There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 40
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Episode 40
[Eon (25 years old, Fake Uncle 2): …Bora.]
Eon looked down at the script and began calmly.
In an instant, the playful atmosphere settled into something calm.
[Yewon (Bora): Oh? Uncle! Uncle, you’re sleeping at our house tonight, right? Daddy cleaned your room too!]
Caption: Innocent Bora
[Eon (25 years old, Fake Uncle 2): No. Uncle has to go.]
[Yewon (Bora): Huh? Why? Without even eating? Daddy said uncle is going to live with us now?]
Though it was dialogue from the script, the content strangely overlapped with reality.
The members’ gazes subtly focused on Eon.
Especially Lee Doha, who was staring at Eon with his lips pressed tightly together.
[Eon (25 years old, Fake Uncle 2): Uncle… can’t live with you guys.]
Eon delivered the line dryly. It was a thoroughly dry tone, devoid of emotion.
As if drawing a line that this wasn’t his own story.
[Yewon (Bora): That’s a lie! Uncle, you said so before. That family lives together!]
[Eon (Uncle): …That was just something I said.]
Eon tried to quickly move on to the next line. His hand flipping through the script quickened.
But then.
[Yewon (Bora): …Is it because you don’t like Bora?]
Yewon added a line that wasn’t in the script.
Eon’s hand hesitated.
[Eon: …Huh?]
[Yewon: We cleaned uncle’s room and everything… Daddy won’t let anyone into uncle’s room and cleans it every day. Why won’t uncle come?]
Yewon’s eyes were looking straight at Eon, not as ‘Bora’ in the drama, but as ‘Yewon’ in reality.
Eon bit his lips at those unwavering eyes.
…This too, was acting?
[Eon: …That’s not in the script.]
[Yewon: Uncle, can’t you come home? Please?]
Eon’s expression hardened.
[Eon: …Wait. Just a moment. I’d like to call cut here.]
[Eon: I’m feeling a bit dizzy. I think I need to rest.]
* * *
“Cut, cut! Let’s take a break!”
Filming was halted with Hwang PD’s shout.
And as soon as the camera’s red light went off, Eon jumped up from his seat.
“I’m sorry. I’ll just get some fresh air for a moment.”
“!”
Eon said that and headed out the door without looking back.
“Hey hey! Where are you going. Let’s go together. Don’t tell me you’re going to-”
“Ian.”
Weon and Yeonho tried to stop Eon, but Eon shook off their outstretched hands in one swift motion and went outside.
Just as the atmosphere turned cold.
“…I’ll go with him.”
Lee Doha sighed and stood up.
“Yewon. Uncle will be back in a moment. Can you stay with the uncles for a bit?”
“Yes, uncle. Have a safe trip.”
Lee Doha was slightly surprised to see Yewon calmly sending him off, when she could have been shocked.
“…Yeah.”
However, he didn’t say anything more and followed Eon out.
* * *
Lee Doha found Eon on the rooftop, as always.
Whenever the two fought, Eon would always come up to the rooftop like this, and Lee Doha would follow him up.
Then.
Ian would always be leaning against the railing like that, glaring into space.
“Ian.”
Thinking it had been a while since he’d done this, Lee Doha approached Eon’s side.
“Why did you follow me. If you left me alone, I’d cool my head and come back on my own.”
Despite Eon’s harsh words, Lee Doha sighed and took off his coat.
And draped it over Eon’s shoulders.
“Wear it properly. It’s cold.”
“Mind your own business.”
“What’s got you so suffocated again.”
“I told you to mind your own business.”
“I told you hyperventilation isn’t something to be ashamed of. If you just say you need to rest for a moment-”
“Can’t you just mind your own business when I say I don’t like it?”
As soon as the word ‘hyperventilation’ came out of Lee Doha’s mouth, Eon immediately reacted sharply.
That was right.
After Taeyoung left, Eon would sometimes have hyperventilation attacks when he got flustered or angry like this.
The hospital said it was suspected hyperventilation syndrome, but Eon desperately denied his symptoms.
And to hide his symptoms, he would run away whenever hyperventilation came.
It had never happened during schedules, so they could manage to get by.
This was the first time symptoms appeared during filming.
“…Is it because the topic of home came up?”
‘Home’ was a very sensitive topic for both of them.
Eon, who had lived far away from home since childhood.
Lee Doha, who never had a home to call his own.
Both had different types of deficiency regarding ‘home’, so it was natural for them to create a new ‘home’ together.
So.
Eon leaving this house was a huge event for both Eon and Lee Doha.
It was too big a wound for both of them.
“What on earth did you tell that kid about me that she’d say something like that?”
“…”
“Did you tell her to? To tell me to come back?”
Lee Doha kept his mouth shut at Eon’s interrogation.
Of course Lee Doha had never done such a thing.
“…Yewon just said that because she likes you. She wants you to come back home.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. That kid hates me.”
“Why do you think that.”
“What reason would she have to like me.”
At Eon’s words, Lee Doha unconsciously chuckled. Then Eon’s face crumpled.
“You’re laughing?”
“No. I just thought… you know how to be objective… It was unexpected.”
“What? You crazy-”
“Eon. How could Yewon hate you.”
“…”
“Where in the world is there someone who could hate you. Yewon likes you too. It’s just…”
Lee Doha pondered, then added quietly.
“She’s a little scared of you.”
“Cut the crap.”
“I’m serious…”
“A lot of people hate me.”
Ah, was he the one denying it?
Doha looked at Eon with confused eyes for a moment.
“I hate you, Lee Doha.”
“….”
“I despise you. I hate this house where you are too.”
Finally, the coat that had been precariously draped over Eon’s shoulders fell with a thud.
“This house is your house, but it’s also my house. You brought someone else into my house without saying a word to me, without a single contact.”
“That’s-”
“So in the end, I had to leave my own house and live in a hotel, and you pretend not to know even though you’re aware of it. That’s ridiculous too.”
Doha’s mouth, which had been about to say something, closed.
Everything Eon said was completely right.
“You invaded my house as you pleased, yet you haven’t said a single word asking for my forgiveness. And damn it, the one who invaded my house happens to be your young niece. So if I say even one word to you, I become the bad guy.”
“…Eon hyung….”
“All of it is just disgusting to me.”
Eon said that and turned away, leaving Doha behind.
“That’s what you’re best at, isn’t it, Lee Doha. Making me the only bad guy.”
* * *
Meanwhile, the situation in the penthouse below the rooftop was also serious.
“Damn, what should I do? Should I go up? Or not? What if I go up and get hit by Ian? But what if I don’t go up and Lee Doha comes down beaten up?”
In the living room, Weon was restlessly pacing back and forth in front of the door.
The way he bit his nails while going back and forth looked exactly like a dog with its tail stepped on.
“Shut your mouth. You’re being annoying.”
Yeonho looked at Weon as if he found him pathetic.
“Aren’t you worried, hyung? There might be a murder happening up there right now!?!”
“It’s something we see every day, so you’re the strange one for being so emotional over each incident like this. It’s not like we’ve been watching them fight for just a day or two.”
“…Why are you only good with words at times like this? Can’t you be good at stopping the kids from fighting too? Help me out!”
At Weon’s whining, Yeonho closed his eyes and turned his head away as if it wasn’t worth responding to.
Then suddenly, sensing a presence, he opened his eyes.
He saw Yewon sitting quietly in the seat next to the sofa where he was sitting.
“….”
It was strange. Despite Yewon being the starting point of all this conflict, she was excessively detached.
As if-
‘…she wanted this conflict.’
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