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"Larissa, please calm down. Just listen to me," Cassian said. He sat inside a conference room of the military compound. A divorce agreement lay on the table between them. His voice still carried its usual authority, yet for once, there was a trace of tension beneath it. I, Larissa, looked at the man in uniform standing before me, and memories from my previous life came rushing back. I had back to in 1975. Thirty full years had passed since the day I died in my past life. Back then, I had foolishly played along with his plan, staging a fake divorce to protect a sent down youth named Talia. I believed it was only an act. It was not. The fake divorce became real. I was thrown out without mercy. Talia moved into the military compound as a matter of course and became the mistress of the Blaze family. As for me, I struggled to survive in the slums for twenty years, only to die alone in a rented room. "Explain what?" I picked up the pen on the table and signed my name on the divorce papers without hesitation. "Cassian, I agreed to the divorce."