Sometimes, I think MC has gone into full-blown vengeance mode without even completely realizing it. A couple of truths have hit her hard:
1. Adi is more attached to Imlie than he’s attached to his work, and that’s what he’d been most attached to in the seven years they were together. She cannot accept the fact that she could never earn the attention that Imlie could in just a few months. Every little thing about Imlie affects Adi, and that laser focus he has on her all day, every day is something Malini cannot digest.
2. This point has been brought out a few times already. Despite Imlie being his wife, she cannot accept that Adi would actually be adamant in leaving Malini for Imlie. This woman is so shameless, she would have had no qualms against still spending her life with Adi as the illegal wife if he were inclined to do so after he told her the truth the second time. 🤢 I think she told him that right after, too. The fact that Adi’s in love with Imlie and wants to spend his life with her is something that is eating away at her shattered ego and classist pride. That’s why she’s doing anything and everything she can not to have to be forced into accepting this truth.
3. Malini would rather Adi be indifferent with everyone than partial to someone, unless that someone is herself. She and the rest of the T’s and C’s can clearly see that Imlie is the fulcrum of his existence, and in his eyes, no matter what she does, she will always be the love of his life. He won’t give up on her. He said that very clear in this episode too. Malini has made several taunts about how Imlie’s actions have never affected Adi’s loyalty towards her (remember the office party scene?), so the fact that Imlie has that kind of ‘power’ over Adi that she could never gain after seven years of subtle manipulations and guilt-tripping affects her. It’s like in her mind, Imlie succeeded in a battle she had failed. 🤢
All of this has culminated into what could very well be a subconscious plot for stone cold revenge, plain and simple.