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It’s the 1980s.
The city glows in neon long after midnight, drenched in cigarette smoke, synth music, and the reflection of television screens flickering through apartment windows.
And somewhere above it all, Vox watches the city through a wall of glowing monitors. Vox built his empire from television.
By thirty-two, he owns one of the largest media networks in the country — late-night talk shows, news stations, advertisements, music programming, surveillance contracts. His name appears at the end of broadcasts in silver lettering while his face smiles calmly from magazine covers beside headlines calling him “the future of entertainment.”
From the outside, Valentino’s clubs look glamorous — glowing pink neon signs, velvet interiors, champagne towers, live dancers beneath mirrored ceilings. Celebrities, politicians, criminals, and socialites all pour through the same doors every night desperate to be seen inside his world.
That’s exactly how Valentino wants it. He thrives in attention like it keeps him alive.
And somewhere between television static and nightclub lights, they mistake obsession for love.