She felt slighted, looked over...she felt that she didn't get her due...for a woman so ambitious, this was intolerable.
I have to pause and wonder though how Dilsher was the most eligible bachelor in town...was this before or after his handicap? Something tells me the handicap developed after his marriage to Mala...and that might have been the cause of the rift b/w him and Mala too...him having turned bitter over the helplessness it brought...and maybe pushed Mala away due to that? And then Mohini must have taken advantage of the rifts in this marriage.
It seems the haveli is the true point of contention...where it all basically begins for Mohini especially...maybe that is what made Dilsher an eligible bachelor...the property in his name...and is what Mohini was vying for...but Dilsher chose the more beautiful Mala over her...and Mohini blames everyone around her for agreeing to this...she felt she was backed into a corner and had no choice but to agree to the humiliating decisions made for her by others as she sees it...like having to marry the younger brother Danveer no matter how nice he is but he wasn't the prize catch and that is all Mohini wanted...to get the prize catch, to rule the haveli as Queen.
So what she wasn't given by right, she decided to take by force...and thus set into motion plans that took a while to bear fruit...she capitalized on any opportunity she saw...increasing the rift in Dilsher-Mala's marriage possibly...getting Mala to leave, then Dilsher-Rudra following suit soon and all was well in Mohini's world...she may not have managed to get the haveli by legal right through marriage but she managed to remove all other heir apparents to it.
No wonder it was such a blow for her when all of them decided to come back one fine day one by one...what do they say about the best laid plans?
RR kinda has its own version of Game of Thrones going on here😆...Power struggles...the level to which people are willing to go to RULE...
And Mohini now has to reboot her gameplan all over again...her advantage being that those rifts still exist in a sense, not so much b/w Dilsher-Mala anymore maybe but a whole another set b/w Rudra-Mala...those too encouraged by Mohini all those years back...the seeds she sowed have borne poisonous fruit in Rudra's mind for sure and now she is all set to reap those.
Life has come full circle for the Ranawats...what happened in the past has a lot of bearing on the present...Rudra is a product of this very poisonous past...even if Mohini poisoned it and managed to use everyone else as pawns in this game, it doesn't absolve them of their mistakes.