There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 176

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Part 2, Episode 2
She clearly didn’t believe him one bit!
Fine. There’s no point arguing—I’d only lose out.
Yewon pushed her lips out in a pout, her expression sullen.
“But Uncle, I didn’t even have time to get my school uniform fitted and try it on…. What do I do? The entrance ceremony is the day after tomorrow!”
If you counted from the moment they landed, there was barely a day left.
“It’s fine. Your father said he already had them all tailored to different sizes.”
“……?”
‘All different sizes’ and ‘already tailored’—how could those two things possibly go together?
Yewon shot Lee Doha a puzzled look, and he lifted his head with an “Ah.”
“Just in case Yewon grows even 0.1 centimeters and feels uncomfortable…. He had every size made for you. Wear whichever one feels best.”
“….”
Yewon briefly considered lodging a protest against her father’s distinctly bizarre spending habits, but ultimately gave up.
Her father was the kind of man against whom no protest whatsoever would have any effect—not when it came to his daughter’s convenience.
“Our Yewon, it’s lucky that this film festival schedule and your uncles’ world tour dates line up perfectly, right? This way we can keep traveling together like this.”
Yewon laughed awkwardly at Lee Doha’s words.
‘…Of course… they’d have to….’
Because Dad arranged the uncles’ world tour schedule that way…. Yeah….
For Hyeon Yuseong, who had recently become the majority shareholder and standing director of Time Entertainment while simultaneously serving as the CEO of its subsidiary HiOne, manipulating GLEET’s schedule was almost laughably easy.
Adjusting a 14-year veteran idol’s world tour itinerary to match his daughter’s schedule—all to attach one more guardian to her side—was child’s play.
“…Yeah. I was really happy about it…. But weren’t the uncles tired? With the tour, the overseas schedules… taking care of me must have been so exhausting.”
“Tired? Not at all.”
Lee Doha practically jumped to his feet at Yewon’s words.
“How could we be tired? Not at all, not even a little, never tired. If anything, you’re the one who suffered so much being away from home for so long…. We were all just grateful we could stick by your side like this.”
“…Sniff.”
At Lee Doha’s words, overflowing with affection, Yewon rose and threw her arms around him.
“Ha-ha. See? You really are still a kid, aren’t you? Snuggling right into your uncle’s arms like this.”
“…Uncle, I think there are fewer women in South Korea who don’t fit snugly into your arms than women who do.”
How tall is this uncle anyway….
Living long these days, staying with me forever, working out so hard that his shoulders have gotten broader….
“And. Your uncles were happy to be able to escort you.”
“?”
Hmm? Escort?
“Things like film festivals require someone to escort you, after all.”
“Yeah, that’s… true…?”
But I’m still young, so I don’t really need that sort of thing…?
Yewon listened to Lee Doha’s explanation with a puzzled expression, staying quiet.
“When Yewon grows up later… uh-uh-uh… all sorts of guys… uh-uh-uh-uh… will be asking for the honor of escorting you…… uh-uh-uh… but before that happens…… your uncles wanted to show everyone clearly that ‘our niece’s spot is ours’….”
“…….”
“When your father’s not around, at least I have to keep watch over our niece like this. Yeah….”
Yewon let out a long sigh.
Ugh. It must be my imagination that Uncle’s starting to become more like Dad….
Back then he’d just collapse, but these days his teeth are grinding like this!
“By the way, Yewon.”
“Yeah?”
“Are you really sure it’s okay to turn down all these new project proposals coming in? They’re all works by famous masters. Focusing on your studies isn’t bad, but I worry you might regret it later.”
Lee Doha looked at Yewon with eyes full of concern.
It was true.
Because of “Very Another Day,” Yewon had been flooded with love calls from directors all over the world, receiving so many casting offers she wished she had more than one body.
But she had turned down every single offer without hesitation.
The reason?
All the filming locations were overseas.
That was the only reason.
For Korean-based projects, she hadn’t rejected the offers outright, instead telling them she’d be in touch after reviewing the proposals.
Why kick away such precious opportunities?
It was because….
[…Win the Best Actress Award before you reach adulthood!
Quest failure: GLEET dissolution, Lee Doha’s death]
Of course. It was for this quest.
[…Reprieve on the promise given to the child, postponement of Lee Doha’s death until age 14]
Thanks to this quest reward, Uncle was guaranteed to stay safe until last year.
But that’s no longer the case starting this year.
‘…I still haven’t won the Best Actress Award….’
Despite possessing a career that everyone dreamed of.
It was precisely why Yewon could never let her guard down.
* * *
Meanwhile, at Gimpo Airport.
A man stood gazing up at the dark sky where nothing was visible, his attention caught by nothing else.
Watching the motionless figure’s back, Kim Manager let out a bitter laugh.
A man who loved his daughter so dearly, yet hadn’t seen her face in nearly a month for the sake of her dreams.
It was enough to drive anyone half mad.
Every single day—
‘This won’t do. I need to go.’
‘Pardon? Go where…?’
‘To see our Yewon.’
‘That’s not possible—we already agreed. CEO! Sir, please compose yourself!’
Kim Manager had no idea how much he’d sweated trying to keep him anchored to Korean soil with conversations like this.…
Kim Manager sighed, remembering the warlike intensity of the past month.
If only the young lady wouldn’t leave Korean soil anytime soon!
“Does it please you that much?”
Unable to hold back, Kim Manager spoke to the back of Hyeon Yuseong’s head.
“Yes.”
Then came a voice overflowing with emotion—completely at odds with his mechanical tone.
“I’m sure the young lady will be happy to see you too.”
“…Do you think so?”
At Hyeon Yuseong’s uncertain voice, Kim Manager made every effort to stifle his laughter.
The man who was usually so confident—almost deranged in his certainty—when it came to work showed this single moment of doubt, and it struck Kim Manager as oddly delightful.
Hyeon Yuseong was particularly anxious and uncertain when it came to anything involving Yewon.
“Of course. You’ve worked so hard just to see the young lady smile with joy.”
So this was why Hyeon Yuseong—not exactly a fool over his daughter, but a complete idiot—had been unable to leave Korea to see Yewon.
It was because—
“Middle school life is like a wild jungle, or so they say.”
“….”
“For the young lady, it would feel more like a zoo than a jungle.”
It was all for Yewon’s ‘smooth and happy’ school life.
“…That school in particular was so… rotten. I couldn’t send my daughter to such a place.”
At Yuseong’s words, Kim Manager nodded lightly.
From what Kim Manager could see, schools rotted so thoroughly were rare.
The board chairman, the principal, the vice principal—not to mention the parents and students—were all problems.
The school limped along only thanks to a few conscientious teachers and good-hearted students.
Normally, HiOne’s approach would have been to keep Yewon away from such a rotten school entirely, rather than trying to reform it.
But since there was only one middle school in the entire nation with a drama and film department—Hyunbong Arts Middle School—Yuseong and many others had no choice but to become extraordinarily busy.
Of course, she could have enrolled in a regular middle school, but then she would have struggled to get her frequent absences for filming excused as present, risked grade retention, and the school had no curriculum to support acting activities whatsoever.
“Yewon must never find out.”
Because if she did, she’d surely say, ‘What? You spent that much money on a place like that? Dad. I told you not to waste money like that! I can do it on my own, you know. Don’t you trust me? …I’m disappointed….’
Yuseong pushed aside the sound of his daughter’s voice that played almost automatically in his ears and added the condition.
“Of course, sir. We’re keeping tight control of tongues.”
“…Except for one particular person.”
“…That person is… beyond my control, I’m afraid….”
Both men sighed simultaneously, looking up at the sky.
Please, let Yewon forgive us!

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