Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 99

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Chapter 99
Seo Ji-on
I owe you an explanation.
We just ran in because of traffic, so we were late…
We had to redo hair and makeup, and if we were any later it would’ve been cutting it way too close ㅠ.ㅠ
King of Kings Super Kang Su-ah💖
Today the Harmony Theory professor went over time in class and I almost had to raise my hand and say I need to go to a music broadcast ㅋㅋ
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King of Kings Super Kang Su-ah💖
The moment I made up my mind to say exactly that, the professor ended class
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King of Kings Super Kang Su-ah💖
I bolted for the main gate the second it ended
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King of Kings Super Kang Su-ah💖
If I’d been even 10 minutes late I would’ve caught it from the makeup coordinator ㅠㅠ
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Seo Ji-on
I was wondering why she was late
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During the two-week run of , Kang Su-ah and I were living a hell schedule: pre-recording would end, we’d take a car to school, attend classes, then take another car to the broadcast station (sometimes we had to sprint like our lives depended on it when we were running late), get our hair and makeup done the moment we arrived, and then perform.
Times like this, I envied Go Hyun-seo and Hyun Jae-yi, who didn’t have to go to school. While we were in class studying, they were apparently sleeping soundly in the waiting room.
The maknae line had started high school, and I was a bit jealous that they’d both enrolled at a celebrity-famous arts high school where they only needed to show up for attendance.
But this university life I chose (even if my parents did pressure me to produce a diploma) — I just had to tough it out, come hell or high water.
“So what do you all do after pre-recording?”
“I go to school!”
“Work!”
“Eat, obviously!”
So at a few broadcast stations during the second week of pre-recordings, we’d goof around like this between morning recording segments.
“I also head straight to school after recording. But the thing is, I didn’t really do my assignments. Didn’t…? Couldn’t…? Anyway…”
“Ahh…”
A sympathetic sigh rippled through the audience—one that seemed to understand exactly what I meant.
The truth is, there wasn’t much I could accomplish during this activity period.
In the evenings we’d all work together to sharpen our basic performance skills for Pod Arc, and I personally spent time wrestling with different arrangement directions, wondering what V-Net would assign as the first task, treating past exam questions like a benchmark.
In the end, I had no choice but to rush through the creative assignment. It was inevitable.
“By the way, Kang Su-ah still gets confused about the Diatonic Scale concept, so I’ve been using my study time teaching her that.”
“…someone’s going to think I’ve forgotten everything! I’m actually being a model student these days!”
“You’re not supposed to call yourself a model student. Other people have to recognize it for you to be one.”
“Ha ha ha!”
This time, laughter of many shades burst from the crowd.
Seeing that Kang Su-ah didn’t push back, it seemed she wasn’t being serious about it.
Kang Su-ah isn’t a model student—she’s just naturally gifted when it comes to music. If you were a model student, half the world would be model students.
With instincts that good in music, she composes everything by ear after learning just the basics. A model student? Please.
During April exam season, I’ll have to stream Univers live with study-with-me content.
At least I can show off engineering theory and Kang Su-ah’s Harmony Theory study that way.
Kill two birds with one stone—get her to study too. (This is just something I want to do.)
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[V-Net’s filming a girl group survival show starting in April?]
HOT!
(Screenshot)
Don’t know what it is but I think V-Net’s annual schedule or something leaked externally — I’m reposting it too
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– Damn so maybe that’s why some girl groups’ schedules seem off lately
└ Could be — they either rush things or postpone because they can’t release after filming starts
– Ugh I hate this — comparison content is gonna explode
– V-Net gets roasted all the time but they actually do survival shows pretty well — looking forward to it ㅋㅋ
– Anyone have casting tea??? Really curious — I’m guessing AES and Daylight at minimum?
└ Tea says [initials] is confirmed and [initials] rumors are floating around too?
– If the tea’s right, it’s sad that Daylight’s doing another survival right after their miracle contract renewal
└ Why sad lol there’s also tea that they set up the lineup to push Daylight ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ If I’m sad then just let me be sad and move on
[If AES is in V-Net’s survival did they rush their March comeback?]
Honestly been curious why they came back so early and half-assed, but if it’s for this then it makes sense
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– What’s it to you? Does your acknowledgment actually change anything ㅋㅋㅋ
└ I’m just saying that’s my take;;
– Idk what you mean but did their plans fall through because of the survival?
[Tea mentioned Ashcode too]
ㅇㅇ
But idk
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– Didn’t they get roasted for being bad at live? Even the huge collaborations were lip-synced
└ But some members have good voices and they’re pretty decent dancers actually so maybe it’s ok
– If they show up I can’t even imagine what PN was thinking
└ 222 PN doesn’t even produce survival shows usually
└ PN rarely puts out survival stuff but if the tea’s right, Ashcode could be worth sending? Most survivals are live and Ashcode’s live image is terrible
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[Will the era of girl group warfare begin…? V-Net girl group survival launches]
[[Official] V-Net, girl group competitive survival first shoot in April]
[Which group will claim the crown as #1? Girl group survival shooting begins in April]
By late March, as Evergreat’s promotion was winding down.
The entertainment news headlines were completely dominated by ‘s launch announcement.
V.net @VnetKR
Who is the Next Emperor?
#For_the_CROWN
202X MAY, COMING SOON
(A poster of a crown placed in the center of a round table with seven chairs)
V-Net released the press materials and uploaded the poster simultaneously, maximizing audience interest.
Now that the plan had leaked and attention was already focused, this was a move that clearly showed V-Net’s determination to stir up as much buzz as possible.
The biggest selling point was that the poster contained enough information to identify which groups were appearing.
Take Evergreat, for example.
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[Isn’t that the Evergreat logo?]
(Screenshot)
The necklace ornament on the chair to the upper right of the crown in the full poster ㅇㅇ
I was like, isn’t that just a clover? But these guys love doing stuff like this so it seems right
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– It’s vague but it seems right
– It’s so vague but they probably wouldn’t just leave it like this
– Heard there were also props representing Daylight so it’s probably right
– I’m an Evergreat fan and it looks right — the detail just matches the logo
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The ornament on the necklace draped over the chair was designed to match the official emblem’s shape.
The other groups were similar. Daylight, whose worldview draws from Greco-Roman mythology, had official cream-colored silk fabric and glittering gems draped over their chair, while Ashcode had their chair dyed ash-grey with weathered spots scattered throughout, like an apocalyptic world.
Without directly naming the groups, V-Net had already planted everything needed to guess the full lineup in the poster.
This was V-Net’s promotional strategy: to maximize internet buzz most intuitively, let wild speculation run rampant, and heighten the buzz factor.
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[Pod Arc casting speculation lineup roughly like this]
HOT!
In order of debut
Rain Kids (6th year)
Liliiel (5th year)
Daylight (4th year)
Pale Heart (4th year)
Evergreat (2nd year)
Ashcode (2nd year)
Bellier (2nd year)
ㅇㅇ good lineup
They all appeared together at the end-of-year collaboration ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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– Bellier is who again??
└ Kurz’s company artists, good songs and pretty decent performances, been getting some buzz overseas lately
└ Who’s Kurz
└ Hit maker… famous producer, you know New World or something
– Wait isn’t Daylight a group with an expiration date
└ Originally set to disband in March of this year but all members just renewed with the company for another four and a half years — hit the standard seven-year mark
– After Daylight’s renewal their first schedule is an album? No it’s the survival…? This is so weird
– Ok everything makes sense but why the heck [initials]
└ For real PN doesn’t usually do this stuff right?
└ Maybe they wanted to ㅠ
– Looking forward to Evergreat — I still rewatch their competition performance ㅋㅋㅋ
– Does Rain Kids really have the chops for this…
└ One member seemed unsatisfied with just maintaining status quo a few months ago at a live so maybe they’re going for this to shake things up
[I seriously hate survival shows]
I’m a fan of one of the groups being mentioned and I just hate it — seriously hate it
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– Why?
└ ㅋㅋ Deliberately stirring the pot?
└ No I’m seriously asking why ㅠㅠ if they’re a group that performs well there shouldn’t be any reason to hate it
└ I hate being compared, hate being critiqued by casual viewers, hate how antis go crazy
└ Oh so you want to control your fave through dislike;;
└ So when did I say they shouldn’t go? I said I hated it — I’ll manage my own fandom my own way;
[Pale Heart had a one-year hiatus and now they’re doing a survival?]
What’s the company doing
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– Maybe they’re coming out to grab attention since it’s only been a year?
– Their domestic recognition is super vague anyway so doing a survival might be better than just a comeback
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It was a strategy that disregarded fan sentiment and community conflicts from hate — or rather, could be executed precisely because V-Net was actively courting it.
‘This is chaos.’
Naturally, I wasn’t particularly pleased about this phenomenon.
I generally avoid the internet in life to stay away from stress, but in this life I can’t exactly do that.
The thought of being swept up in the hot flames of this escalating spectacle isn’t exactly pleasant.
But what else could I do.
[▷ Mission : Achieve first place in the V-Net girl group survival !]
The system, which had been silent for months, dropped this mission on me this morning.
From the timing, it seems the mission popped up the moment the press release went out this morning. After going dark for months, suddenly dropping a notification about winning a survival just feels… unfair.
No matter how I think about it, I need to have words with whoever’s running this system. Do they think first place is something you get just from performing well?!
To win an idol survival, so many things are necessary.
Skill, luck, fandom… charm, public recognition, the PD’s editing direction and vote weighting — many factors are at play.
It’d be different if I was going solo like Han Jeong-yeon to retry infinitely until first place…
If the mission failure penalty is the same as last time, even one failure would wipe out all my remaining HP.
Not that there’s no way to increase HP through the system shop, but…
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Shop
Available Items
– Stat Up : Available for purchase with Quest Points
– HP Up : 20 Achievement Points
– Lucky Item Roulette : Available for purchase with Quest Points
…
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The cost is more expensive than I’d expected.
I currently have 12 Achievement Points, and HP upgrades start at 20 points…
I don’t know exactly what happens when HP runs out completely, but I’m fairly certain that not running out is the better option.
I don’t need to experience it firsthand to know that, and I’ve already dealt with conditioning problems each time HP dropped and I regressed…
Anyway, that’s not the immediate concern right now.
The real problem is the pre-interview meeting that’s been moved up to tomorrow.
Damn V-Net. Just because their press release distribution accelerated, did they really have the right to move the interview up like this on their own terms?
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario with My Own Hands
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
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: May 27, 2026
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: AES Media
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