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

had already been made, a mutual benefit

They transferred all of their assets, including the several billion given to Nathaniel for marrying

to Nathaniel’s

pregnancy test report in her hand into a

she got home, she tossed it into the trash

month, at this particular time, she would feel especially

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

a rumbling noise in

She was hard of

allow her to

emitted a

was five in the

hour, Nathaniel would

realize that she had unknowingly spent the entire night asleep

hurriedly got up to prepare breakfast for Nathaniel,

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

he didn’t send her a single message nor spoke a word to her for an entire

o’clock, Nathaniel returned

exuding a restrained

eyes, his reflection was

Cecilia, he pulled out a chair and sat down.

Cecilia was taken aback.

else, but the words she uttered

I do something

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

I want is a wife, not a

attire. Even when responding to text messages, she

the deception of the Smith family, Nathaniel wouldn’t

was simply not

I want is a wife,

in Cecilia’s ears grew

throat, and yet, she uttered the

“Okay.”

moody, even his favorite breakfast on the table

rose to his feet, pulling the chair back in irritation, ready to

Cecilia mustered her courage and

there someone you

eyes

at the

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

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

finish her sentence, Nathaniel had already cut her

“You’re crazy.”