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.”

the Smith and Rainsworth families had formed a business alliance through

already been made, a mutual

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

responded to

had crumpled the pregnancy test report in her

got home, she tossed it into the trash

particular time,

a while leaning on the couch, drifting in and out

a rumbling noise in her

was hard of hearing,

to have a child in such

wall clock emitted a dull

was five in

Nathaniel would be

Cecilia realize that she had

up to prepare breakfast for

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

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

six o’clock, Nathaniel

and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking, yet

reflection

pulled out a chair and sat down.

Cecilia was taken aback.

wasn’t sure if it was instinct or something else, but the words

I do something

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

want is a wife,

the same light gray attire. Even when responding

alliance and the deception of

simply not his

is a

Cecilia’s ears grew

throat, and yet, she uttered the word that Nathaniel

“Okay.”

found himself feeling particularly moody, even his favorite

the chair

mustered her courage and

there

Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What do

looked up at the person standing before

also the man she had pursued and

Cecilia thought about Paula’s words and said, “Nathaniel,

her sentence,

“You’re crazy.”

end, life is