There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 236

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Part 2, Episode 62
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“Today’s the day you’re meeting with Hyeon, isn’t it, honey?”
At Seo Eunhwa’s question, Director Yu Jungseok rose from his seat and nodded.
Today was the day he’d be sharing a fairly complete script with Hyeon Yuseong.
“Yeah. I need to grab the script and head out soon.”
“Have a good meeting. You’ve already signed the contract anyway, so don’t be too nervous.”
“You don’t understand. There’s probably no one in this entire country who can avoid being nervous in front of that man.”
Director Yu laughed bitterly as Hyeon Yuseong came to mind.
It wasn’t just that he was extraordinarily handsome. The very atmosphere he gave off was unlike anyone else’s.
“Does he look that intimidating?”
“No, not really. If I’m being honest about his looks alone, his face actually makes a good impression. It’s just depressing that someone my age somehow looks like he’s in his early thirties.”
“Then why are you nervous?”
“Well… it’s just something that happens.”
Director Yu trailed off with a forced laugh.
He looked around for the script he’d printed out earlier. He was certain it would be in the study, but no matter how thoroughly he searched, the script was nowhere to be found.
“Honey, where did I put that thing I printed out?”
“Goodness, how scattered can you be? Something that important? It’s obviously in the study or the living room.”
“But it’s not in the study…”
“Did Eun-o borrow it because he wanted to read it?”
Ah.
At Eunhwa’s suggestion, Director Yu thought it sounded plausible and headed toward Eun-o’s room.
It had been so long since he’d entered his son’s room that Director Yu found himself looking around with fresh eyes.
Eun-o hated having anyone enter his room, so neither Director Yu nor Director Seo ever went in without permission.
Stepping into his son’s room for nearly the first time in three years, Director Yu let out a hollow laugh. The room was organized with knife-blade precision—something he could hardly believe belonged to a boy who’d soon be in high school. Not a single gap, not a speck of dust.
He scanned his son’s desk. Given Eun-o’s personality, he didn’t seem like the type to lie on the bed and read, so if he’d borrowed it, it would be somewhere on the desk.
“Hmm?”
As Director Yu’s eyes swept across the bookshelf on the desk, his gaze snagged on something.
Summer’s Proof.
Instead of his own script he’d been searching for, he found his son’s script staring back at him.
That very script he’d asked to see only for Eun-o to coolly refuse, saying “It’s not ready to show you yet.”
Without thinking, Director Yu pulled it out and opened it.
And then…
“…!”
Regardless of how close his meeting time was getting, Director Yu couldn’t even think of leaving—he stood rooted to the spot, reading through the script.
As if drawn by fate itself.
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At the same moment, in a quiet café somewhere.
“God. How long has it been since I had a weekend without Yoo Eun-o?”
Ju Chaejeong grinned widely and took a long sip of her Uber Frappuccino.
“…A weekend without Yoo Eun-o is amazing, but… why are we meeting on the weekend anyway?”
Sung Jiwon looked at her with a very skeptical expression.
“Listen, while Yoo Eun-o’s resting, we’ve got to finish all our work so when he comes back we can totally mess with him. Think about it. He comes back all refreshed, and we hit him with exactly this: ‘We’re all done prepping, we could start rolling tomorrow if you want. Director, are you ready?’ Perfect.”
“He’s probably ready already. He finished ages ago.”
“…”
Unable to argue against that truth again, Chaejeong just fiddled with her phone, unhappy. She was always saying the right things like that.
She habitually scrolled through the Star Instagram stories. Hyun Bong-ye Middle School third-graders were posting all kinds of stories to celebrate the weekend.
There were about a hundred reels and challenge videos, kids bragging about going to the department store with their moms to buy luxury goods, videos from noraebang showing off mediocre singing—all sorts of stories flooded in.
As she flicked past countless feeds, barely registering them.
Something caught her eye.
“…?”
Chaejeong frowned and pressed her finger on the screen to stop the playback.
“What? What are you looking at?”
Jiwon asked her with a puzzled expression.
“Wait… do you have Baek Yuyeong’s private account followed?”
“Baek Yuyeong’s private account?”
Jiwon looked Chaejeong up and down, baffled.
“That’s what I want to know. How do you even know about her private account?”
“She’s kind of a southern belle, you know—guys follow her pretty easily. Of course she does this annoying thing where she follows you, unfollows you, follows you, unfollows you every month, so it takes patience.”
“……”
Jiwon fell silent at the startling reply. Of course, she and Yuyeong weren’t mutuals on social media. They ran in different circles to begin with, and if anything, they’d drifted apart since Jiwon had sided with Eun-o during the Summer’s Proof casting.
But Chaejeong….
Jiwon studied her carefully.
Ju Chaejeong was part of the Summer’s Proof team, but she didn’t seem to favor Eun-o or Yewon the way the others did.
In front of others, she complained and spoke curtly to them both.
“Anyway, why her private account?”
“Well, she posted a story and it felt like a snipe.”
“It’s a private account, so of course she snipes at people sometimes. Did she snipe at us? Don’t worry about it. She snipes at so many people.”
“No. If it was about us, I wouldn’t care. But this is about someone else.”
Chaejeong turned her phone screen around to show Jiwon.
On the pitch-black screen, white text appeared.
Haha
“…You figure out who this is about just from that…?”
“Yeah, swipe to the next one.”
At Chaejeong’s suggestion, Jiwon obediently swiped to the next story.
Connections to get in
the club
Connections to become
the lead~
Honestly hilarious lol
Actually not funny lol
…….
Jiwon let out a short breath. Anyone could see this was a jab at Yewon.
But this wasn’t entirely unexpected, either.
“You knew she’d pull something like this anyway. Gossip on a private account is… well, what can you do.”
“You know she’s got a pretty decent following on Star Instagram, right?”
Chaejeong exited the story and showed Jiwon Yuyeong’s private account follower count.
“Almost five hundred followers? What kind of private account is that? It’s basically public.”
“Half her private followers aren’t friends—they’re people from her main account. Baek Yuyeong’s got over twenty thousand followers on her main. Most of them are just fans.”
…….
Now Jiwon’s expression grew serious too. She’d assumed only a few people from the film department would see the private account, but this changed everything.
“Doesn’t she want to be an actress? This stuff’ll all be archived and circulate if she debuts….”
“Baek Yuyeong didn’t come to our school to become an actress. She didn’t want to study—she came to become an influencer. She’s loaded, you know. She keeps going on about how she won’t make money the hard way actors do, but will make it easy through endorsements and sponsored posts instead. Haven’t you heard? If anything, stirring up attention and gathering followers like this is more profitable for her.”
In short, she had nothing to lose, so she was causing trouble.
“Someone’s definitely already screenshotted this…?”
“It’s already making the rounds on social media. And that’s not even all—she’s running an Ask Anything too.”
The Ask Anything was short for “Ask Me Anything.”
Jiwon continued swiping through Yuyeong’s stories.
Unnie I don’t know what’s going on but I’m rooting for you ;;;
Thank you… I tried not to post negative things but the world didn’t cooperate ;;……
Lololol did you end up posting it anyway
Just stay quiet lol
Hehe if you go to YEMS everyone knows who this is about~ Yuyeong lol..
Hehe everyone knows~ thanks..
Wait…? No way…? Your image was so good though..
Can’t trust actresses lol ;; I wanted to believe too
Unnie is it okay to post stuff like this..? Her connections seem pretty huge..
I didn’t say who it was lol
What does everyone think I’m talking about lol I don’t know either so I can’t deny it either ;;;
This’ll get reported as school bullying..
? How would I know who I’m talking about?
If you think it’s about you, isn’t that basically self-snitching that you used connections? lol
…….
Jiwon looked at Chaejeong with a pale face.
This wasn’t a small matter.
“Hey, shouldn’t… shouldn’t Yewon know about this…?”
“……Isn’t she on a trip right now with Eun-o and Hyeok?”
Both of them grabbed their phones at once.
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And meanwhile….
“Sir, the monitoring we’ve been running on Baek Yuyeong’s Star Instagram matter—it’s blown open. Should we handle it?”
In an office high above the city, a man handed his phone to someone and spoke.
“I’ve told you, stop calling me ‘sir.’ Call me ‘Chairman’ from now on.”
Hyun Rion smirked and took the phone the man offered him.
Ah, really.
How is it that nothing ever deviates from the plan, not even a fraction?
“Let’s move forward with Plan A—the one we prepared.”
“I’ll get started right away.”
After the man handed back the phone and left, Leon rose slowly and turned to look behind him.
At that, a dozen or so employees simultaneously began making calls or starting work at their computers.
Really, I’ve got it rough.
“I wonder if my nephew even knows how hard I’m working behind the scenes like this.”
Leon muttered to himself, scrolling through some photos that had just been posted to Lee Doha’s family group chat.
There was Yewon, beaming brightly, surrounded by the GLEET members.
Envious, truly.
“Once this is all done, I’ll have to ask her to take a trip with me as a reward.”

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