she ends up captured by the boy and the fat noble man he's been working with/for who finds him amusing and promised him riches if he got rid of kaid.
She's kept in a barn or something for a while and transferred to a carriage while being threatened and having the creepy kid talk obsessively about how much he wants revenge and how he didn't deserve to die and how dare anyone punish him. And obsessively talking about marrying her while she is held at knife point. She despises him.
The carriage gets stopped which gives mc an opportunity to actually struggle out of there, all still while trying to get away from crazy boy. She recognises the duke's friend's voice from outside and thinks surely they must be here after her but they're actually trying to stop the nobleman bc they know something is afoot.
I'm a bit blurry on what happens next but she manages to get out of the carriage and is surprised to see Kaid, I'll and malnourished, but very much alive, after I think the fat nobleman had been ranting about how bad it is that they've lost their master and basically gloating. They'd been pretending he was dead for the entire time she's been missing.
Her and boy end up getting in a scuffle and fall off a cliff into a river and she ends up trapped underground. The boy
gets carried away with the currents irc.
Kaid follows her in desperation to save her and they both end up trapped underground and have a bit of a heart to heart.. His people manage to find them and they get pulled out with a rope before they catch hypothermia.
They return to the mansion with everyone now realising, as her hair has slowly turned golden over the course of the story, that she is the Reincarnated lady of 16 yrs ago. She assumes the position as his lady. Fluff and hugs and joy is had.
