There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 252

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Part 2, Episode 78
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“Yes, Dad. Thank you. It must have been sudden….”
Late at night, when everyone else had collapsed from the grueling filming.
Yewon had slipped away alone to the Hotel Lobby and was on a call with Yusong.
Since she was the lead and couldn’t miss filming without derailing the entire shoot, she’d had no choice but to leave Siwoo in Yusong’s care—but worry had gnawed at her the whole time.
‘Dad and my uncles didn’t seem very keen on Siwoo at all…!’
She wondered if Siwoo was resting safely.
Surely he hadn’t been scolded…?
Even if Yusong was reliable, Leon and Lee Iho were utterly untrustworthy.
—No, sweetheart. This isn’t just about you—it’s about our whole family. Siwoo’s fine. He’s sleeping soundly, and the doctor said he’s doing well. As for everything else… I’ll take care of it, so you just focus on your filming.
Thank goodness. It sounds like he handled things well.
“I will.”
—Today’s shoot is wrapped, right? How was it? You’re not too worn out?
“Well….”
How was today’s filming…?
Yewon’s mind drifted back to the Filming Set from moments ago.
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“Cut. Mun Hyeok, your eyes are too intense. Dial it back. At this point, Tae-jun should be questioning Seo-jin. That blindly trusting look won’t work.”
“Cut! Yoo Baekwoon! Your sign language is wrong. Are you not going to do it right? Messing up your lines is one thing, but this is the fifth take.”
“Cut. How many times do I have to tell you—that’s not the blocking. If you don’t understand the blocking, just ask me, please. We have so many scenes to shoot today. From here to here you walk, and when Tae-jun blocks your path there, you push through it and run to here.”
“Cut……. Do you actually understand this character? You’re not supposed to react to sound. If you startle at a noise behind you, that means you can hear—and that’s wrong! How many No Good takes are we at?!”
“……Yoo Eun-o’s seriously pissed.”
“Yeah, I don’t think anyone here doesn’t know that.”
The first-year members of the Summer’s Proof team all sighed and hung their heads.
“But honestly, he’s got reason to be. We’re messing up bad.”
“No, I mean—it makes sense. Who here has ever done Sign Language Acting before? The difficulty level is just high.”
“Think that excuse is going to work on him? If we said that, he’d definitely be like: ‘So you’re planning to only do easy acting your whole life? And what even is easy acting anyway? Are you just going to play non-acting actors? You’d be best at those roles, for sure. Go find a director who casts those parts.'”
“…That’s creepy how you can impersonate him like that….”
Jeongyun and Baek Yun in particular, though they’d come as extras to help, had been scolded quite heavily and were visibly deflated.
Not just the two of them—the entire first-year team had been chewed out harshly, and everyone’s spirits were crushed.
They’d muffed it not just two or three times, but all done dozens of No Good takes in a row—there was nothing to say.
But what really galled them was….
“Even Yewon barely gets an okay on the first try. The second something doesn’t match his vision, he just yells cut. What can you do?”
“True….”
How could anyone possibly satisfy that picky senior, when even the first-year ace, Yewon, didn’t get immediate approval?
“But Yewon doesn’t actually make mistakes, so she doesn’t get scolded at least.”
“He just directs her with absurd detail. Did you hear what Eun-o gave Yewon for directing?”
“What did he say?”
“He told her: from this line to that line, cry steadily; from here to here, don’t cry; then from here on, cry again. The thing is—it’s not by sentence. It’s by phrase.”
“…….”
“And the crazy part? Yewon pulled it off.”
“……….”
“I saw Eun-o’s face when she nailed that scene. I don’t know exactly what it meant, but if that guy knows what love is, his expression probably looked like that.”
The first-years exchanged glances, then exhaled in unison.
They watched Yewon, working on a solo scene.
“Yewon’s really something. She’s got so many solo scenes, she could be exhausted, but… she keeps having to shoot in the rain for the storm scene, and she got absolutely drenched, yet she doesn’t complain once.”
“And her lines are overwhelmingly extensive.”
“I’d probably mess up my lines from the cold, but she never does. She’s shaking hard, but her delivery is flawless.”
“And since she has the most experience on set among us, she helps the seniors out too…. I heard earlier she told them, ‘If the mic stays there, it’ll cast a shadow on my face. Could you move it back a bit?'”
“She watches the lighting and adjusts her position on her own.”
“And she remembers all the prop positions herself, remember?”
“Even the seniors ask Yewon everything when Eun-o’s busy.”
The first-years stared at Yewon for a while, then sighed again.
“The seniors were saying Yewon could probably become a director too, if she decided she wanted to do that later.”
“Didn’t Yewon say that before? That she wanted to study directing someday?”
“Of course she’d be good at it…. Her grandfather is Director Yeon Taejung…. Director Yeon already transitioned from acting to directing anyway.”
“…….”
The world really was unfair.
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“Well… it seemed fine, actually! It was definitely a difficult shoot, but…. Everyone had such a good energy about it that it was honestly fun.”
-I heard they used up all the water from the water truck. You didn’t catch a cold?
“Well…….”
She’d certainly been soaked all day from the artificial rain. By the end, her lips had turned blue enough that Eon had snapped, “That’s enough. Get a hand warmer! Now.”
“I’m fine. Maybe it’s because it was something I really wanted to film…. Seojin would have felt the same way. When you’re desperate, the rain and cold just vanish from your mind…. And I understood my character’s heart so much better. It was really good!”
-…….
Yusong said nothing, but Yewon could feel his displeasure radiating plainly.
Oh, no.
She should have been more careful with her words!
“Um, well, I’m really tired now, Dad. Please keep an eye on Siwoo! Sleep well!”
Yewon hung up before her father could unleash a barrage of complaints.
That was close!
Phew.
The moment Yewon exhaled deeply and turned around.
“!”
She started at the sight of two boys, each holding something in their hands.
“?!?!?”
Eon and… Hyuk?
“Aren’t you thinking about taking care of yourself? Why are you still on the phone so late?”
“You pushed yourself hard today—you should get to bed early, Yewon.”
The two boys began scolding her in unison, their voices heavy with disapproval. Then they glared at each other and turned their heads away sharply.
…Why did this feel so familiar?
She’d thought she’d escaped her father’s nagging, only to find an even heavier dose waiting in the shadows.
“Um…… Why are you two here?”
“Medicine.”
“We brought cold medicine, just in case.”
The two boys thrust medicine toward her simultaneously.
Eon had powder medicine; Hyuk had liquid.
“Take it.”
“Take it and go to sleep.”
“…….”
Both of them speaking at exactly the same time, with the same perfect timing….
They really might be soulmates.
Yewon swallowed that thought and carefully accepted the medicine.
“Th-thanks—”
“Take it right now, in front of me. All of it.”
“Yeah, Yewon. Take it. I also brought candy, just to be safe.”
“….”
Am I a child or something?
Why candy too?
Yewon shot an irritated look at Hyuk as he handed her a lemon-flavored candy.
Eon was also eyeing that candy with obvious displeasure—as if thinking, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’
“I brought a pain relief patch too. I noticed you have a habit of tensing your neck when you act, and if you keep that up, your muscles will tire out quickly. Apply it all over before you sleep.”
Not to be outdone, Eon pulled a handful of patches from his pocket and handed them to her.
“What about me? Do I have bad habits?”
“No. You’re all good habits. Stay just like that, always.”
“…….”
The two boys glared at each other again, then turned back to Yewon with a huff.
Candy or patch?
Their eyes asked the question.
Yewon watched the two of them carefully, then tossed both the liquid and powder medicine into her mouth at once.
I’m going to feel sick, seriously…!
“Um…… if you could both just put it in my hands….”
“Not enough hands? Here, let me feed you the candy. Say ‘ah.'”
“……Are you…insane…?”
“Why? We’ve been doing this since we were kids.”
When…?
When did we start feeding each other candy?
Watching Hyuk’s smug expression alternate with Eon’s expression of barely contained fury, Yewon broke out in a cold sweat.
“I’ll apply the patches for you then. Turn around.”
“Have you lost your mind, Yoo Eun-o? Putting your hands on a junior like that?”
“But feeding candy to a junior is fine?”
“That’s… well…….”
Yewon reached out to stop the two boys, but they were already seconds away from throwing punches at each other.
“Hey!!!! I’ll eat the candy myself and put the plaster on myself!!!!”
Unable to bear it any longer, Yewon let out a sharp cry, and both boys flinched in surprise.
Yewon snatched the candy and plaster from them, then hurried over to the elevator.
“Well then, I’m off. You two get some rest soon!”
“Wait, I—”
……
“Bye!”
Yewon quickly hopped into the elevator that had just arrived, jabbing the close button like a woman possessed.
Phew.
That was a close call…!

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