Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 78

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Episode 78
The Strongest, Most Amazing Su-ah 💖
Love you, Univers 💕🩷💛💚😘
(Selfie taken holding the Trophy)
Jae-yi, Jae-yi!
Thank you so much, Univers 🥹
The behind-the-scenes tears will air later… ♥
(Photo taken with the Trophy)
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Jae-yi, Jae-yi!
The photo was taken by Ji-on 💕
21 Star 🌟
I want to say thank you to all the fans who cheered us on and congratulated us…! Thank you and love to all of Univers who worked hard and ran toward 1st Place with us 😊❤
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No member shed tears at 1st Place.
The scattered confetti was familiar, and I felt the relief of finally clearing the quest.
Since all the other members had expected 1st Place anyway, we were able to celebrate with relatively composed joy.
Though there was one who came close to crying.
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[Did Ep Jae-yi cry today?????]
Watched Evergreat kind of roughly but why does she look like she had a good cry
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– No no tears didn’t fall just got choked up
– Got so choked up I almost missed my part during the Encore ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[I understand Jae-yi’s heart Ep’s first 1st Place ㅊㅋㅊㅋ]
She must have gone through a lot mentally ㅠㅠ It’s good that a result that builds trust in Jae-yi came about I hope for Jae-yi ㅎㅇㅌ Maybe debuting with Evergreat was actually the better choice
[Curious about Evergreat’s A&R’s official take]
When Jae-yi gets choked up, Su-ah and Han-byul who make those sad expressions together seem like they’re definitely F types
And Ji-on and Hyun-seo who are just like “well, that’s how it is” next to them really seem like T types ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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– Ji-on’s MBTI on her profile confidently says she doesn’t know ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ says she’s never taken it because she’s not interested ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ That’s so totally Ji-on
– Su-ah is ENFP, Han-byul is INFP roughly speaking
└ But Ji-on does seem like she’d be a T type
└ (Ditto) I think she’s a T too
[Evergreat’s Encore Live is good ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
The members are bouncing excitedly but their pitch barely wavers nice ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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– Homemade craftsmanship vibes
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I closed the internet community and sank back into my chair. Judging by how more positive reactions were showing up under the Evergreat keyword, the Encore response seemed pretty solid.
If it were up to me, I’d want to leave work right now.
But the thing about doing a live for the 1st Place Promise—someone asked to do it today right away.
– Something like this should be done right away! Tomorrow, the day after… if you keep putting it off, it won’t happen!
– I get it, so calm down a little.
– How could I not be upset?! What do you mean by that?! I know you’re doing a lot of work and you’re tired! But I’m over here worrying whether to break a promise with Univers and just go to sleep!
– That wasn’t what I meant.
– It’s basically the same thing!!!
– …I have nothing to say.
After getting thoroughly scolded by Hyun Jae-yi, whose eyes were burning red as she hollered at me—having my soul sucked right out—I was now sprawled out in the studio trying to recover some of that energy.
Ugh…. Should I buy a sofa?
When the settlement comes in, it might be fine to put a sofa bed or so in the studio. The problem is I don’t know exactly when that settlement will come through.
I want to collapse violently. Having exhausted all my energy, I just want to lie down and… yeah.
“You’re slouching. Aren’t you going to work out?”
“…Could you cut me some slack during the Activity Period?”
“You barely went to the gym recently anyway. Just do some cardio and come back. Do cardio, shower, and turn on Uverse Live—that should work.”
“I didn’t sleep last night.”
“……. Hmm.”
This crazy exercise monster…. Or rather, Go Hyun-seo who obsesses over my health—I can’t just leave her alone either.
“If you didn’t sleep, resting would be better than working out, wouldn’t it?”
“I’ll shower right after the live and sleep. Working out, I just…. Let’s not go during the Activity Period.”
“But that’s a promise between you and me.”
“I’m…. worn out. So worn out.”
“You’d feel better if you worked out.”
“No, I’m not just losing stamina—I’m so worn out that I can’t do anything, so I’m asking you to just leave me alone. On top of everything, we have to work on the October Comeback track together, so I’m literally out of my mind, really?!”
“No, first of all, calm down. I get it.”
When I yelled at Go Hyun-seo with genuine frustration, she took a step back.
Ugh…. Why does working out feel so exhausting every single time? It doesn’t seem to be a stamina issue, but every time Hyun-seo nags me like this, I hate the idea of going so much I could go crazy.
“How about we compromise here.”
“What kind of compromise…….”
“I don’t want to go work out.”
“That seems to be the case.”
Her composed expression annoys me even more for some reason, but that’s probably just my feelings. Yeah, that’s definitely it.
Not that I can tell someone who knows nothing while I’m rewinding and looping due to the Rookie Award….
But I really, truly want to stop going to the gym. I started racking my brain for every excuse I could come up with.
“And I have way too much work.”
“That does seem to be the case. Can’t you reduce the workload?”
“I can’t. When I was pushing the director for a budget, I promised to sweep all the Rookie Awards, and for that to happen, I—the one basically handling all the A&R—can’t take a break.”
“…Why are you so extreme sometimes? Would the director really not give you a budget if it wasn’t that ambitious?”
“I mean, think about our director. He wouldn’t have given it without that level of aspiration.”
“That’s not wrong either…….”
Only useful at times like this, that old fogey-like approach…. Who knew the words I’d used to convince Lim Gyeong-taek would end up helping like this.
Sweeping all the Rookie Awards wasn’t an excessive ambition. It was something I’d said because we had solid reasons to believe we held advantageous ground from multiple angles.
“So if I go work out right now, wouldn’t my body actually get worse?”
“There is some logic to that, but couldn’t you just reduce the work and go work out?”
“But I feel like I’ve kind of broken free from being a paper doll now—can’t I just maintain this trajectory?”
“In my view, you’re still…….”
“Ah, I’m just going back to being a paper doll then. I really can’t anymore. I have so much schedule these days I seriously can’t!”
This crazy exercise enthusiast kid, or rather young adult now…. Anyway. Such an exercise fanatic!
I slid out of my chair and declared ‘no more working out possible.’ Now, truly, really, absolutely not anymore!!
“But you said you’d start first.”
“That was a year ago…. Haven’t our circumstances changed so much from our trainee days?”
“That’s true.”
“Then we need to be flexible and adapt to those circumstances…….”
“…Is that so? Really?”
“That’s definitely how it goes.”
I stood up, leaving the confused Go Hyun-seo behind.
“I’m really, truly, incredibly exhausted, so let’s take a break from working out together. We’ll start again when we have time.”
“But doesn’t it seem like we’ll never have time…….”
“Ah, this is why I hate quick-witted little kids.”
“Huh?”
“No, let’s just get ready for the live.”
That’s how I managed to break free from Go Hyun-seo’s exercise regime.
Go Hyun-seo watched me with an expression questioning if this was right, but so what can you do.
From here on out, I absolutely won’t let myself get dragged along by workout talk…. Even if it’s out of concern for my health. Even if it’s a path I laid down myself….
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At the same time, Kim Si-hyun’s Studio Apartment.
“What time did you say the live was?”
“9 o’clock!”
“When does the chicken arrive?”
“Ah, shoot…. It’s kind of vague. Says around 8:55.”
“That’s kind of tight…….”
Three fans—Kim Si-hyun, Lim Ji-su, and Park Ji-yeon—were celebrating Evergreat’s 1st Place in their own way.
Chicken and various foods they’d ordered to grab dinner since they’d skipped the evening meal by tuning in to the broadcast, and….
“But I thought the girls might cry when they got 1st Place, but they barely cried so it’s kind of a letdown.”
“You thought Hyun-seo would cry?”
“Like, just a little…?”
“Ah, what about Seo Ji-on. Seriously this woman is incredibly perfect. Look at how she pulled the kids together in Dance Break.”
“What, Ji-on actually pulled them together?”
“You didn’t know that?”
“I was only watching Hye-rin.”
“Got it, you ultimate bias-centered fans…….”
Chatting while watching the Encore.
Song Station uploads the video to YouTube right after the stage ends, so Kim Si-hyun’s apartment got the video running on the tablet as soon as they arrived.
“The girls seemed to expect they’d get 1st, right?”
“Honestly there was no way not to know this week.”
“So is this week a 1st Place lock even on public broadcast?”
“Probably. Last week’s Comeback was only Evergreat anyway.”
“Hey, the chicken’s here!”
“What, what time is it?”
“8:43. Oh yeah, perfect.”
With the chicken arriving earlier than expected, and as they continued their heavily bias-centered fan talk, Evergreat’s live time approached.
[First 1st Place! 1st Place Promise Live Dedicated to Univers ❤]
A thoroughly rookie-like live title, and live content.
When they switched on Uverse Live on the tablet, six members were huddled together looking at the camera.
[Is it on?]
[Seems like it’s on.]
[Univers, hello!!]
Once the live started, the members began speaking one by one.
[Hey, you guys aren’t greeting?]
[Oh.]
[Oh gosh.]
[I get that you’re excited…. But how are we supposed to do this if Kang Su-ah and Hyun-seo are like that too. Everyone, attention. Greetings.]
[Hello, we are Evergreat!]
A slightly disorganized and excited start to the live.
Even in the chaos, seeing Seo Ji-on make them greet first, Lim Ji-su burst out laughing.
“Wow, Ji-on just looked like a real Leader.”
“Well, she’s the Leader, so……?”
“I thought Hyun-seo would be the Leader when Proof Rookies first debuted. Some kind of resolve that my kid would be the one to lead.”
“Oh wow, I get that too. I didn’t really think about it since Hye-rin’s the youngest anyway…….”
“I don’t know Proof Rookies. Don’t talk about Proof Rookies because I’m sad I wasn’t stanning back then.”
But that was short-lived—at Kim Si-hyun and Park Ji-yeon’s Proof Rookies talk, Lim Ji-su felt oddly deflated.
The ones who’d coaxed her into stanning together, the fact that she hadn’t gotten into it was on Lim Ji-su herself, and ultimately her dropping out was also Lim Ji-su….
[We actually…. couldn’t really settle on what to do for the 1st Place Promise.]
[Actually I suggested doing Part Change, but they rejected it….]
[But wouldn’t all of Univers think the same? Like only you and Ji-on would have the confidence to do Part Change on the spot.]
[…Actually I got persuaded by that too, so I didn’t push it further. So we said let’s turn on the live and do anything! That’s what we decided on!]
– ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ That’s so Su-ah
– eng plz
– Kang Su-ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– awwww sua🥹
– It’s my birthday today, tell me to happy birthday
– Evergreat’s first 1st Place congratulations so much❤❤❤
“How good of a singer is Su-ah that she thinks she can do an improvised Part Change without proper practice.”
“Su-ah isn’t stupid, but…. Seems like she’s bad at gauging her own abilities when it comes to singing. A talented fool who doesn’t know she’s a genius?”
“Fool or genius?”
“Both……?”
Kim Si-hyun, lying back, giggled as she listened to the conversation between Lim Ji-su and Park Ji-yeon while scrolling through comments.
– Su-ah, the girls are saying you’re a fool genius, you don’t know you’re a singing genius ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
And she left a comment on the live.
From Kim Si-hyun’s experience, comments like this were just for her own mood, and the odds of them reading it on the live were very slim.
So just a comment, but….
[Wow, Kang Su-ah.]
[…What, what is it. I didn’t do anything?]
[No, Univers is saying you’re a fool genius. Vocal genius that only you don’t know about, fool genius.]
[……. Should I laugh about this or cry?]
[Haha!]
“…What? Why did our conversation leak to the kids?”
“Not me. I didn’t even have my phone in hand to begin with.”
While the members on screen were laughing hard, Lim Ji-su and Park Ji-yeon turned to look at Kim Si-hyun simultaneously.
Kim Si-hyun felt somewhat wronged!
I mean, I didn’t know they’d read stuff like this…!
Since they usually ignore fan comments that tease the members so well during group lives…!
Kim Si-hyun would never know. That the reason for the incident was simply Seo Ji-on’s momentary whim to tease Kang Su-ah….
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario with My Own Hands
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
Production Date
: May 21, 2026
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: Aces Media
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