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.

disheartened. “At the time, I was determined to marry Lu Junnian. My inferiority complex told me that I might not be

Mu Zhi continued.

became lower as

turned her screen away, so she could only

had skyrocketed from single digits to tens

but they swamped her with compassionate comments after

reminds me of my first

comment flashed across the

just broke up with

Another comment followed.

flooding the screen while Mu Zhi was fixated on

that someone will be taking care of him, yet my

that I’m happy that

comments were composed of

themselves

relationship did 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 schemes and

Changshu’s name

thought the 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 be able

later found out that Lu Junnian was tricked into going overseas, thinking that I have

I wanted her to know that even if she was fatherless, mom could

I was falsely accused of manipulating

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, who had also lost his love

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

this stage, Mu Zhi was grief-stricken.

…

the secretary room was in a deafening

their phone screens, listening to

Jinye walked out of his office, he did not sense any

sound

sobbing sounds from multiple

pack of women staring down at their phones sobbing. When they espied Lu Jinye’s appearance, they scrambled to

eyes had red circles, a clear

frowned at this sight, then returned to his office

of secretaries was

of them anxiously put her phone away but accidentally pulled her earphones

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 Lu Jinye to

Mu Zhi’s livestream?

seized the phone and peered

the room held their breaths

…

the other hand, in the livestream room, Mu Zhi drew a deep breath to steady

struggled to

scheduled to last for an hour. She checked the time and realized that there were twenty minutes remaining on the countdown

tears, Mu Zhi had no

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

livestream. As soon as she removed the

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