Misdelivered to the Heiress
By @john1208
The story opens mid-brawl, with Baltasar Rivo violently defending a box of artisanal cream puffs from street thugs. As the city’s most feared underground hacker, he’s used to breaking firewalls, not breaking jaws. But after his billionaire grandfather caught him joyriding through the family’s mainframe, Baltasar was punished with a minimum-wage courier gig. Furious and bleeding, he storms into an opulent penthouse and shoves the battered pastries at the wrong door. Inside is Cosima Navarro, a notoriously spoiled heiress currently being humiliated by her aristocratic cousins. Too prickly to apologize for the intrusion, Baltasar instead uses his smartwatch to instantly brick the cousins' phones before walking out. This sparks a combative, hilarious obsession from the pampered socialite, who begins ordering daily deliveries just to bicker with the rude driver and feed his belligerent, backpack-dwelling pet iguana. But neither realizes a hidden countdown is ticking. Baltasar’s grandfather is secretly dying, leaving a silent 90-day time limit on his punishment. If Baltasar doesn't reclaim his empire in time, Cosima's ruthless relatives will launch a hostile takeover. Can a violently proud hacker learn to open his heart to a soft-hearted brat, or will his stubbornness cost them both everything?
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Filters, Frauds, and Fiancés
By @john1208
Told in close third person, this satirical drama follows Tashira Vandan - a proud, prickly genius alchemist currently trapped in the body of Firoza's most disgraced socialite. Forced to work as a mid-level employee at her own cosmetics company, she enters a strategic fake-engagement with her fiercely loyal CEO, Kaveh. Enter Laleh: the 'pure and innocent' junior colleague who assumes Tashira is just a bullying amateur. Laleh launches a covert social media campaign, posting ambiguously cropped photos of Kaveh’s coats and coffee cups to spark affair rumors. The tension peaks at Tashira and Kaveh’s lavish engagement gala. Laleh stages a masterful collapse, weeping and blaming Tashira’s 'cruelty' for exacerbating her terminal illness. Unfortunately for the junior colleague, Kaveh steps right over her sobbing form just to ask if Tashira got champagne on her dress. Unwilling to let the insult slide, Tashira hands the microphone to the city’s premier physician to evaluate Laleh on the spot. Will the manipulative junior colleague survive the social annihilation of having her 'tragic medical records' exposed as a downloaded stock image of a canine heart?
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The Out-of-Bounds Vengeance
By @john1208
Ghavir is the fifth lieutenant of the tyrant Ozarrak, a remarkably disposable henchman slated to die in chapter three of the world’s grand narrative. Unwilling to be cannon fodder, the prickly and proud lackey uses his newly awakened meta-knowledge to orchestrate a cold, clever revenge. During a somber state funeral, Ghavir exploits a monument’s collision mechanics to clip through a mausoleum wall, perfectly stealing the arrogant Hero’s legendary stat-reading spectacles. Unfortunately, the glitch triggers a catastrophic physics bug that instantly crushes the Hero under a flying sarcophagus. Now armed with the Spectacles of the True Axis, a cowardly homunculus sidekick, and a furious, unapproachable Saintess who mistakes his ruthless pragmatism for divine foresight, Ghavir is forced to sequence-break the main quest himself. He plans to use every obscure wall-clip and speedrun tactic to destroy his villainous boss. But as reality begins to warp around his cold exploits, Ghavir realizes he drastically misunderstood the game’s fundamental rules. The glitches aren't coding errors - they are the intended mechanics of a decaying cosmic horror. If his stolen stat-reading glasses have been lying to him this entire time, who is the real final boss?
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