Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95
Personally, I never imagined I’d pursue music as a career goal until after I entered high school and joined the band club.
I believed music was merely a precious hobby to relieve academic stress—something that could never become a job. Though I don’t quite remember why I felt that way.
But looking back, I’ve always loved music.
I was fond of classical Piano and played it for years, and there was a time when I earnestly chattered about becoming a pianist, not knowing any better.
Piano and Guitar each had their own distinct charm.
When you pressed the keys, the volume would shift depending on how you pressed them, and when you plucked the Guitar strings—the sound would change with every pluck, every press of the left hand against the fretboard. It was endlessly fascinating.
In middle school, music felt like a kind of reward.
As long as I finished my studies and kept my test scores above a certain level, my parents wouldn’t scold me for playing Piano and Guitar or singing songs.
In other words, that’s all it was—just music as a hobby, permitted only insofar as it didn’t cross my parents’ wishes.
At some point, I grew to hate that limitation. The thought crept in: what if this became my actual profession?
When I entered high school and joined the band club, I met a wonderful person in Shim Yu-jeong, and through her I could study toward pursuing applied music at university—and without separate entrance exam lessons, I was able to prepare for my music department entrance exam.
The practical requirements for Composition major auditions varied wildly from school to school. So I focused on just one—the requirements at Seo Jung Arts University—and even secretly took their test.
The day I received my preliminary acceptance from Seo Jung Arts University’s applied music department through that one secret early admission exam, I felt liberated.
I finally felt like I was living my own life. My steps, my own footsteps, were finally moving at my own will.
After the College Entrance Exam, when I told my parents about it.
My father threw the Glass Cup he was holding at me.
It didn’t hit me directly, but the shattered glass fragments bounced off the furniture and lodged near my temple. The wound healed, but there’s still a faint scar there.
Honestly… I wasn’t in my right mind either, but even so, I talked back to my parents.
I screamed—insisting that if not here, I wouldn’t go to university at all, and that since I’d lived by their rules until now, I wanted to choose my own university…….
…Right, no matter how much I think about it, I can’t tell this story in front of fans. It’s too raw.
My entrance exam story and university enrollment story are sealed away forever.
Until I quit being an idol and completely disappear from the spotlight, there’s nowhere I can easily talk about this……. It’s that kind of thing…….
***
“But how did your mother end up finding the company?”
“…Well, I wasn’t answering her calls? I blocked her number ages ago because she was annoying. After that, I changed my phone number too.”
“You blocked your… mom…?”
“I need to live a bit more independently, don’t I? My parents show up at their daughter’s workplace just to nag about finishing college.”
If you want to avoid cutting ties—that extreme—families need to keep some distance from each other. Even more so if you’re not a family exposed to the media.
Once you’re an adult and economically self-sufficient, you can simply cut contact when parents start being bothersome.
Once I realized my parents’ approval wasn’t necessary for my choices, everything became easier than I expected.
After my Debut, I got all sorts of strange calls under the guise of my celebrity phone number, so I changed it. And that’s how my mom ended up not knowing my new number.
It’s true I’d blocked her before, and it’s true I didn’t intentionally share my new number, so technically—if you trace the cause—it’s entirely my fault for not giving my mom my contact info…….
Either way, that incident caused way too much trouble for the company employees…….
The next day at work, I apologized sincerely to the company staff who’d gone through all that.
It’s not right to burden other people with your family problems they didn’t need to know about……. No matter how politely my mother may have approached them, it was still discourteous.
Fortunately, most of them seemed understanding, but I was still embarrassed.
All I could do was apologize repeatedly, and that’s a rather sad feeling…….
***
“So, are you really going back to university?”
“I have to. They’re even paying for tuition, so there’s no real reason not to…….”
“But… isn’t that going to be really hard?”
Kang Su-ah stared at me with wide, startled eyes.
What was with her coming into the studio just now and constantly striking up conversation with me…….
“Sure, it’ll be difficult. But I don’t really need to worry about grades—I just need to graduate. So it shouldn’t be as hard as you’d think.”
“Just graduate, you say—easy for you to talk about…….”
“I know.”
“You know? But you’re seriously going to reenroll during what’s obviously about to be a crazy-busy period?”
Kang Su-ah had an expression of complete bewilderment.
Maybe it looked worse because she’d always hated school so much. I didn’t find it quite as unbearable.
“As long as I don’t get an F. Plus, I loaded up on credits freshman year, so I can coast through the remaining four semesters and still graduate with more than enough credits.”
Despite its reputation, Seo Jung Arts University isn’t a four-year institution. It’s a three-year professional college, the most prestigious in the arts stream, but since the entertainment industry doesn’t really distinguish between junior colleges and four-year universities, there’s no problem.
“And Su-ah, you really know only half the story.”
“Huh?”
“I have to graduate now.”
“Um…?”
“If I rack up more seniority, I’ll get way busier with international tours and schedules.”
“Ah…?!”
“I need to quickly rack up my credits and graduate now. If I’m going to graduate at all…….”
Kang Su-ah’s expression shifted, as if she’d finally grasped this deeper layer of meaning.
Right—as we get more popular, we’ll do concerts and international tours, and schedules will expand regardless. If they don’t expand, that’s the real problem…….
“But do you really have to graduate?”
“Hmm…….”
“I mean, we’re actively working right now, we’re idols—why do we need to graduate?”
“That’s… a fair point…….”
Su-ah had a valid argument. Even if I managed to get into university, the practical necessity of actually graduating did feel thin.
I understand the fatigue, the packed schedule, and yes, that college reenrollment is the least practical of all the things on my plate.
But…….
“Honestly, university is the thing I’ve accomplished where I poured the most of my own will into it. So there’s something about wanting that tangible result called graduation.”
“Yeah.”
“And I think the viral potential is pretty good…….”
“Hm?”
“Remember how well our midterm exam Vlog did?”
There are several ways for an Idol to capture mainstream appeal.
There’s releasing a good song, appearing on a good variety show…….
And then there’s creating Content that resonates with lots of people.
That’s exactly what our university midterm exam Vlog was during the Proof Rookies era.
“Oh, oh right. I completely forgot about that…….”
“How long ago was that? How did you forget?”
“Just… I thought there wasn’t really a need to reenroll…….”
Right, Su-ah originally said she had no intention of reenrolling if the idol career was going well.
She’d reenrolled because things weren’t going well, and that’s partly how we got closer…….
“A rookie all-kill idol’s college life? I’m telling you, it’s going to blow up.”
“Oh…….”
“I’m going to talk to the Content team about turning it into actual Content. That’s why I’m asking you to reenroll with me too.”
That’s the real reason I suggested yesterday that we reenroll together.
If I tried to produce Content alone, it would be way too monotonous and boring. I need Su-ah’s Entertainment Value!
We need to raise our recognition before V.Net’s girl group survival show. More specifically, we need to highlight each member’s individual charm and consolidate our core fanbase…….
So isn’t a ‘university life Vlog’ a genuinely attractive piece of Content?
It’s relatable to the general public, it’s grounded in everyday life, and it captures moments fans love…….
Of course, the other members will need personal Content too. I should discuss that with the Content team.
“So, you’re still not going to reenroll?”
“Wow, hold on a second. Give me some time to think about this…….”
“Are you going to or not.”
“It sounds like you’ve already decided for me!?”
“Yeah, so just reenroll with me without fussing.”
“But the tuition—!”
“…Can’t we use what we got from the Settlement?”
“Well, we could, but…….”
“Then think of it as an investment in Content and let’s reenroll.”
“Wow…….”
Right, that’s true. Evergreat received their first Settlement recently.
Investment into the trainee period was minimal to begin with, and since the music has been doing well, the Settlement that came my way was quite decent—including Royalties.
Shim Yu-jeong mentioned it too. The Royalties from songs we worked on together were pretty substantial.
So I was waiting for the first Settlement, and it came in just about as much as I’d hoped.
Well, this should pretty much settle the Content notification for Su-ah.
“You’ve got three days to think about it. Let’s go practice for the Golden Disk Awards stage.”
“Seriously, you’re such a legend doing whatever you want…….”
“What? I’m the producer—shouldn’t I get to make some calls?”
“……Yeah, fair point?”
“Right?”
Right now, there’s just one last big award ceremony to focus on—the Golden Disk Awards stage?
I can decide on the reenrollment after that.
***
End of January.
“Golden Disk Awards, Rookie Award Female Category. Congratulations, Evergreat!”
There was no upset.
To begin with, the hardest Rookie Award for our team to win was the VMA Rookie Award, so if we’d already won that, the Rookie Award All-Kill was effectively guaranteed.
The members delivered their acceptance speeches as routine, and it seemed everyone had already moved past the stage of being shocked and tearful at winning awards.
It was pretty funny watching Go Hyun-seo cry with surprise the first time she won a Rookie Award, but I guess that’s what familiarity looks like.
With this, I’d fulfilled the goal I’d announced to our CEO.
A Rookie Award All-Kill at every major award ceremony—was it five awards, six awards now…….
What was certain was that we were taking Rookie Awards consistently and decisively at every major domestic award show.
Ding!
[▷ Hidden Achievement Unlocked!]
[▷ Achievement: Rookie Award ALL KILL]
[The CEO has faith in you. You’re someone who keeps your word!]
[▷ Achievement Points 1pt awarded.]
[▷ Total Achievement Points: 12pt]
Even the system, which had been quiet for a while, awarded Achievement Points—something it rarely gave—signaling clear success.
It was worth loudly declaring the Rookie Award All-Kill to our CEO…….
If the system—something I’d been largely ignoring due to a busy schedule and a rather dim mood—was now catching my attention, it meant I’d pulled off something pretty substantial.
Debuting alongside rookies from a major entertainment company and winning all the Rookie Awards at major award ceremonies, either jointly or solo.
I know it’s not easy for an Idol from a mid-sized agency to pull this off. (Which is probably why the system kept pushing me with missions to win that VMA Rookie Award in the first place?)
The system’s silent scheme has been rewarded…….
Or wait, is that not it? Did I just get too used to thinking about the system?
Either way, if an Idol career has chapters, it feels like my first chapter has finally ended.
Receiving the final Rookie Award, I finally feel like I’ve graduated from being a Rookie.
And so, February arrived—drawing near to my first Debut anniversary.
My Hand Rewrites the Top Girl Group Scenario
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
Publication Date
: May 27, 2026
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: AcesMedia
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