What if Malini does something rash and stupid like withholding medical treatment for Gudiya or something and as a result Gudiya dies.
A vindictive Malini then frames Imlie to look like she is responsible for Gudiya's death. She files an Fir alleging Imlie killed Gudiya and Imlie is jailed.
Because Malini's aim is to isolate Imlie and keep her miserable she threatens Imlie that she will also prosecute Aryan and get him jailed if Imlie doesn't break all ties with him and his family. Imlie only agrees by getting an assurance from Malini that Malini would leave Aryan and his family well alone. We all know Imlie would do anything for Aryan.
In order to stop him from using his money and clout to get Imlie out quickly Malini also compels Aryan to transfer the majority shareholding of his group of companies by threatening that if he doesn't do so she will get Imlie hung for murder. This is not known by Imlie. We also know that Aryan would do anything for Imlie and so he agrees and that's how Malini gets majority shareholding.
Anyway after that, either of her own cognisance or forced by Malini Imlie tells Aryan that she has miscarried Chiku and that she never wants to see him or the Rathores ever again.
Imlie asks for a divorce and when Aryan refuses even lies to him that she never loved him and it was Aditya all along. That just like Narmada and BM are alleging, her love and everything she did for Gudiya was motivated by her love for Aditya. Broken by this Aryan will sign the papers. Cue all kinds of angst and pain and suffering for both.
Anyway because it wasn't intentional it's not classified as murder so Imlie gets at most 4 to 5 years. She gives birth to Chiku in jail and sends her to Meethi. After being released Imlie goes to Pagdandiya and starts working for that small news agency. This news agency could have even been set up by Madhav who would have made some financial strides in 5 years.
Thus we get a time leap, a proper explanation as to how Arylie managed to stay away from each other for five years and how we have a Chiku and not a Gudiya. All that the articles suggested could come true thereafter.
Aryan would be forced to go to Pagdandiya by his 'boss', Malini in pursuit of the writer of that article and there he would unknowingly meet up with his daughter and get on with her like a house on fire. Aryan and Imlie's re-encounter would also be filled with tashaan coz Aryan would have the wrong end of the stick as to why Imlie left him.
Upon discovering how Malini took away Aryan's companies away from him and how hellish Malini has made Aryan's life in the last five years Imlie decides to fight against Malini and get her haq se balamwa back. She then earnestly pursues a hurt therefore reluctant Aryan who has built all kinds of walls around his heart..