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.

I was determined to marry Lu Junnian. My inferiority complex told me that I might not be good enough for him, but my naïve nature said otherwise. All I needed to do was work hard for

Mu Zhi continued.

became lower as she progressed deeper

turned her screen away, so she could only see the camera and

unaware that her livestream audience had skyrocketed from single digits to tens

of curiosity but they swamped her with compassionate comments after seeing

of my

comment flashed across

broke up

Another comment followed.

screen while Mu Zhi was fixated

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

know that I’m happy that you were a part of my

comments were composed of sorrowful

themselves

parents. Lu Junnian and I worked hard to

Changshu’s name as a gesture of

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 be

was tricked into going overseas, thinking that I have left him first, which meant that

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

of manipulating experimental data and

collapsed mentally and emotionally. I was troubled by daily living expenses and the ridiculous medical bills. My turning point came when I

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

grief-stricken. Tears started streaming

…

the secretary room was in a deafening

locked on their phone screens, listening to Mu

out of his office, he

sobbing sound caught

Overlapping sobbing

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

red circles, a clear sign of having cried

to his office only to find Linda wiping tears

fleet of secretaries was

with a stern face, and one of them anxiously

voice came from her phone. “Then, Lu Jinye and I realized that Mu Xiaomu was actually our child. This must be a joke from the heavens. I will forever be grateful to the gods for sending

Mu Zhi’s livestream?

Jinye seized the phone and

creature in the room held their

…

Mu Zhi drew a deep breath to

immersed in her sorrowful memories, Mu Zhi struggled to recover from the sadness. She was out of words to say at

She checked the time and realized that there

for topics and almost breaking down into tears, Mu Zhi had no

livestream, I’m running out of topics to talk about today. Phew, that’s a tough

to turn off the livestream. As soon as she removed the cloth, she was shocked to see that tens of millions of audience

started trembling, and she pressed the off button as a