There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 70
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Episode 70
“Excuse me… please call my sister. Yes? I’m curious if my sister is living well after getting married…”
Seolhwa mustered up courage to speak to the servant, but all she received in return was cold indifference.
The servant roughly pushed the child. The child fell on her bottom and the wild strawberries in her arms scattered across the dirt floor.
“Where does this beggar get off blocking the front gate of our master’s house so unluckily. Get lost before I bring out the rod.”
“N-no! I’m not a beggar! My sister is a daughter-in-law here! Please, just tell my sister that Seolhwa came-!”
Seolhwa desperately pleaded, but the servant clicked his tongue and slammed the main gate shut.
Then, through the crack in the door, the whispering voices of the servants could be heard.
“Tsk tsk. That young concubine. How long had she been here before she died?”
“Oh my, the master becomes like a dog whenever he drinks. In the end, she couldn’t endure those beatings and died.”
“Even if the family was completely ruined, I heard she was from a noble family. Is it okay to cover this up?”
“This is the Household of the Left State Councilor that can shoot down flying birds. What’s some ruined noble family’s daughter… That family was blinded by money and sold off their daughter anyway. What could they possibly say?”
At that moment.
Seolhwa’s eyes in the screen completely turned upside down.
Seolhwa began frantically pounding and kicking the tightly closed door.
Detailed scenes of her fingernails breaking and blood seeping out filled the screen.
Only after causing a commotion did someone come out from beyond the main gate and push Seolhwa once more.
“What did you say…? Who died…?”
“Y-you brat! Let go!”
“It’s a lie, right? There’s no one kinder and more virtuous than my sister! How could you kill such a sister, how!”
Seolhwa jumped up and clung to the servant, screaming desperately.
“Don’t do something that’ll really get you in trouble and just leave. Do you want to die too? Isn’t your life precious?”
But the servant spoke coldly and locked the main gate.
Next to Seolhwa’s face as she was thrown to the ground, a hairpin fell.
The hairpin was stained with blood that flowed from the child’s hand.
“Sister… sister… come out… tell me it’s a lie…”
The voice that initially muttered in disbelief gradually transformed into the cry of a beast.
“Sister!!!!”
Seolhwa pounded her chest with her fists and wailed.
Even while gasping for breath, she crawled toward the closed main gate, grabbed the door handle, and banged her head against it.
“It’s a lie… sob, sister… don’t leave me behind…”
The sister who was beaten to death.
The tragic end of the sister she thought would live happily.
The despair of a 7-year-old child facing that reality poured through the screen.
* * *
The air in the restaurant became heavy.
Yewon’s acting in the face of cruel truth was so heartbreaking that it constricted the breath of those watching.
“Sniff.”
The first to break was Weon.
Weon stopped putting lettuce wrap in his mouth and was tearing up while covering his mouth.
Weon pressed napkins firmly against his tears, trying not to let anyone notice he was crying.
“Damn. I know it’s all fake, but why am I crying like this? Ugh.”
While the usually playful Weon was immersed and dabbing away tears.
Ian felt strange in his own way.
I know it’s acting, but I don’t know why my neck is getting tense and I want to hit someone.
“Ian, you’ll break the glass. Put the glass down and watch.”
Yeonho, who couldn’t stand it anymore, lightly tapped Ian’s wrist.
“…You always bragged loudly that you never feel anything no matter how sad things you watch. Was it all bluffing?”
“…”
Yeonho looked at Ian and chuckled.
Ian responded by quietly giving him the finger under the table.
And Doha.
Couldn’t say anything.
He just stared blankly at Yewon rolling on the dirt floor and wailing in the screen.
It felt like his heart was sinking with a thud.
For a moment, Seolhwa in that screen overlapped with Yewon who had clung to him at his sister’s funeral home.
…That’s why he felt strange.
Doha looked to the side.
When his sister passed away, she must have cried like that too. Until I arrived, she must have been that sad…
“Uncle.”
Then, the real Yewon gently tugged at Doha’s sleeve.
Doha snapped back to reality and turned his head.
Yewon was looking at Doha with worried eyes, with a bit of meat grease on her lips.
“What’s wrong? Was my acting strange?”
At Yewon’s innocent question, Doha let out the breath he had been holding.
The tragedy on screen was acting, and this child in front of me is no longer crying.
It’s okay.
…I will make it so.
Only after confirming that fact did his trembling heart calm down.
“…No.”
Doha raised his hand and patted Yewon’s head.
“It was the best.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. You did so well… Uncle’s heart ached.”
Doha’s words weren’t empty.
Yewon’s acting truly had the power to pierce people’s hearts.
“Thank goodness!”
“Thank goodness? Uncle already knew Yewon acts well. Were you nervous?”
“Of course.”
Yewon made a serious expression.
“I want to get compliments from other people too, but I wanted to get compliments from Uncle first.”
“!”
At Yewon’s words, Doha’s eyes widened slightly.
But soon his eyes curved gently.
“Is that so? Uncle should give you lots of compliments then. In Uncle’s opinion, our Yewon seems to be the best in the world at acting. Soon you’ll go to Cannes and win an award, right?”
“Ugh.”
That seems a bit much, Uncle…
Yewon grimaced and moved away from Doha slightly.
The two looked at each other and giggled.
“Go easy on the acting, Yewon.”
Weon was already blowing his nose with slightly swollen eyes.
“Ugh! Sniff… Yewon, next time only play rich family daughter roles… okay?!!?!?”
“Okay, okay. Uncle Weon, stop crying…”
A strange scene unfolded where Yewon was actually comforting the adults.
The surrounding production team cheered, anticipating the drama’s success.
The GLEET members wanted to pet Yewon as if she were the most precious puppy in the world.
* * *
After the company dinner ended, at home.
Doha laid the exhausted and sleeping Yewon on the bed and covered her with a blanket.
And after silently looking down at the sleeping child, he quietly went outside.
Outside.
“Are you done with all that bullshit?”
Eon was waiting with his eyes sharply raised at the corners.
“I told you to speak nicely at home, Ian. It might become a habit and you could say such harsh words in front of Yewon too.”
“Then don’t give me reasons to say harsh words.”
Eon ground his teeth in frustration.
However, Doha chuckled softly while looking at Eon.
“…You became a really good uncle to Yewon in my place today.”
“!”
At Doha’s words, Eon immediately stiffened.
“You sent the coffee truck in my place. Put pressure on the director. Comforted Yewon and everything.”
“…”
“I saw the certification shot. You wrote the message well too.”
At the mention of the certification shot, Eon’s face turned bright red.
“…Fuck off!”
“Thank you.”
“!”
“I wasn’t acting like an adult. I hated myself for not being able to protect Yewon… I think I acted immaturely. Thank you for being a good adult to Yewon in my place.”
Doha said that and hesitated before adding.
“…And I’m sorry.”
“…!!”
At the single word “sorry” that came from Doha’s mouth, Eon’s face crumpled mercilessly.
“What?”
“…I should have apologized earlier. Really. I don’t know why I couldn’t say something that’s not even that big of a deal to you. There probably isn’t a leader as pathetic as me.”
“…”
“This house is my home, but it’s also your home. As soon as I brought Yewon to this house, I should have asked for your permission first. But the reason I didn’t…”
Doha hesitated for a moment, then looked at Eon and smiled bitterly.
“I guess it was because I thought that even if others might not be, at least you would be on my side.”
“…!!!”
“I just, I had that thought. Even if others might not be. At least you… in the end, at least you would curse at me, get angry at me, yell at me… but in the end, you’d still take my side.”
At that smile and those words.
Eon glared at Doha without saying anything.
“…Stupid bastard.”
“…”
“Where in the world is there a person who apologizes like this? Is this an apology? You bastard? An apology should…”
Eon said that and hit Doha’s side with a thud.
“Start by saying ‘Let me hit you once first.'”
“!!”
“Right. This is how it feels satisfying to forgive.”
“Hey, Ian…”
It definitely wasn’t a light hit, as Doha clutched his side and shook his head.
His hand is damn strong.
“Now we’re even.”
“!”
“Like you said, I’ll damn well curse at you, get angry, yell, and hit you too.”
Eon continued with an expression that showed he really didn’t want to say this.
“…I’m damn unlucky to be fated to be on your side.”
“…”
At those words, Doha hesitated for a long time before placing his hand on Eon’s shoulder.
“…I don’t know how fortunate it is to have an uncle like you by my side, and by Yewon’s side.”
“Why am I that kid’s uncle? We’re strangers.”
“For strangers, you declared way too many times at the filming site to treat our kid well because she’s family.”
“XXXXXXXXXXX…”
Eon spat out some unidentifiable English curse words.
But Doha chuckled at Eon.
“Why? I’m happy that you’re my family, Eon.”
“!”
“If Yewon is family, then she’s my family too.”
“…”
At those words, Eon shut his mouth tight.
“Well, from the beginning, you guys were my only family… Now Yewon has been added.”
Doha muttered like that, then smiled.
“Sleep well.”
Even after Doha left that greeting and went into his room.
Eon didn’t know to leave that spot for a long time.
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