Chapter 1

“Alice, do

you even realize

your

mistake?”

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Alice’s mouth and nose were submerged in water, choking her throat painfully. As she opened her from the brink of death, she saw her second brother, Noah, on the poolside, along with her fourth brother, Caleb, who was holding Chloe in his arms.

eyes

A flicker of shock crossed her eyes; this scene felt all too familiar. Had she not died? Was she somehow reborn on the day three years ago when Chloe was officially adopted by the her family as a foster daughter?

The memory came flooding back: At the banquet, Chloe had deliberately schemed against her, making everyone believe she had pushed Chloe into the water on purpose. Caleb had been the first to notice them, but he only saved Chloe, leaving Alice, who couldn’t swim, to struggle on her own in the water. And then, Noah was pressing Alice to admit her fault, implying that if she didn’t, he wouldn’t save her.

Desperately, she struggled in the water, begging for forgiveness, pleading with her brothers to rescue her. It was only at the point of near death that she was finally pulled out.

From that moment on, she dared not provoke Chloe again, carefully trying to please her brothers at home, but what did she ultimately gain?

Chloe stole Alice’s thesis, and Noah testified for Chloe, branding Alice a plagiarist and getting her expelled.

due to her poor health, Alice’s third brother, Alex, personally took Alice to the operating room to give Chloe

Caleb, the fifth brother Finn, and the sixth brother Luke–had unceremoniously kicked Alice off the team.

and forged medical records and brought it to her

public outrage; no one believed her, and they didn’t even bother

reflect on her actions. She found herself homeless, penniless, and

opened her eyes wide, her expression blank, as if she had already died. She watched her brothers gathered around Chloe on the shore, and even seeing it again, her

How ridiculous.

She,

as

their biological

sister,

couldn’t

even

compare

with an

outsider.

heard Alice’s struggles did he turn to look at the pool–Alice had already sunk to the bottom. Upon seeing this,

a second thought, he jumped into

of delight flashed in her eyes; it would be

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