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.”

years ago, the Smith and Rainsworth families had formed

had already been made, a mutual benefit shared between

wedding, the Smith family unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets, including the several billion

to Nathaniel’s message with

had crumpled the pregnancy test report in

tossed it into the

particular time,

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

constantly heard a rumbling noise in

was hard of hearing, which, in high society, was akin to

Nathaniel possibly allow her to have a child in such

emitted

was five

another hour, Nathaniel would

had unknowingly spent the

breakfast for Nathaniel,

Cecilia had to attend her father’s funeral and forgot to return on

her a single message nor spoke a word to her for an entire

o’clock, Nathaniel

impeccably dressed in a suit, his tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features were

in Cecilia’s eyes, his reflection was nothing

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

Cecilia was taken aback.

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

do

meeting Cecilia’s face, which had stayed impassive for the

is a wife, not

same light gray attire. Even when

and the deception of the Smith

simply

want is a

Cecilia’s ears grew

throat, and yet, she uttered

“Okay.”

Nathaniel found himself feeling particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast

feet, pulling the chair back in irritation, ready

mustered her courage and seized

there

eyes to darken.

up at the person

of three years, but also the man she had

Cecilia thought about Paula’s words and said, “Nathaniel, if there’s someone you like, you can

she could finish her sentence, Nathaniel had

“You’re crazy.”

life is all about continuously