There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 1

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Episode 1

Where did it all go wrong?

Falling from the terrace, Yewon asked herself.

The nation’s niece.

The nation’s little sister.

The child actor beloved by the advertising industry.

The youngest Best Actress award winner.

Despite having all those titles, Yewon had never been happy even once.

‘No. Actually, I was happy until a few years ago.’

…Until her mother, her only family, suddenly passed away in a hit-and-run accident.

Until she met her ‘relatives’ for the first time – Uncle and his daughter, her cousin Jeyeon, since she had no close family.

At the young age of 7, Yewon had no choice but to need a guardian.

Yes.

That’s when her life started going astray.

‘You want to reduce your schedule? Your mother left behind this much debt. What are you going to do about that debt?’

Whenever she said she wanted to rest even a little because of her murderous schedule, Uncle would say that.

‘Hate comments? Sister, why do you care about such things? If you do well, all the hate comments will disappear. You just need to be more… careful with your behavior, right?’

When she begged for protection from excessive personal attacks and curses, Jeyeon said that.

‘The director keeps hitting on you? Just go along with it a bit. How are you going to make money being so weak? The entertainment industry is all like that. Just endure it.’

When she said she couldn’t work because a director old enough to be her grandfather was harassing her, both of them said the same thing.

Yes, she could somehow endure up to that point.

But what she really couldn’t bear was.

That was.

‘What did you say? You’re going to expose everything now? Do you have evidence? That we’re fake?’

The fact that both of them weren’t her ‘real’ family.

‘Just with words? You think I’ll give up quietly? Do you know how much money that brat brings in every month-!’

Both of them were deceiving her with the name of ‘family’ because of money.

‘Well, there’s nothing to hide now. I’ll be honest. Sister’s real family is somewhere else. They even sent us child support regularly like fools, asking us to take good care of you.’

That Uncle and Jeyeon were her only family, so she just had to endure and overcome it.

That family was originally like that.

When she found out that everything she had mistakenly believed.

Was all fake.

‘…But it’s no use now.’

I’m falling right now, pushed by my fake cousin and fake uncle.

‘Now that you know the truth, you’re completely useless. Goodbye, sister.’

Soon my neck will break and I’ll die.

Just like the last role I played.

Yewon closed her eyes and calmly accepted death.

Yes, this is actually better.

If I die, I can rest comfortably. I can meet Mother again too.

…But why is this taking so long?

The moment she opened her eyes, feeling something strange.

-This is a fresh case. A child actor. I haven’t raised an actor before.

Something she’d never seen before appeared in front of her.

…A fluff…ball…?

White and fluffy fur- with completely mismatched evil eyes.

All of it was bewildering.

Even a talking fluffball…?

-Still, I quite like this talent and this anger. Hmm. What should I do?

The cotton ball smiled from ear to ear.

-Hey, kid.

Kid? I’m not a kid.

I’m a whole 14 years old.

-Aren’t you wronged?

I am wronged.

-Yes, of course you’re wronged. It might have been different if you were raised by your real family.

What are you talking about?

My real family?

You mean the family that entrusted me to them?

That’s not real family. I don’t know who they are, but they’re the same.

-Aha. You think so?

…Yes, what’s different?

-Let me tell you one truth. Your real family didn’t abandon you. They didn’t have confidence in being good guardians, so they entrusted you to someone they thought was a better adult.

…I understand there were such circumstances.

But they should have checked if I was okay later. If they had visited me even once. Then they would have known I wasn’t okay.

-That’s not wrong. That’s what adults should do.

Right?

-But, your real family died before they could even go check on you.

!

-Very, very complicated adult circumstances arose and they died. Such a waste. They were my VVIP customers. Tsk… They died before I could properly milk them.

They died?

So that’s why they couldn’t come find me?

No, before that. What do you mean they were VVIP customers?

-Anyway, that’s enough explanation. Now let’s get to the main point.

Main point?

Yewon frowned in confusion.

-Yes. Make a contract with me, kid. Then I’ll give you a second chance.

However.

At just the words ‘second chance’, all her doubts flew away.

“Second… chance?”

-Yes. The day all your misfortune began. I’ll send you back to the day of your mother’s funeral. I can’t bring your mother back to life- but you can live a different life instead.

A different life…

If I’m given a second chance, could I live a different life?

Yewon looked back on her life so far.

Of course.

I could live a completely different life.

Most importantly…

I could get revenge on those people.

Sparks flew in Yewon’s eyes.

“What are the contract terms?”

-Look at this. You’re not a fool who bites without checking the contract terms?

“…I’ve been fooled once before.”

By Uncle.

Yewon smiled bitterly. After her mother passed away, Yewon signed Uncle’s fraudulent contract and couldn’t escape from him even when she wanted to.

-The contract term is just one. Win a Best Actress award before becoming an adult. Be careful because there’s a penalty if you fail.

Win a Best Actress award before becoming an adult?

Not a child actor award?

How difficult is that, yet you’re talking about it like it’s nothing?

-Will you do it?

But.

Yewon smiled coldly.

“I’ll do it.”

She had already succeeded once before, so why couldn’t she do it twice?

-Good! The contract is established. Then one last thing. If I give you one ‘benefit’ for your revenge… what would you want to receive?

A benefit.

Looking back on her life so far, there probably wasn’t a word that suited Yewon less than that.

Yewon smiled bitterly.

But at that moment.

Something flashed through her mind.

Exactly…

“Tell me who my Real Family is.”

She wanted to know her real family.

-Why that?

As Cotton Ball asked that question, its mouth seemed to twitch as if smiling.

Was it her imagination?

Yewon stared intently at Cotton Ball.

“I’m curious. If I had… lived with my real family. Whether things really would have changed a lot.”

-Excellent choice, Lee Yewon!

Along with Cotton Ball’s sinister voice-

The world went dark as if turning off.

-Your real family is… [-]!

“…!”

What?

Yewon was shocked.

Because it wasn’t someone she didn’t know at all.

Rather… it was problematic because she knew them too well.

-Do well with your ‘Real Family’!

* * *

When she opened her eyes again, she was in the middle of a nightmare.

“Oh my. What can we do, the poor child…”

“…Who’s going to take that child? Didn’t they say that child’s mother had no family at all?”

No, to be precise, she was in the middle of a place that appeared in her nightmares every day.

Mother’s funeral.

Yewon looked down at her own body.

A very small body wearing mourning clothes.

…It’s real.

She really… came back. To age 7…! To her unknown days when she had just debuted as a child actor and appeared in only one work.

None of it was a dream.

That contract… was real.

As Yewon continued looking down at her small hands, realizing this wasn’t a dream.

“Who says there’s no family?”

“!”

“I’m that child’s Uncle. Everyone please step aside.”

A very familiar voice came from behind her.

Yewon quickly turned her head to look back.

“…!”

Fake Uncle…!

‘Fake Uncle’, much younger than when she last saw him, approached Yewon with a pretend kind smile and extended his hand.

“Nice to meet you. Yewon. I’m your Uncle. Your Mother’s older brother. Uncle has been living abroad all this time, so we’ve never met before, right?”

“….”

Instead of taking that hand, Yewon looked down at it with cold eyes.

And Yewon looked around.

As if searching for something.

“Ye, Yewon?”

“Sister…?”

While Fake Uncle was flustered, someone appeared from behind him.

It was ‘Jeyeon’.

Her fake cousin who had stolen everything from her throughout her lifetime.

“You have to go with Uncle. Come here quickly-“

“I don’t want to.”

Yewon shook her head as hard as she could.

“!”

At Yewon’s words, everyone at the Funeral Home froze.

“That man is a liar. He’s not our Uncle.”

At Yewon’s word ‘liar’, the people around began murmuring.

“What, is he a scammer? If he’s lying to take the child, isn’t he someone who came after the inheritance?”

“That’s right. There’s no way the child wouldn’t recognize her own Uncle.”

The louder the murmuring grew, the more Fake Uncle sweated profusely.

“Li, liar? Yewon. Maybe it’s because Uncle seems unfamiliar-“

“No. That man is not our Uncle. Our Uncle is-“

While Fake Uncle was panicking and struggling, Yewon didn’t wait any longer and stood up.

“Over there.”

And.

Yewon pointed somewhere in the Funeral Home.

The moment everyone’s gaze turned that way,

“Uncle-!”

Yewon ran.

Her Real Family.

“…!”

-Your Real Family is… Lee Doha from 【GLEET】!

The leader of 【GLEET】, currently Korea’s top male idol group.

“Doha Uncle. Take me away…”

To Lee Doha.

“You have to raise me…!”

This life, really.

You have to raise me.

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