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.”

and Rainsworth families had formed a

made, a mutual benefit shared between

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

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

she had crumpled the pregnancy test report in her

got home, she tossed it into the

month, at this particular time,

a while leaning on the couch, drifting in and out of a

heard a rumbling noise in

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

possibly allow her to have a child in such a

wall clock emitted

was five in the

Nathaniel

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

got up to prepare breakfast for

in his work, with a stringent regard for time. Once, Cecilia had to attend her

single message nor spoke a word to her for an

o’clock,

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

eyes, his reflection was nothing

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

Cecilia was taken aback.

wasn’t sure if it was instinct or something else, but the words she uttered reflected a humility she

do something

stayed impassive for the past

a wife,

gray attire. Even when responding to text messages, she would use the same single

of the Smith family,

was simply not

want is a wife,

Cecilia’s ears

she uttered the word

“Okay.”

even his favorite breakfast on the table seemed unusually

pulling the chair back in irritation,

mustered her courage

there

caused Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What

up at the person standing before

was not just her husband of three years, but also the man she had pursued and

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

sentence, Nathaniel had

“You’re crazy.”