This is the love story of a civil engineer and well, a would-be civil engineer. But, just for
dramatic effects, and also because I’ve mentioned it is a fairy tale, let us take the heroine of
this story to be a princess in a faraway magical kingdom of Perseus. The story takes place in
the summer of Princess Madeleine’s eighteenth birthday, when she meets the guy of her
dreams…
Princess Madeleine, the future ruler of Perseus, sat idly on her seat in the court-room,
listening to her father, King Samuel, solve all the issues presented to him by his subjects. She
was wondering to herself why her father made her attend these meetings and listen to all
the conflicts and their solutions, when she had already memorised all that is to be learnt
from The Art of Running a Kingdom by S K Daggul. Yes, as you all would have guessed, the
princess is a huge nerd. There is not a book she hasn’t read from the palace’s library and has
even employed her own personal authors to publish new books for her every month!
She was listening to the court matters half-heartedly, when suddenly, her ears...