Became The Leader of a Girl Group Destined To Fail – Chapter 23

Chapter 23

Production Team: How did all this happen?

[Juseon: ….]

[Caption: Trainee Juseon, unable to speak]

[Caption: Eventually, she starts to cry….]

[Juseon: Honestly, I’ve been mentally exhausted from the start.]

The image of Juseon on the screen was the epitome of pitifulness.

She already had a very gentle and pitiful image, and seeing her cry made her look even more pitiful.

[Juseon: The other team members and I have such different images… I think we clashed from the moment we started deciding on the concept.]

Following Juseon’s words, the scene changed.

This video was an edited version before the broadcast.

The video captured the moment when they first decided on the concept.

The sporadic moments of silence, compiled through devilish editing, made it seem like their relationship was terribly bad.

[Juseon: At first, Cheong unnie and Geum suggested a sporty concept. Up to that point… even though it wasn’t what I had in mind… I thought I should work hard. It’s not just my stage, so let’s cooperate well….]

Juseon spoke while barely wiping away her tears.

[Juseon: But then Juhong suggested… what if we add a ** and *** concept, and add a slight *** vibe. From that point, I wondered if I could digest it…. Even though I showed signs of struggling… I felt like the team members just… didn’t care at all.]

Production Team: But you eventually accepted it, right?

[Juseon: It’s group life…. I thought I just had to endure it….]

Production Team: Then what was the trigger for the problem?

[Juseon: I’m in charge of choreography… but they asked me to help Juhong create the concept together. I appealed that it would be hard just to come up with the choreography….]

Juseon eventually started sobbing again.

The production team handed Juseon a handkerchief.

[Juseon: Thank you….]

Production Team: Don’t cry and take a deep breath slowly.

[Juseon: But I thought I should endure it all… It’s something I just have to endure… So I went to Dongdaemun Market with Juhong to look at costumes….]

***

“How about this, unnie?”

Yeon Juhong really enjoyed shopping for clothes.

She was known among the trainees for dressing well.

For her, the concept position was an exciting task in many ways.

Especially the concept they decided to do this time – a concept that hit Yeon Juhong’s taste.

Yoon Cheong’s idea of sporty, Yeon Juhong’s idea of ‘this’.

If the two were combined, the reaction seemed to be good.

“I found a few movies that would be good references for our concept on the way here. Unnie, do you know the movie 0000?”

Yeon Juhong didn’t really like Juseon.

She didn’t like that she wasn’t very cooperative, and that she had a blank look no matter what she said.

But she knew why Cheong and Geum had sent Juseon here.

The nominal reason was for Juseon to help Yeon Juhong, but that wasn’t the real reason.

Look at those eyes. They weren’t eyes that would help others.

‘She clearly doesn’t like the concept…. Let her choose clothes she likes at least.’

The unnies were too nice to package it for her.

Yeon Juhong rolled her eyes.

But Yeon Juhong endured it.

Not for Juseon, but for the unnies.

“Unnie?”

But Juseon seemed to have no interest, just looking around.

She seemed to be only interested in choosing her own clothes.

Yeon Juhong started to get annoyed from here.

“Hmm?”

“How about this concept?”

“Ah… It’s okay.”

Juseon only casually responded in front of the camera, and then focused on choosing her own clothes again.

Eventually, Yeon Juhong’s cheeks started to puff up.

‘Geum Kim unnie…! Cheong Cheong unnie…! You have to buy me pork ribs when this is over…! At least pork ribs…!’

Eventually, Yeon Juhong gave up.

She just decided to choose her own clothes.

“Unnie, then while you choose your clothes, I’ll go pick out clothes for the other unnies! We don’t have much time.”

“That’s a good idea.”

“Just call me if you need my help!”

“I will.”

Yeon Juhong decided to choose Kim Geum’s outfit first.

There was no particular reason. She thought that Kim Geum would suit the concept the best.

“Who’s outfit are you choosing?”

“Ah, I’m choosing Geum unnie’s outfit!”

“Ah… Geum’s first?”

“Yes, yes.”

Yeon Juhong looked around the accessories, thinking that Juseon would understand.

And she found an accessory that was born for Kim Geum.

‘This is amazing. Even Tiger Kim Geum unnie will definitely compliment this accessory…!’

Yeon Juhong picked up the accessory with a beaming smile.

But then,

“Juhong-ah, how about this?”

Juseon presented the outfit she had chosen.

“Huh, that one…?”

Yeon Juhong looked at the outfit Juseon had brought and thought to herself.

‘This won’t even pass for pork ribs, I need to get beef ribs….’

That’s how much the outfit Juseon had brought did not fit the concept at all.

She had brought something overly innocent on her own.

“It’s pretty, but isn’t it a bit bland? Our concept is-”

“But I’m not sure if I’ll fit our concept well…. Isn’t this okay?”

Juseon appealed to Yeon Juhong with the most pitiful face she could muster.

Yeon Juhong was really at a loss. She felt like she should say it wouldn’t work, but if she did, she would seem like a bad person.

But if she said it would work, it would be a dereliction of her duty as the person in charge of the concept.

It was truly a dilemma.

“Then… how about we go with that outfit, but I choose the accessories?”

“Yep! Sounds good!”

Juseon finally smiled brightly when her opinion was accepted.

Yeon Juhong put down Kim Geum’s accessories with an uneasy heart.

Then she went around looking for accessories that could somehow make Juseon’s clothes fit the concept a little better.

After a few minutes of this.

Yeon Juhong was able to find a few accessories she liked.

Ah, this damn ability.

Yeon Juhong showed the accessories to Juseon with a proud smile on her face.

“Sis, how about this one?”

“Um….”

Juseon just gave a sheepish smile, without any particular reaction.

It meant she didn’t like it.

In the end, Yeon Juhong was slightly hurt.

But she didn’t give up and kept showing Juseon every accessory she found.

“How about this?!”

“Haha.”

“How about this?! This one is really amazing.”

“Um…!”

“Sis! This one, you really have to like…!”

“I don’t know….”

In the end, Yeon Juhong realized that Juseon had no intention of listening to her.

“Sis, then do you want to try choosing the accessories yourself?”

“Sure!”

If it was going to be like this, she should have just said so from the start.

Yeon Juhong was exploding with sorrow, but she held it in.

“Then I’ll go pick out the other sisters’ accessories.”

“Okay.”

And so, Yeon Juhong went off to find the outfit for Kim Geum that she had stopped looking for earlier.

Then she found the accessory she had discovered earlier.

Even looking at it again, it was an accessory that fit Kim Geum perfectly.

But then,

“Juseon, whose is that?”

“Oh, this is for Geum sis….”

“Can’t I use that? It’s really pretty! Juhong has a good eye.”

…Is that possible?

It was an accessory she had chosen specifically thinking of Kim Geum.

How happy she had been to find it…!

“Uh… this is….”

In the end, Yeon Juhong nodded with tears in her eyes.

“Then should we try it on you to see if it suits you?”

“Yep yep. Let’s see. How do I look?”

It really doesn’t suit you, sis….

From the beginning, Kim Geum and Juseon had completely opposite images.

There’s no way it would….

But Yeon Juhong couldn’t bring herself to tell Juseon that it really didn’t suit her.

“Compared to that, I think the one from earlier might be better… Is that the one you like the most, sis?”

“Yep!”

“Yes….”

“I’ll use it?”

Juseon cheerfully took the accessory from Yeon Juhong’s hand.

But while it was said to be ‘taken’, it was practically stolen.

Little by little, Yeon Juhong began to feel her limits.

‘I want to… go home!’

***

Production Team: But it seems like trainee Yeon Juhong gave in a lot, right?

[Juseon: I thought so too. So I was really grateful. But I guess that wasn’t it.]

Juseon bowed her head like a sinner.

***

In the end, having had the accessory she had worked hard to find stolen, Yeon Juhong went off to find another accessory.

But every time she found one, Juseon started to covet it.

“Didn’t I pick out earrings for you earlier…?”

“Yep, but this one is pretty too, and the one from earlier is pretty too. What should I do…? Juhong is really amazing. Everything she finds is pretty.”

Again, Yeon Juhong was weak to compliments.

“So… then you can take the one you want, sis.”

“Then can I have this one?”

“It might not go well with the necklace, don’t you think you should give up on one of them?”

“How can I make it not match?”

What is that ‘how’?

Yeon Juhong was gradually getting tired.

“Sis, now that you’ve picked out all your accessories… I’ll go pick out Geum unnie’s”

“But Juhong.”

“Yes?”

Yeon Juhong blinked her big eyes.

Suddenly, Juseon’s tone had become cold.

“Why do you keep talking about Geum since earlier…?”