Reading in SM gives me the view that it is being shown that suspense is being created that Abhimanyu may have a hand in killing Abhinav with the cliff and not drinking thing. Fooling the TV audience who probably doesn't know about soon to begin 'intense romance' that too for a cameo! Anyways, IMO intense romance has also reached it's peak when the married FL had romantic flashbacks in her ex's room (or so I have read) and the engaged ML - the less said the better. With FL's husband dead, it seems less pathetic by half atleast.
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