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.”

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

already been made, a mutual benefit shared between

unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets, including the several

she responded to Nathaniel’s message with a simple “okay”

pregnancy test

tossed it into the trash

this particular time, she

any dinner and spent a while leaning on the couch, drifting in

constantly heard a rumbling noise in her

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

allow her to have a

emitted a

five

Nathaniel would

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

prepare breakfast

regard for time. Once, Cecilia had to attend her father’s funeral and

single message nor spoke a word to her for

o’clock, Nathaniel

suit, his tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking, yet they didn’t lack a certain masculine

Cecilia’s eyes, his reflection was

Cecilia, he pulled out a chair and sat down. “You don’t need to make

Cecilia was taken aback.

sure if it was instinct or something else, but the words she

do

which had stayed impassive for the past three years.

I want is a wife, not

was always seen wearing the same light gray attire. Even when responding to text messages, she would use the same single word,

weren’t for the business alliance and the deception of the Smith family, Nathaniel wouldn’t have married

simply not his

I want is a

ringing in Cecilia’s

throat, and yet, she uttered the word

“Okay.”

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

pulling the chair back in irritation, ready to

Cecilia mustered her

is there

caused Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What do

the

three years, but also the

down the bitterness in her throat, Cecilia thought about Paula’s words and said, “Nathaniel, if there’s someone you

sentence, Nathaniel

“You’re crazy.”