No way Payal is going to see anything other than Akash. That much enthusiasm to go help a girl who she doesn't like at all cannot be explained otherwise! 😆
I thought Payal going to the Raizada house could be one way for Shashi to find out that Anjali is a Raizada. When he saw them talking together, didn't Shyam say that Anjali was some client of his? Now it would be very difficult to explain how Anjali was a client of his and still he pretended to not be able to go to the Raizada house in all the times that Khushi was in trouble, blah-blah. That would make somewhat of a sticky spot for Shyam.