Falling for the Contract Bride

Chapter 243 The Most Miserable First Love

Mu Zhi sat stiffly in the livestream room. It was her first time livestreaming, and she was stuttering to gather a few words.

She was not nervous since she made all necessary preparations beforehand.

However, every time she caught a glimpse of the number of viewers on the upper right corner of her screen, she would feel an indescribable tension.

She would also get an alert for any new viewer tuning into the stream, which would distract her.

Thus, she chose to cover the corner with a piece of cloth and carry on with the livestreaming.

Without paying attention to the audience size she had, she was able to speak naturally.

The technical team gave her a new phone to yield a better streaming resolution.

Mu Zhi sat before the camera in a moment of awkward silence, then said, “I have plans to do livestreaming consistently from now on. We are just testing the waters today, but if we fail today, I may not appear again in the future.”

Mu Zhi could not help but cringe.

Then, she collected herself and said, “Since we don’t know what to say, let me talk about my past.”

“I was brought up in a single-parent family, in a shabby apartment. I had no idea who my birth father was as a little girl. From what I can recall, I never heard anything about my father. I grew up with mom, and mom never married another person.”

“My first love was Lu Junnian. Lu Junnian is a prodigy in medicine. After mom was admitted to the hospital, I swore to become the best doctor in the world so I could treat her. But unfortunately, being a prodigy is kind of far-fetched for someone like me. I was just a daughter who was eager to work towards a cure for my mother.”

“I worked part-time to sustain mom’s treatment bills while studying, and in my darkest days, I met Lu Junnian.”

“I was a gullible teenager.”

Mu Zhi went through her social media history and found a photo of her and Lu Junnian in an unlisted album.

Some of them were selfies while she took the others without Lu Junnian noticing.

Zhi became slightly disheartened. “At the time, I was determined to marry Lu Junnian. My inferiority complex told me that I might not be good enough for

Mu Zhi continued.

became lower as she progressed deeper

screen away, so she

was unaware that her livestream audience had skyrocketed from single digits

came into the room out of curiosity but they swamped her with compassionate comments after seeing Mu Zhi’s disheartened

of my first love!

flashed across

just broke up

Another comment followed.

while Mu Zhi was fixated on

grateful that someone will be taking care of him,

happy that you

were composed of

could relate themselves to

not receive the blessings of his parents. Lu Junnian and I worked hard to persevere, but he had to leave the country, and I fell trap into someone’s

Zhi did not mention Xu Changshu’s name as a gesture

thought the man was Lu Junnian, and I was even delighted to find that I was pregnant. I was gullible enough

thinking that I have left him first, which meant that I had no idea who the father

despair, I bit the bullet and gave birth to the child. I wanted her to know that even if she was fatherless,

was falsely accused of manipulating experimental data and was

for a long, long time, and finally collapsed mentally and emotionally. I was troubled by daily living expenses and the ridiculous medical bills. My turning point came when I was working as a

how desperate a woman is to agree to a contracted marriage. But I know that it

grief-stricken. Tears started

…

the secretary room was in a deafening

had their eyes locked on their phone screens, listening to Mu Zhi’s

his office, he

sound caught his

by… Overlapping sobbing sounds from

the pantry for a glass of water, but was surprised to see a pack of women staring down at

circles,

at this sight, then returned to his office only

fleet of

face, and one of them anxiously put her phone away but accidentally pulled her

she could stop the livestream, Mu Zhi’s voice came from her phone. “Then, Lu Jinye and I realized that Mu Xiaomu was actually our child.

Mu Zhi’s livestream?

and peered down

the room held their breaths

…

Mu Zhi

Zhi struggled to recover from the sadness. She

to last for an hour. She checked the time and

lost for topics and almost breaking down into tears, Mu

helplessly, “This is my first livestream, I’m running out of topics to talk about today. Phew, that’s a tough trip down memory lane. I need

upon finishing her words, preparing to turn off the livestream. As soon as she removed the cloth, she was shocked to see that tens of millions of audience tuning

hands started trembling, and she pressed the off button as a