies in part two.
‘But putting only Ashcode in part two—doesn’t that feel a bit off?’
Im Ji-su harbored absolutely no ill will toward Ashcode, but this was a genuine puzzle to her.
They’d sent all the other rookie collaboration teams to part one, yet they put Ashcode—who had debuted the latest—in part two. What kind of placement was that?
‘Well……. There must be some complicated reason between PN and CQA.’
Im Ji-su didn’t dwell deeply on the question.
How many issues in the K-pop scene come without question anyway? It’s a scene where people attach question marks to everything whether there’s a reason or not, so if you think too hard about it, you’re the one who loses!
Im Ji-su turned her attention back to the stage.
In a moment, EVERGREET’s stage would unfold.
***
‘I’m nervous…….’
That was Joo Hye-rin’s first thought the moment the VCR—which she’d heard tediously during every rehearsal—started playing.
Since becoming an idol, she’d done everything up until this very moment with her members. Sure, the other members sometimes got individual schedules, but Joo Hye-rin hadn’t received any yet, and she preferred group schedules anyway.
Standing alone was familiar, but no less terrifying.
A stage where everyone watched only her and no one could help her. It wasn’t long, but having to pull off everything entirely by herself turned out to be a surprisingly heavy burden.
But.
– Why you?
– Well, honestly, from when we started conceptualizing it, I felt the intro had to be you. If you want a reason…….
– Wait, let me gather my thoughts. First of all, there’s the fact that it’s a classical mashup……, and among our dance members, you’re the one most used to movements that flow continuously without a break. But……, the biggest reason is this.
– This intro is storytelling. You know how we said it needs to have persuasiveness leading up to ? …Maybe we didn’t say it? Anyway.
– Ideally, the audience catches on right away that this is drawing a narrative, and the better they can immerse themselves in it. And you’re the one who’s done that the most, and the one who does it best.
– If we needed to grab attention with a flashy show, I’d probably have asked Hyun-seo or Jae-yi. But among us, you’re the one who tells the best story through movement.
– Simply put, expressiveness matters. Delicate expressiveness at that. Does that make sense now?
That was what the producer and leader said back when she’d whined for a while about why she’d been given such a major (?) solo part.
The team’s producer and leader had explained it like this.
– Ha, honestly? I just threw this whole concept at you betting on you alone. If you’d said you couldn’t do it, I’d have had to revise the whole intro arrangement from scratch.
– That’s how much ability I believe you have. That kind of expressiveness that quietly draws the audience in.
Truth be told, I still lack complete confidence in myself…….
But Hye-rin decided to trust the leader who believed in her.
“The lift rises in 10 seconds! 9, 8 …….”
From below the stage, the VCR sound and countdown mixed together.
Hye-rin exhaled deeply.
Standing alone on a stage was familiar. This tension too was familiar.
Shaking but seeing it through to the end. It was something she’d done nearly her whole life, so it wasn’t strange.
She couldn’t promise she’d do well.
But she could finish.
“…2, 1!”
The lift rose slowly, and the beat of the in-ear countdown began.
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[on air]
– Whoa, surprisingly live vocals are pretty solid
└ Lol I thought it was all performance
– This year’s new boy groups are weak, but RuBLet and Quarterpler—these kids are really good
– But RuBLet’s under CQA and they’re still not blowing up, which is weird
└ Isn’t Quarterpler the same? They’re elite kids
– Always talk about the big three agencies but the real power is PN right?
└ Out of nowhere?
└ CQA elite PN like that get treated as the big three, but only PN’s rookies got pushed to part two
– Why are PN fans always hyping them up lol suddenly it’s all PN talk go watch PN idols in part two
– Whatever, stop hyping up random idols major fandoms are arguing, I have zero interest
– Just shut up and watch the stage, how many groups at Gachon Dome Summer aren’t mid-tier that you’re bragging about being major
└ Wow you just called out my bias perfectly
└ Sorry lol I was being self-deprecating because my bias is a random idol too
– Next is?
└ EVERGREET
– Oh, the order is actually good??
└ Lucky too because Lux did solid but Do It Now is just straight-up excellent
└ Do It Now hit hard enough as it is, giving them an earlier slot would be overkill
– Honestly, Everg looks too early already, shouldn’t Ashcode and the order switch?
└ Yeah, if they’re gonna send only one rookie to part two, it should be Evergreet
– Do It Now might crack the Lemon Chart annually, for a rookie group that’s a massive explosion
└ But does the Lemon Chart even mean anything these days?
└ It’s more symbolic fandoms just stream it like crazy
└ There are still tons of cafes and stores that just play Lemon Chart Top Back though so it matters
– Evergreet Do It Now is legitimately a huge hit for a rookie group
└ Aren’t these kids the miracle of their agency
– Evergreet’s still too new to be calling them the miracle of their agency;;
The internet was in absolute chaos today. Especially the broadcast comments were a mess.

A salaried worker who’d won forced group admission scrolled through her phone.
How do they all manage to argue every single day? It’s the kind of thing she always wondered when monitoring internet communities—the fxxxing thing never sleeps.
– RuB: barely got any camera time today
– RuB: (photo)
– RuB: security basically did nothing
…Jealous! I’m not even a Home Master but I’m jealous!!
The photos her mutual was sending in real-time from the venue looked surprisingly pleasant. The Gocheok Dome apparently had strong air conditioning, so it wasn’t even hot…….
But what could you do about brutally failing at ticket-grabbing? You just had to accept your fate and keep clipping and uploading your own bias’s stage cuts to Twitter as fast as you could…….
She’d already started screen recording on her laptop and set the mouse down, focusing on the screen.
Once this slightly rough VCR ends, it’s EVERGREET’s turn!
‘Haven’t heard a single spoiler…….’
Even Han Byeol and Hye-rin, the youngest members who usually accidentally dropped spoilers without thinking, kept their lips sealed about the Gachon Dome Summer stage on the fan community.
She didn’t expect anything from Su-a. Kang Su-a usually wrote on the fan community like ‘Look, I’m a human magnet for attention!’ but when it actually mattered, she never said a word.
Fifty million (exaggerated) EVERGREET fans only knew that the Gachon Dome Summer stage had an intro and .
The salaried worker stared intently at the dark blue-lit stage with 80% anticipation, 10% anxiety, and 10% tension.
[Intro(rainy day)+Do it now!]
[EVERGREET]
Patter, patter, pit-pit-pit.
Behind the performance title, heavy rain sounds begin to play.
Classical melody in a minor key mixes with the raindrops, and soon the rain sound shifts to heavy downpour.
Though it’s stifling July, there’s something about this music that feels like a cool summer rain falling on a distant day.
Simultaneously, Joo Hye-rin, arriving on a lift from the very back of the protruding stage, is captured on camera.
‘Insane, a sailor uniform!’
Hye-rin, dressed in a summer school uniform with a navy sailor collar, walked slowly across the stage. Reading an open book, her footsteps were light and measured to match the piano melody.
Hye-rin, who had kept her gaze fixed on the book, finally made eye contact with the camera only after reaching the wooden bookshelf installed at the front of the stage.
The moment Hye-rin stopped before the bookshelf, closed the book, and stared directly at the camera, the rain sound began to gradually quiet. The piano, which had only been dark, starts to mix in brighter tones.
Hye-rin set the closed book atop the bookshelf and reached her hand toward the camera, and from that moment on, Hye-rin’s brief solo performance began.
‘Totally Hye-rin’s signature choreography……. Like a trained dancer.’
It’s unmistakably different from idol choreography. Even to the worker with no expertise in dance, it was immediately clear that this was a solo drawing from Contemporary Dance and ballet, or perhaps adapted from Hye-rin’s former profession of figure skating.
Hye-rin connected every movement with extraordinary fluidity.
Turns on the ground flowing from jumps, choreography that seemed to draw from spiral movements, then another jump. After the jump, a movement adapted from ballet’s penché—bending deep on the right leg with the left foot lifted behind—then rising again.
Throughout the entire sequence, Hye-rin’s movements flowed like water without a single break or jolt.
At some point, the rain sound fades and the brightened piano melody—and some other orchestral instruments that blended in so naturally with the dance she hadn’t even noticed—support Hye-rin’s movement.
After her final turn, Hye-rin looked at the camera again and smiled. The radiant, innocent smile of a seventeen-year-old girl.
‘Visuals insane……. Our girl’s visuals are absolutely insane today.’
A massive roar filled the Gocheok Dome. Hye-rin was truly beautiful today!
And in that moment, the salaried worker realized.
This melody, these instruments, this atmosphere……. This is , a track from the new album!
Ssoo(status: EVERGREET MAX)🔒 @_jjyuu__
Oh my god guys it’s Blue
Ssoo(status: EVERGREET MAX)🔒 @_jjyuu__
I was watching Hye-rin’s solo and Blue hit out of nowhere lol our Jeon is a real genius;;(
The salaried worker immediately pulled out her phone and left her raw impressions on Twitter.
To think she could hear , her favorite song that paints a midsummer night’s dream, on such a grand stage! (Of course it was orchestrally arranged and the vocals were replaced by strings, but!)
draws toward its end, and as the strings and brass build together in swelling crescendo, Hye-rin turns around and runs.
At first her running felt light, like she was bounding upward, but as the song intensified toward its highlight and ending, Hye-rin was now sprinting at full speed back toward the main stage!
The camera angle chases Hye-rin running down the long connecting corridor, and many Gachon Dome Summer viewers, including the salaried worker, watch through that camera’s perspective.
The pleated skirt down to her knees swishes widely with such bold movements—and following that racing figure…….
At the moment the music reaches its peak of anticipation, Hye-rin slows her run and arrives at a place where the other EVERGREET members are waiting.
As if to say ‘Your fantasy is here’, all five members stand waiting for Joo Hye-rin.
My Hand Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
Publication Date
: January 5, 2026
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: ACESMEDIA Inc.
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