Gilded Cages and Gunfire

Bozkar spent three exhausting years playing the perfect, gentle, and fiercely supportive boyfriend to Neyza. In reality, the world-weary syndicate survivor was weaving a web of lies to destroy her father - the ruthless political rival who ordered the massacre of Bozkar’s people. The trap springs flawlessly at the glittering Zenith Gala: in a brutal public humiliation, Bozkar exposes Neyza and hands her to the city's police with perfectly forged evidence of terrorism. Victory is his, but it tastes like ash. His hollow triumph shatters when he discovers the horrifying truth: her father wasn't a tyrant, but a tragic hero who purged Bozkar's syndicate to stop a world-ending cognitive plague. Worse, that same plague has just breached the subterranean supermax prison where Neyza is trapped. Told in a fast-paced, close third-person perspective, this isn't a story about romance - it's a frantic, bullet-riddled race for survival. Liquidating his massive underworld fortune to buy his way into the collapsing quarantine zone, Bozkar will grovel through blood and rubble just to see her smile one last time. With his loyal best friend harboring a deadly secret and automated incinerators activating, can a sarcastic traitor save the innocent woman he doomed?