Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 92

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Episode 92
On a day when the first snow falls like today
I want to walk this path with you
When we hold hands and gaze together
It feels like we’re in love
I guess it’s the love of first snow
Simple but cute point choreography, straight vocals befitting an old song but quite challenging difficulty. And a collaboration team performing it live.
The December 24th QBS Music Awards stage, broadcast live, was proceeding smoothly.
The “First Snow” cover collaboration stage of “Sweet” that aired at the end of Part 1 was receiving good reactions online as well.
– QBS annoyed me but I do like how they always let idols do live performances
– QBS girl group main vocal collaborations are so good???
– Real talk no holes everyone’s solid you can feel the wall
First, all the performers sang the song properly.
– Who’s Seo Ji-on?
– Looks like Kim Mi-hye when she was younger lol
– I keep seeing young Kim Mi-hye in Seo Ji-on lol
– Wait I kept wondering who Seo Ji-on looked like and it’s young Kim Mi-hye lmaooo that hot chocolate ad Kim Mi-hye
– On air there are like five thousand comments saying Seo Ji-on looks like Kim Mi-hyeㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ But for real she actually does look alike
The fact that Seo Ji-on resembled the female actress from the famous advertisement that used “First Snow” as its jingle became good gossip material online.
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(KakaoTalk screenshot)
mihye.kim
QBS Music Awards “First Snow” stage~^^
Many netizens and acquaintances say it reminds them of my younger days^^
Thank you for comparing me to such a pretty idol~ ㅎㅎ
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On top of that, even a shout-out on social media from the actress who actually appeared in the advertisement, and remarkably fast at that.
It’s fair to say it generated high buzz to the point where you could even credit Kang Su-ah’s strategy (?) with working.
“What exactly were you aiming for when you told me to go out for that collaboration stage?”
“Huh? Not really anything in particular?”
“What?”
“Nothing, I said. Not everyone thinks as hard as you do while living.”
But listening to Kang Su-ah’s words, it might have been nothing more than simple resemblance-spotting rather than any real strategy or scheming.
“I didn’t expect it to blow up like this either.”
“If I’d known it would turn out like this, I would’ve said I was going from the start…….”
“I bet. The Seo Ji-on I know…….”
“Don’t talk like you know everything about me.”
Kang Su-ah made an annoyed expression, but whatever. This would probably spread as clips and shorts online and die down soon enough.
Some collaboration stages leave a lasting impression, but usually these one-off ones prioritize short-term reactions over long-term ones.
Just look at how the collaboration stage with Ashcode that was loud during the May Awards and all through August, or even stretching to the October comeback, has now finally quieted down.
– Noah has a pretty tone good at singing but why didn’t they do a live performance,,,
– Wait was Noah always this good at singing lmaooo Noah is here in this lineup but doesn’t get pushed aside at all??
– It seems like Ashcode members aren’t actually bad at singing but since they didn’t do live performances it’s sad that the debut image of not being able to do live performances stuck ㅠ..
Seeing Jo Eun-bin demonstrate solid vocal ability in this collaboration stage, you could definitely tell from the internet turning around again.
…Well, the company probably persuaded QBS to squeeze Jo Eun-bin into the original plan which was supposed to feature the core vocalists from four teams excluding Ashcode.
The internet and public reactions are inherently extreme — once a bad image sets in, it completely reverses when you prove you’re actually good. I know that.
Actually, this eases my heart a bit, so I don’t think poorly of it.
Learning that Jo Eun-bin is more courageous and kind-hearted than I thought, and pushing ahead with the summer collaboration stage anyway despite knowing it would become a hot topic online — the pangs of conscience ease up a little.
Being a returnee is really hard……. Sometimes I wonder what I’m doing dragging these young kids around.
“Everyone, let’s head to the group finale stage soon!”
The long string of thoughts was cut short by the manager’s loud voice.
The members who weren’t yet adults had clocked out long ago.
Only Kang Su-ah, Go Hyun-seo, and I spent Christmas at the broadcasting station.
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December 31st, Gwanghwamun.
“Spill it.”
“…Spill what?”
“You must know something too.”
“So what exactly?!”
“The survival show. Tell me everything you know.”
“Oh, I thought you were gonna say…”
I thought you were going to say what? What else?
I felt a flare of irritation but held back my anger because I didn’t want to be pushed around by Han Jeong-yeon.
Surely as fellow returnees, this much could be shared, for real…….
And actually, it seemed like Han Jeong-yeon was more annoyed than me.
“You called me out here on this freezing winter day, in an outdoor stage waiting area, just to say this?”
“Is this not worth it to you?”
“Like, totally, amazing, seriously, so…….”
Right. LBC never did abandon the outdoor stage, even after getting roasted like that.
Who came up with the idea of setting up a stage in Gwanghwamun Plaza and doing year-end performances there? I heard some teams even do the pre-event stage for the Bosingak New Year celebration after that.
LBC Music Awards have always had the formula of outdoor stages…….
But I do question whether that tradition needs to continue all the way into the 2020s.
“Friend, think about this logically. It’s twelve degrees below zero right now…….”
“And?”
“KakaoTalk exists as a modern invention, so why didn’t you use that and instead call me out in this cold?”
“I just felt like I needed to complain a bit?”
“…So?”
“I called you out so you’d feel how cold it is and understand my grievance.”
“This is crazy, uh…….”
Han Jeong-yeon was left speechless instantly.
Why, what, why.
Don’t you know I’ve eaten dirt from you like this a time or two?
The memory of getting suddenly called out of the hotel in the sweltering Jakarta heat for something that turned out to be nothing serious is still vivid.
“Haha!”
“What’s so funny…… Do you just want to mess with me?”
“Oh, completely correct. Well, actually I do have something to complain about so half-correct?”
“…I think I’ve gotten tangled up with a lunatic. Seriously. If I could just rewind time one more time, I’d definitely refuse and ask what the hell that meant.”
“Could you? I’ve been through a lot from you.”
“But I’ve never done anything to you so I don’t even know what you’re talking about. This is so unfair.”
“But that ‘you’ was also past you. Accept it.”
Let me mess with you a bit properly from the previous timeline.
If I’d messed with you appropriately, you would’ve messed back appropriately too.
“Anyway, before we freeze to death, just share what info you have roughly. Quick. Eun-bin doesn’t seem to know much, so do you know anything?”
“I don’t either……. Whatever you don’t know, I don’t know well either. We both came back around similar times, right?”
Han Jeong-yeon spoke with a truly aggrieved expression.
Well, it seemed like we both came back around the same age roughly…….
“What do you need?”
“Why this suddenly huge survival show event happened, and why V-Net would make something like this. Honestly, it seems like it’d be hugely related to you guys?”
“…Well, I can’t deny it. We’re confirmed cast, for one.”
“Besides that, tell me all the information you have.”
“Isn’t this straight-up extortion?”
“We’re just removing variables from each other. If removing the variable is impossible, then put the variable itself into the controllable range. But I have zero information on the survival show? I have no choice but to pry it out of you.”
“That’s extortion.”
“Say I’m a helpful neighbor instead.”
Would my reaction have been like this in the previous timeline? If so, Han Jeong-yeon’s enthusiasm for messing with me is at least understandable.
When reactions are that vivid it’s just fun to mess with someone. How could I not mess with you when you’re so obviously losing the will to push back?
“Alright, forget it. Contact me after work today. I’ll roughly organize what I know.”
“There’s the right attitude. I’ll take that information?”
“Ugh…… Give me something in return later. At minimum, a song.”
“A song? Do you know how hard it is to write a song?”
“That’s why I’m saying it, ugh…… Forget it, go. I’m freezing to death…….”
“Yeah, I’m about to freeze too.”
My argument with Han Jeong-yeon ended there.
We’d been too busy to talk much lately, and this chance to mess with Han Jeong-yeon ended up being payback for Jakarta.
Even if it was a subjective year, an event that didn’t actually happen in this timeline.
Anyway!
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Half the group are minors, and they’re rookies. Because of that, Evergreat handled the first part of the year-end stages with certainty.
“I want to stand a little further back next year…….”
“Why, you get to leave early because of it.”
“But I want to celebrate the new year with my sisters.”
“Hyun Jae-yi will be around next year. The youngest ones have to wait two more years.”
“This was about this year…….”
“Can you fight against age? Just clock out quietly. Your sisters are staying late.”
Even after finishing the stage well and coming down, Hyun Jae-yi came with more greed, and Kang Su-ah took it so well that the scene was never boring.
Even with good budget funding, homemade composition and lyric writing were unavoidable.
Arrangement was the same — Shim Yoo-jung and I couldn’t handle all the year-end stages pouring in.
So what needed to be done was efficient allocation of time and human resources.
We poured more effort into awards ceremonies and arrangements than the year-end music festival which had relatively less time and confirmed earlier performances, which meant the festival performance inevitably became somewhat flat.
But if there was one stage we put particular force into among the three terrestrial music festivals…….
You’ll inevitably fall too
In this winter snow
On the LBC outdoor stage, “Do It Now!”— the only song allotted.
With a simple intro and just one song to perform, plus the special nature of an outdoor stage, it seemed like it could become decent buzz material if done well.
So what we chose was the most popularly known song, created with summer release in mind, and revamped it to suit winter by even rewriting the lyrics.
Shim Yoo-jung and I had held onto the arrangement for quite a while, wanting to change the sharp, breezy sound texture to feel more like a carol.
A week before the performance the Music Replay sound felt off so we pulled an all-nighter swapping instruments and rearranging……. It was absolute chaos.
(Getting more nagging on top of it was a bonus……)
During the New Year countdown, we sent the younger members who couldn’t go onstage due to minor issues to the dorm first, then came back to the temporary waiting area and monitored the performance video, and it looked like it came out pretty nicely with the visuals we’d discussed overall.
Bright, warm-toned knit and cape, long-length skirts and pants.
The biggest advantage is that they’re warm. The styling team paid careful attention because apparently in this weather, wearing thin costumes meant you’d be too cold to even dance properly.
“As the sun sets, the bright outfit really stands out.”
“Right? The contrast is strong with the lighting?”
Like Go Hyun-seo said, there was also a subtle effect from the contrast with the darkened outdoor background.
Time that didn’t seem like it would pass went by surprisingly fast as I did performance feedback with Kang Su-ah and Go Hyun-seo.
The moment we stepped onstage for the New Year countdown and greeting, I could see the crowd gathered in the wide plaza at a glance.
Holding light sticks of all colors, spectators who came to cheer despite this freezing weather stood out to me especially today.
“What are you thinking about? Smile a bit more. Your expression looks scary right now.”
“Oh, really? Um……, if you ask what I’m thinking…….”
Come to think of it, Ashcode said their light sticks would come out soon, right?
Every time I stand on a stage this big I feel it — we really need light sticks.
“First thing in the new year, pitch light stick creation to the company?”
Hearing my answer, Kang Su-ah burst into laughter and dropped her head.
A light scolding for thinking about work even here was a bonus…….
“…3, 2, 1!”
“Happy New Year!”
And the new year arrived.
My first new year celebrated onstage, and the beginning of twenty-two that I’d waited so long for.
Rewriting Top Girl Group Scenarios with My Own Hands
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
Date of Production
: May 27, 2026
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