I failed the bomb disposal mission, and my wife, also a bomb disposal expert, snatched the only blast shield from my hands and gave it to her first love. I grabbed my wife’s hand and begged pitifully. She shook me off with a jerk. “You’re so selfish! You have a system that can revive you, what do you need the blast shield for?” “Jack’s body is already weak and can’t withstand any impact. Two blast shields are the safest option!” But she didn’t know that the system had only given me two chances to revive. One chance I used up, unable to resist her pleas to save her first love. The other I used last year on a mission to save her when she was on the brink of death. Today, I was truly going to die. After the bomb exploded, the entire room became an inferno, with towering flames instantly engulfing my body. The last image before my eyes was of my wife, Rachel, using the blast shield that originally belonged to me to protect her first love, Jack. When I regained consciousness, I found myself in a spirit form, following Rachel. At that moment, she was tenderly blowing on Jack’s hand, which had been slightly singed by the flames, her face full of concern. “Jack, your hand is all red. Let’s go to the hospital quickly to get it bandaged.” Hearing this, my heart felt as if it had been soaked in vinegar, unbearably sour. Anyone who saw this scene would comment on the deep affection between the two. But this woman was my wife of three years. She had never shown such a concerned expression for me. The redness on Jack’s palm was barely visible unless you looked closely, yet Rachel was so worried. When I was engulfed in flames, she didn’t even spare me a glance. Jack looked scared. “Rachel, it’s just a small injury, nothing serious. It’s a good thing you were there, or I would have been seriously hurt for sure.” Rachel still looked tense: “Who says it’s a small injury? What if there’s some internal damage? I won’t be at ease until a doctor checks it out.” With that, she immediately took Jack’s hand and walked towards the exit, her usually calm face full of anxiety. Before getting into the car, Emily, a colleague from the same team, stopped her with a frown: “Luke is still at the scene and hasn’t come out. The bomb just exploded, could something have happened to him?” Hearing my name, Rachel’s expression instantly turned to disgust, her face full of impatience. “What could happen? That selfish bastard values his life too much, he’s probably hiding somewhere.” “Get out of the way quickly, Jack needs to go to the hospital, we can’t delay.” From leaving the explosion site until now, Rachel hadn’t mentioned me once, hadn’t shown any concern for my safety. Even when someone else worried that something might have happened to me, she had to belittle me. I must be quite a failure as a husband in her heart. Rachel pushed Emily aside and got into the car with Jack, heading straight to the hospital, ignoring Emily’s calls behind them. At the hospital, after the examination, Jack hadn’t suffered any injuries, just a small red mark on his hand where the flame had singed it. Rachel, however, acted as if it was a major crisis, insisting that the doctor must bandage it well. Jack looked at her with emotion: “Rachel, you’re still so good to me.” Then he hesitated before speaking again: “Without a blast shield, will Luke be alright? After all, he came to save me. I’ll feel guilty if something happens to him.” Rachel waved her hand, her words showing no concern at all. “Luke has a system, he won’t die. Your body is already not good, you can’t take any injury.” “He even tried to keep the blast shield earlier, saying he would die this time. He’s so selfish. He clearly has a system that can save him, yet he tried to trick me. I think he just can’t stand seeing me being good to you. When he comes back, I’m going to have a big fight with him for sure.” By the end, Rachel was full of anger, as if I had committed some terrible crime. But I just wanted to live. I hadn’t lied to her either. The system had only given me two chances to revive, and I had already used them up.
I was a task executor who had crossed over to this world, and my mission was to make Rachel marry me. The year I met Rachel, she was, like me, a newly recruited bomb disposal officer in the police force. At that time, her first love Jack had broken up with her abruptly to go abroad, leaving Rachel in a daze every day. It was I who stayed by her side constantly, helping her out of the gloom. Three years later, we naturally became husband and wife, and my mission was successfully completed. The system gave me a reward: I could stay in this world and had two chances to revive. At that time, I had also truly fallen in love with Rachel. I believed that the most important thing between husband and wife was honesty, so I told her about the system without reservation. I even jokingly said, “No matter what, I won’t die. I can stay with you until we’re old.” But I never thought that this sentence would become my death warrant. Shortly after we got married, Jack returned from abroad. Jack only shed a few tears in front of Rachel, explaining that going abroad was entirely his parents’ wish, which he couldn’t disobey. Rachel believed him without hesitation. She seemed to forget the pain Jack had caused her back then and started following him around, caring for his every need. She even begged me to use the system to save Jack when he was in a life-threatening car accident. When I saw Rachel crying her eyes out, I couldn’t say I wasn’t heartbroken. How could I not be sad and angry when my wife was shedding tears for another man? But I loved Rachel deeply, and I couldn’t refuse her request. So, the first chance to revive was used up. Last year, after Rachel had finished defusing a bomb and was about to return to the team, she was shot by a criminal who had fought back, right in the heart. When Rachel was sent to the hospital, the doctor took one look and issued a death notice. I couldn’t accept Rachel leaving me, so I resolutely gave her my last chance. Before reviving Rachel, the system had repeatedly asked me if I was sure, as this was the last chance. Wouldn’t I regret it? I answered firmly: “I won’t regret it.” The system agreed, and after that, it never appeared again. At that time, I thought Rachel’s feelings for Jack were just an obsession, and that with time, she would naturally come to her senses and return to our family. And I firmly believed that I could grow old with Rachel. But now, the cruel reality had given me a harsh wake-up call. It turned out that Rachel had always only loved Jack. And I was just deluding myself.
Jack looked at Rachel, seeming to want to say something but holding back. Rachel tapped his forehead, her tone intimate: “Jack, what is it that you can’t tell me?” Jack clenched his fist, as if making up his mind to speak. “Rachel, Luke has always been the ace bomb disposal expert in your team, and with you assisting this time, how could the bomb explode? Could it be that…” Jack didn’t continue, but left room for endless imagination. A raging fire of anger surged in my heart, my hands clenched into fists, wishing I could rush forward and give him a couple of punches. I was already dead, yet he still wouldn’t let me go, trying to poison Rachel against me. As a police officer, I knew my responsibilities and never brought personal emotions into work. Although I already knew Rachel didn’t love me, I thought that after working together for six years, she should understand my character. The next second, Rachel’s words shattered my illusions. “I was wondering why the bomb suddenly exploded when we were defusing it so well. It must be that lunatic Luke deliberately trying to harm you. I’m going to report him to the police force. He doesn’t deserve to be a police officer!” Rachel’s face was red with anger. I had no doubt that if I appeared in front of her now, she would definitely slap me and then curse me viciously. At this moment, my heart was filled with bitterness. Had I overestimated my image in Rachel’s heart, or was Jack so important to her that she would believe whatever he said? Probably both. Six years of being together couldn’t buy even a little trust from her. Now, I was probably just a despicable villain in her heart. But I still remembered what she had said at our wedding, “You’re not just my husband, but also my comrade-in-arms whom I’ll trust for a lifetime.” Now, it only took a light remark from Jack for her to forget her past promises. I suddenly wanted to know, when she learns of my death, will she regret the words she said today? Rachel paced back and forth in the room, unable to vent her anger. She took out her phone and sent me messages. “Luke, how dare you tamper with the bomb, I’ll make you pay for this!” “Don’t think I don’t know you can’t die, reply to me right now.” Rachel stared at her phone intently, but after one minute, two minutes passed, there was still no reply. In the past, I would always reply to her messages within ten seconds. Rachel’s chest heaved up and down with anger. “Fine, pretend to be dead then. Don’t think I can’t do anything about you.” She called a colleague who had stayed at the scene, not even waiting for the other end to speak before she shouted angrily: “Tell Luke I know all about his dirty tricks, he’d better be prepared to face disciplinary action!” An anxious voice came from the other end of the phone: “Luke hasn’t come out yet, the fire hasn’t been put out and we can’t get in. He might really be in trouble.” Rachel sneered, her tone icy cold. “He won’t die. I think he’s just hiding because he’s afraid of being held accountable. You tell him this trick won’t work. He almost killed Jack, I will definitely get to the bottom of this!” With that, she angrily hung up the phone, still cursing under her breath. A flash of smugness passed through Jack’s eyes, but he pretended to be magnanimous. “Rachel, it’s normal for men to be jealous. Luke was probably just momentarily confused. Let it go.” But Rachel glared at him with a stern face. “How can we let it go! Your body hasn’t been good since the car accident, and this time if it weren’t for the blast shield, your life could have been in danger. We can’t let him off easily!” Jack hugged Rachel emotionally, the two looking like a couple who had survived a disaster together.
After leaving the hospital, Rachel took Jack directly home, using the excuse that he was injured and couldn’t manage daily life conveniently. As soon as they entered, Jack took out slippers in a familiar manner, and even accurately found the location of the remote control to turn on the TV. This series of familiar actions all demonstrated that Rachel had brought him to our home many times before. Rachel went to the kitchen and started cooking, muttering about what Jack liked to eat. Jack looked at her tenderly. “Rachel, it’s been so long since I’ve tasted your cooking.” In our three years of marriage, Rachel had never cooked. She said she didn’t know how. I didn’t mind and took over all the cooking and other household chores. Now it seems, she just didn’t cook for me. During dinner, Rachel’s phone suddenly rang, with a suppressed crying voice coming through. “You need to come quickly, Luke… he’s dead.” Rachel rolled her eyes, not believing a word. “Emily, I know you’re close to Luke, but there’s no need to use such a clumsy excuse to trick me. He can’t die.” Emily didn’t expect her to respond like this. She paused, then cried even louder. “I’m really not lying, Luke…” Before Emily could finish, Rachel hung up the phone. “Luke is really going too far, trying to use such a lie to make us forgive him. Ha, absolutely not!” “Even if something happened to him, he has the system to save him. How could he possibly die?” Jack chimed in: “He’s probably just jealous. Men understand men, Rachel, don’t be too angry.” Hearing this, Rachel slammed down her chopsticks, looking even more angry. “If he doesn’t apologize to you properly when he comes back, I’ll divorce him!” My heart felt like it was stuffed with a wad of cotton, unable to breathe. When I begged her not to take away the blast shield, I had already told her that I only had two chances to revive. But she didn’t believe me at all, thinking I was just being jealous. Even now when someone told her about my death, she thought it was my lie, and even wanted to use divorce to threaten me. But this trick would never work again. After dinner, Jack directly lay down on the bed that belonged to Rachel and me. The temperature in the room was rising, and the two of them were getting closer and closer. I desperately wanted to escape from here, but a force confined me to the room, unable to leave. Just as they were about to kiss, Rachel suddenly sat up. She tugged at the corner of her mouth: “Jack, your hand is injured, you should focus on recovering.” With that, she fled to the next bedroom. I couldn’t quite understand. Wasn’t this what Rachel wanted? Early the next morning, Rachel prepared a table full of breakfast and left a note with detailed instructions and reminders before she felt at ease to leave for work. At the police station, Rachel found everyone staring at her with sympathetic gazes. She didn’t understand and casually asked a colleague why they were staring at her like that. The colleague was about to speak when the chief suddenly called Rachel over. Rachel felt a bit puzzled: “Chief, what’s going on?” The chief patted her shoulder and led her to the door of the morgue. “Rachel, my condolences.” Rachel felt a bit panicked but suppressed the unease in her heart. “Chief, what are you talking about? Everyone in my family is fine, what condolences?” The chief sighed: “After the bomb exploded yesterday, Luke didn’t manage to escape successfully. He died at the scene. His body is inside.” Rachel smiled stiffly: “Chief, don’t joke with me. That explosion was Luke’s own doing, he couldn’t possibly die. He must be hiding because he’s afraid of being held accountable.” The chief’s expression became serious when he heard Rachel slandering me. “Rachel! Luke is your husband and a police officer. How can you question his professional ethics!” “The body in the morgue is indeed his. We’ve already verified the DNA. If you don’t believe it, go see for yourself.” Rachel swallowed hard, hesitantly walking forward, still not backing down. “I’ll look then. It must be a fake body up there. Luke must have used some trick to escape.” Rachel’s hand hovered over the white cloth, her trembling hands revealing her unsettled heart. She slowly lifted the white cloth…
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