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I couldn't believe it at first, but then it started making sense to me.

Jae Un said she was a family member of someone very popular. Like a KPOP Idol. Like Yugyeom. Did he know about this?

Is that why he liked my picture? Is that why he DMed me? I was very confused. I ran my fingers through my hair while I was thinking.

I still have Jae Un's number. So should I text her?

yena
could your nephew, possibly be Kim Yugyeom?
Seen

Maybe she doesn't know how to answer. I waited for her answer, but nothing. I plopped on my bed, because I was kind of tired, and I didn't know the reason why.

I picked up my book and started reading it.
It's called, Ivy Gates by chimchimicorn .

It was the year 2500. The world is not what it used to be. One hundred and fifty years previous there was an enormous nuclear explosion that set off a chain reaction; exploding various power plants all over the world.

As everyone slowly began to die of the poison in the air, the animals began to mutate, adapting to the new atmosphere. They grew bigger, stronger, more aggressive. They changed into creatures that looked more like aliens than wildlife. They attacked the cities and the towns. Anywhere that there were people, they attacked, until it wasn't just the poison that was making the human species decline.

The top scientists created a vaccine that was supposed to make human beings immune to the effects of the radiation. It took them only a few weeks, and they didn't have time to do many tests.

But it worked.

Until the women began to have reactions to the deug. The population of women to men ratio dropped from almost 50:50 to 25:50. And  then even further to 10:50.

The scientists reworked the drug until it was safe for every man, woman, child and animal to use. The population once again began to grow, despite the buildings and the world around the human species collapsing. But by then, it was too late.

Women were so rare that the men decided to round them up; keep them locked up to keep them safe from crime, or dangerous, desperate men.

Over time, the simple act of keeping women inside to protect them warped and changed, until society was a completely different thing compared to how it was previously. The women had grown in numbers, but still not enough to equal the amount of men.

And women were no longer free. During the process of protecting them, they had been given rules they had gradually grown more enforced and restricted over time. They were used as slaves to the men; they were their property to use as they would.

Once born, a females fate was already sealed. While boys were taken from their mothers and raised separately; being schooled and taught how to fight, girls were taught by their mothers how to act respectfully and how to live in the world under the rule of their master. Once they were of age, by law they were to be tKen by the government and placed in an auction for whoever wanted to buy them. The only saving grace they had was that they were not allowed to be touched sexually by a man until they were bought legally; but this was only to ensure that any offspring would come from a strong body and would survive.

A womens job was to serve in any way told, and to produce healthy children. And woman that disobeyed, would be punished severly.

Prologue of Ivy Gates | PJM

Previously, "Woman 1216"

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