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

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 the several billion given

she responded to Nathaniel’s

had crumpled the pregnancy test report

got home, she tossed

particular time, she would feel

on the couch,

rumbling noise in

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

her to have a child in

wall clock emitted a

was five

hour, Nathaniel

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

got up to prepare breakfast for Nathaniel, fearing

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

her a single message nor spoke a word to her

six o’clock, Nathaniel returned

a restrained elegance.

his reflection was

Cecilia, he pulled out a chair and sat down. “You

Cecilia was taken aback.

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

do something

Cecilia’s face, which had stayed impassive

a

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

it weren’t for the business alliance and the deception of the Smith family,

simply not his

a wife, not

Cecilia’s ears grew

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

“Okay.”

himself feeling particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on the

feet, pulling the chair back in irritation, ready

Cecilia mustered her courage and

there

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

at the person

three years, but also the man she had pursued and loved for

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

finish her sentence, Nathaniel

“You’re crazy.”