How come Shivaya was in a relationship if he doesn't believe in love?

Nothing "dear"!!! I just wanted to clear out some level of immature/nonsensical negativity concerning Shivaay-Mallika's relationship but after knowing the "DNA" of any typical India-Forums' forum well, I didn't wanted to be an active/vocal member of it except once. So I typed the whole long-enough intro about myself and my views about how this show should be taken along with seeking permission and disclaimers about the level of "hardness" (read: maturity) required precisely get my point. I even prefaced about it to give a better idea of what my actual take [on the topic] would be and wanted to add some points already shared by others with which I'm in agreement with [as 'hints']. But that all ended up in a "breeze" just'coz I switched to the only other opened tab of a thread on this forum to cross-check that reference which I was gonna include as 'hint'. TBVH, somehow I had a feeling "deep inside" that all my efforts would vanish in a "woosh" should I tried to take a look at thread properly but I still took a "chance" (read: 'risk') and the result was... "Voila"!!! That "faint-feeling" suddenly turned into reality which then made me upset to the great extent but as I had already experienced such "dramas" before, it surprisingly didn't irked me to the notable extent. But yet, it was still "great-enough" to discourage me as I was typing it since the max. total of past 4-5 hours (including 2 breaks of half-an-hour or so and few more for mere 1-2 minutes each) but my "greatest sorrow" was that I INDEED didn't had something (not even water) for past 15-18 hours consecutively and yet I was upto "nothing"!!!* So, while I wished to reply you earlier but had some ["trust"] issues AND therefore I postponed it (like "anything") so as to observe whether I get any new email alert for new reply or not but ['Un']Thankfully, I [unsurprisingly] didn't garner much interest. Anyways, I wish I could share an audio-file just like you could share images and YouTube videos but [un]fortunately, there's nothing such as a SoundCloud support. And add to that, there's a thing called "privacy issue" which is embraced by [almost] all of us so I had to use some audio-editing tools [for my voice]. If you're getting [a little] confused over where did the "audio-file" thing suddenly come into play, it was just that after all what has happened (equals to "what I've gone/went through"), I was in "no mood" to try typing all that over again, even if I had received enough interest [miraculously]. And as per common belief, speaking anything's h--l lot of easier/effortless than writing/typing the very same thing, I had planned to do an audio recording and post it here as a response which included all of my points which I had and wanted to, include [in my now-lost forever script]. But resembling to what I originally said in that script, I would like to state here is that there's been a much more progress in regards to the perception of that character Mallika that many have started having "positive vibes" about her for good, I don't think I need to try speaking about her anymore. This forum is "Thankfully" already much chaotic always so I think it would be not wiser to add to that. And that's the reason why I took a formal break of 1-and-half days from this forum.

And see, within a day there has been much of a development here. The most interesting one [for me] here being the makers sidelining the "love-story" of a lead "couple" over the obvious reason (may read: 'excuse') of disappointing ratings. But the most catchy part was the consideration of reaction by self-styled "fans" which allegedly went on a intimidation-course by the means of verbal abuse, harassment, name-calling etcetera (all that [un]fortunately "common" online behaviour in current "era") which purportedly have more reasons to "bring the curtains down" over that storyline. And what's more surprising is that the network is also satisfied of the reasons and even went a step ahead in doing its part in that direction. Considering that article to be nothing but "sheer truth" (unlike as is the common case), it's 1st-time-ever that the showrunners of an Indian TV project had to be affected by the reactions of "anonymous" creatures who neither even have a good idea about television ratings (let alone being able to contribute towards it) nor they mostly do have the Anti-Piracy stand, the antithesis of the thing in which they're much into that threatens the very existence of makers and careers of their 'very-own' "idols" leading to an obvious question i.e. has they even got that the thing they're seemingly "dying for" is nothing but a sheer business at the end the day. Anyways, I'm glad that at least this episode prompted the IF moderators to go vigilante and actively moderate sensitive threads, the thing which was "missing" earlier. And since I don't have an iota of idea personally about the whole episode, I will just repeat Mallika's words here: "Whatever happens, it happens for the best". So let's be optimistic about it! And what I originally intended to include in that 'original script' was also that "Nobody's perfect! There are rights and wrongs at each side" so may we just hope [and "pray"] that each of the sides get their 'wrongs' precisely/well so they could rectify themselves for the future.

Note: Really Sorry that should you've had to get pi--ed off by reading this, but Trust Me, I originally wanted to keep it short but [somehow] sensing the genuineness in your concern, I thought why shouldn't I be "real" with you. So Sorry about that if you really got frustrated reading "the prologue of a novel". What's more?? In yet-another "classic case", my 14-15 lines of this reply got garbled-up due to editing attempt [by me] and realising it has "gone" (read: 'been deleted') till I read this post on preview page carefully, I had to retype those unscripted words over again which lead to the execution of my "classic-improvement-habit" ultimately leading to making this post a bit longer (and even more when I'm explaining all these here [either "unnecessarily" or "necessarily", I don't know...!])

*Whether you Trust Me or Not, I haven't made-up even a single claim in that. I stated it as much as I could recall it at the moment.