[Breaking News] Train Derails Due to Speeding… Two Dead
Helen, daughter of Engineer O’Brien.
After the accident her father caused, her standing in the village plummets.
Her fiancé, Jack, and his mother treat Helen with cold contempt.
Yet Helen had no choice but to beg for that marriage.
It was, after all, the only track laid out for her life.
But with Jack’s promotion and the wedding on the horizon, that very track begins to waver.
[In accordance with the small-scale railway station downsizing policy, we hereby announce the closure of Sunny Hill Station.
—Marcus Transport—]
Is this truly a tragedy—or a new hope?
Before the bewildered Helen appears a strange traveler, Ford.
“I came here because I am curious about Helen O’Brien.”
His courteous solace and warm fondness
ultimately transform into a trembling breath and a searing thirst.
“I will be your path, Helen.”
Helen strives to push him away, yet her heart helplessly turns toward him.
“Are you now ready to transfer to me?”
On the night she finally chooses a new track, he whispers:
“Daughter of a murderer. Helen O’Brien.”
And that this transfer comes at a price.
* * *
“Isn’t our relationship settled? Your… your revenge is already over.”
“Over?”
He let out a scoffing laugh as he looked down at her.
“Did you honestly think that sleeping with you just once would quell my fury?”
He pressed his finger firmly against Helen’s chest.
“If you believe your body carries that high a price, you are sorely mistaken.”
At the insult, Helen bit her lip.
“Then what am I supposed to do?”
“Don’t they say that even specks of dust amass into a mountain?”
His finger slowly traced down her body.
It came to a stop just above her sternum.
“That speck—I’m thinking of buying it.”
