Realistically how long did Pakhi think she can live in Chavan Nivas if everyone assumes Samrat is dead.
Yes Kaku would want her to stay there forever for pension but
At some point, her parents might force her to come back home.
At some point, her parents would want her to re-marry (If she remarries, will the pension go back to Samrat's mom or will she continue getting it?)
At some point, she will also get tired of serving Tea.
At some point, lonliness will affect her.
At some point, chavans also will give in and accept Sai.
What will she do then?
Five years is a long time and she knows her stay will come to an end at some point before that if she chooses to wait for Sai to complete her education. The time to make move for her is now and now that kaku has given her the permission to wage the war against Sai, she is grabbing it with full force.
Unlike her counterparts in Bengali (Rupkotha) or Tamil (Sathya) , where they stood behind Kaku and did minor incidents, looks like Pakhi in Hindi is going to do lot more to get what she wants.
All she has done so far is observe Virat closely. She sees that Virat is taking baby steps towards Sai. She knows that he wants respect, love, acknowledgement from Sai (Sai se kuch zyada hi ummeed nahi kar rahe ho dialogue, which really hurt him). She has seen how Amay's TPS dialogue also got him angry.
By troubling and taunting Sai, Pakhi is keeping Sai's mind occupied with unnecessary fights. She also knows Sai has lot of self-respect and knows the exact words like ehsaan faramosh etc to trigger her.
Since Sai has to go to college, do homework and use as much time as she can to study and also do ghar ke kaam, by the of the day she is so exhausted, leaving her little to no time to think about Virat or her feelings towards Virat. All she can do is think about how to deal with family or how to study.
Meanwhile Pakhi has all the time during the day for her plotting. She is making efforts to stop the bond between Sai and Virat from forming, while portraying to Virat what an ideal wife and bahu she would be, where Kaku and gang respects her, consider her chaheeti bahu as well as try to show the wifely stuff she has to offer - like wait for him to be back, paani poochna, khana, talk to him, understand him etc.
She is going to use Virat's insecurities against him and Sai's attitude against her to keep them separated. She probably is underestimating Sai's feelings for Virat and the bond they already have.
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