Meeting love, meeting happiness

Natalie works at a burger shop. Her mother and sister want to sell her virginity to an old man for ten thousand dollars. They fake an illness to lure her home. She walks straight into a trap—a stranger with cash on the table, her family blocking the door.

She met Sebastian earlier that day. He walked into the burger shop short on cash. The staff humiliated him and threw him out. Natalie paid for his meal from her own wages. He told her he doesn't like being in anyone's debt and offered to grant her one thing, whatever it is. She asked for nothing. If it's meant to be, they'll meet again.

They do. When her family sets their trap, she calls for help. Sebastian shows up, throws the man to the ground, and carries her out. He warns them: if they ever touch her again, they know what will happen.

Afterward, Natalie asks him to marry her. He's a lumberjack. He lives in the middle of nowhere. He thinks she'd be settling. She tells him she thinks he's a good person and believes they'd be happy together. He hesitates—would his true identity scare her?—then says living with a kind-hearted woman like her would indeed be a very happy life. They marry. He brings her to his cabin in the forest. She calls it her dream home. He gives her the key and goes to chop firewood. She follows to help.

Then her mother calls again, full of sweetness, inviting her to her sister's engagement party. They want to apologize, she says. Natalie doesn't believe it, but she agrees to go. Sebastian gives her a dress and a small pendant. He tells her it's just a little gift for good luck, something he got from a friend at a wholesale market. The pendant carries his family crest. On the way, the crew sees it and treats her like an honored guest.

The party is another trap. Her mother and sister are still trying to sell her—this time to a man in a wheelchair for twenty thousand. When Natalie resists, her sister's fiancé Henry turns on her. He wipes her lipstick on his own collar and announces that she tried to seduce him, her future brother-in-law. His mother cancels the engagement on the spot and demands the one-million-dollar betrothal gift back.

Natalie's mother beats her in front of the departing guests. She tells Natalie she nearly died giving birth to her, that Natalie was born to bring her pain, that she should have killed her at birth. Natalie, bleeding from the mouth, says if she'd had a choice she wouldn't have wanted a mother like this either. Her mother and sister drag her toward the ocean to throw her to the sharks. She closes her eyes.

Then a voice cuts through. Sebastian. He says he'd like to see who dares lay a hand on her.