I saw today's epi after not watching for weeks, thinking that we'd see the chipkali finally getting her comeuppance, and was instead treated to her delusional rape-y monologue about how she just can't wait to get Kartik away from his family so she can get him alone and all to herself. Now imagine a male character saying this exact monologue about a female character who does not want to be with him, and wait for the outrage from the viewers. Anyway I now agree that Vedika mann ki buri nahi hai - bas mann ki bahut bahut bimaar hai. Mentally ill woman, that one.
Precap was interesting and for the first time I'm wondering if these writers actually had a plan in mind when Vedika disappeared for a month or whatever while pretending to be in the US. My prediction is she sold her kidney with Pallavi's help to pay off Akshat who was blackmailing her and spent the time in recovery. Which is why Pallavi came up with the kidney donation idea - which would otherwise be crazy considering how easy it would be to prove she had both kidneys (for instance if she got pregnant and had to have abdominal imaging) . There's a certain cleverness to this plot and makes Vedika's resentment at being pushed aside more understandable - if she first sold her kidney to pay off Akshat to preserve her status in the Goenka family and then saw herself granting Kartik a divorce anyway as a huge sacrifice, one can see why she's so pissed off at being completely forgotten by all of them. It also underscores how nuts Vedika has been all along underneath that bholi-bhaali exterior. Anyway that's my take from the precap....