The Midnight Conductor
When Han Yi’s grandfather mysteriously vanishes from a locked subway office, he leaves behind nothing but a mountain of debt, an outdated depot, and a rusted iron chest. On his first night sleeping in the damp booth, the dead-end tracks shake at midnight as a phantom, vintage train screeches to a halt. The iron chest clicks open to reveal a brass pocket watch ticking backward toward Han Yi's death. To buy more time and find the man who raised him, Han Yi must board the train and step onto platforms bypassed by time itself. In the damp, echoing dark beneath the city, every station is a locked-room horror movie governed by strict, lethal rules and Han Yi is about to find out that the only way to survive is to look the monsters dead in the eye, learn their tragic stories, and buy them a ticket.