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 business alliance through

already been made, a mutual benefit shared between both

their minds. They transferred

eyes, but she responded to Nathaniel’s message

it, she had crumpled the pregnancy test report in her hand

she tossed it into

month, at this particular time,

didn’t make any dinner and spent a while leaning on the couch, drifting in and out

a rumbling noise

despised her. She was hard of hearing, which,

allow her to have a child in such a

clock emitted

was five

Nathaniel

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

hurriedly got up to prepare breakfast for Nathaniel, fearing even a moment’s

Once, Cecilia had to attend her father’s funeral and forgot to return on time to prepare his

he didn’t send her a single message nor spoke a word

six o’clock,

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

reflection was nothing but cold and

and sat down. “You don’t need to make breakfast for

Cecilia was taken aback.

the words

I do

had stayed impassive for

a wife, not a

years, Cecilia was always seen wearing the same light gray attire. Even when responding to text messages, she

business alliance and the deception of the

was simply not

a wife, not a

in Cecilia’s ears grew

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

“Okay.”

found himself feeling particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on the table seemed unusually bland

feet, pulling the

her courage and seized his

there

caused Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What

at the person standing before

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

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

finish her sentence, Nathaniel

“You’re crazy.”

the end, life is all about continuously letting