She essentially admitted out loud in her drunk state that she is obsessed with him since day 1 and now shes happy because she has achieved her objective- to be his wife. P never recognized her obsession for what it is. She will always call it "love" because that way she can excuse herself and love is a nice word. It makes everyone else forgiving too- why did she do what she did- oh out of "love". How sweet 🙄 no one except Sai realizes or cares about how disgusting it is- she married Sam but wanted to go on trips with V, barged into his bedroom, wanted to care for him in the hospital, wanted to get into his pants basically. So she cheated her husband who truly loved her and gave her a second chance despite her past, her actions and even after his death- she couldn't honor him. She pretended to be sorry for her criminal deeds like illegal surrogacy, attacking Sai but eventually she didn't give herself a chance by moving out and doing her own thing.
Her obsession with Vinu is also because she recognizes him as a tool to keep V close.
Thats why she took so much initiative to suggest adoption, to pretend like shes sacrificing to enter a loveless marriage of convenience.
If P had learned lessons and truly loved V- she'd never suggest marriage, she'd have found another way, she'd never have compromised her own self respect.
She did this because she felt oh Sai got "love" after marriage of convenience so she will too.
And P has successfully put on her act because its not too difficult. Its not all acting. its not hard for her to be "normal" - do work, do some business stuff, care for family when she is doing it with the label of Vs wife.
She has nothing against the kid and loves Vinu as long as the kid is calling her mumma, and is keeping her tied to V.
She had nothing against Savi either for now. Because no attention/thought has been given to who her dad is.
And most of all P knows Sai isnt anything like her. She isnt shameless. She puts her self respect above everything and thats coz Sai knows you gotta love/respect yourself before you can love others. So P has been extra sweet to Sai because she knows Sai's will to keep V out of her life and leave will be stronger with every moment of flaunting the marriage. She is capable of creating a spectacle in public ONLY when she feels the cause, issue is worth it. But if she's got no interest - she will just be civil or ignore. And thats what Sai has done.
And she knows that bringing Sai before V often, provoking him about how shes unaffected but hes affected and then emotionally guilting him about how shes not like Sai and she "loves" him and has been there for him even when he's not been able to commit to her.
I think P has actually deliberately made sure to encourage V Sai interaction and Sais presence because that gives her control. She can manipulate V. She can see everything in front of her eyes.
If P didn't involve Sai in everything, V could be pining for Sai and seek her out in Ps absence and thats not a risk she can take.
P can go one of these ways now.
1. She may once again behave like before when she sees that despite all her efforts, V slips and starts getting too close to Sai.
2. She might finally be defeated after years of planning/plotting and still not getting the last step of what she wants. She achieved everything else. Family validation, wife label, mother label- adopted hi sahi- its her and V as parents, Vs trust and respect - last steps are consummation and confession of love.
3. She may starting plotting again but lose steam midway and give up.
4. She achieves even love confession and consummation but realizes that V is always going to have a roving eye for other bechaari women to help and cannot respect aby boundaries. He cant be truly committed to anyone even after confessing love and sex- he will still let them down repeatedly and in the worst way- but never recognize his issues and blame others.
V admires women with independence, self esteem , opinions, passion. But what he loves is to see them behave with him like an abla naari and give his male ego a boost. So wants that kind of dhong from a woman- " sacrifice", choosing him over others- even her own self respect. So it was easy to convince him for P. Sai's death also did not matter in front of a woman massaging his ego. Out of all the women in his life. v has definitely been most struck by Sai. Right from instantly noticing her looks and intelligence to bring affected by her challenging him to eventually the emotional aspects - she challenged him, she allowed him to be a child, to be carefree, to speak his mind. And eventually she also took a lot of emotional abuse just because she felt it was for their happiness, their family. Being with her was good for him but not for her. He did love her at one point for real but it wasn't strong. But his love pales in front of his ego. Nothing matters more than him feeling self pity, self righteous, getting ego boost from others about how amazing he is
Its ego not self respect in his case unlike Sai's. Because Sai has kept aside her "ego" to do things for him all the time but V has not been able to. Sai kept aside her ego to apologize to P, bring her back home, to take full ownership for stuff during Shruti kaand, to bend in front of Ps whims during illegal surrogacy and now, come to treat Vinu.
But V can't keep his ego aside.
Also V's love isnt strong enough.. because if it was, no situation should have made him forgive P and allow her in his life and Sais death, her last words would be something he can't outgrow. Sai in all her bitterness and anger, pain had never even emotionally cheated on V and wouldn't think of it also.
The only thing difficult to explain is why V has held back from sex/giving in to confessing love after getting habituated to P and why P hasnt done more nautanki to guilt that out of him even before Sai came back in the picture. And I guess thats just because of itv factors, some degree of the guilty conscience that both V and P have, and also Vinu requiring more than the usual medical attention etc and even the unecessary involvement of family. If V did not have a huge interference loving joint family, he may have melted towards P sooner. Their constant taunts, interference makes him stop and reconsider rather than get convinced into actually doing what they suggest - like honeymoon etc.
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