There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 78
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Episode 78
“Wh-what is it?”
With his escape route blocked, Baek Yun answered hesitantly.
Yewon glanced around, then leaned close to his ear and whispered secretly.
“You know. You know we got an offer for a variety show, right? 【Real-Time Trends in Korea】.”
“Huh? Oh, yeah.”
That was right.
【Real-Time Trends in Korea】 was one of the hottest YouTube channels these days, a program that sent casting offers to everyone from celebrities to ordinary people who appeared in real-time trending search terms on SNS.
The YouTube concept was to do honest interviews lasting about 20 minutes with two famous comedian MCs.
Naturally, living up to its real-time trends title, it was getting tremendous response by uploading videos so quickly that someone who trended yesterday would appear in a video two days later.
‘In other words, it’s the perfect program for my current situation.’
However….
Baek Yun’s side kept declining, so Yewon was also being forced to decline along with him. After all, having just one child actor appear would be a bit weak in terms of buzz.
“I heard you rejected it. Let’s go on together.”
Yewon said firmly.
“Huh?”
At Yewon’s words, Baek Yun was visibly flustered.
“Why, why?”
“What do you mean why. I wanted to try going on that show. I like that YouTube channel! I watch it all the time.”
There was no better excuse than this for a 7-year-old.
Baek Yun seemed convinced by Yewon’s words, his eyes showing contemplation.
“…But….”
“But what?”
Right.
Let me hear why you rejected it.
When Yewon raised her eyebrows, Baek Yun hesitated, then—
“Th-that! They cast us as a couple!!”
He answered while squeezing his eyes shut.
“…?”
And.
Yewon looked at Baek Yun with the most incomprehensible expression in the world.
What’s wrong with that, dude….
We’re a couple in our drama….
“…What’s wrong with that…?”
When Yewon asked, hiding her bewilderment.
Baek Yun’s face turned bright red.
“Y-you and I aren’t. We’re not a c-couple.”
“We are though.”
We’re both protagonists in the drama and we are a couple, so why.
“Wh-what?!”
“I’m Seolhwa. You’re the Crown Prince, Iyeol. We’re a couple!”
“….”
At Yewon’s answer, for some reason Baek Yun closed his mouth with a very deflated expression.
“B-but still….”
“Baek Yun, you’re not a professional, are you?”
“!!!!”
At Yewon’s pointed remark, Baek Yun’s mouth fell open.
“Wh-wh-why am I not a professional?!”
“I’m ready to go anywhere for our drama. But Baek Yun is still a baby so he’s embarrassed, I guess.”
“I am not!!”
“You are though. Even now you don’t want to go on the most popular YouTube channel just because of the word ‘couple’!”
Yewon deliberately provoked Baek Yun.
With boys this age, sunshine policy and all that nonsense doesn’t work at all.
If sunshine doesn’t work.
You just need to blow the wind hard enough to make it work.
“Right now viewers like the young ‘Seolhwa and Crown Prince’ couple more. Everyone says you’re cute. They say you’re cute because you’re so stern. Do you know how big a weapon being cute is for a child actor?”
“Uh… I do know but….”
Baek Yun was confused.
People think you, not me… Lee Yewon, are cuter though…?
Something’s strange….
“So you need to go out there and show your cuteness to the whole world! Everyone in this world needs to know how cute you are.”
Yewon clenched her fist and spoke passionately.
‘Of course.’
While I’m at it, I’ll ride on your buzz a little too.
‘Anyway, the Quest wasn’t to get 1st place in buzz.’
It said I just need to get in the top 10, so if I maximize Baek Yun’s buzz, I’ll become a hot topic alongside him.
Ah.
What a great strategy, mm-hmm.
Emphasizing the rising Baek Yun’s cuteness (and riding along) to monopolize the buzz.
“How about it? You want to become popular too, right? So let’s go on together. I’ll help make you shine even more from beside you!”
Yewon extended her hand to Baek Yun with confident eyes.
It was a perfect proposal. A proposal no one could refuse.
But.
“…Huh?”
Baek Yun’s reaction was strange.
Instead of immediately saying “Great!”, Baek Yun’s face began to slowly turn red.
Baek Yun, red to the tips of his ears, fidgeted and avoided Yewon’s eyes.
‘What? Why is he acting like that?’
While Yewon tilted her head in confusion, completely different circuits were running in Baek Yun’s mind.
‘I-I’m cute? My cuteness should be known to the whole world? Wh-who is she to talk about my cuteness?’
Baek Yun gulped.
No matter how professional he was in his second year of debut, he was just a 7-year-old boy.
Actually.
The moment Baek Yun first saw Yewon at the script reading.
He was truly flustered.
It wasn’t a person but some kind of angel sitting across from him!
It was surprising enough that the angel was human, but when Baek Yun learned she was even his co-star, he really broke out in cold sweat.
‘How do I act with an angel…?’
That was right.
From that day, spring breezes began to blow gently in 7-year-old Baek Yun’s heart.
The only problem was.
Being 7 years old, Baek Yun never thought this was an emotion called love, and only knew that seeing Yewon made everything go white before his eyes and he couldn’t think straight, so he just avoided her blindly.
But then.
That prettiest angel in the world (at least that’s how she looked to Baek Yun) suddenly approached him and strongly insisted that he was incredibly cute and his cuteness should be known to the whole world?
Even as a ‘couple’?
Anyone could see this was….
‘Sh-she must like me…!’
Baek Yun’s heart began to pound.
He looked at Yewon with a deliberately stern expression—but his lips were twitching so much he didn’t know what to do with himself.
“Fine. Well….”
“Huh?”
“If you really want it that much… I’ll go out with you.”
“Really?!”
Yewon smiled brightly.
“Thank you, Baek Yun! I knew you’d understand!”
Yewon grabbed Baek Yun’s hand tightly in joy.
“Let’s go out there and show them how well we’re doing!”
“…!!!”
At Yewon’s touch, Baek Yun froze like ice.
‘Sh-show them? To the entire nation? How well we get along?’
Of course, Yewon had never said that.
‘Doing well’ was actually short for ‘acting well.’
Of course, that was from Yewon’s perspective.
To Baek Yun, who had already started misunderstanding, it definitely didn’t sound that way.
Baek Yun answered with a trembling voice.
“Y-yeah… I understand…”
“Great! See you later then!”
Yewon turned around happily, humming with the joy of achieving her goal.
‘Done. He took the bait.’
Business partner recruitment complete.
And.
Baek Yun, left behind, clutched his heart and staggered.
‘What do I do…?!’
Baek Yun covered his cheeks with both hands and muttered seriously.
‘Do, do we have to get married?’
A bright 7-year-old.
The biggest and sweetest misunderstanding of a child’s life, who thought dating meant marriage, was beginning.
* * *
Strike while the iron is hot – the YouTube filming took place immediately the next day.
“Now, here are the people who have been making aunties and uncles all over South Korea’s hearts flutter! Same-age perfect chemistry! The youngest romantic comedy masters!”
“That’s right. Our little couple who magnificently pulled off historical drama acting that even adults would find difficult, becoming the talk of the town. Oh, even I get butterflies watching them.”
“Real-time trending in Korea! We have Yewon and Baek Yun with us! Welcome!”
With the staff’s applause, Yewon and Baek Yun walked into the center of the studio.
Yewon was thorough from the entrance. She casually took Baek Yun’s hand as he stood beside her.
Since they had decided to show same-age couple chemistry, this level of skinship was really the most basic of basics.
‘We held hands hundreds of times during filming.’
Yewon didn’t think much of it.
The drama fans would find this kind of thing cute.
But.
‘…!!!’
The moment Yewon’s hand touched his, Baek Yun froze as if he’d turned to ice.
He remembered what Auntie Codi had said while fixing his hair in the waiting room before entering.
‘Oh my, Baek Yun. Wearing couple outfits with Yewon today, you really look like a little groom?’
Little… groom? Me?
Then… the… bride is…
Baek Yun glanced sideways.
Yewon in her white dress looked like an angel to anyone.
And that angel was holding my hand right now.
That means…
‘!!!!’
Baek Yun’s face alternated between turning pale and bright red.
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Mara55
Poor Baek Yun those uncles are not going to let this go. Imagine if he actually tries to ask for her hand in marriage. He might have to retire from the industry.