He had downloaded it at 3:00 AM from a forum link that looked like it had been coded by a drunken sailor. The promise? “Gerçek zamanlı oranlar! Kesin kazanç! Ücretsiz!” (Real-time odds! Guaranteed profit! Free!)

Müjdat looked at Column D, which he had never noticed before. The title was tiny, written in white font on a white background: (Remaining Days).

In the flickering blue light of his cramped Istanbul apartment, forty-seven-year-old stared at the cursed object on his screen. It was a file named: “IDDAA_ORAN_EXCEL_TABLOSU_FREE.xlsx”