Glitching the Catwalk: A Hacker's 14-Day Delivery

Pellio Daran just wants to deliver noodles, avoid eye contact, and survive. Once the digital underworld’s most feared architect, he is now hiding from the Gilded-Wire assassins who planted a ticking malware-bomb in his neural pacemaker. With exactly fourteen days left to live, he desperately needs access to the city’s most secure mainframe. Enter Liris Vondar, a rebellious fashion heiress whose snobby relatives mock her experimental tech-streetwear. When Pellio accidentally delivers industrial squid-ink to her pristine atelier and stubbornly refuses to leave without his four-credit tip, Liris forces the stammering courier to model her new cyber-jacket. Realizing her upcoming fashion gala is hosted directly above the mainframe he needs to hack, Pellio agrees to be her muse. As high-society elites and disguised hitmen converge on the runway, Pellio quietly face-slaps Liris's rivals by remotely bricking their smart-cars and making their designer smart-suits shrink mid-gala. But with the deadline counting down to single digits and his feelings for Liris growing, can the world's shyest hacker survive the spotlight without dying of embarrassment - or a neural wipe?