When Her "Death" Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel)

Chapter 1 First Love

A heavy rain began to pour relentlessly.

At the entrance of the hospital.

Standing at the hospital entrance, Cecilia Smith clutched the pregnancy test report in her delicate, frail hand. The result was unmistakable: not pregnant.

“Three years into marriage and you’re still not pregnant?”

“You’re so useless. If you don’t get pregnant soon, the Rainsworth family will kick you out. What will become of the Smith family then?”

Dressed to the nines and teetering on her high heels, Paula Escobar, Cecilia’s mother, pointed at her, her face a mask of disappointment.

Cecilia’s eyes were empty. The words she longed to speak were stuck in her heart, finally condensing into a single sentence.

“I’m sorry.”

“I don’t want you to apologize. What I want is for you to have a child with Nathaniel. Do you understand?”

Cecilia’s throat felt parched. She was unsure of how to respond to her.

They had been married for three years, yet her husband, Nathaniel Rainsworth, had never laid a hand on her.

How could there possibly be a child?

Upon seeing her display of helplessness, Paula felt she was nothing like herself.

“If you really can’t manage, then help Nathaniel find a woman outside. He will surely remember your kindness.”

Cecilia stared in disbelief at the retreating figure of her mother, unable to comprehend what had just happened.

Her biological mother, astonishingly, had asked her to find another woman for her own husband.

A chill instantly froze her heart to its core.

As Cecilia sat in the car heading home, Paula’s last words echoed in her mind, accompanied by a sudden, intermittent roaring in her ears.

She knew her illness had worsened.

At that moment, she received a text message.

The message came from Nathaniel, as consistent as ever over the past three years. It read: I won’t be coming home tonight.

Throughout their three years of marriage, Nathaniel had never spent a single night at home, nor did he ever touch her.

Cecilia still remembered their wedding night three years ago.

He had said, “Since you from the Smith family dare to trick me into marriage, then be ready to face a lifetime of solitude.”

years ago, the Smith and Rainsworth families had formed a business

promise had already been made, a mutual benefit shared between

the day of the wedding, the Smith family unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets, including

but she responded to Nathaniel’s

test report

tossed it

at this particular time, she

dinner and spent a while leaning on the couch, drifting

a rumbling noise in

Nathaniel despised her. She was hard of hearing, which, in high society, was akin to having

Nathaniel possibly allow her to have

emitted a dull

was five in the

Nathaniel

Cecilia realize that she had unknowingly spent the entire night

breakfast for Nathaniel, fearing even

for time. Once, Cecilia had to attend her father’s funeral and forgot to return on time to

didn’t send her a single message nor spoke a word to

six o’clock,

tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features

reflection was nothing but cold and

chair and sat down. “You don’t need to make breakfast for

Cecilia was taken aback.

but the words she uttered reflected a humility she herself

I do something

eyes meeting Cecilia’s face, which had stayed impassive for the past three years. His

I want is a

seen wearing the same light gray attire. Even when responding

alliance and the deception of

simply not

want is a wife,

Cecilia’s ears

in her throat, and yet, she uttered the word that Nathaniel disliked the

“Okay.”

Nathaniel found himself feeling particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on the table

the chair

mustered her courage and seized his

is there someone

Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What do

at the person

her husband of three years, but also the man she

throat, Cecilia thought about Paula’s words and said, “Nathaniel, if there’s someone you like,

she could finish her sentence,

“You’re crazy.”