5 Years later, she still wore the mangalsutra he had placed on her neck, and had on her sindoor, even though she had chosen to live separately and move on. After the full truth of the Shyam fiasco had come out in the open, each member of the Raizada & Gupta family had begged for Khushi's forgiveness. Arnav's pleas to gain Khushi's forgiveness had obviously been the strongest begging her to stay and give him, rather give their relationship a second chance. Before she had walked out of the house, she had told him that she had forgiven him and she had meant those words with her heart, however she told him that before she could give anyone a second chance, she needed to give her life a second chance by moving on. She told him that he should do the same too, move on with his life, forget about the past, and forget her. Then why did she still wear the mangalsutra and sindoor if she had truly moved on, she questioned herself every single day? The answer was simple; she was still profoundly in love with him to this day. Yes she had moved on by making a life for herself, but had she really moved on from him?
During these 5 years, Khushi had made it a point to visit her Babuji every month as she knew how much faith her babuji had had in her during the time she too had doubted herself, and he was the only true family she counted herself to have, and now she had Jia. He was a father any child would have dreamt of having, her angel, he had been her strength. Khushi still hadn't forgiven Payal, Garima or Buaji for the hurtful words and accusations they had hurled at her that day. She hadn't forgotten or wasn't the slightest bit ungrateful for what they had done for her in the past, however once someone had disowned you as their own, she felt that there was no question of there ever being a true relation however much later on. When she went to visit her babuji, each time they begged for her forgiveness and asked her to come back home, and Khushi still respected them like she had before and spoke to them respectfully and repeated each time that she had forgiven them, however she still kept distant from them. Both Garima and Buaji had been dying to hear Khushi call them Amma & Buaji even just once; however Khushi now just addressed them as Auntyji. They couldn't blame Khushi for keeping distant as they knew they had been the cause of causing the distance and had lost their right on Khushi. Payal too was now addresses ad Payalji instead of jiji. Never once did Babuji force Khushi to come back home or even continue insisting as he knew and could feel exactly what Khushi had gone through and knew that she would come back home by herself when she was completely healed from the incidents of the past.