The Town

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     After her Mother's promotion, Jieun's family moves into The Town - a private upper-class luxury neighborhood for the wealthy and the elite live. As Jieun struggles to adapt to her sudden rise in status, she notices that there is something strang about everyone in this town. Every woman and child in this town seems like a stepford wife, and every young person seems like a robot. It is just so strange and Jieun has her doubts, but there was no way that what she is thinking could be true.

Right?

 

 

 

 


Lee Jieun (18)
     An ordinary high school student who lived her entire life in a middle-class neighborhood, attending a middle-class high school and making middle-class friends. Everything about her life was middle-class and that was the only world she knew, until she moved into The Town where she realizes that there is more than just the middle-class life.

 

 

Kim Taehyung (18)
     A resident of The Town, and the youngest child of his family. Having moved into the town when he was 10 years old, his everyday life consists of going to school and back home. He never fit in with the kids in The Town as every kid that he made friends with in this town conformed in a strange way that almost made them inhuman. It was 8 years that he survived in this town, isolated.

 

 

Cha Eun-Woo (18)
     A resident of The Town, and often called the Model Child of the town. With a father who is a brain surgeon and a mother who is a lawyer, he has grown up from a strict household abiding to every rule set by his parents and the town. These rules and regulations have made him the most handsome, smart, polite, and athletic; he's the full package. He's so perfect that it looks almost strange- a true human couldn't possibly follow all those rules and live like a normal human being. 

 

 

 

Jennie Kim (18)
     A new resident of The town who moved in a few months earlier than Jieun. Her father left her when she was 7 after years of alcohol addiction. Growing up under a single mother, her life has not been smooth. After her mother landed the Chief position at an abortion clinic at The Town, she follows her mother to the new neighborhood and experiences the strange neighborhood where everyone is identical to each other. 

 

 

 

Lee Yoo-Ri (45)
     The Mayor of The Town and the town's brainficial cheerleader. A Professional businesswoman and a genetic engineer who once made it on the Forbes Korea front page as the most successful female of the year, she created The Town for upper-class people in South Korea. As the one holding the ultimate power over the town, there are certain secrets that she is keeping locked up behind the bars.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreword

 


   Everything was so strange about this town it sent a chill down Jieun's spine. 

     Every woman dressed so orderly and had the exact same smile on their faces. Every single woman had the same high-pitched voice that would say the same greetings each time they saw her. Their dresses were so color-coordinated that it reminded her of the pastel crayons in her art kit. What was more, they were so submissive to their husbands that it was hard to tell if they were wives or a robot. Inside each of their houses wasn't a single speck of dust - everything was aligned in such an orderly fashion that even a footstep would create a speck of dust. It was almost as if they were created to become the perfect housewife.

    The kids in this town were just as strange; girls co-ordinated in pastel plaid dresses or formal attire and the boys dressed to match the girls. At school, girls walked on the right side of the corridor while the boys walked on the left, their footsteps all synched as they walked in rhythm. What spooked Jieun the most was the fact that the only sound in the corridor was the sound of their footsteps pounding lightly on the floor. 

But on the opposite side of the corridor, Jieun saw a boy skating through the corridor with black hoodies and ripped jeans.

Her eyes followed him as he skated right past her, breaking the queue of girls walking to their classes.

 

 

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jieunjeon
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Chapter 2: Oh my gosh! This is so interesting and new! I really love it and I’m so glad you decided to share your work here, Author-nim! Been having a hard time looking for high quality fics about Jieun and I’m so glad that I’ve found this! Will look forward to your next update. Thank you so much!