Not going to watch the episode. Tied up, so your analysis is a boon. It looks like we have a backstory that is so jaded and run down the mill, it simply leaves little for imagination.
Expecting too much from ITV is a bane. And anyway they stuck to what they promoted since the beginning. Manvi fell for Mrityunjay. Mrityunjay dumped Manvi. Manvi became Maya. Now Maya is out to wreck his family which he holds so dear. So that is no rocket science.
I just want to know how MJ is linked with Maya's father and brother. Why the rest of the family are in cahoot with MJ's destruction of Maya's family..
Manvi must have rebelled against Mrityunjay for using and dumping her and he wreaked havoc on her family - havoc as in threats, abuse, torture. So child for a child, family for a family. People like Mrityunjay deserve what is coming for them.