There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 97

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Episode 97

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A few days later, Studio Geumyeolsoe Building, Meeting Room.

“…What?! You met Doha and Yewon?!”

Hwang PD asked back in surprise to Taejung.

He had been building a friendship with him for over ten years now, but this was the first time he’d heard such surprising news.

“I met them for the first time recently.”

“Then… did you completely reconcile…?”

That stubborn Lee Doha, he never thought he would actually forgive Taejung.

Hwang PD asked with bewildered eyes.

“…I haven’t been completely forgiven yet. I just got a chance to ask for forgiveness.”

I see.

Well, the emotional rift seemed unusually deep. Such wounds can’t be healed quickly.

Hwang PD nodded his head.

“So… could you help me get forgiven?”

“Of course. I mean… you’ve helped me a lot too, Director. I’d be happy to.”

Hwang PD readily accepted. When casting actors for his programs, he had received a lot of help from Taejung’s connections.

Even actors who had flatly refused his casting offers would all open their hearts with just one call from Taejung.

The trust and prestige that Director Yeon Taejung held in the industry was truly remarkable.

Since he was an actor and director respected by everyone, Hwang PD had secretly hoped he would be forgiven by his son someday. Now that things were working out so well, Hwang PD himself was even happier.

“But what kind of favor are you asking of me?”

“It’s nothing major… I have a drama I’m trying to produce right now… Oh, a different junior will direct it. I’m only going to produce.”

“Ah, yes. You’ve been looking for a good script for a long time. That’s great. What genre is it?”

“…Romantic comedy… apparently.”

Taejung said with an embarrassed face.

“What?! Wow, it’s been really long since you invested in a rom-com, hasn’t it Director?”

“…That’s how it turned out.”

“Wow. The script must have turned out really amazing.”

“But that drama needs a child actor.”

“!”

At the mention of ‘child actor,’ a smile appeared on Hwang PD’s lips.

Aha.

I wondered where Doha’s doting genes came from. So this was the source.

“Ah, yes. I happen to know a very good child actor. She acts well and is very kind and mature. May I dare to recommend her?”

Hwang PD said slyly, suppressing his urge to giggle openly.

“…Ahem. I’d be grateful if you would. But as you know, I-“

“Yes, yes. Except for very special cases, you audition all newcomers before casting them, Director. I know that too. Then may I recommend her for the audition?”

“Ahem… I think that would be fair. I don’t want to hear that the child actor received special treatment.”

Taejung kept clearing his throat, probably embarrassed even by his own standards.

He had never made such a request to anyone before, so it was really unfamiliar.

“Of course, of course. I understand your feelings well. Then Director, may I make a request now?”

“Please feel free to do so.”

“We’d like to film that audition process. Very detailed, thoroughly. As a public audition.”

“!”

Hwang PD grinned.

He had absolutely no intention of missing the opportunity to film this interesting scene.

What a stroke of luck.

Content rolling in on its own with the whole vine attached!

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Sound effect: Cheerful music

Subtitle: What? This cheerful BGM that doesn’t match 【Glittering Baby House】?

[Eon: Hey, Hanwon. The balloon is all limp. Aren’t you blowing it properly?]

[Weon: Then you blow some, you brat!! You’ve been just watching without lifting a finger!!]

[Eon: Don’t you know ‘leader’? ‘Leader’? Someone has to take the role of giving orders.]

Subtitle: ? Don’t you guys have a separate leader?

[Doha: ….]

[Weon: We’re only four people!! What leader!!! Hurry up and blow too, Ian!!]

Subtitle: Fighting from the start

Subtitle: I wondered why it started so cheerfully…

[Doha: …I’ll blow them. Hanwon, you stick them on the window.]

[Weon: Really?! Is that okay?! Well, you’re the main vocal, so you’d have the best lung capacity here!!]

[Doha: ….]

Subtitle: Doha seems to have come to his senses

Subtitle: But what are they sticking up…?

[Eon: Hey. Hanwon. If it’s HAPPY BIRTHDAY, it’s HAPPY BIRTHDAY, but what’s HAPPY DAY?]

[Weon: Every day we spend with our Yewon is a happy day~ That’s what it means!! It’s not like we’re only happy on birthdays!!]

Subtitle: Strangely persuasive

[Eon: ….]

Subtitle: Eon seems strangely convinced too

[Eon: Then where did you put BIRTH?]

[Weon: I hid that in my room to reuse for your birthday.]

[Eon: (saying harsh words with his eyes)]

[Doha: …I blew them all and stuck them all up. Just bring the presents.]

Subtitle: The real leader’s sorrow

Subtitle: But anyway.

Subtitle: What occasion is this for a party and even presents…?

Subtitle: Starting now.

【Glittering Baby House】

[Eon: This is 【Yewon’s Non-Birthday Birthday Party】 that I planned.]

Subtitle: …?

[Weon: I planned this!!! No, Ian is really shameless!!! I don’t know why he keeps stealing other people’s ideas!!]

Subtitle: That doesn’t seem like the important thing right now

Subtitle: Please explain what a non-birthday birthday party is first…

[Doha: Actually, Yewon’s birthday is January 11th, so it already passed. All the members felt sorry about it. Every birthday only comes once, but we couldn’t celebrate it together.]

[Eon: Actually, it would have been better if we were there for all her birthdays from age 1 to 7, but since we couldn’t, we wanted to celebrate all the past birthdays together now.]

[Weon: The more you celebrate, the better!! The more parties you have, the better!! Presents are totally the more the merrier!!! So it’s killing three birds with one stone!! Haha.]

Production Team: You’re the only one who seems to have complaints?

[Yeonho: …I’m the type who doesn’t celebrate birthdays at all.]

[Yeonho: And don’t you think only I find this strange…? ‘Non-birthday birthday party’…? If you want to throw a party for the child… you could just do it under the name of a welcome party or something…]

Subtitle: That’s a fair point

[Yeonho: It’s not that I’m complaining. I agree with throwing a party for the kid too.]

Subtitle: Boo hoo

Subtitle: Boo hoo, a mean adult who doesn’t even like celebrating children’s birthdays actually exists

[Weon: Yeonho hyung? Oh, that hyung is really terrible. Do you know what he gave me as a birthday present on my last birthday?! He gave me a towel!!]

Subtitle: Huh? That’s more normal than expected…

[Weon: You just thought it wasn’t as bad as expected, didn’t you!?!? I thought so too at first. Until right before I unfolded that towel!!]

[Weon: Look!!! See what’s written here!!]

Subtitle: 【First Birthday♡ Seo Jia 20XX. XX. XX】

Subtitle: Hahahahahaha

[Weon: He brought a return gift from his cousin’s nephew’s first birthday party as my birthday present?!!? Can you believe this?!!? I bought him a really expensive sports watch for his birthday present!! And do you know what he said after that?!!?]

Subtitle: What did he say…?

[Yeonho: …Wouldn’t towels be practical?]

Subtitle: Ah, this one’s impossible to defend

[Weon: That’s just how that hyung is. The funny thing is, he’s not being cheap because he’s stingy. When I went abroad, he suddenly wired ten million won to my account saying ‘You could die if you drop cash on foreign streets.’ He just casually sent it like he was giving pocket money to his little brother!]

[Weon: That’s the kind of person he is. Really someone you can’t understand with a normal person’s thought process.]

Production Team: What kind of person is Uncle Yeonho from Yewon’s perspective?

[Yewon: Hmm.]

[Yewon: When I first saw him, he was sooo big that he was a little scary.]

Subtitle: He’s scary to us too, Yewon… (even now)

[Yewon: But living together, he’s really really kind and a good uncle!]

Production Team: Really? The other uncles say Uncle Yeonho is too blunt, that they can’t tell what he’s thinking. You don’t feel that way?

[Yewon: Huh?]

[Yewon: Sometimes he doesn’t talk much. But I can tell what he’s thinking!]

Production Team: Wow.

Production Team: Then what do you think Uncle Yeonho is thinking right now?]

At the production team’s question, Yewon glanced back.

In the distance, Yeonho was blankly watching the other members.

[Yewon: I think he’s watching over the uncles and worrying about them.]

Subtitle: !

[Yewon: While the other uncles are busy playing and chattering, the reason Uncle Yeonho doesn’t talk much is because he’s constantly constantly watching over the other uncles!]

She hadn’t realized it at first. She had just thought he was someone who didn’t talk much.

But.

‘…Lee Doha. Go apologize to Ian.’

‘Ian’s mad? What did I do wrong this time…?’

‘Instead of thinking about what you did wrong, just bow your head and apologize. That guy doesn’t need your excuses, he needs an apology.’

After every situation ended, watching him quietly go to the members and speak in his blunt way.

Yewon realized.

That Yeonho was just caring for the members in his own way.

However.

[Yewon: Sometimes when the other uncles fight or something, Uncle Yeonho remembers it well and later quietly says ‘What that guy said earlier didn’t mean that.’]

That he was hiding it because he didn’t like showing his feelings.

[Yewon: But since uncle seems to want to keep it secret, I’m also keeping it shh together.]

Yewon said that and laughed, “Hehe.”

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