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Originally posted by: Arilip

I don’t understand why we are fighting about Manali leaking the divorce news and khushi’s family getting hurt? Divorce was happening so the news would have come out anyway. Had it not been Shyam, and khushi landing in soup by being called at psnchayat he would never have gone back to bring her back. Even when he realised khushi wanted him more than a baby , he was happy to let her go to a better and fuller life which he thought she deserved. Love like that is rare, khushi let him go the moment she realised he found someone else. They both are self sacrificing lovers 💖 they deserve happiness!!! Song appropriate to their situation

https://youtu.be/nOZ3M1O0Wbg

We understand things from a woman’s perspective better. There is this dialogue Arnav said after khushi kept rejecting him because she couldn’t bear children and she knew he loved and wanted children but will choose her without any hitch. Role reversal

I have cried over this ff too. Thanks for posting again Ari.

and tere liye. Such an apt song for these two souls 🥰😍😍😍

Originally posted by: You-Know-Who

And many times people cannot fathom what they themselves wouldn't do. Like he cries in Februray about being surprised that random people were coming after him. You know why? Because he would never do that to anyone!

This is where my heart actually broke for him too 💔

Originally posted by: Learrntowrite

this is the only thing I’ll agree on. He has pulled back. He has stonewalled her. And it has caused her a lot of strain. No wonder she saw pics and assumed what was happening.

my sympathy only lies in the fact that his heart was not in the wrong place. He’s troubled. That’s all. I also don’t find his discussion of divorce with his lawyer troubling. Akash and Payal found out by mistake. Plus, he never started on the proceedings without talking to Khushi. Naina was there to help Basu. Not for divorce.

I re-read that specifically. Entire conversation with lawyer Basu about his will to avoid the property going to illegitimate child, he refers to Khushi has his divorced wife. What does that tell us and the lawyer? Aman and lawyer both were shocked as follows -

Arnav paused for a moment before speaking dangerously slowly again. “Please don’t interrupt me when I am speaking. Now listen to the whole question. Can my illegitimate biological child with another woman and its family contest my will against my divorced wife?”

The room fell into a hushed silence and Arnav could see the absolute shock written on two faces in front of him for a moment. He deliberately did not look at Aman and kept his eyes on his lawyer who looked at loss of words.

Arnav tells Mr. Basu following in front of Aman -

“Get Naina here today to advise you on the will change. Inform her of what is the situation and whatever help you need with the will. I will speak to her about the divorce once I have spoken to my wife. And I can get on a call with Aditya right away.”

He is clearly informing Mr. Basu and Aman about his impending divorce and wanted to proceed talking with Naina once he talks to Khushi.

Originally posted by: SwatStar_Arshi

You're saying that Arnav should have known in December that Lavanya and Manali would go after Khushi by sending Khushi the pics when he doesn't know until January that they were a bunch of lying freaks? - Nope, I said the freelancer photographer would send Khushi pics, texts, anything can happen in the digital and business world, the rivals could find pics and misuse it too. I am saying Lavanya would go after Khushi after Jan 2nd when Arnav rejected her and a wounded lioness would go to any extent which turned out be true.

Another thing: Why would the freelancer send Khushi pics? Tell me what he would get out of getting personal with Arnav? Arnav at this point in time, does not know anyone who would try to ruin his personal life just for the sake of it. If I was a freelancer, I would want to make quick money, I would blackmail two people involved. Not their wife. Because the moment the wife knows, I would never get that money. The entire point of blackmail is lost.

Another thing, that Lavanya would go after Khushi after Jan 2nd is also not true. She didn't. Manali comes to threaten Arnav in March and she is immediately scared and tries to stop going after Khushi but unfortunately is too late. So I would say, Arnav was actually astute here in estimating La-Ma's reach and intent. Manali absolutely wanted to stop that divorce news leak, and we saw that.

I believe you are coming at this from a third person perspective after you have the knowledge of what all events have gone through. You have hindsight. You as a reader, know who and how Lavanya is. You know her intent, Arnav doesn't. You are also trying to piece together things in hindsight by trying to build a story saying Arnav should have understood. But you have all the pieces and the advantage of hindsight as well as Lavanya/Manali's thoughts to create that picture. You can see the pit he fell into. Arnav cannot.

Originally posted by: Learrntowrite

but he IS too clinical. Always. it’s been said time and again he compartmentalised his emotions at times. And he does it here twice. He also swallows his anger and lets things go instead of raging like we all wanted him to.

This is like the first sentence Aman springs up on him. Of course he is bound to be shocked/surprised.

Plus, I don’t think tone needs to even be a point of debate anymore since the author specified that the comment was directed towards the act Aman had pulled, not who he had pulled it against.

😊. Surpise and shock are not equivalent. Wish it was shock..it was not.

Arpita says it too that he Arnav knew it was about lavanya non pregnancy and he would not change his response of surprise.

Your call..if you don't care for the tone, Isha.

I have already explained to Tashi ..why this conversation was important

Originally posted by: SwatStar_Arshi

I re-read that specifically. Entire conversation with lawyer Basu about his will to avoid the property going to illegitimate child, he refers to Khushi has his divorced wife. What does that tell us and the lawyer? Aman and lawyer both were shocked as follows -

Arnav paused for a moment before speaking dangerously slowly again. “Please don’t interrupt me when I am speaking. Now listen to the whole question. Can my illegitimate biological child with another woman and its family contest my will against my divorced wife?”

The room fell into a hushed silence and Arnav could see the absolute shock written on two faces in front of him for a moment. He deliberately did not look at Aman and kept his eyes on his lawyer who looked at loss of words.

Arnav tells Mr. Basu following in front of Aman -

“Get Naina here today to advise you on the will change. Inform her of what is the situation and whatever help you need with the will. I will speak to her about the divorce once I have spoken to my wife. And I can get on a call with Aditya right away.”

He is clearly informing Mr. Basu and Aman about his impending divorce and wanted to proceed talking with Naina once he talks to Khushi.

When he is referring the question of a divorced wife, he is questioning it in case of his will being debated. That is In the event of his passing. That’s him talking about future. By then he HAD decided that he and Khushi will get separated/divorced. In the chapter he had also thought of the possibility that khushi may still choose him and he may give in to her years. But this became an absolute reality to him when he (according to him) committed adultery.

His ultimate sentence to his lawyer was the fact “that my marital status to Khushi should be irrelevant” in how my will gets distributed.

In the same chapter he also wished he was a lowly struggler who had more time to handle his life’s mess and not involve Aman.

Originally posted by: SwatStar_Arshi

Arnav has faced agonizing two months owing to his own stupidity, even author accepts Khushi's god couldn't help him.

I would have really respected Arnav if he would have let go off her by explaining how he never wanted kids and even gone on to lie to her that he wanted his freedom. He knew she will always wanted to see him happy and would have obliged.

But Arnav here did not let go off Khushi before mentally torturing her for almost a year by refusing to discuss matter of baby and his reasons like mature adults, he was angry for her not accepting or even after she accepting his decision and avoid going to Lucknow, started living separately, hardly was talking to her, would not inform her about his whereabouts, he cheated on her with Lavanya (not ONS but the aftermath), he has informed about divorce with friends, Aman, La and Ma, also with lawyer Mr. Basu asking him questions about his divorced wife. So at least 6 people knew before he discussed divorce with his own wife, unacceptable.

It was not just assumptions, he has behaved crass with Khushi and we cannot ignore that..

This entire paragraph, perhaps the way its phrased, absolutely does not sound like the Arnav of this story.

Mentally torturing her for a year? NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. He was guilty. He tried his best to give her a baby. He is the kind of guy who is having panic attacks at the thought of the baby, and yet one smile on Khushi's face at Leher's birth and he gives in. Tries his best to have the baby, but here Khushi's love for him, does not allow Khushi to do him a disservice.

Sorry to say but your words here make it sound like he was emotionally abusing Khushi and doing it with the intent of hurting her. I vehemently and passionately disagree. If you focus on when exactly he decides to go for divorce, its when he is rude to her for the first time. Yes, he is avoiding conversation with her, yes he let distances creep up in their marriage, yes he did not talk to her, but do you at this point know, why he possibly could not talk to her? Maybe he thought his effort to talk was going to be futile anyway because Khushi would anyway compromise and he didn't want her to anymore. He thought he had made her compromise for about 3 years by not having a baby with her, anyway!! This does not sound like a man who is knowingly mentally torturing his wife!

Originally posted by: bakwas_serial

😊. Surpise and shock are not equivalent. Wish it was shock..it was not.

Arpita says it too that he Arnav knew it was about lavanya non pregnancy and he would not change his response of surprise.

Your call..if you don't care for the tone, Isha.

I have already explained to Tashi ..why this conversation was important

I read her response. It meant what I said in my comment. Lavanya or anyone else being there was irrelevant. It was directed purely to Aman’s act. Let’s not forget this same Aman hesitated to spy on his Khushi bhabhi and Arnav understood his dilemma. Even he wasn’t convinced.

given what all he has done for Khushi, basing anything over this one line, which the writer confirmed is a reaction to Aman’s act more than anything, is reaching IMO. It just bothers readers because they hate Lavanya and somehow can’t digest that Arnav is a decent human being who doesn’t go around upending people’s lives or just raging in anger at all times.

Originally posted by: Learrntowrite

I read her response. It meant what I said in my comment. Lavanya or anyone else being there was irrelevant. It was directed purely to Aman’s act. Let’s not forget this same Aman hesitated to spy on his Khushi bhabhi and Arnav understood his dilemma. Even he wasn’t convinced.

given what all he has done for Khushi, basing anything over this one line, which the writer confirmed is a reaction to Aman’s act more than anything, is reaching IMO. It just bothers readers because they hate Lavanya and somehow can’t digest that Arnav is a decent human being who doesn’t go around upending people’s lives or just raging in anger at all times.

Shraddha, I understand that this one line makes you feel like Khushi is no where in Arnav's priority list. But just for a second, if you remove this one line from your evidence, do you think anything else Arnav has done proves that?

I guess what we are trying to say is that this sentence was not "AMAN HOW DARE YOU GO THROUGH LAVANYA'S PERSONAL HISTORY. THIS IS NOT THE WAY WE DO THINGS", but more like, "How do you know this? You went through someone's medical records? How is this possible? When you're not the kind of guy to do this kind of thing?"

And you know why i can understand this tone? I am very much like Arnav when I suddenly receive good news that I absolutely did not/could not expect? I process things exactly this way. My first reaction is to verify that news I received comes from right sources, before I can let my brain feel relieved, or celebrate. My brain is conditioned to not accept anything good until I am sure it cannot be taken away later saying it was a misunderstanding. This is exactly why I can understand why he said that.

However, I understand your POV too. When I first read this (on my very very first read) I was annoyed too. And I was like what the hell, why is he not turning absolutely ballistic about it. How does he even care about these things at this juncture? But then once I calmed down, I understood that I knew about all the things Lavanya did. My anger over her molesting him, everything was piling up in my head. And it would have given me as the reader, the satisfaction to see Arnav lose his cool and bring Lavanya down to her knees. However, Arnav does not hate Lavanya in this moment as much as we do. He is still coming to terms with the hate. He has just been given a relieving news after a long torturous time and he is just processing the how/why of it.

I’m blown away.

Hi Arpita. Another old reader and half of your namesake here!

My heart has been put through a wringer with this FF. I log in after years and this is what I’m rewarded with. I’m so overwhelmed by every single chapter! What gripping storyline and what beautiful characters!

I want to write pages on both. But I’ll bite and stick to paragraphs.

First your Khushi. Just an absolute angel of love. To think that she ended up with a man who was the first one to ever give her butterflies in her stomach! Ahhh my heart! It makes it seem like you’ve weaved a tale of some profound cosmic connection. That she was destined to love Arnav so much that even in innocence, there’s no one else. As if her Devi Maiyya has always known. And this is purely based on Khushi’s love. I’ll come to them as a couple later on.

No wonder she was Arnav’s anchor. A love like that will do that to you. I had tears in my eyes when he was showing her a new house and she was looking at him. My thoughts were exactly what Arnav was thinking. How was it so easy for her! To take his breath away with such a simple gesture. Loving Arnav comes as naturally as breathing to her. That’s why these small gestures on her part don’t come off as showy. For her, loving and caring for him is just the truth of her life.

Which is why I have cried oceans in the first few chapters for her. I read each chapter with a boulder over my heart, praying to Devi Maiyya to not let it be an affair because what will Arnav be if he disrespects a love like that?

I can sense why she says Mumbai is too many memories. I can understand why she wants to uproot everything and go back. At first, I got angry at her too, wanting her to retaliate to her parents. But I saw that ultimately it was her father’s plea that got through to her. She, in Arnav’s words, is all the light in this darkness filled world. I am in love with her and I want her to be happy at the end. With or without Arnav. Even though a part of me knows that Khushi will always feel his absence.

Coming to your Arnav. What a mighty complex character you have created Arpita. I’ve never wanted to yell at and then comfort a man in the same breath ever but you somehow managed. I find myself so conflicted here. It was not easy for me to even hate him completely in the initial chapters because the flashback Arnav had my whole heart.

Now I know he’s troubled. Beyond the shadow of a doubt he is troubled and stopping communication from his end has led to this whole circus in the first place. He was, in a very unfortunate place, at a very unfortunate time. Doesn’t help that he was dealing with a lot of mental strain too.

I wish he had reached out to Khushi. I wish he had tried to talk to her and tell her what’s bothering him instead of shutting her out for the whole year. She must’ve felt so lost without her Arnav who was her everything. To get up one day and deliberately create this distance is what makes me angriest at this Arnav.

But in the same breath, he does or says something that is but a passing glimpse of an underlying love which may just be as potent as Khushi’s. That is something which keeps my hopes alive for this gloriously flawed yet strangely loving character.

Everyone around him realises what Khushi’s leaving had actually done to him. It took 3 months but he has realised too. I hope he reaches out to her because I have no doubt that even though Khushi’s heart is bleeding, it still carries enough love for this flawed man to pull him towards the light. She is probably the only thing that can pull him to the light.

I have so much more to say but I’m exhausted and overwhelmed. I have read non stop and that’s a first for me. That pen, writer Sahiba, is just as mighty as it used to be. Mightier even.

Waiting for the next chapter the way Khushi waited for her Arnav Ji after his first day of joining at the new office 😂🙏