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

Mu Zhi continued.

spirits became lower as

away, so she could only see the

Mu Zhi was unaware that her livestream audience had skyrocketed from single digits to tens of thousands

but they swamped her with compassionate comments after

me of my first love! So

comment flashed

just broke up

Another comment followed.

the screen while Mu Zhi was fixated

wedding of my childhood sweetheart. I’m grateful that someone will be taking care of him, yet my heart is

this, know that I’m happy that you

were composed of

audience could relate themselves to Mu Zhi’s

his parents. Lu Junnian and I worked hard to persevere, but

Changshu’s

man was Lu Junnian, and I was even delighted to find that I was pregnant. I was gullible enough to think that with his child, his parents might

that Lu Junnian was tricked into going overseas, thinking that I have left him first, which meant that I had no idea who the father of my

gave birth to the child. I wanted her to know that even if she was fatherless, mom could give you just as much love so that

I was falsely accused of manipulating experimental data

hung in there 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 bartender, I met Lu Jinye,

a woman is to agree to a contracted marriage. But I know that it is the only chance I

Zhi was grief-stricken. Tears started streaming down her

…

secretary room was

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

of his office, he

someone’s sobbing sound caught

by… Overlapping sobbing sounds

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

of their eyes had red circles, a clear

then returned to his office

fleet of secretaries was crying

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

Lu Jinye and I realized that Mu Xiaomu was actually our child. This must be a joke from the

Mu Zhi’s livestream?

Jinye seized the phone and peered down at the

creature in the room held

…

room, Mu Zhi drew a deep breath

Zhi struggled to recover from the sadness.

She checked the time and realized that there were

into tears, Mu Zhi had no clue

out of topics to talk about today. Phew, that’s a tough trip down memory lane. I need some

off the livestream. As soon as she removed the cloth, she

Zhi’s hands started trembling, and she pressed the