There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 226

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Part 2, Episode 52
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“Hey.”
At the sound of someone calling his name, Baek Yun turned to look beside him.
“Why are you spacing out again?”
Jeongyun was watching him with a face that suggested she was dying to laugh.
At that annoying expression, Baek Yun let out a heavy sigh and turned back to the window of the bus.
‘How is it possible that we were born on the same day, same hour, same place, yet we’re so different? I’m this good-natured, and she’s so mischievous….’
The bus heading home drove on smoothly, oblivious to his turmoil.
Jeongyun giggled and openly mocked him.
“That’s why I told you to give up already. Yewon will just see you as a seven-year-old kid, I’m telling you.”
“…….”
“You should’ve acted more mature from the start. Seriously. I told you—Yewon’s surrounded by incredibly sophisticated adults, so if you act childish, she’s definitely going to see you as just a kid.”
He knows. He understands perfectly.
That Yewon doesn’t see him as anything more than a friend—he knows this better than anyone.
But knowing something in your head and seeing it with your own eyes are… on different levels entirely.
“But it’s not easy to be more mature than Yewon is.”
“That’s actually true.”
For the first time, Jeongyun agreed.
So that’s how it was.
Just a moment ago….
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Reinterpret the character?
Baek Yun glanced at Yewon. It didn’t seem like such a monumental request. He’d thought the director was being rather particular, but that might have simply been because he wasn’t fond of Yoo Eun-o.
“…May I ask why that character is necessary?”
But it appeared to be quite important to Yewon.
“What I mean is, well… Summer Proof already seems perfect as it is. And changing it here—”
“I need a stronger story.”
Yoo Eun-o cut off Yewon’s words and explained.
“The original work was written with a feature film in mind. But due to various circumstances, that became impossible. So I thought we’d need a different device to explain things quickly in a short timeframe.”
At that explanation, Yewon let out a small sound of understanding. Now she seemed to grasp it.
But it didn’t appear to be entirely satisfying for her.
“Then couldn’t we just… make it into a feature film?”
Both Baek Yun and Jeongyun and Hyuk looked a bit surprised at this question. It was the first time Yewon had pressed so persistently about something.
“….”
And Yoo Eun-o gazed at Yewon with an enigmatic expression.
Baek Yun found himself nervously watching for his reaction.
‘I’ve felt this for a while, but this senior really seems to hate being interfered with by others. I hope that’s okay.’
“So you have something you want from this project, don’t you?”
“!”
Yoo Eun-o said that and tapped his cup with his finger—tap, tap.
To Baek Yun’s eyes, it didn’t seem like a particularly significant gesture, but Yewon’s reaction was different.
She stared intently at his hand as though his finger tapping something was the most extraordinary thing in the world.
“You clearly have a specific vision for this film, and right now I can feel—in my bones—that you think I’m not following it.”
In Yoo Eun-o’s voice was a cold, watchful tone.
Just as he’d feared.
Baek Yun bit his lip hard. This was bad. If Yewon got hurt….
“Yes.”
But Yewon’s answer completely shattered everyone’s expectations.
What?
Baek Yun almost asked without thinking. Even though Yewon was his favorite person, this felt slightly overstepping.
“I hope you won’t compromise on anything in this project, senior.”
As she spoke, Yewon seemed more composed and more resolute than ever before.
“Not compromise with reality or anything else—I want everything you envisioned to be realized exactly as it was. Not a single thing changed, perfectly intact.”
That made it all the more shocking.
“And I want to do everything I possibly can to make that happen.”
In that moment, Baek Yun felt an intense envy toward Yoo Eun-o.
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“…That was cool.”
“What?”
Jeongyun frowned as she asked back.
“Yewon was impressive earlier, wasn’t she?”
“Yeah.”
Baek Yun nodded at her words.
“She really was. Though Seoa looked quite devastated watching her role disappear in real time.”
“Mm.”
It was genuinely unfortunate, but there was nothing to be done about it.
“I wonder what the chairman was thinking?”
“No idea. I can’t read him at all—his expression, I mean. But he didn’t seem furious, at least.”
“If he got angry hearing that, he wouldn’t be much of a man.”
Baek Yun complained with genuine feeling. Yewon, of all people, had said it to him with such earnest intensity in those doe-like eyes—and the guy didn’t even react? He didn’t want to acknowledge him as the same kind of man.
“I mean, he’s not human. That’s the real problem.”
“Doesn’t say anything back, just keeps his mouth shut. I really don’t know what goes on in that head of his.”
That was the truth.
When Yewon spoke to him with such sincerity, Yoo Eun-o had said nothing, just sunk into thought, then left muttering something about having business to attend to.
After that, the four of them had sat in silence playing with putty before dispersing.
Baek Yun had seen Hyuk’s expression too.
“Even Hyuk—I couldn’t tell what he was thinking either. He didn’t look surprised or anything like that.”
“He must have already figured it out. What Yewon was feeling.”
“Feeling what?”
“That she’s completely smitten with Eun-o’s work.”
Jeongyun deliberately stressed the word “work.”
“Is that so? Is the script really that good? I read it over Yewon’s shoulder too, but I’m not sure it’s at that level.”
“How would I know? But Yewon’s eye for these things is sharper than yours or mine. You know how every single script she’s recommended to your uncle has been a massive hit, right?”
“……….”
He knew that much, but…
Baek Yun’s sullenness deepened. Why was Yewon so impossibly good at everything? Seriously.
“Do you think the chairman’s going to turn her down?”
“No clue. The guy seemed half out of his mind. He might refuse. People obsessed with film think differently—you know that from watching on set more than a couple times. It’s not like we haven’t seen it.”
That was true.
People genuinely obsessed with film really did tend to think in ways that were different from how Baek Yun or Jeongyun thought.
Like directors who’d look at something perfectly fine and say, “No, it won’t do. I’d rather have a knife through my throat than settle for this. We’re shooting it again,” and then shoot it over two hundred times.
Or directors who’d see maybe a five-minute difference and say, “No, too much time passed. The continuity breaks. Let’s shoot again tomorrow. The light’s different,”—and waste entire days.
Though maybe you need that kind of obsession to produce a masterpiece, or so the thinking went.
“God, I don’t know why Yewon likes such people.”
Baek Yun ran his hands through his hair in frustration and sighed.
It was all just irritating.
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At that very moment.
The source of Baek Yun’s irritation, Eun-o, was—
“Father.”
He was knocking on the study door of his father, Director Yu Jungseok.
When the director opened the door, he looked at Eun-o in surprise.
This was the first time Eun-o had come to his study of his own accord since his older brother’s situation had come up.
“Oh. Eun-o. What’s the matter?”
But Director Yu quickly steadied himself and asked with feigned calm.
“There’s something I’d like to ask your help with.”
A favor?
Director Yu felt his heart thump-thump against his ribs. When was the last time Eun-o had asked for a favor? He couldn’t remember.
Perhaps thinking it fell to him to handle his brother’s share of responsibilities too, Eun-o had never hoped for anything from his parents and had handled everything alone with brutal independence.
Director Yu, who found that heartbreaking, had told him to stop and to pester them for things like other kids his age did, but Eun-o hadn’t even pretended to listen.
Yet now he was asking for help.
“Whatever our son asks, I’ll do. So what is it?”
Director Yu smiled broadly, but his chest tightened with unease. What on earth could make this cool, reserved son of his actually ask for something?
“I… want to make a film.”
“!”
At those words, Director Yu nearly dropped the cup he was holding.
It wasn’t the announcement of making a film that shocked him—
“I really want to film it well.”
It was knowing how much more shocking the next thing he was about to hear would be.
“So… could you take a look? Just once?”
Yu Jungseok found himself seeing something in his son’s face he’d never noticed before.

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