There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 28
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Episode 28
“….”
Everyone present knew. Eon’s silence was as good as answering ‘no’.
“So, the fact that my mother abandoned me and only took my sister to America – is that something I should be ashamed of and endure without saying anything?”
Lee Doha’s appearance as he said this.
Was frighteningly calm.
“…Fuck.”
Eon covered his face with both hands.
What the hell was all this chaos?
He couldn’t believe this reality at all.
But at the same time, he instinctively knew.
That he shouldn’t provoke Lee Doha any further than this.
“Then where is that kid?”
Eventually, Eon changed the subject.
“I left her with the CEO for a moment.”
“Why? Is she too precious for you to show me?”
“Yeah. Look at the way you talk. You can’t say more than three words without cursing. That’s not good for a child’s emotional development.”
“….”
Eon shut his mouth at the perfectly reasonable point.
“And I knew you’d get angry. The kid would be scared.”
“If you knew I’d get angry, you shouldn’t have done something to make me angry.”
Eon sneered as if he’d caught something.
“I’m sorry.”
“!”
“I’m sorry for doing something that would make you angry. It was my fault.”
Eon hadn’t expected to hear ‘I’m sorry’ from the great Lee Doha’s mouth, so he glared at Lee Doha with a frighteningly hardened face.
It wasn’t just Eon whose face was frighteningly hardened.
Weon and Yeongeo also stared at Lee Doha with their mouths hanging open in bewilderment.
However, Lee Doha maintained a consistently calm expression throughout, as if he had said something that naturally needed to be said.
“I won’t do things that make you angry anymore.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. How could you possibly.”
“I’ll be careful.”
“Get lost. I don’t believe you. If you had been sincere about those words, you would have come to London at least once. You would have come and apologized.”
“I’m sorry about that too.”
“….”
Eon looked Lee Doha up and down with eyes that wondered if this bastard had really gone crazy.
It wasn’t just Eon. Now Yeongeo and Weon looked like they were really scared, on the verge of tears.
“Did you eat something wrong? Why are you acting like this?”
However.
Eon didn’t know. He didn’t know how much influence Yewon had on Lee Doha during his absence.
For the first time, Lee Doha was able to learn from watching Yewon how much – how much ‘the courage to face things directly without avoiding them’ could bring.
And at the same time.
Lee Doha was developing a strong desire to fix what he had ruined.
All those things he had given up on.
“Fine, don’t believe me. I’ll build up the trust myself.”
“!”
At Lee Doha’s answer, Eon only raised his eyebrows.
“Hey hey. Lee Doha… why are you like this… I’m really getting scared….”
Weon hugged his own arms as if getting goosebumps.
“P-please calm down, Lee Doha….”
Yeongeo was really on the verge of crying.
“Then, why didn’t you come to London.”
“….”
As if he really didn’t want to say this, Lee Doha’s mouth closed.
Eon’s lips twisted as if to say ‘see?’
“See. You can’t even say this, so what makes you think you can-”
“Because I had panic attacks.”
“…!”
At the word ‘panic’, Eon stopped, even forgetting to breathe.
“I couldn’t go because I couldn’t breathe whenever I went to the airport. I’m sorry.”
“You fucking bastard, really. Stop saying you’re sorry!”
“What I’m sorry for, I’m sorry for.”
“…Are you kidding me?”
However, Eon, who should have calmed down, looked even angrier instead.
“Do you feel good making me the bad guy? You should have told me everything from the start!”
“I tried to tell you when I called, but you didn’t answer.”
“….”
At those words, Eon had nothing to say and just moved his lips a few times.
Thud.
“!!!”
He punched Lee Doha in the chest.
“I didn’t hit your face because you need it to make a living.”
“…Thanks.”
“Get lost.”
Eon spat out with eyes that had turned cold again.
“You’re always like this. You keep your mouth shut about everything, finish things your own way, and then at the end you dump everything out like you’re just notifying me, making me the bad guy. Then you feel relieved, and I feel uncomfortable.”
“….”
“You did the same thing with Taeyoung. You could have just persuaded Taeyoung together, or asked for help since that crazy bastard was doing every kind of power harassment to you. That would have been fine, but you didn’t say a word, and only after Taeyoung quit without knowing his place. Only then!”
Eon shouted, pressing down all his pent-up anger.
“Only then, you squeaked out stuff like ‘I’m sorry. It’s all because I lack leadership qualities.’ Then it’s over for you. But that’s when it starts for me.”
Eon bit his lips.
Even while living in the same space, Lee Doha had never once asked Eon for help.
Just to hear those words ‘help me’, ‘I’m having a hard time’ – just to hear them once.
365 days, 24 hours – since I don’t know when during all that time you might feel like making such complaints to me.
Even though we’re together 364 out of 365 days.
In case during that one day when we’re not together, you might want to make those complaints.
In case I might not be there at that moment.
That’s why I couldn’t even leave this house and stayed by your side, damn it.
But.
You, only now.
Hundreds of words bubbled up in Eon’s mouth, then burst one by one.
Or wait, is it finally happening because I’m disappearing?
A bitter smile crossed Eon’s lips.
I should have left long ago. Why did we persist and gnaw at each other like that?
It couldn’t be more futile.
“You did that shit for 7 years and you haven’t changed at all. Only I always end up being the bad guy like this.”
Whether the part where Eon hit him was throbbing, or just his heart was throbbing.
Lee Doha rubbed his chest area with his hand and looked up at Eon blankly.
“Eon.”
“I don’t have the confidence to do this anymore.”
“….”
Eon said that and turned his back, heading toward the entrance.
And finally, just before opening the door.
“It’s not that I can’t work with you because of your niece or your damn family. It’s because what you’re doing is so shitty that I can’t work with you.”
Eon spat that out and went outside.
* * *
“….”
“….”
“….”
And some time later.
Yewon found herself standing in front of two men whose atmosphere was practically like a funeral home.
‘…Wait, Uncle Ian was supposed to come and I gave them space to reconcile properly.’
Why is the atmosphere like this?!
Far from reconciling, this feels like they fought even more…?
Yewon had no idea what had happened while she was gone, so she couldn’t even figure out where to start.
“Uncle…?”
“Oh, Yewon.”
At Yewon’s call, Doha finally seemed to come to his senses and looked back at her with dazed eyes.
‘This is bad.’
This guy has no soul in his eyes…!
What on earth did Uncle Ian say to make his eyes look like this…!
It was pitch black ahead.
When someone’s heart was completely broken like this, Yewon knew from experience that no words would get through – so she couldn’t think of anything she could do right now.
‘…If it were me, I would have just locked myself in my room and watched my favorite dramas or movies on repeat.’
When her heart was broken and her head felt like it would explode from too many thoughts, it helped to watch fun videos that she could watch mindlessly.
That moment of escaping from my life and becoming completely immersed in someone else’s life.
Could there be anything sweeter than those moments?
Yewon longed for and loved those very moments, which was why she liked acting.
‘…But that’s my story.’
What should Uncle Doha do to feel better?
‘…Wait.’
Fun content that you can watch mindlessly?
That’s totally… my specialty, isn’t it?
Yewon’s eyes sparkled.
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