Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 69

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Episode 69
“Oh, fried chicken!”
“Kang Su-ah added an extra order of fried chicken because she said six people eating two pieces didn’t make sense.”
“No way, Kang Su-ah is the best. She really knows her food.”
“Hey! I was the one who bought the chicken?!”
Leaving the clamorous living room behind, I fixed my gaze on the television.
was currently the most popular Public Broadcast Music Competition Program. Performing well on this program could certainly establish the perception that you had real skill, but the biggest drawback of public broadcast variety shows was their inability to keep up with current trends.
Well… that said, as a recently launched variety show, it didn’t quite have that stuffy, old-fashioned image yet.
The fact that was able to overtake a previous competition program that had gone into renewal and establish itself as a regular fixture was precisely because it had formed a system where the performance did almost all the talking, eschewing the typical formulaic talk and interview segments.
“Aren’t you going to have any chicken?”
“You’re not eating any either.”
“I tend to gain weight pretty easily. It’s better if I eat light in the evening.”
“Is there more salad? Just give me that.”
“You look like you could eat a bit more though…”
Go Hyun-seo grumbled but brought me a chicken breast salad from the refrigerator anyway.
Salad really is convenient. It doesn’t mess with your stomach, and you don’t gain weight… Though I’ll admit I’ve heard plenty of complaints that I need to put on more weight myself, whether that’s muscle or fat.
“You two right now… you look like delinquent rabbits.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Well, um… like you’d grab a passing pedestrian and shake them down for carrots.”
“Haha!”
Go Hyun-seo couldn’t help but laugh at Kang Su-ah’s nonsense. We’d gathered under the guise of monitoring, but maybe these girls really did just want to mess around.
“What? Isn’t it funny?”
“It’s a little funny, but it’s so silly I can’t really laugh.”
“What’s that supposed to mean…?”
“Come up with something more original next time.”
“I thought that was original enough!”
“Come to think of it, you’re the one who actually looks like a delinquent rabbit. No, wait. You’re more like a…”
“What.”
“Fox?”
“Yeah, that’s right. EBRITs said I look like a fox too. I was thinking about changing my Univers nickname to ‘Fox Su-ah.'”
“Stop.”
I just laughed at Kang Su-ah’s endless stream of nonsense.
On the television, our group’s greeting and the lottery drawing to determine performance order were underway.
They really did the drawing with that old-fashioned ball-pulling method… I was the one who drew our number, and we got lucky—pulling the final slot.
Some core viewers were saying it was “tacky but charming in that public broadcast way,” that public broadcast shows were most appealing when they felt public broadcast-ish… I could vaguely understand what they meant.
“Will we have a while before our stage?”
“We might still catch a few reaction shots from the waiting room though, right?”
“Hyun Jae-yi’s reactions have been pretty good.”
“When that airs, people might say she’s trying too hard…”
“Usually people praise her for putting in the effort on air.”
“Really? Hehe.”
I laughed it off, but Hyun Jae-yi definitely needed to dial back the monitoring a bit.
I mean, do I really need to worry about how haters twist the narrative around someone who tries hard on broadcast?
It’s true we should block issues before they start, but that’s just the standard nitpicking repertoire…
When am I going to find time to sit down and talk to her about this? It’s too awkward to bring up right now…
“Oh, there’s that look again. The delinquent rabbit face.”
“Let’s keep things peaceful. Want me to give you something to worry about?”
“…Okay, let’s just keep things peaceful. Peaceful.”
With Kang Su-ah having surrendered, I turned my attention back to the television.
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Just forget it all for a moment
Let us dance, let us dance—
From the moment the me on screen draws out the final syllable slowly, the brass instruments explode into a jazz sound following the drum’s count.
Simultaneously, as the lighting expands, Hyun Jae-yi appears in the center of the stage holding a black long umbrella.
During the brief beat, Hyun Jae-yi nods her head to the rhythm, then launches into a dazzling solo using the umbrella, capturing the audience’s gaze from the very beginning.
“Jae-yi definitely does this kind of thing better than me. The jazz stuff and all…”
“Wow! Getting praise from Hyun-seo!”
They’re having fun. While I generally agree, both Go Hyun-seo and Hyun Jae-yi have genuinely large reactions.
Looking closely, Go Hyun-seo’s reactions actually seem bigger than Hyun Jae-yi’s when she’s not being consciously social—I’m talking about her natural reactions, not her professional tone.
Fundamentally, the stage composition of hadn’t changed. A Swing Jazz show stage.
But when you examine the fine details, there were actually quite a few changes. We invested a bit more in the stage setup, and the arrangement changed somewhat as well.
The overall stage costumes were unified into one-piece dresses with a harmony of black and white. The details vary slightly, but down to the fluttering long skirts—designed to evoke the imagery of a black-and-white film.
Like a dreaming child
Smiling purely
To us who have reached this day
Kang Su-ah, now holding the long umbrella passed to her from Hyun Jae-yi, walks across the stage with ease, singing brilliantly to the accompaniment that has settled into a piano-centered arrangement.
Swing Jazz is a flamboyant genre. Previously, we focused on that, making both the costumes and stage production equally elaborate, but this time we did it differently. The costumes became slightly simpler while the stage effects became more elaborate, allowing the performers themselves to stand out even more.
Given the awkward situation where using backup dancers wasn’t feasible, this was the best approach. Even after the previous stage ended, I’d wondered if simpler costumes might have worked better.
“Honestly, I was worried it might feel a bit plain… but seeing it recorded like this, it looks like Seo Ji-on was right. It’s so pretty…”
“That’s right. Sometimes when everything else is flashy, simple costumes are actually the answer.”
Ju Hye-rin, crouching low on the sofa, nodded in agreement.
At the song’s highlight, silver confetti scatters and adds brilliance to the stage.
The confetti gleaming under the lights, the elaborate music contrasted with simple costumes, and the slightly subdued camera work characteristic of public broadcast competition programs.
If I had to pick just one scene that came out the prettiest.
Dancing happy dances with you
I hope that time remains eternal
Will we dance again today
Letting our hearts relax a little more
The bridge—Lee Han-byul’s part.
I’d marked it as Lee Han-byul’s part even in the previous iteration, and naturally, we assigned it to her this time as well.
This is the section where all the loud, flashy instruments drop out, leaving only piano and vocals to fill the space—pure technical and emotional prowess. We’d deliberately arranged it this way partly to showcase Lee Han-byul’s vocal color.
“…How was it?”
“How was what? Didn’t I tell you during filming that you did really well? The first verse chorus and bridge—those are the killers.”
Lee Han-byul laughed shyly when I answered her careful question with praise grounded in fact.
There are various reasons why I passed the first verse chorus—which I originally sang—to Lee Han-byul, but it’s certainly true that she suits this song better than I do.
I didn’t pass her the intro, which would’ve been too much burden, but giving her the first verse chorus and arranging the bridge this way so the spotlight falls on her—those were definitely the right calls.
“Looking at it this way, we really did do well! Though it feels like I didn’t do much…”
“We did do well, Hye-rin. You came up with the idea for the tap dance variation in the final dance break and held center—you’re saying you didn’t do much?”
“Hehe… it just feels that way.”
It’s definitely a well-made stage. Even with the dance break that wasn’t there before, it came out flashy and cool.
Because we performed with a live band, the camera couldn’t quite capture the feeling of the live venue…
[on air]
– Evergreat wins lol
– They’re actually really good
– This is live band performance are you crazy
– How many idols from that show are this good?
└ Early seasons of that show were so depressing, but after that hardly any good ones came out. Besides One&D Jibe, I can’t think of any
– How does MU-F keep pulling together members like this lol
└ Real talk more than half of them started as trainees under MU-F and they’re still this good
Seeing the internet reactions update in real time, the energy came through loud and clear even through the screen.
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IdolArchive @idoljapduuck
Not even six months since debut and an idol group doing pure live with a band session on a competition show actually exists
Evergreat you’re actually insane
( stage video)
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[How did a rookie girl group win that show?]
My mom watches that show religiously and when she heard an idol group won she’s been so curious, even adults think it’s impressive?
By the way my mom’s one-pick is Seo Ji-on, she says her singing is clean and powerful
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– Did live band Swing Jazz with full force, song and dance are all good
– Isn’t most of the live audience for that show in their 40s and 50s?
└ Yeah most of the audience members with voting power are in that age group
– Came out last and did both performance and song so well
└ Definitely made the final impact. Everyone was kind of subdued but then the last slot came with such intense performance and amazing singing that older folks were drawn in too
[Evergreat is really good]
Hope they win rookie award this year
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– But PEN might release a girl group in May that could overshadow them
– Just want to give Evergreat the rookie award of the year no matter what
[AshCode concept film was pretty]
The song though honestly no idea, not a performance track and not easy listening either, just feels weird, honestly just weird
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– The music video probably came out well but feels like only the MV came out well
└ Lol true
– PEN’s 4-center special releases MVs with insane cinematography but their title track? Released generically
└ I’m a PEN fan but that’s just 4-center concept addiction, if they dropped the concept overdrive their titles would look better than now, like their last album’s title was so annoying
[But about PEN Youth]
Did they all leave for a reason? There were like seven of them and they all left
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– Word is they didn’t get along so after the debut unit switched to 4-center they scrapped the project
└ That’s too much hearsay, they wouldn’t scrap the debut unit just because they didn’t get along
└ Nowadays relationship and chemistry issues definitely become reasons to scrap debut units
– But the PEN trainee situation back then wasn’t just about not getting along
└ Wait what’s this I’ve never heard this before
└ There’s rumors that some of them bullied and harassed other kids, came out after PEN Youth actually got exposed so not related to Youth
└ What the hell, they buried that as just “not getting along”
– PEN has a lot of trainee abuse rumors actually, quite a few got kicked out? Sometimes you see some on insta pretending to be wronged trainees, like they’re poor victims…lol
【A rookie girl group wins that show #shorts】
– Watched it while my dad was watching and searched the name lol they’re really good, hope Evergreat does even better
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– They sing so well, not like idols nowadays
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– I’m a longtime fan and seeing Hyun-seo found a good team makes me so happy
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Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario with My Own Hands
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: March 6, 2026
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