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.”

Smith and Rainsworth families had formed a

had already been made, a mutual

the Smith family unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets, including the several billion given to Nathaniel for marrying Cecilia,

to Nathaniel’s message with a simple “okay”

the pregnancy test report in

she got home, she tossed it into the

at this particular time, she would feel

a while leaning on the couch, drifting

constantly heard a rumbling noise in her

Nathaniel despised her. She was hard of hearing, which, in high society, was akin

Nathaniel possibly allow her to have a child in such

wall clock emitted

five in

hour, Nathaniel would

had unknowingly spent the entire night asleep

got up to prepare breakfast

stringent regard for time. Once, Cecilia had to attend her father’s funeral and forgot to return on time

nor spoke a

o’clock,

in a suit, his tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking, yet they

in Cecilia’s eyes, his reflection was nothing but

looking at Cecilia, he pulled out a chair and sat down. “You

Cecilia was taken aback.

sure if it was instinct or something else, but the words

do

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

a

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

deception of the Smith family, Nathaniel

was simply

is a

in Cecilia’s ears grew

her throat, and yet, she uttered the

“Okay.”

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

feet, pulling the chair back in irritation,

his surprise, Cecilia mustered her courage and seized

there someone

sudden question caused Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What do

looked up at the person standing

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

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

she could finish her sentence, Nathaniel had already

“You’re crazy.”

end, life is all about continuously