It is not necessary for everything to be told for people to understand them right? Somethings are to be figured out and Zaroon is a smart baccha 😆Zaroon studied with Kashaf for 2 years in university.
In those 2 years for the scenes we were shown, we can figure out what impressions he has of Kashaf in his mind. The things that pissed him off then are exactly the things he wants in his ideal and he has realized that now.
After their first meeting he knows that this woman stands up for herself and does not take crap from anybody. He also knows that she does not give a damn about his money or popularity or class or looks. She challenges him every chance she gets, she does not fawn over him like every other titli in uni.
She is intelligent, smarter than him maybe.. made him work harder in uni than he probably would have, some men like smart women na. Even after HE the most popular guy in uni started flirting with her she paid him no heed... wont take his gifts, wont take lift from him and when she had to after the concert she was uncomfortable, she did not like being out at that time with a guy. Her izzat, her reputation is important to her.. something he puts a lot of importance on as we see from his reprimands to his sister.
Then their library fight where she gets puts him in his place for basically disrespecting her, she questions his upbringing, his morals, puts a mirror in front of his face for his actions something that no person, no girl ever dared to do.
Now after they meet up again he sees she has made something of herself professionally, something common between them maybe as they both went for CSS and government jobs.
She still challenges him, still does not stay out late which tells him this is a woman who goes home on time who will probably give importance to her hubby & family, still probably gets his mind engaged with what will she will throw at me now, u know wont talk on and on about how she was jealous of me, i went here, i went there with so and so and it was fun like Asmara 😆
Isn't all this enough to prove the line "I like her. She has strength of character" and isn't all this enough for him to love her?? For me this is a mature realistic love, where he is picking his life partner looking at if this person is ideal for me as per my ideologies and set standards 😊
Sorry for the long post. 😆