There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 238

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Part 2, Episode 64
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“Hm.”
Yuyeong fought to suppress the laughter that kept bubbling up.
Her main account’s follower count, which had barely budged despite all the hashtags she’d thrown at it, had jumped by twenty thousand in one go.
‘They’re finding their way to my main account from the private post. At this rate, I’ll break fifty thousand soon…?’
If she stirred up just one more piece of aggro like this, she might actually crack a hundred thousand followers.
Once she hit a hundred thousand, she’d heard you didn’t need to struggle with acting or any of that—being an influencer alone was enough to live on.
It would give her grounds to tell her parents to stop nagging her about acting, since she could just say she was going to be an influencer from now on.
Ding.
Ding.
Direct messages kept streaming in relentlessly, and Yuyeong glanced at her phone.
Everyone was asking if the girl who’d “used connections to snatch the lead role” was Yewon.
Of course they were. Yewon was the most famous child actor who’d enrolled at Hyeonbong Middle School this year. Her family was also extremely well-known.
But Yuyeong absolutely refused to reply to any of those messages.
It was to keep an escape route—she could always claim, “I wasn’t talking about her, you know?”
…Though truthfully, Yewon as a mere new student didn’t scare her at all. It was Haion that scared her. Starting with the principal.
‘That person’s eyes aren’t right in the head.’
The fact that Haion had placed such a person in this school was itself a demonstration of their power.
‘But so what?’
I’m a minor. That’s not something they can do to me, right?
If some adults touch a minor like me, it’ll make the news for sure. Besides, a massive corporation like Haion wouldn’t be able to move recklessly because of their corporate image anyway.
If my parents were just ordinary company employees, they’d have no way out from Haion’s power. But they’re both doctors—specialized professionals. What can you do about a professional?
…This was why Yuyeong had been able to start this reckless scheme in the first place.
But then.
She heard the beep of the front door security code being entered, and the door swung open.
Yuyeong jerked upright in alarm.
It was Saturday—both her parents shouldn’t leave work until afternoon. It wasn’t even noon yet. What was going on?
“Baek Yuyeong!!”
Her father’s furious roar echoed through the apartment—Professor Baek, shouting in a way she’d never heard before.
“…!”
Stunned by that unfamiliar tone, Yuyeong scrambled out of her room.
“Um, Dad…?”
“What on earth have you done! Huh!”
“I, I don’t…”
Professor Baek gripped her shoulders, his face twisted with rage unlike anything she’d ever seen.
Yuyeong, who’d been pampered as a princess her whole life, was so shocked she couldn’t even form words properly. Her father had always treated her like royalty.
“Who did you touch to cause this disaster!”
“I didn’t…”
“Please tell me it’s not true, Yuyeong. Tell me it’s all a misunderstanding. You didn’t touch your junior, did you? Right? There was some kind of mistake, wasn’t there?”
“……”
Yuyeong was too bewildered to speak. Her father, who’d always stood above everyone else with such dignity, was begging her like this for the first time.
“…I, I didn’t touch her…. Everyone just jumped to their own conclusions! I never once said it was Yewon. I—”
“Good grief.”
Professor Baek released the shoulders he’d been gripping so desperately and dragged his hand across his face, as if his mind were scattered.
“Why, why are you like this? Dad? What did someone say…?”
“……”
Instead of answering, Professor Baek staggered over to the living room sofa and sank down.
After a moment of deliberation, he made a phone call to someone.
“Honey. You’re at the hospital now, right? You need to come home immediately.”
Yuyeong’s mother’s voice came faintly through the phone.
“…So you got the call too. Yes. I just got here myself. The position for center director fell through. It went to that bastard Choi Professor. The hospital director is asking what in the world you did that calls have been coming from everywhere….”
“!”
Yuyeong understood what ‘center director’ meant. Director of the Korea University Hospital Organ Transplant Center. The position her father had been desperately pursuing.
She’d heard it was practically confirmed…!
While Yuyeong stood frozen in shock, Professor Baek hung up and glared at her.
“Do you understand who you just touched?”
“…I told you, I never said it was her! Seriously!”
Yuyeong protested in frustration. She quickly pulled out her phone and showed her father.
“Look for yourself, Dad. I really never said it was her!”
“Yuyeong….”
Professor Baek shut his eyes tightly as he spoke.
“Of all places, why…. Why Haion…. Do you even know how much Haion sponsors our hospital?”
“….”
Of course Yuyeong had no way of knowing something like that.
“And Haion is far more dangerous than anywhere else. Those people are truly vicious—they’ve got their fingers in everything, every sector imaginable… Why….”
Professor Baek paced the living room with a troubled expression, then turned back to Yuyeong as if he’d made a decision.
“Post a denial right now. Say it’s all made up. Say you were just trying to grab some attention. Tell them you were stupid.”
At Professor Baek’s words, Yuyeong’s face went pale.
“No, how could I…! If I do that, I’ll be completely finished…! I’ll just say it was someone else, not her. Right?”
“That won’t work. Haion won’t let you off the hook with that. You have to post immediately saying it was all your delusion—”
At that moment.
Yuyeong’s phone, which had been buzzing intermittently, suddenly erupted into a frenzy of notifications.
“!”
Both father and daughter could sense it instinctively.
Something had blown up.
When Yuyeong froze in fear, unable even to pick up her phone, Professor Baek grabbed it for her.
The lock screen was buried under an avalanche of direct messages.
Whereas a moment ago they’d mostly been questions like “You were really calling out Yewon, right?ㅋㅋㅋ” or “Is that really Yewon? That child actress??”, now….
Dude ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ trying to compare your acting to hers ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
God I’m so embarrassed for you ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Seriously, know your place; get a reality check;
…and a torrent of vicious, mocking messages flooded in.
Yuyeong’s hands trembled as she unlocked her phone.
She couldn’t understand why people’s attitude had shifted so suddenly.
Scrolling through her Star Instagram Direct Messages, Yuyeong noticed that everyone had been linking to the same post.
When she saw the account that posted it, she froze. It was an account she’d never seen before, and the username was….
‘eun.o’
That was it.
An account name that plainly revealed it was Yoo Eun-o. Yuyeong’s stomach dropped as she opened the post.
The post contained two videos. The first was footage from Yuyeong’s audition for Summer’s Proof.
“…!”
Her stiff expression and clumsy gaze control were painfully obvious—the amateurish acting of someone out of her depth.
Having never watched her own audition tape before, Yuyeong’s face flushed crimson.
She’d had no idea she was this bad.
With trembling fingers, Yuyeong swiped to the next video.
It was Yewon’s audition footage.
Like watching a finished drama scene—flawless acting that was already complete.
Yuyeong scrolled down to read the caption with quivering hands.
chaejuxg
and
others liked this
eun.o
Kekeke?
A single character said it all.
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“…?”
Yewon watched the three boys with a puzzled expression.
They’d been snarling and squabbling with each other just moments ago, but now they had their heads together, doing something on their phones.
What were they doing…?
Just as Yewon stepped forward to find out, the girls surrounded her.
“Yewon.”
“!”
The girls circled around her and pulled her back.
“Were you really trying to hang out with the boys instead of us!!! I’m so hurt right now.”
“Focus on us today. We have so much to catch up on. We hardly see each other since we’re in different classes….”
Harin looked at Yewon as if genuinely wounded.
…But we see each other every day!! How is that hardly ever…!!
Yewon nodded despite her slight sense of injustice.
“Yeah…! So, what do you wanna do?”
“Let’s smash some Bubble Pop Toys. Uncle Weon brought a hundred of them earlier and asked me to film videos and pick out the most satisfying ones. He’s going to buy a hundred more!!! Let’s do it while watching some raw shrimp ASMR mukbang videos!!”
“I want to tap on keycaps instead.”
“…I like Slime better….”
The girls giggled, already thrilled.
A smile crossed Yewon’s face before she knew it, and she nodded.
“Yeah! Let’s try everything today…!”
If only every day could be this peaceful, she thought.

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