There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 23

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Episode 23

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Across the sea, across continents, in a very distant land, London.

In the heart of London, near the River Thames, a certain Korean named Park Yeongeo (25 years old, pitiful office worker) was suffering hardships that weren’t in his destiny.

What kind of hardships?

Specifically-

“You’re telling me to come back to Korea right now?”

The hardship of clinging to the pant legs of Time Entertainment’s official personality disaster, Ian.

“Y-yeah. Eon, you should be getting tired of London after two months-“

“Are you tired of Seoul?”

“Huh?”

Yeongeo asked back with a dumbfounded expression.

“I’m asking if you’re tired of Seoul. Your home is Seoul, isn’t it?”

“Uh… no…?”

“But you think I’d get tired of my home in London?”

“…No.”

When he heard it that way, it wasn’t exactly wrong either, so Yeongeo shrank endlessly.

None of the GLEET members were easy to deal with, but Eon was truly on another level.

Ian.

His English name was Ian Lee.

Born as a British-Korean mixed race and raised in England throughout his life, Eon had gained fame from a young age with his insanely handsome face and unique exotic, captivating atmosphere, and debuted just like that.

And he was.

‘Are all British people this scary…?’

Also the reason Yeongeo developed a phobia of British people.

“Why? Did CEO Park tell me to take it easy and come back now? Running out of money?”

“No! It’s not like that. You can rest more. It’s just that… the fans are worried about why Eon isn’t coming, so… how about resting in Korea…”

“Don’t use fans as an excuse. I’m someone who stays on the communication app for more than 6 hours a day, and my fans don’t worry about me. I’m the type who takes pictures and reports everything about where I am, what I’m doing, what I’m eating, what I’m seeing, and uploads them on schedule.”

“…”

Seeing how much he loves his fans, he doesn’t seem like a bad kid…

Actually, Eon was famous among fans as a communication-loving idol and fan devotee.

…But why he was so damn difficult with people who weren’t fans was truly a mystery…

“Then, are you never coming back to Korea, Eon hyung…?”

“Who knows.”

“!”

At the ambiguous answer, Yeongeo’s heart sank.

“E-Eon hyung…”

“If Lee Doha comes here and kneels before me to beg, I might consider it once.”

“Eon hyung…”

At the ridiculous demand, Yeongeo’s expression grew even darker.

“From what I hear, that bastard won’t even step one foot outside his house, so I don’t know what makes him so precious that he calls all the time but won’t grace my country with his presence even once.”

“…”

“If it’s not that, I’m not going, so figure it out yourself.”

As expected, he knew it would come to this. Yeongeo let out a deep sigh.

‘…Actually, there’s another reason why Doha can’t come here…’

Doha said it was absolutely secret so he couldn’t even tell, damn.

Yeongeo was stuck, unable to do this or that.

The reason Lee Doha couldn’t come to England.

That reason was-

‘…It’s just because Doha can’t take airplanes.’

He didn’t know the detailed circumstances. He only knew that when he was young, there was an ‘incident’ on a plane, and he gets panic attacks whenever he boards a plane.

So when Doha had to go overseas for overseas tours, the only method was to take strong sleeping pills right before boarding the plane and fall asleep.

It was a secret he never told the members, so until now the members just thought ‘how does that guy sleep so well on planes.’

You might say he could just use sleeping pills now too, but-

‘…After Taeyoung left and everyone’s relationship got bad, he gets panic attacks just entering the airport…’

So last time they had to cancel an entire overseas solo schedule and pay enormous penalty fees, so it was really unavoidable for Doha and the company.

‘The doctor said he probably barely endured by relying on the members until now… but trying to go to the airport without the members, he couldn’t bear it.’

So Time Entertainment was also hoping that once the GLEET members gathered again, Doha might be able to overcome his panic attacks.

The airplane and panic attack story was such a terrible secret for Doha that only three people knew: Doha, Yeongeo, and CEO Park, so he couldn’t dare leak this secret to Eon.

“…I understand your will well, Eon.”

Then there’s no choice.

Yeongeo steeled his heart.

He had no choice but to use ‘that method’ the CEO gave him.

“…?”

As if surprised, Eon looked at Yeongeo with interested eyes.

“If Eon doesn’t come to Korea this time.”

“What will you do?”

“…Then, we’ll release a video containing Eon’s true nature to the fans.”

“…!!”

At the tremendous threat, Eon’s face instantly hardened coldly.

“Are you threatening me right now?”

“Yeah.”

“Ha! If my image goes to hell, the company loses more than anyone, so there’s no way-“

“I knew you’d say that.”

Yeongeo said that and took out his phone from his pocket to show Eon.

“In case you think we’re bluffing, I prepared a video too.”

Yeongeo said that and clicked the play button on the video.

Then.

[…sob, hiccup…]

[I… don’t want to disband like this…]

Some crying sounds flowed from the video.

“!!!!”

Eon immediately struck down the phone with his hand.

Crack.

He hit it so hard that Yeongeo’s phone rolled to the floor with a shattered screen.

“No!!!!”

It’s a new one that isn’t even paid off yet!!!!

Yeongeo despaired and examined his phone, but the screen was already cleanly gone.

“Ahhhhh…”

The moment he decided to definitely charge his aunt for the cost when he returned to Korea,

Eon gritted his teeth and snatched the phone from Yeongeo’s hands once more.

And.

“Noooo-!”

Eon coolly threw that phone into the River Thames.

“…”

Yeongeo looked at the River Thames with an utterly hollow expression.

…I shouldn’t have come even if they offered double business trip pay… why did I… why did I come all the way here…

“Even if Eon does this, the video is copied 100 times and scattered around the world!! Complete deletion is absolutely impossible!!!”

“…Crazy bastards.”

Eon muttered as if disgusted.

“These fucking bastards really… when the hell did you film this kind of video.”

“When? Ever since Taeyoung left the group and Eon got drunk on a whole bottle of whiskey by himself and cried to Doha saying ‘We’re finished now. What are we going to do if all the fans leave us, damn it…'”

Since Eon crying was so fascinating, he had watched that video about 100 times, so he could recite those lines immediately.

Of course, it was just a video that fans would naturally find adorable and swoon over, but for Ian, who was probably the most prideful person in the world, it would be an unacceptable video.

Eon never wanted to show fans any weak side of himself.

Fans were people he should protect, not people who should try to protect him – that was what Eon always said like a habit.

“We didn’t want to take such drastic measures either, but we had no choice. If we didn’t do this, there’s no way you would ever come, Eon.”

“…”

Eon glared at Yeongeo with more venomous eyes than ever before, but Yeongeo, having already lost modern people’s treasure number one – his phone, had nothing left to lose.

“Pack your bags quickly. The flight is tomorrow morning. I only left enough time for you to say goodbye to your family.”

And so.

The great commotion of bringing Ian back, full of twists and turns, came to an end.

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