Chapter 1

The Mayor’s son was being held hostage. My sniper rifle was set, just waiting for the order to fire.

But right at that critical moment, my husband, the team captain, suddenly called a halt.

He said we had to wait for his idealized ‘Moonlight’—the negotiation expert—to arrive and try to talk him down first.

In my last life, it was exactly like this. The negotiation was useless. That expert dithered and dragged her feet, only agitating the hostage-taker even more, making him press the knife against the hostage’s neck until blood seeped through.

I couldn’t stand it. I decisively pulled the trigger, taking down the perp with a single shot and saving the hostage.

But the negotiation expert completely collapsed on the spot, utterly humiliated. She ended up having a breakdown and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

My husband never said a single word in my defense. Instead, he assigned me to an undercover mission.

Worst of all, just as the operation was about to wrap up, he called me, exposing my position.

“You couldn't wait a few extra minutes? You just *had* to humiliate Serena?”

“Trying to steal the glory, huh? Fine, go ahead and be a hero right here!”

As soon as the call ended, the gang members swarmed me, grabbing me on the spot.

They sliced me, piece by piece, the agony so blinding I couldn't even keep my thoughts straight.

My last sight before dying was him and that expert arriving on the scene, both looking grief-stricken.

Then I opened my eyes, and everything reset.

The hostage-taker stood in the exact same spot, the hostage in his grip.

My finger, which had been resting on the trigger, slowly eased up.

This time, I wasn't in a hurry.

I wanted to see exactly how those two would clean up this disaster.