When They Beg, I Rise!

Chapter 1

“Lemira, are you going to admit your mistake or not?”

Lemifa Langston’s mouth and nose were submerged, a burning sensation in her throat as she choked on water.

Gasping for air as if clawing back from the brink of death, she opened her eyes to see her second elder brother, Lucian Langston, on the poolside, and the fourth elder brother, Caspian Langston, holding Evelina Sterling in his arms.

A flash of astonishment crossed her eyes. This scene felt eerily familiar.

Hadn’t she died? Could it be she had been reborn three years earlier, on the day Evelina was officially adopted by the Langstons?

At the party, Evelina had set her up, making everyone believe Lemira had intentionally pushed Evelina into the water.

Caspian was the first to reach them, but he only saved Evelina, leaving Lemira, who also couldn’t swim, struggling in the water.

ucian even demanded whether she admitted her mistake or not, implying he wouldn’t save her if she didn’t.

Desperately struggling in the water, Lemira admitted her mistake, begging her brothers to save her. Only when she was at death’s door did they pull her out.

Since then, she dared not provoke Evelina, tiptoeing around, trying to please her brothers. But what did she get in return?

Evelina stole her thesis, and Lucian testified for Evelina, making her the plagiarist who got expelled.

to her frail

surgery room.

personally took her

results, and Caspian, her fifth elder brother Evander Langston, and the sixth elder brother Alaric

she brought them to her eldest brother Asher Langston, hoping to expose Evelina’s

the evidence closely. Asher kicked her out of the house to

homeless, penniless, enduring hardship on the

Lemira stopped struggling, letting herself sink to the bottom of the pool.

she were dead. She watched her brothers surround Evelina on the shore, heartache piercing through her even

was less valued than an

pool only when the sound of

to the bottom.

pale, “Lemmy!” With a splash,

eyes the moment she saw Lemira sinking, thinking it would be better if she died.

clutched at Caspian’s sleeve, weakly saying, “Caspian, I should save Lemmy too, it’s because of me

in.”

“Don’t be silly, Lucian’s got it. Lemira brought this on herself;

turned his gaze back to the pool,

water, Lemira saw Lucian swimming towards her, his concern seemingly genuine despite having forced her to