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 a business alliance

already been made, a mutual

Smith family unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred

she responded to Nathaniel’s message with a simple “okay”

had crumpled the pregnancy test report in her hand into a wrinkled

got home, she tossed it

month, at this particular time, she would feel

spent a while leaning on the couch,

constantly heard a rumbling noise in her

why Nathaniel despised her. She was hard of hearing,

could Nathaniel possibly allow her to have a child in

clock emitted a dull

five in

another hour, Nathaniel would

that she had unknowingly spent the entire night asleep on

hurriedly got up to prepare breakfast

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

message nor spoke a word to her for an

o’clock, Nathaniel

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

eyes, his reflection was nothing

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

Cecilia was taken aback.

else, but the words she uttered reflected a humility she herself

I do something

stayed impassive for the past three years.

is a wife, not

wearing the same light gray attire. Even when responding to text messages, she

of the Smith family,

simply

want is a

Cecilia’s ears

throat, and yet, she uttered the word

“Okay.”

himself feeling particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on

pulling the chair back in irritation, ready

Cecilia mustered her

is there someone

Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What do

looked up at the person standing

three years, but also the man she

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

her sentence, Nathaniel had already cut her

“You’re crazy.”

end, life is all about