There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 173

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Special Side Story Episode 2
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Remarkably, the moment their car pulled away,
police sirens wailed as they streaked past. They seemed to be heading straight ahead.
“See that? If you’d stayed there, you’d be heading straight to the holding cell.”
“Probably.”
When Yusong replied with a nonchalant tone, Seoha was utterly flabbergasted.
What is this lunatic? Does he have some kind of backing? Why is he so unflappably calm?
She couldn’t fathom this level of composure unless a U.S. senator was backing him.
But what international student would have that kind of backing?
Seoha barely managed to shake off the cascade of questions spiraling through her mind.
No. She shouldn’t be curious.
Getting further entangled with someone like this wouldn’t help her life in any way.
When her fist connected with that trash Sean Claude’s face, she’d honestly felt a rush of satisfaction, but that was all.
What she felt after that was sheer terror.
“Where do you live?”
Once they’d gotten some distance from the bar, Seoha glanced back at Yusong.
He sat in the passenger seat with his eyes peacefully closed.
At the sight of him, exasperated beyond words, she let out a hollow laugh.
Yusong opened one eye and looked at Seoha.
“You’re not actually trying to drive me home, are you?”
“Of course I should. Where else would I be going?”
“It should be the other way around.”
“What?”
At his incomprehensible logic, Seoha raised one eyebrow.
“Obviously, a man should drive a woman home. Have you only ever met trash?”
“….”
Seoha found herself speechless once again.
Breathless and speechless both.
Today really was a day of being at a loss.
“Don’t you see that I’m the one driving?”
“I see it.”
“Then who should be driving whom home?”
“Me driving you.”
“No, seriously!!”
Seoha’s frustration boiled over and she raised her voice without thinking.
Then she heard a low chuckle from beside her.
“What’s so funny?”
She was trying to be considerate and drive him home, yet he was getting under her skin.
Seoha shot Yusong a glare.
“Go to your home.”
“What? I’m not letting some random man I’ve never met into our house. Get your head straight.”
At Seoha’s alarmed protest, Yusong let out a soft chuckle.
“That’s good. Keep that attitude going forward. But I have no intention of entering your home. I just want to make sure you get inside safely. I’m wondering if that bastard from earlier might know where you live.”
“….”
His answer was far too clean and logical, which somehow made it even more suspicious.
Seoha regarded Yusong with a skeptical gaze.
“I don’t believe you. You’re just saying that and planning to follow me inside, aren’t you? I have no intention of revealing my home to some stranger I just met.”
“Ah, yes. That’s a fair concern as well.”
Yusong nodded in agreement.
“Then drop me off here. I hope you make it inside safely.”
With that, Yusong actually began to rise from his seat as if to exit the car.
Seoha found herself at a complete loss for words.
“Who exactly are you?”
“Are you asking for my name?”
“…Yes.”
She hadn’t meant to ask for his name, but now she realized she’d never even asked her benefactor for it.
“Hyeon Yuseong.”
“I see.”
“You should tell me your name too.”
“…Hailey.”
Seoha deliberately gave only her English name.
She didn’t want to reveal too much to this stranger.
“Your last name?”
“Hailey Lee. You’re quite persistent, aren’t you?”
“I can be that way.”
Yusong shrugged his shoulders.
“So you’re not going to drop me off?”
At Yusong’s question, Seoha bit her lip.
Her long-ingrained caution warned her to let this man out here and go their separate ways.
But….
Every emotion except that caution screamed at her not to let this man go.
He was the only one who helped me when no one else would.
The one who risked danger to help me within a minute of meeting me.
Could I really just let such a person go like this?
I don’t want to be that terrible of a person.
In the end, she shook her head.
“…Fine. Your hand is injured anyway. I need to treat it.”
At Seoha’s words, Yusong finally looked down at his own hand.
His hand was indeed slightly scraped.
“…You’re going to treat that?”
Yusong asked incredulously.
Such a tiny wound?
“Yes.”
“Are you going to slap a band-aid on it? Something like this heals fine on its own.”
“Be quiet. Unless medicine is your major, just follow me without complaint.”
“….”
Unfortunately, medicine was not Yusong’s major, so he had no choice but to obediently follow Seoha to her place.
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“….”
Upon arriving at Seoha’s home, Yusong was slightly taken aback.
The woman’s residence was directly across from his own.
The upscale three-story townhouse looked less like a place where a woman lived alone and more like a warm family home.
“What are you doing? Come inside.”
“…Won’t your family be quite surprised if a strange man like me walks in?”
“I live alone.”
“!”
“And if you get any funny ideas, I’ll spray this on you.”
When she’d pulled out the pepper spray, Yusong couldn’t say, but Seoha was holding it now, her eyebrows raised to their limit.
Though he’d never entertained any improper thoughts, seeing the look in those eyes—held by a woman wielding pepper spray—
…he was beginning to think he might have some.
A woman with a face like a rabbit was acting like a kitten that had just learned to hiss.
‘How could I not have improper thoughts….’
“What? That look in your eyes just now? You’re having improper thoughts right now, aren’t you?”
Her perceptiveness was so sharp—exactly like a cat—that Yusong let out a hollow laugh.
Still, he couldn’t let his improper thoughts be exposed.
“I’m just surprised our homes are so close.”
“What? Really? Where do you live?”
At Seoha’s question, Yusong pointed to the townhouse across the way.
“There.”
“….”
It really was close.
At this remarkable coincidence, Seoha was left speechless.
Living across from each other all this time without ever crossing paths.
Seoha glanced at Yusong.
A face and figure she could never forget if she’d ever seen them.
There was no way she could have met him. She’d swear to the heavens.
“It seems our daily routines are quite different. Given how we’ve managed to avoid each other all this time.”
“…Aren’t you coming in?”
At Seoha’s words, Yusong smiled wryly.
Ah. A beautiful woman with many secrets.
“Is it really all right if I come in?”
Seoha climbed two steps up the entrance staircase and looked at the Unknown Man.
She’d thought that climbing this far would let her look completely down at him. But now their eyes were only just level.
Seoha looked directly into the Unknown Man’s eyes.
Right.
Should I really let you in?
“Will you behave like a gentleman?”
“A gentleman?”
Yusong tilted his head with an uncertain hum.
Well. Does a gentleman even have such idle thoughts?
I don’t think I’m a gentleman, then.
He climbed one more step up the staircase after Seoha.
“I’ll behave however you want me to.”
!”
And so.
Yusong stepped into Seoha’s life.
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“…That’s how we first met.”
Yusong said nothing more than that.
He thought it best to save the rest of the story for when Yewon was a bit older.
“….”
It felt like a lot had been left out.
Yewon looked up at her father with slightly wavering eyes.
She hadn’t expected such an incredible story!
She’d just wanted something simple like “we met at a cafe and fell in love at first sight”…!
Yewon was shocked by everything.
She was surprised that Mother was such a prickly and strong person.
…She was also surprised that Father was consistently such a headstrong man.
“You became close even after meeting like that?”
“There were many other things that happened after that.”
“…?”
What could have happened…?
When Yewon looked at Yusong with eyes demanding explanation, he only laughed.
“Your mother was so popular it was exhausting, really.”
“Gasp.”
If Father was using the phrase “so popular it was exhausting”…she couldn’t even imagine how much that meant.
“So Father had to work very hard.”
Yusong deliberately didn’t mention that this “work” involved swinging his fists around quite a bit.
That didn’t seem good for a child’s emotional development.
“So, can I hear about my daughter now?”
At Yusong’s words, Yewon lifted her head slightly.
“…Before that, there’s somewhere I’d like to go together.”
“!”
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A vast Memorial Park.
Yusong and Yewon came to a stop before a burial vault.
“I’ve come here several times with Uncle, but… I thought I should come here with Father too.”
Yewon said this and looked up at Yusong.
“Father came here alone before, didn’t you?”
“…Did Uncle Doha tell you?”
“Yes.”
Yusong nodded heavily.
So that’s how it was. Doha had…
Just as Yewon said, Yusong had come here alone several times before.
It was a place he discovered as soon as he found out about his daughter’s existence.
At first, unable to believe that Seoha was no longer in this world, I came here every day to accept the reality.
And now…
Just as Yusong’s heart was about to sink.
“!”
I felt a small hand grasping mine firmly.
At that warm touch, I looked down at Yewon.
Yewon took a deep breath, gazing at Seoha’s grave with determination.
“Mother. Father told me today how you and Father met.”
Yewon set down the bouquet of flowers she had brought before the grave. It felt strange to talk about Father in front of Mother.
“So now I want to share Mother’s memories… with Father.”
Yewon said this and sat in the folding chair that Yusong had brought.
“But I thought Mother would feel sad if I did it somewhere without her, so I brought Father here. I did well, didn’t I!”
At those words, Yusong found himself nodding vigorously.
My daughter was doing wonderfully.
Yewon tapped the chair beside her.
It was a signal to sit down.
Yusong immediately sat in the chair.
Once Yusong seemed ready to listen, Yewon smiled softly and began her story.
“Mother and I…
And so.
A very long, warm, and happy story of memories between two people began.
[Seoha & Yusong Side Story
– How I Met Your Mother Complete]

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