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.”

Smith and Rainsworth families had formed

made, a mutual benefit shared

Smith family unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets, including the several billion given to Nathaniel for marrying

crossed Cecilia’s eyes, but she responded to Nathaniel’s message

pregnancy test report

tossed it

month, at this particular time, she would feel especially

any dinner and spent a while leaning on

rumbling noise in her

reason why Nathaniel despised her. She was hard of hearing, which, in high society, was

possibly allow her to

emitted

five in the

another hour, Nathaniel would

realize that she had unknowingly spent the entire night asleep on the

hurriedly got up to prepare breakfast for Nathaniel, fearing even a moment’s

was meticulous in his work, with a stringent regard for time. Once, Cecilia had to attend her father’s funeral and forgot to return on time to prepare his

send her a single message nor

six o’clock,

tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking, yet they

Cecilia’s eyes, his reflection was nothing but cold

a chair and

Cecilia was taken aback.

sure if it was instinct or something else, but the words she uttered reflected a humility

do something

looked up, his eyes meeting Cecilia’s face, which had stayed impassive for the past three

want is a

seen wearing the same light gray attire. Even when

the deception of the Smith family, Nathaniel wouldn’t have

simply not

is a wife,

Cecilia’s ears

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

“Okay.”

his favorite breakfast on the table

feet, pulling the chair back in irritation, ready

his surprise, Cecilia mustered her courage and seized his

is there

sudden question caused Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What do you

up at the person standing before

husband of three years, but also the

Paula’s words and said, “Nathaniel, if there’s someone you like, you

sentence, Nathaniel had

“You’re crazy.”