Hello SGs, 🤗
It is as clear as Windex wiped glass when the CVs believe in what they are presenting on the screen and when they are not. When their heart is not into it, something with as much potential as the hut sequence goes haywire. But when their heart is into it, when they believe, they come up with stuff like the first 5 minutes of the episode today. Something as unrealistic and improbable as a telepathic conversation becomes a milestone in the ArHi relationship. 👏 And the cynic amongst us starts believing that beyond wi-fi, 4G and satellites, there is world where there are no dropped calls and people could communicate with just their hearts. 😆

This is Khushi - the ASR edition. She has always believed in the stars, in the smiles, in a world lit with fairy lights. Now she sees the bad side of the world too -- the rose tinted glasses are completely off -- and she has become a part of it in her quest to bring Arnav-ji back. She has tried hard not to acknowledge her feelings for him, because that meant acknowledging the world he lived in, the world that threatened her dreams and opened her eyes to reality. Today, she lives in that world, that reality and she still believes.
Baat sach ya jhoot ki nahi hai. Baat vishwaas ki hai. Atoot vishwaas ki.

This is ASR -- the Arnav edition. He is a believer today. He has always wanted to believe in the stars, in the smiles, in the promise of the rosier life that Khushi brought to him. He has tried hating her, he hated the dreams she brought into his life, dreams that came with the risk of not becoming reality. Today, the man dreams of Khushi, amidst the fairy lights and he believes. In the stars, the love and the promise that is Khushi .
kya kar diya, Khushi, tumne mere saath.

Kitni koshish ki ' ki tumse nafrat kar sakoon' from the man who doesn't know how to love.
Humne kitni koshish aapse pyaar na karne ki ' from the woman who doesn't know how to hate.
And now, distance doesn't matter. Because their hearts, they speak and hear each other. Hamesha. They are soulmates.
I don't need anything else, Khushi. I don't need anything else.
They have turned a corner, this couple we have followed for over a year now. And there is no going back from here, there is just the moving forward.
Notes:
1) The fleeting light from the fireflies that Arnie had presented to Khushi is no longer with her and the fear returns. Shyam, the unwilling cupid in their story, brings in the light. As I keep saying, this is not the real bad guy in the ArHi story.
The "umeed ki kiran" that Shyam thinks is light at the end of the tunnel is in fact an oncoming freight train. See, the goons have a problem. He is called the unpredictable Arnie. Kab kya kar de kya pata'😆
2) The kheer scene, so reminiscent of the Kheer scene right after the wedding. Anji walks in just as Khushi raises to spoon to Shyam. Anji's expressions transitioned so suddenly and smoothly from WTH to What BS (at Khushi's explanation) to la-la land Anjali when she looks at Shyam that it was downright scary. 😲 Daljeet, more power to you.
3) Aakash and Nanhe-ji -- Alternative Eye candy.
4) Payalia has a problem. She thinks Bua-ji has a solution. And Bua-ji doesn't disappoint. Women need only 3 things to keep their husbands ensnared. Mogre ki Mahek, Koel ki Kook and Aankhon ka Matkana . Will.Not.Snark. Controls, Veeps!
5) Barun, belcomes back!! 🤗The Arnie, him's back and Sukhi, bye bye.
And as mushy as the whole thing was, the romantic in me saw the damn scene 5 times before moving on to the rest of the episode. Gul, I give in.👏👏 To your superior knowledge in the mushiness of it all. Mush it up, babe, for God knows, I lapped it up today.
To continue the mush fest, I present cheese
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3SXbMhfHWM[/YOUTUBE]
pic credit: sarun_deewani