Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 91

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Episode 91
December is the month of awards ceremonies.
Lee Hye-eun, real name of ASHCODE member Raen, is about to turn eighteen and is one of the youngest members—this is what the company taught her.
[And the Lemon Chart Music Awards Rookie Award for Female Group goes to……]
[Evergreat, congratulations!]
Yet ASHCODE didn’t even make the nominations for the Lemon Chart Music Awards, one of Korea’s largest awards ceremonies.
Thanks to that, December became blissfully schedule-free for once, but…….
While her roommate was bathing, Lee Hye-eun kept her eyes fixed on the tablet she’d queued up with the awards show.
[Evergreat, who drew attention from their debut with the unique identity of Singer-Songwriter Idol, congratulations on winning the Rookie Award for Female Group this year.]
The pre-recorded presenter’s comment rang out pleasantly over Evergreat’s Title Track.
As if they’d never even considered another group, immaculate and clean.
It’s not that she resents it. In truth, her team ASHCODE really does have poor Music Chart Performance.
The public finds their music either too obscure or too understated, and even Lee Hye-eun herself felt that the songs weren’t the kind that stuck in your ears from the first listen. She really has no complaint.
It’s just…….
[…And, to our producer in charge of our team’s identity, Seo Ji-on, I want to say I love you…, uh, I wanted to say it like that. Noona, thank you and I love you…!]
She just envies her friend standing on that stage, expressing gratitude to her own teammate.
Large companies have many restrictions.
To be precise, Idol production is heavily systematized.
Lee Hye-eun barely completing her trainee period in just one year before joining the debut lineup was probably part of that system, and receiving the overwhelming amount of love she’s getting now is thanks to that production system, but.
Still, she wishes she could speak freely in an Award Acceptance Speech. PN is obsessively meticulous about weird details—during award acceptance speeches, they make sure that Jo Eun-bin, the Leader, holds the microphone as much as possible, and if someone else wants to speak, they have to get prior approval from company staff including the manager.
In truth, there are more than a couple of ways in which they fall short compared to Evergreat, but she’s trying not to make the comparison precisely because of that.
She doesn’t want to become the strange kind of person who feels inferior to her friend, so she consciously tries not to think that way.
But jealousy and admiration are inevitable. Even if Lee Hye-eun is taking Vocal lessons seriously, if the company won’t let her do Live Performances, she can’t do them—that’s the reality of ASHCODE and Lee Hye-eun right now, and it’s the truth that she gets almost no Live Performance opportunities except for Music Show Encores.
Yeah yeah Look at me
Watch me stand out in the grayscale
Shimmering like confetti
I’ll draw your gaze to me
…The stage inside the tablet screen, with friends singing so brightly and precisely, is a completely different world from her reality.
Lee Han-byul, who worried at length this summer about her awkward expressions and stage acting, was now effortlessly showing even more while pulling off both Choreography and vocals.
If one were to say Lee Hye-eun hasn’t made progress during all this time, that wouldn’t be true, but…….
Somehow, the perception gap between her and the public has only widened.
Lee Hye-eun always wants to do well. If they’d just let her, she’s confident she could. But the company people keep saying “there will be a chance to show soon” and won’t let her do Live Performance activities.
Of course, if they asked whether she’s confident she could do as well as Hye-rin or Han-byul if given the chance…….
She doesn’t know. You’d have to try it to know.
Though her roommate had been in the room for a while, Lee Hye-eun paid no mind and watched Evergreat’s stage through to the end.
Lee Hye-eun wanted to do well.
Like her friends, standing on a stage she wasn’t invited to.
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Year-End Music Festivals naturally feature Collaborations between groups as well.
It’s trending downward these days, but it seems QBS, as the star of that Collaboration last summer, wanted to do an even bigger Collaboration this winter…….
“Seo Ji-on, it’s been a while. How have you been?”
“Ah, hello Yeo Eun-jae. I’ve been well.”
“Good, you all won so many Rookie Awards. That’s basically an All-Kill, right?”
“We’ll have to see about the Golden Disk Awards next. It would be nice if we did manage an All-Kill.”
From the female group lineup: rookies considered approachable through roughly 3rd-4th year members, selected for their solid Vocal abilities.
This time, under strengthened conditions, each group was asked to contribute one member to form a special Collaboration Stage.
That’s precisely why I’m back at the PN building again…….
Since the condition of having decent Vocal capability is applied equally, it ends up feeling like one person’s just the same as another…….
By the way, I originally wanted to send Kang Su-ah.
But that Kang Su-ah, no—this friend heard the title of the Collaboration song and then started spouting some crazy nonsense about how she absolutely had to go…….
“You’re the one who decided you’d be in the Collaboration?”
“No, well. I was planning to send Kang Su-ah, but…… she said she absolutely had to be the one to go.”
“Su-ah has good instincts. The image matches.”
So, what exactly are you talking about…….
Yeo Eun-jae keeps saying the same thing (without explaining why!) and at this point I’m curious.
Sweet’s “First Snow,” basically the ancestor of the K-pop girl group world, is a national carol song.
They say a warm, cozy song suits someone with a strong impression like me? What exactly are they looking at when they say that? I’d like them to explain.
If they said something like “your tone suits it” or “your Vocal seems promising,” I wouldn’t even argue. Really.
As I make a completely baffled face and stare at Yeo Eun-jae, she struggles to hold back her laughter…….
If she weren’t my senior, I’d land her one good hit.
“So you really don’t know?”
“…So what is it?”
“The female actress in the HotChoco ad that went with ‘First Snow’ has a similar image to you. Cold beauty of the city?”
“Ah, noona…….”
“Sorry, sorry. I’ll stop teasing. It’s a nineties ad, but it’s pretty famous online. It was really popular when it first came out.”
I’m a 2000s kid—how would I know about nineties commercials?
It’s amazing that Kang Su-ah knows it, and it’s amazing that Yeo Eun-jae, not that much older, just knows it naturally. Everyone’s addicted to the internet…….
Anyway, so that’s the reason Kang Su-ah pushed me into the Collaboration swamp.
I’m pretty sure the Everys will definitely like it. Since everyone’s on the internet so much…….
There are five groups participating in this Collaboration, and among the four groups besides Evergreat, two are faces I’m very familiar with.
One is Yeo Eun-jae from Daylight, one is Noah from ASHCODE.
The ones I don’t know are Hina from Liliel and Seo Young from Pale Heart.
Yeo Eun-jae seemed to know both of them, but Noah and I—or rather, Jo Eun-bin and I—knew neither of them, so throughout the practice period we just came and went from the Practice Room.
In this timeline, Jo Eun-bin and I have almost no reason to be tangled together alone, and we’re not exactly close either.
Jo Eun-bin probably doesn’t find me easy to be around either.
From her perspective, we can’t be comfortable with each other. Every time we’re involved in anything, including the Collaboration incident, noise gets generated.
So we just ended up greeting each other. I’m getting along decently with Hyun Jae-yi, which is really a relief.
And honestly, there wasn’t much to practice.
We just use Hand Microphones and do a Live Performance, and since it’s an old Idol song, the Choreography is fairly simple. It’s just a matter of each person practicing their parts well.
The members from Liliel and Pale Heart are both the youngest line.
So we’re around the same age, but those two debuted two to three years earlier than us, and our activity periods didn’t overlap, so there was no way we’d have met before.
“Want me to introduce you?”
“Um, well……. I’m sorry, but I’m not warm-hearted enough for that, so I’ll have to decline. I’m more comfortable with keeping a bit of distance…….”
“Ha, figured you’d say something like that. You don’t think we’re that close anyway, right?”
“…… That’s not true.”
“Your answer’s delayed, so it really seems like you do think that. Isn’t that a little sad?”
Yeo Eun-jae kept reaching out and talking to me, but now you’re leaving me heartbroken…….
Faced with Yeo Eun-jae’s over-the-top reaction, I ended up exchanging phone numbers with both of them…….
These people also seem like the type to be shy rather than outgoing, so I don’t think we’ll actually use those numbers.
“They’re all potential candidates for V-net’s Survival show, so it’s not bad to get close beforehand.”
“…Survival show? What do you mean?”
A Survival show? Hearing the term for the first time, I jerked my head up and stared at Yeo Eun-jae.
This person’s tall too. I’m not exactly short, but I have to look up slightly. Anyway.
“Oh, maybe your company hasn’t contacted you yet? We heard that you all would be participating too…….”
“…Can you tell me more details?”
“You’re only proactive asking questions at times like this. I don’t have much I can answer. V-net’s doing a girl group Survival show, and we subsidiaries are confirmed to participate, that’s about it.”
“That doesn’t really help, noona…….”
“Using that word for ‘noona’ like that kind of hurts…….”
I pressed Yeo Eun-jae about the Survival show I had no memory of, but I got nothing out of it.
Wait, now that I think about it, Daylight’s contract is ending soon.
“Noona, um, your group’s contract…….”
“Oh, this is confidential until the fan concert announcement…… but all nine of us just re-signed with the company for four and a half years.”
“…Four and a half years?”
“Standard seven-year contracts, adjusted for timing—our two and a half plus four and a half more. It’s a secret until the fan concert announcement?”
Wow, that’s a surprise.
That’s how this world flows. I did hear that Daylight was renewing their contract even before the Regression happened, but I’m hearing the details for the first time now.
“Were there any companies that objected……?”
“Well, there were, but when we first signed, we set our original company’s subsidiary contract period to two and a half years as well. We discussed it among ourselves and decided on it, and when we told the company executives, they said okay and had V-net tell the other agencies to do the same, so it worked out. After that, for the renewal contract, it’s up to V-net and our current company.”
“The big entertainment companies really are gangsters.”
“Are you supposed to be saying that in a big entertainment company practice room corner?”
“I’m saying it quietly, so it’s fine…….”
Ah, that got carried over to Hyun Jae-yi. Thinking that as long as she says it quietly it’s okay…….
I’m in a position where I need to watch my words everywhere too.
“Anyway, I don’t know the exact details of the Survival show either. It’s just starting to get inquiries out and we’re confirmed to participate, that’s all.”
“Well, thanks anyway. Feels like I bought myself some time to respond.”
“You’re going to participate?”
“…Seems like I will. Since it’s V-net, there’ll be buzz.”
Those V-net bastards are obsessed with that strange reputation of being an Idol Survival show powerhouse.
This Survival show is not in my memory.
Then what’s the variable?
Daylight.
And what’s the biggest variable of Daylight?
It’s the Regressor, Han Jung-yeon.
Good, I’ve got one person to shake down.
Exactly that—Han Jung-yeon.
My Hand-Written Top Girl Group Scenario
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: May 27, 2026
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