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Canvas & Notepad

Madhu smiles hearing that. A big smile. RK smiles back at her.

He turns to her phone to continue reading and frowns seeing that she had strikethrough the point. RK frowns as he tried to figure out what she had written.

Have to live in the same house as Rudra.

The next one was also a strikethrough.

RK will have to live in the same house as Bhavya.

"Why did you cut these two?"

"If I married you then I will have to live in the same house as Rudy. And you will also have to live with Bhavya in the same house. I thought about it and I figured since I never had feelings for Rudra it wouldn't matter to me."

"Then why did you decide to marry him?" RK asks curiously.

"It was a good proposal. I actually didn't want to marry before I started working. But my relatives and all freaked my parents out saying that if I continued to study like this then I would be overqualified, and it would be difficult to find a suitable husband for me. And by the time I finish my studies and get a job I would be bordering 30 and it would be really difficult to find a guy for me."

"Oh."

"Isn't it so weird? If anything, shouldn't men desire me more if I am more qualified? I don't understand why people would consider that as a negative."

"People are crazy."

Madhu nods.

"You are doing MPhil, right? You are planning to study after that?" RK asks curiously.

"PhD."

"Oh." RK says impressed.

"What about you? What did you study?"

"I stopped with my undergrads."

"Why?"

"You have no idea how I scrapped through that itself." RK tells her chuckling. "And my passion was always art. Painting and sculpting."

Madhu nods.

RK couldn't control his curiosity and asks her, "Where would you put that in the list?"

"Your education?" Madhu asks confused.

"Yeah."

"Why would I put that in the list?"

"Why wouldn't you put it?" RK asks unable to let it go as she considers being overqualified as a plus point. So, shouldn't being underqualified than her be a minus point for him.

"What you study or what your career is your personal choice. Just like what I study and what I choose as my profession is mine."

"Does it bother you that I am not as academically accomplished as you?"

"Does it bother you that I am more educated than you?"

"No."

"So, what makes you think I have a problem?"

RK smiles as he looked at his phone then remembering he says, "You didn't finish."

"What?"

"About why you decided to marry Rudy."

"Ah... so my parents were pressurizing me to get married and that time Rudra's proposal came. We spoke and I thought he would do."

"He would do?" RK asks shocked.

Madhu turns to him surprised and raising her eyebrows she states, "Bhavya would do."

RK gulps in embarrassment. Even though he did think that Bhavya and he could have a good relation, isn't it in other words as a mere, Bhavya would do? If not for Bhavya he would have chosen someone else.