There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 230

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Part 2, Episode 56
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“Hm?”
The moment Yewon parted ways with Mun Hyeok and stepped into the School Building to head back to class.
She spotted someone sitting on a bench not far from the door, sketching something intently.
‘Yoo Eun-o?’
Because he was so absorbed in his drawing, Yewon found herself treading softly, moving with deliberate quiet.
She was desperately curious about what he was sketching, but she held back and moved toward the door instead. She didn’t want to disturb him.
“Come here.”
“!”
But somehow—she had no idea how—he lifted his head and looked straight at her.
Come here?
Caught off guard by the unexpected command, Yewon hesitated for only a moment before approaching him obediently.
“Did you… call for me?”
“Yeah.”
Yoo Eun-o let out a short sigh, then gestured with his eyes toward the space beside him.
He wanted her to sit, didn’t he?
But more than that—why did this man always sigh whenever he saw her? Yewon sat down beside him with a disgruntled expression.
Even as she settled next to him, Yoo Eun-o didn’t set down his pencil. He didn’t even turn his gaze toward her.
It struck her as somewhat rude, but honestly, it put her at ease. Yewon stole a glance at his drawing.
Ah, a storyboard.
Even knowing it was for work, the sight of his paper filled with nothing but her own face made Yewon feel embarrassed.
Does this person feel no embarrassment at all? Drawing me while I’m sitting right next to him…? He really is a professional.
“Why that expression?”
“Yes?”
Yewon reflexively echoed his question before his meaning registered.
“Oh, I just… it seems like you sigh every time you see me?”
“If I feel like sighing, I’ll sigh.”
“…”
Then why ask in the first place?
Yewon gave him an even more disgruntled look. This person really did have a strange personality.
“I’ve thought about your proposal.”
“!”
Yewon’s face tensed. Was he going to turn her down?
But Yoo Eun-o’s expression wasn’t the familiar displeasure, nor was it guarded or cold.
He was…
Surprisingly serene.
So he could make an expression like that. She’d never known it because he always seemed either icy or dismissive—as if he’d been cast away at the North Pole—but his serene face…
made her heart flutter in a way that made sunlight seem perfectly suited to him.
“I should start by saying thank you. I’m grateful that you showed such determination to help me. And I apologize for being late with my thanks.”
Wait.
I’ve been surprised so many times today already. Yewon quickly shook her head.
“…You don’t need to thank me. I’m doing this because I want to—”
“What exactly did you want so badly?”
At last, Yoo Eun-o set down his pencil and turned to face her.
Now it was Yewon’s turn to tense.
“Well… first of all, I loved everything about the script.”
“That’s too abstract. Tell me specifically what you mean.”
This man was truly difficult.
She thought she’d mastered dealing with people while handling those who were objectively the most difficult to approach—the people at GLEET—but…
“…the message it conveys is beautiful. How people who appear to lack something actually lack nothing, while people who seem to have everything possess a true deficit. And that overcoming it isn’t the point—accepting it is. Everything.”
As he listened to her words, Yoo Eun-o lowered his eyes as if thinking. His long lashes caught the sunlight and glimmered.
“No matter how good a script is, translating it into visuals is an entirely different matter. There are countless examples of films that fail despite excellent scripts.”
“…That’s true.”
“But you don’t even know me. You’ve never worked with me on anything. So why do you think I’m capable of meeting your expectations?”
A difficult question.
In truth, Yewon had only ever seen his publicly known work—commercials he’d shot with Director Yu.
And although in her past life she had made this film with Director Yu, there was no guarantee that Yoo Eun-o would be equally skilled. No matter that he was Director Yu’s son.
So why did she find herself so eager to work with him?
It was probably because…
“It’s just… I can see how much heart you’re putting into this work.”
“!”
“Chaejeong told me. She said you two didn’t miss a single location during scouting. That winter was brutal—so cold and exhausting—she wanted to quit halfway through. But watching you… you seemed so happy. She couldn’t bring herself to leave.”
‘Think about it. For three years, the guy never cracked a smile. Then the moment he found a place he liked, he picked up the camera and… he was smiling.’
‘Really?’
‘Yeah. I bet he didn’t even know he was doing it. If he had, he would’ve wiped it off his face in a second.’
‘Ha.’
‘So how could she walk away? People have feelings.’
“That’s when I thought—a person like that, even if this project fails, he’s going to shine someday. I was sure of it.”
“….”
“So I asked him to cast me then. I figured, since I’d wronged him before, he wouldn’t refuse. Ha. Is that too conniving of me…?”
Did I say that too honestly? Should’ve dressed it up more…?
But at Yewon’s words, Yoo Eun-o let out a soft laugh.
“I see.”
“!”
“But I like people like that.”
“Huh?”
Does this guy have weird taste? He likes people with dark hearts?
“I hate… stupidly good people. The kind who lose everything because they’re too kind, and drag everyone around them into suffering too. I hate those the most.”
Yoo Eun-o spoke as if remembering someone, his voice turning bitter. Then he hesitated before adding,
“But you….”
He fingered the paper ball for a moment, then handed it to her.
“You’re stupidly good, and your heart’s pitch black… and yet.”
Is this an insult or a compliment…?
“Yet you make people around you happy.”
“!”
Yewon looked down at the storyboard he’d given her.
On the paper was Yewon—no, Seo Jin—beaming with a brilliant smile.
And beside her, Tae Jun was laughing along, equally happy.
“…Thanks for believing in me. I’ll work hard to live up to your expectations.”
Yoo Eun-o said that and smiled faintly.
Yewon looked at his face and thought,
This man.
He has a strange way of unsettling people’s hearts.
“And you.”
“Yes?”
Yewon answered with a startled jump. Her heart raced at the thought that she’d been staring at his face too intently.
“Don’t go around alone.”
“…?!”
Why on earth…?!
“Why, why would you…?”
Yoo Eun-o paused to think, then let out another sigh.
“Never mind. Do what you want.”
“…????”
“But show me your class schedule.”
“Why would you need that…?”
“As the director, I need it for scheduling. You ask too many questions.”
“….”
Yewon frowned. Why would her class schedule matter for scheduling? It’s not like they’d be filming during class time…?
Yewon’s head filled with question marks.
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Kim Manager was having a rough time of it lately.
“…Kim Manager, you must be very busy these days?”
His boss, who was never easy to please, had become even more difficult lately.
“No, sir.”
“Then why is the report quality like this? The distribution fee is missing, and you’ve listed the OTT pre-sale amount as confirmed revenue when it hasn’t even been finalized.”
“My apologies. It appears there was an error in the Finance Team’s data. I’ll verify and correct it.”
“Is it normal for reports with errors to land on my desk?”
“No, sir. I’ll be more careful.”
“Tell the Finance Team to be more careful. Don’t they know what happens when the people handling numbers start playing games with them?”
Hyeon Yuseong had never been a particularly lenient superior to begin with.
His work directives contained no excess, and he issued no unreasonable orders—that much was true. But in fact, he was one of the most coldly pragmatic managers anyone could ask for.
It was only after he’d sold off the pharmaceutical company he’d built with such care to Lee Iho without a backward glance, and thrown himself entirely into Haiwon Entertainment, that he’d become remarkably gentler—so much so that everyone had forgotten what he used to be like.
Even Kim Manager himself had let it slip from memory, which said everything.
‘The office atmosphere has grown decidedly sinister lately….’
Kim Manager understood perfectly well why Hyeon Yuseong had reverted to his former self.
‘The young lady is pushing the director out with thorough precision….’
As someone who knew the full context of events, Kim Manager thought Yewon’s handling of the matter was remarkably generous for a girl her age.
But to Yusong, who regarded Yewon as the very truth, light, divinity, and law of the world, it was likely an extraordinarily harsh punishment.
If only the young lady would show mercy and forgive the director.
Kim Manager prayed silently to that effect.
He himself didn’t mind either way, but if this Yusong catastrophe dragged on much longer, his subordinates might start deserting. He really didn’t want to add the headache of recruiting new talent to everything else they were already drowning in.
He truly didn’t want that.
Kim Manager wrestled with the decision, then opened his mouth.
He felt he had to try to break through this crisis himself.
“Director, if I may.”
“Go ahead.”
“Would it be all right if I offered one thought regarding the young lady?”
At the word “young lady,” Yusong’s hand froze as he was passing over the report.
“…Please do.”
“I was thinking it might help to soothe the young lady’s feelings a bit.”
Kim Manager spoke carefully, gauging Yusong’s reaction. No matter how well-intentioned his words were, every syllable felt precarious when speaking to a man who held Yewon as sacred and inviolable.
“…Do you have a good idea in mind?”
Thank goodness.
He seemed willing to listen. Kim Manager felt his chest ease at the relatively positive response.
“I asked around among people I know who are raising middle school daughters, and apparently….”
Kim Manager leaned in and whispered to Hyeon Yuseong as though divulging a most grave secret.

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