She sat down—literally sat down—because her legs had better sense than her brain.
If this was the village head, maybe this cave-life wouldn't be so bad after all.
After the walking disaster she met last time—the ATM-loading fraud with two brain cells and a smug smile—this man was officially the second most handsome person she'd seen in this world.
Well, maybe this place was worth staying in for a while.
After talking to the village head for a while, Divya learned that he was actually a scholar—assigned here, no less. It didn't take her long to piece it together. He must've done something that rubbed a powerful figure the wrong way. Or maybe they were just too scared of his intelligence, so they tucked him away in some forgotten corner of the land.
But when she stepped inside the so-called "cave" he lived in, she honestly wanted to slap her earlier self for judging too fast.