Adrian clicked the link, and the page loaded almost immediately, filling the MacBook's screen with a clean interface that looked nothing like the dark, chaotic hacker forum he had imagined.“What the fuck?” Adrian's eyebrows rose slowly as he was genuinely caught off guard because HackersDen looked far more professional than he was expected.Before opening the site, Adrian had pictured something hidden somewhere deep on the internet, perhaps a poorly designed forum buried behind layers of privacy tools, filled with anonymous criminals trading stolen data, malicious software, hacked accounts, and other illegal services while trying to avoid getting caught.He was expecting black backgrounds covered with green text, flashing warning signs, ridiculous skull graphics, and a collection of obviously shady advertisements.Instead, the homepage looked polished. It was clean, modern, and well organized.The interface resembled a strange combination of a professional networking platform, a freel

As Adrian scrolled through the contract marketplace, he barely paid attention to most of the descriptions because his eyes were primarily searching for one thing: the reward.He had already learned that small contracts could bring in several thousand dollars within an hour, and now that he understood the scale of money moving through HackersDen, his standards had changed dramatically.After a few minutes of scrolling, his finger stopped on a contract.Client: FxxkBFProject: Delete VideoReward: $5,000,000Deadline: AnytimeFailed Attempts: 6728 Hackers“What the fuck? Five million dollars?” His eyes widened.He blinked twice when he saw the 6,728 failed attempts.He clicked open the contract and read the details.FxxkBF: Before my wedding, I organized a bachelorette party, and while I was drunk, I made a terrible mistake and slept with my best friend. He secretly recorded the encounter without my knowledge. When I refused to meet his demands afterward, he uploaded the video to the int

“I could give you a twenty-minute explanation, but honestly, you would probably still think I was lying. So take a look.” Adrian opened his bank app and showed her the transaction.“WHAAAAAAAAAT?!” She screamed like she had seen a ghost.“Keep your voice down! Jesus, what happened to you?” Adrian immediately pulled the phone slightly away from her and glanced toward the hallway, worried that the neighbors might hear her because there was no way anyone could scream that loudly without attracting attention.Maria barely seemed to hear him because her eyes remained locked on the screen.“F—Five million dollars?” Her mouth remained open in shock as she looked from the transaction to Adrian and then back to the phone, clearly unable to understand how the same man who had been worrying about rent only a few days ago could suddenly have received a five-million-dollar payment.Adrian calmly put the phone back into his pocket.“Told you. Alright, I’m going for a shopping trip with my friend, so

Over the next hour, Rebecca tried several different outfits while Adrian gave her his opinions, sometimes sincerely and sometimes with a little teasing simply because he enjoyed watching the way she reacted to him.He quickly discovered that she was much more willing to trust his judgment than he had expected, even when he admitted that he knew almost nothing about women's fashion, and whenever he gave an unexpectedly good opinion, she would look at him with that amused little smile that made him feel like he had somehow passed another test without realizing there was one.Eventually, Rebecca picked several dresses, coats, tops, shoes, and a few other pieces, and when she reached for her own phone to pay, Adrian stopped her.“I've got this.”“You do not have to pay for my clothes.” Rebecca looked at him.“Oh. I thought those were for me.” Adrian raised his iPhone with a completely straight face.“You are very stubborn.” Rebecca stared at him for a second before realizing he was joking.

The sales associate noticed Adrian's expression and smiled.“This is the Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked in black ceramic, 41 millimeters. The openworked movement allows you to see the architecture of the caliber from both sides, and the double balance wheel system is one of the defining technical features of the model.”Adrian listened, but his attention remained fixed on the watch. He was never interested in watches before. To him, a watch had always been nothing more than something that told time, something practical that sat on your wrist and did its job.But this was different. This looked like a miniature machine built by someone who had decided that even the inside of a mechanical object deserved to be beautiful, with every tiny component exposed and arranged so precisely that the movement itself had become part of the design.“Would you like to try it on?” The associate gave a professional smile.“Absolutely.”The associate carefully placed the watch around Adrian's w