There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 258

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Part 2, Episode 84
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The highlight of Hyunbong Art Middle School’s festival was the presentation of works from each club.
Alumni who were actively working across various fields made it a point to return to this presentation every year.
Among them were many who would sponsor promising talents they discovered or take them on as mentees, so it was only natural that Hyunbong students threw themselves into these presentations with everything they had.
In particular, the Film Club’s screening—the most renowned club at Hyunbong—drew the largest number of alumni visitors, and the pressure on the club members was beyond words.
“My heart is pounding so much I think I’m going to drop dead any second. You can count on it.”
Sung Jiwon looked at Ju Chaejeong as if she’d heard enough nonsense.
“Then go ahead and die now. Don’t drag it out.”
“I can’t do that until I see Yoo Eun-o’s… difference.”
“…?”
Yoo Eun-o and… difference…?
Sung Jiwon narrowed her eyes at this pairing of two words that seemed most ill-matched in the world, then gasped in horror.
“No way.”
“Yes. Suspicion kills everyone—you, me, and him.”
“You’re insane.”
Sung Jiwon covered her ears as if she wished she hadn’t heard that. She didn’t want to hear any more of her friend’s oversharing.
Instead, Sung Jiwon snuck a glance at Yoo Eun-o, whose tense face was fixed unblinking on the screen.
“…So he’s sitting there waiting for Yewon right now, isn’t he?”
“Obviously.”
“That explains why he wouldn’t let anyone sit next to him.”
Sung Jiwon nodded as if the empty seat beside him finally made sense.
She’d thought it was just his usual personality erupting, but it had a reason after all.
“But Yewon’s late, isn’t she?”
“Hyuk’s late too.”
“…Don’t tell me…?”
“Today suspicion’s killing several people. Going to get Yoo Eun-o now too.”
…….
Sung Jiwon paled for a moment, then her face twisted with a strange irritation.
“So our two lead actors are showing up late to the screening because they’re playing around?”
“Now that you say it that way, I can’t stand it. Let’s go drag them back right now.”
Just as Ju Chaejeong grinned and started to leave to chase them down.
“Huh?”
Yewon entered the Audiovisual Room with a very dark expression, while Hyuk had a strangely bittersweet one.
“Um…?”
The two of them paused when they realized only two seats remained—both next to Yoo Eun-o—before sitting down.
And so the seating arrangement of Yoo Eun-o–Yewon–Hyuk was completed, a configuration that made anyone looking at it uncomfortable and left them gasping for breath.
“…I feel so awkward just watching that I want to go home….”
“But that’s weird. I can understand why Hyuk looks bittersweet, but why does Yewon look so dark?”
“…Yeah, why…?”
What’s going on…?
Ju Chaejeong and Sung Jiwon frowned simultaneously.
But before they could dwell on it further, all the lights in the Audiovisual Room went out.
<Summer’s Proof>
The screening began.
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Title: Oh, It’s That Day Again
The day footage from Hyunbong Art Middle School’s presentation goes online
└Why are people even watching middle schoolers’ work?;
└└There are so many acclaimed directors from there that deep cinephiles keep an eye on it lol
└└└Right, director Ji Se-yun is from there, and at 28 she made it to Berlin’s competition section
└└└└Ji Se-yun’s Hyunbong submission is so incredibly famous that some people watch it repeatedly (me)
Title: Why so many people are watching Hyunbong this year
There’s a work by Yewon x Director Yu’s son
└+ Hyuk’s in it too
└└Wow, it’s been so long since I heard Hyuk’s name, was wondering what he was up to, turns out he went to Hyunbong Art Middle School
└└└oooo
Title: It’s hilarious that people are watching the Director Yu’s son’s work since he hasn’t been active
lololololololol
But honestly, it’s not funny.
Hand it over already.
└It’s going up on YouTube soon and I’m dying to see it
└└Three minutes left. It’s dropping at exactly 4 o’clock.
Title: Hyunbong Screening — Live Commentary
Let’s all watch it together here
└Starting now!!
└Wow, what is this? The image quality from the very beginning isn’t what I expected from middle schoolers
└Where’d they film this?? This isn’t a location middle schoolers can even access????
└The quality is insanely different
└This is my first time seeing a Hyunbong screening. Is this normally their quality…?
└└No way it always was
└└└No no no no this is record-breaking. It doesn’t make sense right now
└I haven’t seen Ji Se-yun’s work before, but was hers at this level too?
└└No, Ji Se-yun had limited resources, but the direction showed genius potential, so it got re-evaluated later
But this right now is just… not middle school quality at all lmaooo
└Wow, what about Yewon’s acting? It’s divine
└└Real talk, what…? This doesn’t make sense…?
Title: If you haven’t seen Hyunbong yet, seriously go watch it
No regrets
It’s among the best short films of the year
└Seriously? That good?
└Nah, it’s just a middle school thing; there’s already so much I need to watch
└└This is why I personally recommend it anyway…
Title: Yewon is a goddess
If she’s this good at 14, I’m hyped for her at 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80
She could clean up all three major film festivals
└She could even sweep the domestic awards show
└└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└└└???: You want to give an award to our global superstar just because she’s local?
Title: Eun-o’s friend^^
Our Eun-o’s friend~^^
We should send him to Sundance~^^
Don’t just stay in Korea~^^
└I used to wonder why the old guys always pushed players to go major league, but now I get it. He’s talent that can’t be confined to Korea, but I don’t want him to leave either. He should stay in Korea…
└└Don’t go to America! Go! Don’t go! Go! Don’t go! Go! What is my heart really…?
Title: Whoa, new article about Yu Jungseok
[Director Yu Jungseok to expand son’s short film into feature… Reborn through father-son co-direction]
(Link)
└Crazy
└Crazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazy
Title: Yu Jungseok planning two works simultaneously right now
Haven’t decided which comes out first yet, coordinating with Sumbbit
└Is this real? Is this real? Is this real? Is this real? Is this real? Is this real? Is this real?
└Jungseok, work like an ox
└Yu Jungseok, what are you doing? Can’t you tell? Make both at the same time
└└Real talk, when the investors are in, you should just make both;;; Before you blow up;;;;
└└└First, lock the investors down somewhere
Title: I’m the winner for watching Hyunbong live in real-time
Hehehehehehe
└Ah, I’m jealous of this powerful bastard
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And so the screening came to an end.
Every audience member in the Audiovisual Room rose from their seats and began to applaud.
“…!”
Caught off guard—this was his first time in such a situation—Eun-o froze until Yewon quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him to his feet.
The moment Eun-o looked at Yewon with wavering eyes.
‘Let’s bow together.’
Yewon smiled softly and mouthed the words to him.
Eun-o hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
“Thank you so much!”
“…Thank you.”
“Thank you!!”
In order, it was Yewon, Yoo Eun-o, and Hyuk.
Starting with those three, the entire Summer’s Proof team scrambled to their feet.
They bowed their heads toward the audience, who showered them with unsparing applause.
It was the moment their effort was recognized.
And then the applause and cheers, which seemed as though they would never end, finally subsided.
Bang!
The families of the Summer’s Proof team streamed into the Audiovisual Room.
Their arms laden with bouquets and cakes.
And with that, the Summer’s Proof team members, who had stood so composed and professional, reverted to children—
“Mom!! Dad!!”
“Wow. You came too, sis.”
“Mom, did you see?!!? That music—I wrote it.”
“I filmed all of it, I’m telling you. Yeah, didn’t I say I’m good at filming myself?”
They began showing off to their families.
And then.
“Dad! Uncle!”
Yewon, catching sight of Yusong and Glitt holding enormous bouquets, bolted toward them.
“Dad, did you see?”
“Of course.”
I watched from beginning to end.
Yusong handed the bouquet to his daughter with a warm smile.
“You worked hard, my girl. You were the most wonderful thing in the world.”
“Hehe.”
“Once it goes online, I think the film festivals will be sending love calls like crazy. I’m going to clear my schedule to escort my daughter around.”
“Oh, come on, it’s not quite at that level yet.”
Even as Yewon said this, her smile was the happiest in the world.
“Did you uncles see?! How was it—”
Yewon, about to brag to her uncles from GLEET, stopped short.
Because….
“…Why are you uncles wearing stage costumes…?”
Because GLEET was wearing stage costumes so ostentatiously!
“Of course we came to do a celebration performance for our Yewon!!!!!! If we don’t perform at our Yewon’s school, who will?!!! If we hadn’t been invited, I’d have been so heartbroken I couldn’t sleep and cried all day!!!”
“Of course we had to come. Who else? You expecting some other artist?”
“…You don’t mind that we came, right, Yewon…?”
At Weon’s, Eon’s, and Lee Doha’s words, Yewon fell silent.
…She absolutely must not say she’d been hoping for a different artist!

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