Before The Last Train Home

At twenty-two, a quiet convenience store worker from Putrajaya spends most of his nights surrounded by fluorescent lights, half-finished conversations, and thoughts he never says out loud. His life moves in repetition - late shifts, unread messages, rainy evenings, and music playing through one side of his earphones while the world keeps moving without him.
People think he's calm.
They don't see the overthinking, the attachment he hides, or how deeply silence can affect him.
When an unexpected opportunity brings him to Tokyo, the city feels nothing like the life he left behind. Tokyo is louder, colder, faster - filled with crowded train stations, neon reflections on wet streets, and strangers who avoid eye contact as if everyone is carrying a private loneliness of their own.

Caught between homesickness, emotional exhaustion, and memories he still hasn't escaped, he slowly forms connections with people who begin changing the way he sees himself - including a girl who feels impossible to fully understand.
Some nights, they talk for hours.

Other nights, her replies become shorter.
And somehow, the silence between messages begins hurting more than distance itself.
As life moves between Malaysia and Japan, the story explores loneliness, emotional attachment, late-night overthinking, quiet love, and the painful uncertainty of not knowing whether someone is slowly becoming part of your future... or fading into your past.

Between Putrajaya & Tokyo is a slow-burn psychological romance about modern loneliness, human connection, and the invisible emotions people carry through ordinary days.