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Originally posted by: VeiledWords

Thanks a lot Tashi. Always such lovely comments ❤️❤️❤️ Also thanks. I had corrected the penthouse thingy. I knew the chapter was going to come as a shock. This was not what everyone was waiting for but we needed to move forward in the story. I am also sorry about the boxer’s fight. They did get away for the act. I don’t think I have a lot to say about this chapter. What I gather from comments is that it is really hard to feel for a single character when you know what happened from both POVs. We know Arnav’s truth but I have said several times. It doesn’t take away anything from Khushi’s pain. ❤️

Lavanya took advantage of the situation but at the end it was a drunken mistake.

Because if he was dr*gged it means he was r*ped. I don’t know how many times i have written this but otherwise it was just a drunken mistake.

Now, I don’t know what to feel.

Originally posted by: lechuarshi

I am going to comment in small parts.

I somehow understand arnav but felt more pain and devastation then numbness all over after khushi's reaction. Most women in our country (not including the metro cities becuase things r very much different and modern but majority of population reside in small towns, rural areas) somehow represent Khushi. Being a girl child, living a sheltered life, grooming to be daughter in law or someone's wife. Before marriage under the shadow of father - after marriage under the shadow of husband, then in ur middle age to old age under the shadow of eldest or alone. I think this particular stage of life will eventually teach her a lesson that to never trust anyone blindly(be it family or partner). For that she needs to pick up all those broken self and ready to wage battle against her own insecurities, selflessness and inferiority complex.

Arnav, ab kya bathau? late realisation and assumptions killed his chance of happiness. Wish he went for that therapy year ago. Thoughts muddled, no Communication and his over responsibility and always do right mantra fu@ked up everything.

VD and khushi and rhea and Arnav 🤣

The twist Arpita have in mind is Arnav and Khushi at the end be sister in law and brother in law celebrating Rakhi.😈.

Originally posted by: Learrntowrite

Okay, I have cried cursed and slept over it. I don’t think I could have said anything yesterday. My brain pretty much behaved like Arnav’s and things jumbled up.

first of all, I am beyond bummed that the boxers lost the match. In hindsight it does make sense because then pregnancy was much more believable to Arnav.

However, if he really was drugged in any capacity, I will personally write enough curses to Lavanya that I might just get banned off IF. I swear. He’s dying in guilt.

Coming to Khushi, you make my heart twist in pain for her. Despite knowing of all the circumstances in which Arnav did what he did, this chapter hurt me as much as Khushi’s interlude. Her winds are so raw and this is the first time we see her acknowledge the intensity of her pain. Needless to say, it hurts.

It did not even occur to me how it would have seemed to her when Arnav’s asked her who told you instead of how are you? As a reader I know he was going absolutely crazy at the time, but she doesn’t know the extent of it. Khushi would have reached out to wipe his tears if places were swapped. In fact right now when she was in absolute low, she still was tempted to reach out to him instinctively 💔💔

I am again bowled over by how much this woman actually loves and believes in him. She accepted his answer that he did not have an affair because she still believes he is a decent enough human being to not lie at this stage and if anything that killed Arnav more.

And to acknowledge that she still didn’t say a single thing with the purpose of hurting him or demeaning anyone else. She simply stated what she felt and even that was unbearable to Arnav. Her turning away from him has caused him so much pain. A good reality check to what she must have felt.

Also, I am so glad that this chapter did not focus on Lavanya alone and Khushi called him out for shutting her down. If we have any hopes for them in the future, this problem needed to be addressed. I hope it knocks some sense into both of them about their priorities.

Now coming to Arnav. I wanted to rip my hair out. I am hurting for him too but him realising how bad he is at communication is literally the worst thing possible. You as a writer nailed it, me as a reader just cried realising it.

The way my heart twisted when he shut up because things had started to sound like excuses in his own head 💔😭 I am glad he still fought his natural instincts of running away and told her majority of it. I wish if he finds out that his drink was hampered or even if he remembers how vehemently he said no to Lavanya, he would let her know. I seriously wish whatever our lord saviour Aman comes up with, is enough for Arnav to look Khushi in the eye. Someday.

He needs to apologise and tell her with more conviction that what he did was for her benefit. I guess in some ways he already said that and Khushi also accepted it. But her question was too valid. How come she is the one who ends up getting hurt if everyone was trying to protect her only. 💔💔💔

I am still team Arshi who believes they need a lot of therapy. I had to go back and read Arnav’s memory lane again to remind myself of what the reality was. Not that it makes Khushi’s pain any less real. I needed to remind myself where his heart was when all of it happened.


coming to VD. I see what you did there.

His last line was ‘let’s find your happiness (Khushi)

you really did not go subtle with breaking my Arshi heart there di 😭😭. My hopes of seeing them end up together in this FF are slashed by half after this chapter. I have the same feeling as Arnav. He is too late.

Khushi realising that she had put herself behind everything was the only silver lining in this chapter. I hope in coming days, she comes out of this paralysing pain and puts herself first. She still getting moved by Arnav’s tears is my last hope for both of them and my own sanity.

ps- on a lighter note, now that boxers have lost the match , we will fill pages thinking what is VD’s full name 😭

take a bow di. Take a bow. Every time I think I’ve become normal, this FF pulls me back into madness.

I have seen you defend Arnav like it’s a matter of life and death. And then I have seen you jump to Khushi’s defence equally. I have loved that you have been balanced and empathetic to both of these very flawed characters. Thank you for all the love ❤️❤️❤️

Also commendable how much you are rooting for them and you’re unapologetic about it without being over bearing. Absolutely loved the comment ❤️

Happy Birthday Swati. Hope you are having a blast.

Cheers..

Originally posted by: coderlady

A gut wrenching chapter. The good part is he did not run this time. He faced it head on. This was always going to be a difficult conversation but he knew he had to do it now. For his sanity and hers. And out it came. Every bit of it broke her some more. We thought she had reached rock bottom, but no. She has reached there now. She will cry till her tears run dry. Then she will pick herself up. What will she do now? She might not have the answer yet but she will get there.

There is a lot more to say, but its getting late. Time to brush my teeth and get some sleep.

Originally posted by: Pujakrishna

Let me take a breath.

Where do i start from, like i want to say so much but my heart also feels numb, all at the same time.

Ahhhhhh. It felt like khushi peeked in my heart and asked arnav all the questions that i wanted to or may be vice-versa, i am one who has peeked in her soul.

So many of her questions and turmoil made me put the phone away and think damnn i thought the exact same, so many of them reminded me of my many comments that i wrote from her perspective, i remember commenting after chapter-3 that not just arnav but so many of her relations have failed her including aman whom she considered her brother and now after so many chapters she is saying the exact same thing.

She is still holding onto the hope and asking did you not know it was not me? Why didn't you stop then? what if it would have been someone else in place of shyam? She still wants to hold onto her arnav. This woman!

I visualized Hassan here saying amir, for you, a thousand times over.

The part where she says if he had ever loved her than it wouldn't have been so easy for him to dessert her so easily, is the exact question i wanted to ask you arpita after arnav's DML when you gave us the 2 question only thing.

In arnav's dml when they have the conversation before her going to lucknow and him to panchgani, he understands that he has behaved vile with her, he understands that she must be crying her eyes out now but he still choose not to go and console her, this part made me feel, may be atleast for that period of time he really fall out of love with her and it was not just what he made himself belief.

Now coming to the ONS, i am confused here arpita, in his conversation with akash he says just for one moment when la came onto him he understood it was not khushi, but here he says he understood it was not khushi not just for once but even when she was under him, this makes it a proper cheating then. That his body was not listening to his mind. So unless lunatic has not given him viagra or something of that sort, it turns itself to a proper cheating. Yes i know she forced herself on him and i am the one who have gone to lengths in saying it rape and talking about man's biology and all, but the admission that he did to himself in this chapter compelling me to think otherwise. It was not just while kissing but also in bed he understood it was not khushi beneath him and still continued till the very last.

In arnav's dml you feel so so bad for him but when it comes to khushi i am lost. In arnav's situation atleast he got to make the choices, all this miseries were his own choices but for khushi she just have bear the repercussions of the choices she never made.

There were certain paragraphs where i had to put the phone down, stare at nothing and then re-read the whole thing again. At some part you were just brilliant arpita. --- “Do you know what heartbreak does Arnav? At first it leaves you blind with pain. You’re just stumbling across in darkness and then one random day, all the light comes back, and you start seeing things you should have seen all along. Things that you happily ignored all this while because you were blinded by love and trust.” ---These lines arpita, take a bow!

About DV if he is going to be the new love interest of khushi, i don't know how i feel about it. This khushi has loved this arnav just too much to not end up with him.

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Them sitting in two ends of the bed.

The whole photo part, where khushi sends her Devi Maiyaa the prayer to look after her world.

this is heartbreaking Puja...i agree with everything. I understand arnav's misery but atleast we know he brought that on himself..Khushi didnt deserve this period.

@bold and italic - we are assuming VD might be romatic interest, it might not. he might just be a friend or a guide to help her out. though even i am despairing that he might as well be based on that 'you will get your happiness' comment :(

I dont agree to the Bold Red part though

I still wont believe he cheated till we know Lunatics DML. These are arnav's memories..they were hazy to say the least. he doesnt remember saying multiple Nos or asking her to call driver, he doesnt remember he was contemplating the jump just before. He doesnt even remember if he actually mixed drinks or not. His answers always have this uncertainty that he might have drunk too fast and mixed his drinks. he doesnt remember that with certainty. He is bound to think he went all the way isnt it? thats why he believed lavanya could be pregnant. we have doubt because of the boxers but he never had any doubt. Not because he remembers but because he thinkls he did.

as tashi said, i will wait for Lunatic's chapter to get my heart broken completely 💔

Originally posted by: bakwas_serial

This was heartbreaking. This was so much more than my rant about his indifferent behavior and taking decisions for her and what it would do to his wife.

I never factored her personality or how she sees her relationship with her husband. The ray of hope that he always sees in her eyes is the love and hope that things are not as bad it seems and it will be alright ! (That was so sad and painful to read)

I am keeping aside his ONS. Maybe he was drugged maybe he was not. Yes he will find out who was behind the pics and he will settle scores.

But I hope he also spends time on all what Khushi said to him today. His own responses his biases and what drive his decisions. That he did not ever factor how it would affect her.

The few are "I thought I had ruined her life Khushi” ..so Lavanya was actually pregnant then what would he have done? Leave Khushi his wife, I guess.

It is always about him and what he thinks is the right thing to do. His self importance.

The mistake may be his . But it affects the couple and the two make a decision and face it "together".

Yes it is also true that he now has realized that his reasons for divorce was wrong and he loves her dearly. But why is it always about him ,his needs

"How did he ever doubt he was not important to her?"

A relationship is about two people.

Not sure what to make of his asking if Khushi wanted to leave today.

He just told his wife that he was going to leave her not because of a affair. He was also supporting a ONS woman because she was pregnant..because he ruined that woman's life supposedly. You have shattered all her beliefs...give her time and space. Which no one has given her till now.

Hope he has now realized how unconditionally she loves/loved him..and he should make all effort to win back her trust.

I guess Khushi journey for self discovery has already started. Assuming the appearance of VD in the story is to help her recognize her self worth.

Originally posted by: BollyBabe75

Arilip, I agree with you but I consider his behavior as selfish and self centered like the men he detests that he feels he is like. Men perpetuate patriarchal behavior for selfish, self centered reasons to keep their power. I think we may be saying essentially the same thing just using different adjectives.

Yes , May be you are right. But for me I feel if you never fight for yourself then ppl will think you are weak and fragile and not capable of taking your decisions on your own. That’s what happened here for him responsibility was bigger than any other emotion even love. Khushi always had behaved as his minion by not asking anything trying to adjust to whatever comes her way, he took her for granted (not saying he was right but he was also thrown on unrecognised grounds ) because that’s what she let him do, wasn’t she the one who told him off for not telling her about his job. She did the same with her parents . Payal was right she put the bar on the floor but no one looks there and for me he didn’t dig underneath he was looking for the bar and stumbled and fell on face!!!!

I am not saying what happened to her was right, because no one deserves this. But life does throw lemons. She asked Arnav about his question “how did you know” as much that hurt, she also didn’t think in her righteous anger and hurt, that a man as responsible as Arnav was cheated by a woman who he thought he wronged. That’s what humans do when we are hurt our own hurt subsides everything. Arnav post rave party had only been firefighting unfortunately khushi joined to him got into the crossfire. There is no right or wrong here. He behaved in a specific manor with her she unknowingly let him. They both belong to same patriarchal society. I hope someone show her where she was wrong. At the moment no one is even thinking on those lines. It’s important for her to learn otherwise she will never heal.

Originally posted by: TheFictionFreak

Take a bow Arpita.I was teary eyed while reading this. We all knew the questions Khushi will be asking. But still reading them in your words is simply heart wrenching.With each chapter you set a higher bar of standard for yourself and go higher with the next chapter.

Originally posted by: BollyBabe75

Bakwas, add the fact that if the guy would have not been Shyam she might marry, Arnav would not have gone and gotten Khushi. He would have let her go. So she sees that as further proof of her importance to him. He also realizes that although he loves her it is not to the same degree that she loves him. But that is probably true in most marriages. One partner probably loves more than the other or at least at various times in a marriage if not always.